It was around 1:30 in the afternoon, Cuban time. We were having lunch in the living room of the modest summer residence which Fidel Castro owns on magnificent Varadero Beach, 120 kilometers from ...
The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's most lasting legacies. Narrator: The Soviets seemed intent on testing the quarantine line that ...
President Donald Trump’s decision to roll back our opening with Cuba in his first term was disastrous. As he takes office ...
The Cuban-born trumpeter said the road to this moment wasn't easy, but it was jazz music that helped save his life. Sandoval grew up in poverty, in a house with a dirt floor. He left school at 10 ...
But he blames JFK for the invasion of the Bay of Pigs by a ragtag Cuban exile army: “Kennedy was humiliated by his defeat at the Bay of Pigs, but all that we did was to protect ourselves.” ...
“Who killed JFK?” Reiner believes a union of rogue members of the CIA, mobsters and Cuban exiles killed Kennedy. “It’s not a ...
Attempts by the US government to undermine Castro's new administration, coupled with similarities of ideology, pushed Cuba into the arms of the Soviet Union. So began years of dangerous political ...
He shared how jazz played a pivotal role in saving his life and helping him escape Cuba to pursue his American Dream.
This goal was achieved in July 1969, six years after his death. JFK is known for handling the tense situation of the Cuban ...
Challenges: The arms race with the Soviet Union continued and escalated in the Cuban Missile Crisis. John F. Kennedy agreed to a CIA plan which attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro by sending a band of ...
The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's most lasting legacies. Narrator: The Soviets seemed intent on testing the quarantine line that ...