Cuban Studies Institute

The nucleus of a Cuban exile force of 1,400 men, they Bay of Pigs invasion force, trained by the United States Central Intelligence Agency in Guatemala, which sailed from Puerto Cabezas, […]

Name given to Fidel Castro’s revolutionary cause, adopted from the date of his ill-fated 1953 attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba.  He began the movement in prison, and

A combined assault on the Presidential Palace, March 13, 1957, by the Directorio Revolucionario and members of the Partido Revolucionario Cubano (Auténtico) in an attempt to kill President Batista. Most of the attackers, including

A series of riots (looting, arson, police station bombings and c3,000 deaths) that took place in Bogotá, Colombia, following the April 9, 1948, murder of the popular Liberal Party leader

HISTORICAL – Limitations on arbitrary power were effectively removed by Spain’s 1825 law placing colonial Cuba under a permanent State of Siege. Constitutional guarantees of individual rights were introduced after

War between the United States and Spain, April 24-August 12, 1898. The Cuban independence struggle became an international issue in 1898 when the United States, angered by Spanish excesses and

Colonial Period – Prior to the British occupation of Cuba, 1762-1763, the principles of mercantilism ensured that Cuba’s legitimate foreign trade was exclusively with Spain, but this was supplemented from as

While Cuba’s 19th century development was initially financed by British investment, American investment had become the chief source well before the end of the century. As early as 1896 it had reached

Portuguese slavers brought Angolans to Cuba where they were known as Bantus or Congolese. In the mid-1960s, Angola became a focus of Soviet and Cuban attention as three different guerrilla