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• History (Cuba)

  Platismo Lives – Barack Obama in Cuba: the first visit by a United States president to the island since 1928

  19 March 2016, by FARBER Samuel

  President Obama visits Cuba tomorrow, where he will draw the ire of a Cuban right that has long curried favor with Washington.
  Barack Obama’s arrival in Cuba tomorrow will mark the first visit by a United States president to the island since Calvin Coolidge went in 1928. His trip follows the (...)

• History (Cuba)

  Idalberto Ferrera Acosta (1918-2013), Cuban Trotskyist

  24 July 2013, by TOUSSAINT Éric

  Idalberto Ferrera Acosta (1918-2013), Cuban Trotskyist
  Photo by Sebastian Brulez (December 2006)
  Last July 2, 2013, Idalberto Ferrera Acosta, age 95, died in Havana. Idalberto devoted his entire life to the Revolution. In 1933-1934 he joined the Bolshevik-Leninist Party, the Cuban Trotskyist (...)

• History (Cuba)

  50 Years Later: Learning From The Bay Of Pigs – “The Brilliant Disaster”

  17 April 2011, by RASENBERGER Jim, SILVERMAN Ellen

  Book Featured In This Story: The Brilliant Disaster. JFK, Castro, and America’s Doomed Invasion of Cuba’s Bay of Pigs by Jim Rasenberger. Scribner. Hardcover, 460 pages
  Fifty years ago Sunday, a brigade of around 1,500 CIA-trained soldiers stormed the beach in Cuba’s Bay of Pigs. It was the (...)