Jaime Suchlicki

Jaime Suchlicki is Director of the Cuban Studies Institute, CSI, a non-profit research group in Coral Gables, FL. He is the author of Cuba: From Columbus to Castro & Beyond, now in its 5th edition; Mexico: From Montezuma to the Rise of the PAN, 2nd edition, and of the recently published Breve Historia de Cuba. He is a highly regarded consultant to the public and private sector.

This Day in Cuban History – January 1, 1959. Fulgencio Batista resigned in the early hours of New Year’s Day and fled to the Dominican Republic.

By the end of 1958 wholesale army desertion, growing popular unrest and violence and U.S. increasing opposition had made Fulgencio Batista’s position untenable.  He resigned in the early hours of

This Day in Cuban History – January 1, 1959. Fulgencio Batista resigned in the early hours of New Year’s Day and fled to the Dominican Republic. Read More »

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