Cuban Espionage — The Saga of Florentino Aspillaga and the Assassination of JFK
In the book, Castro's Secrets — The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine (2012), author Brian Latell, a professor, scholar, and retired CIA officer who had been active in foreign intelligence for 35...
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Fidel and Raúl Castro — Communist Brethren
In his book, After Fidel — The Inside Story of Castro's Regime and Cuba's Next Leader, author Brian Latell, a National Intelligence Officer (1990-1994) and the top analyst for Cuba and Latin America...
View ArticleAn "American James Bond"— Anti-communist Freedom Fighter, Frank Sturgis
In the noted biography, Flawed Patriot (2006) by former CIA agent and author Bayard Stockton, CIA legend Bill Harvey, was introduced to President John F. Kennedy as "America's James Bond."(1) Harvey...
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The Real Story Behind the Spy Swap between Cuba and the U.S.
With all the issues surrounding President Barack Obama's call for normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba, the "spy" swap and the "mysteriously" pregnant lady in Cuba, there is a...
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A Tribute to Faustino Oramas, the legendary Cuban composer and musician
Faustino Oramas (1911-2007), known as "El Guayabero de Cuba," was a composer, singer, troubadour, and Cuban national treasure from Holguín, Oriente, Cuba. This little tribute contains the lyrics to...
View ArticlePresident Bush and the Strategic Cuba Problem
The thorny problem of Cuba, 90 miles from the U.S. coast, refuses to go away. Like it or not, President Bush, like his predecessors, will have to deal with the inherited, persistent problem of the...
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Fidel Castro is dead and history will condemn, not absolve him!
Fidel Castro is dead. Yes, the communist sultan finally expired yesterday evening, November 25, 2016. The news was ushered with an excellent editorial by the Miami Herald that argues Fidel Castro...
View ArticleInterview with Dr. Miguel Faria regarding attempted assassination of Batista:...
In this article, reporter Myles Kantor interviews Dr. Miguel Faria, author of Cuba in Revolution: Escape From a Lost Paradise, about the attempted assassination of Fulgencio Batista in Havana on March...
View ArticleDr. Miguel A. Faria — My Life
I was born in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba in 1952. Sancti Spiritus and the surrounding area have been traditionally hot beds for revolution. The Escambray Mountains are in the vicinity, which rebels...
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Book Review of Cuba In Revolution: Escape From a Lost Paradise. Reviewed by...
My son served in the U. S. Coast Guard. On patrol one day in the Florida straits, his ship came across a sad testament to humanity’s longing for freedom. Bobbing along in the waves, a wooden raft...
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