By: Romina Ruiz-Goiriena / Miami
Not too long ago, Ricardo Herrero was one of Miami’s Cuban-American hard-liners, an ardent supporter of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba as well as the ban on U.S. travel to the communist island. But a half-dozen trips to Cuba during this decade have changed his mind about the latter. “There [...]
President Obama recieves endorsement from Chavez, Castro, and Gaddafi!
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years before the coup that toppled the leftist leader of Chile, President Richard Nixon and Brazilian President Emilio Medici discussed coordinated intervention in that nation and Cuba, according to a newly declassified document.
The formerly Top Secret account of a Dec. 9, 1971, White House Oval Office meeting spells out a desire [...]
US offers migration talks to Cuba
Washington has offered to resume talks on legal immigration by Cubans to the US, the US state department says.
It says the move aims to “reaffirm both sides’ commitment to safe, legal and orderly migration”.
The talks were halted in 2003 after Havana refused to give exit permits to people who had [...]
“One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of alkaline metals – lastly, the tendency of hydrocarbons to unite together to form the more condensed material – suffice to account for the formation of these curious compounds. Moreover, this formation will be [...]
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The coup plot against Cuba’s Fidel and Raul Castro
Two of Cuba’s star politicians seem to have been a part of a conspiracy or a coup to overthrow Raúl Castro
Something along the following lines took place: for at least a month or so, Lage, Pérez Roque and others were apparently involved in a conspiracy, betrayal, coup [...]
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon’s senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Barack Obama’s order to freeze military tribunals there.
The legal move by Susan J. Crawford, the top legal authority for military trials at Guantanamo, brings all cases into compliance [...]
The appalling has occurred. Military Judge, Army Colonel James Pohl, defied President Obama’s request to suspend hearings for Guantanamo detainees.
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Jan. 20 — In one of its first actions, the Obama administration instructed military prosecutors late Tuesday to seek a 120-day suspension of legal proceedings involving detainees at the naval base at Guantanamo [...]
One of President Obama’s first actions was to proceed with the closing of the Guantanamo detention center. By doing this, he is moving toward the fulfillment of at least one campaign promise. Many politicians just make promises and then never keep them, but our new president followed through on at least one promise posthaste.
Many [...]
In the early hours of January 1st 1959, as New Year parties were in full swing in an otherwise unnaturally quiet Havana, Fulgencio Batista stole away. He flew from Camp Columbia, the city’s main military base, to exile in the Dominican Republic with an entourage of relatives and cronies.
The dictator’s flight meant that just 25 [...]
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