Helms-Burton Act – U.S. legislation introduced in 1995 by U.S. Senator Jesse Helms and Representative Dan Burton to decrease Cuba’s access to world trade, greatly augmenting the restrictions imposed by
This Day in Cuban History – March 12, 1996. Helms-Burton Act – U.S. Read More »
On March 8, 1896, General Valeriano Weyler, Cuba’s Spanish Governor, issued a military report announcing that the island’s Western provinces were now under the Spanish army control and that the
El 8 de marzo de 1896, el general Valeriano Weyler, gobernador español deCuba, emitió un informe militar anunciando que las provincias occidentales estaban ahora bajo el control del ejército español y que
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Para el 26 de febrero de 1898, el mayor duelo de circulación entre los poderosos editores de periódicos de Nueva York, Joseph Pulitzer (The World) y William Randolph Hearst (The
By February 26, 1898, the biggest circulation duel between the New York powerful newspaper publishers, Joseph Pulitzer (The World) and William Randolph Hearst (The Journal) was in full swing. The
Hermanos al Rescate (Brothers to the Rescue), organized by Jose Basulto in 1991, with financial support from individual donors and several exile groups to fly over the Florida Strait to
On February 24, 1895, Cubans restarted, with the Grito de Baire, the war for independence against Spain that began in 1868-1878. Marti’s pilgrimage throughout the Americas in the 1880’s and
Al amanecer del 17 de febrero de 1957, Herbert Matthews, periodista de The New York Times, se reunió con Fidel Castro en la Sierra Maestra. La reunión se llevó a
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At dawn on February 17, 1957, Herbert Matthews, The New York Timesjournalist, met with Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra. The meeting took place ten weeks after the “Granma” landing disaster
El 15 de febrero de 1898, el acorazado Maine explotó y se hundió en el puerto de La Habana, matando a 268 oficiales y marineros. El crucero blindado había venido
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