Cuba

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/18/2020
  

  Venezuela Failed Raid: US Has a History of Using Mercenaries to Undermine Other Regimes

  by Andrew Thomson

  The arrest of Silvercorp mercenaries in Venezuela echoes a long history of the U.S. government supporting private troops to overthrow foreign governments. 

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• 2/2/20
  

  Celia Sánchez Manduley: The Most Famous Woman You Have Never Heard Of

  by Tiffany A. Sippial

  The work to preserve and study the history of the Cuban Revolution and its contributors—like Celia Sánchez Manduley—is arduous but important. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/21/19
  

  My 60 Years of Disappointment With Fidel Castro

  by Enrique Krauze

  Latin American, with few exceptions, they have refused to see the historical failure of the Cuban Revolution and the oppressive and impoverishing domination of their patriarch.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/9/19
  

  There’s More to Castro Than Meets the Eye

  by Jonathan M. Hansen

  The revolutionary leader fought for and defended the very democratic ideals his government would later suspend.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  5/2/19
  

  The Wolf’s Lair Attempts Transition From Tourist Trap to Educational Site

  The Polish government has taken over ownership of the one-time nerve center of the Third Reich, ridding the site of paintball and pottery classes.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  Why President Trump’s hard-line approach to Cuba is a mistake

  by John Ermer

  It opens the door to increased Russian influence on the island.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-12-18
  

  Trump is everything Republicans said Obama was

  by Tom Nichols

  They called Obama an inexperienced, self-serving celebrity. Then their party chose Trump.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  4/20/18
  

  Disclosed: Journalist helped defuse a budding conflict between the US and Cuba in 1964

  Her name?  Lisa Howard, a one-time soap actress who became a leading TV journalist.  She became a conduit after interviewing Fidel Castro for ABC News. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  4-20-18 (accessed)
  

  ‘My Dearest Fidel’: An ABC Journalist’s Secret Liaison With Fidel Castro

  by Peter Kornbluh

  The untold story of how Lisa Howard’s intimate diplomacy with Cuba’s revolutionary leader changed the course of the Cold War.

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• 4/15/18
  

  The Man Who Prevented the Outbreak of World War III

  by Douglas Gilbert

  His name was Vasili Arkhipov. During the Cuban Missile Crisis he refused to go along with an order to fire a nuclear missile.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  10-27-17
  

  The Cuban Missile Crisis at 55

  by James G. Blight and Janet M. Lang

  “The bullshitter…does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.” —Harry G. Frankfurt, "On Bullshit"

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  10-16-17
  

  U.S. Planned for Military Occupation of Cuba

  The U.S. military drew up plans to occupy Cuba and establish a temporary government headed by a U.S. “commander and military governor” during the 1962 missile crisis, new documents disclose.

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• 10-1-17
  

  What Happened to the People Behind the Assassination of Che Guevara?

  by Jonathan C. Brown

  50 years later, we know.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  6-19-17
  

  Donald Trump’s Half-Baked Cold War Revival in Cuba Is the Worst of Both Worlds

  by Ronald Radosh

  The change will push the remaining American tourists into the cruise-ship tours that work to give travelers a distorted rosy picture of Cuba.

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• SOURCE: faithwire
  11-28-16
  

  The Cuban Revolution’s “Achievements“

  by Humberto Fontova

  What usually goes unsaid about Castro’s Cuba.

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• 2-21-17
  

  The Damage Intelligence Leakers Can Do

  by David Foglesong

  A case study from 1979 shows how leaks of misleading information can damage national security.

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• 1-29-17
  

  America’s Forgotten Cuban Colony

  by Michael E. Neagle

  It was called the Isle of Pines. Hundreds of Americans called it home.

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• 12-5-16
  

  Here’s a Clue to What Might Happen in Cuba Now

  by Matthew D. Jacobs

  It’s what happened in Vietnam after the death of one of its revered Communist leaders.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  11-26-16
  

  Greg Grandin says it’s a mug’s game trying to figure out when Castro turned to Marxism

  by Greg Grandin

  "It’s fitting, though depressing, that’s he’s left us on the cusp of a new darkness."

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• 6-19-16
  

  The Heirs of Meyer Lansky Want Compensation from Cuba. They Shouldn’t Get a Dime.

  by Jack Colhoun

  Lansky’s hotel empire in Cuba was built with the support of the corrupt dictator Batista.