Last week, amid a faint suspicion of judicial complaisance Cuba’s tough, bronze little boss, Fulgencio Batista, got the job of President of the Republic, which he had badly wanted ever since he ...
Yet beneath the surface, corruption and oppression grip Cuba. Dictator Fulgencio Batista secretly partners with the mafia to ...
Simon Calder, also known as The Man Who Pays His Way, is co-author, with Emily Hatchwell, of Traveller’s Survival Kit: Cuba.
On Oct. 18, Cuba’s power grid fell victim to Tropical Storm Oscar. The only working power plant in Cuba at the time was the ...
In 2017 and 2019, under Batista’s leadership, the city of Gainesville hosted “Bulla Cubana”— a community-wide festival of Cuban culture being displayed in art, cinema, dance, music ...
The US blockade on Cuba has been widely condemned by the majority of the world, yet in recent years, instead of lifting it, ...
The roots of this crisis can be traced back to the cold war when Fidel Castro overthrew the US-backed government of Fulgencio Batista in January 1959. Convinced that the Cuban revolution was the ...
US. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, talks to the crowd during a closing-stage rally, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, at Haggard Party Barn in ...
US designs on Cuba stretch back nearly 200 years, from attempting to buy the island from Spain in 1848 to supporting the Batista dictatorship in the mid-20th century. During this period, Cuba became a ...
New Year’s Day marked 30 years since he had toppled the tyrant Fulgencio Batista and taken control of the island. Economically, Cuba was just about managing. Despite the US economic blockade and ...
In Cuba, most bourgeoisie under the Batista dictatorship left the country shortly after the revolution. The large US corporations that they had operated were expropriated. Similarly, when the ...
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