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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: An
Attempt to Recover What Was Never Theirs
Three brothers appeared before a
throng of journalists on Saturday, April 22, 1961. Being
questioned while the TV cameras rolled were Santiago, Omar
and Lincoln Babum - mercenaries captured at Cuba's Bay of
Pigs invasion.
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Those Courageous, Determined
Young Fighters at the Bay of Pigs
“That’s how the Cubans were at
that time, like those of today, brave, decisive, especially
the younger ones, the artillery men of the so called Cuatro
Bocas, many of them barely 16 years old”.
|04-08-06| |
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The Guatemalan Precedent to the
Bay of Pigs Invasion
As of 1960, the US applied a
strategy of destabilization and internal subversion against
the newly born Cuban revolution. The strategy was the
Caribbean version of a plan enacted by the CIA a decade
earlier in Guatemala between 1953 and 1954.
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Reflections from Cuba on Martin Luther King Jr.
On April 4, 1968 MLK was shot
dead, at age 39, on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel while
preparing to lead a march in support of the predominantly
black Memphis sanitation workers union that were on strike.
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The Nuclear Adventure: The
Soviet Union
Germany's
capitulation in World War II, which occurred five months
before Japan's, kept the US in the war, brought about
remarkable changes within the antifascist alliance, and
created a completely new political situation. The honeymoon
had ended.
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