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SOURCE: The New Yorker
2/22/2021
My Brother’s Keeper
by Ada Ferrer
Historian Ada Ferrer offers her own family history of separation and reunification around the Cuban revolution.
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SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
11/6/2020
The Cuban Revolution Explains Why Younger Cuban Americans Supported Trump
by William Kelly
The collapse of revolutionary ideology and wrenching economic transition in Cuba has influenced younger Cuban emigres to embrace individualistic and materialistic politics that align with Republican candidates and Donald Trump.
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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.