'Cuba: An American History' upends misconceptions of Cuban history
The book by historian Ada Ferrer untangles myth from reality in Cuba's past with the United States. It also sparked a personal odyssey for me.
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The book by historian Ada Ferrer untangles myth from reality in Cuba's past with the United States. It also sparked a personal odyssey for me.
A review by Rod Jackman of Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico, 1897-1921.
Canada's former Ambassador to Cuba looks at the challenges the U.S and Cuba will face as relations begin to thaw.
Antiwar.com Original The Embargo On January 25, 1960, President Eisenhower suggested that the US navy "quarantine" Cuba. "If they are hungry," the President fumed, "they will throw Castro out." His ambassador to Cuba, Philip W. Bonsal, chided him with a moral reminder: "We should not punish the whole Cuban people for the acts of one abnormal man." Less than a year later, that moral restraint had disintegrated. In October, the US banned exports to Cuba except food and medicine, planting the seed of the embargo that grips Cuba to this day. In February 1962, Kennedy would w...