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 ...
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 ...
The presidency of John F. Kennedy (JFK) took place in the context of super-charged international relations: face-offs with ...
President Donald Trump’s decision to roll back our opening with Cuba in his first term was disastrous. As he takes office ...
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 ...
He shared how jazz played a pivotal role in saving his life and helping him escape Cuba to pursue his American Dream.
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 ...
Oswald’s intelligence connections are discussed at length in “The JFK Assassination Chokeholds ... scheme designed to provoke war with Cuba by using a “spectacular” act of violence ...
This goal was achieved in July 1969, six years after his death. JFK is known for handling the tense situation of the Cuban ...
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 ...