A mosquito-borne disease with high mortality whose urban form probably crossed the Atlantic through the African slave trade, yellow fever was known in Havana by 1720, possibly by l647. The
Yellow Fever (fiebre amarilla; vómito negro) Read More »
United States career diplomat with wide Latin American experience, appointed assistant secretary of state by the Franklin Roosevelt administration in early 1933. Roosevelt and his Secretary of state Cordell Hull
Benjamin Sumner Welles (1892-1962) Read More »
Novelist and journalist from Pinar del Rio province, he was a teacher when he developed an interest in literature, publishing in 1837 his short stories “La Peña blanca,” “El Ave
Cirilo Villaverde (1812-1894) Read More »
Gerardo Machado y Morales (1871-1939). President of Cuba, 1925-1933, was born in Santa Clara and spent his childhood in the family cattle estate, attended private schools and in his early
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The Spanish term guerrilla (“little war”) for the employment of small bands of irregular fighters in hit-and-run tactics against a regular army entered the international vocabulary during the popular Spanish uprising against
A December 1955 offshoot of the Federación Estudiantil Universitaria (FEU) at the University of Havana, the Revolutionary Directorate promoted an insurrectionary response to Batista’s repression, and established contact with other opponents of
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By Jaime Suchlicki * If the Democrats retain control of the Senate in the midterm elections, the administration may offer new concessions to the Cuban government. But the United States
Expect More of the Same From Cuba Read More »
Organized by José Martí (who was killed almost immediately), the war began with the Grito de Baire, February 24, 1895, accompanied by risings in various places in Matanzas and Oriente
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In 1962, the Soviet Union surreptitiously introduced nuclear missiles into Cuba. A surprised, embarrassed and angry President John F. Kennedy blockaded the island and after eleven tense days the Soviet
LESSONS OF THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS Read More »
In the late 1960s and early 1970s these “we shall win” brigades consisted of some thousand youths, mainly American, who visited Cuba to help with the sugar harvest, motivated by
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