Book Review of Cuba in Revolution — Escape From a Lost Paradise. Reviewed by...
Most of us who enjoy reading books concerning our world, especially those dealing with acts of courage arising from human tragedy, find a few works that have a lasting effect on our lives, not just...
View ArticleBook Review of Cuba in Revolution — Escape From a Lost Paradise. Reviewed by...
Turning back to more traditional formats, the following book sits at the top of our list precisely because I was tempted not to read it, and you might be, too. The Cuban Revolution is 40-year-old...
View ArticleUnvanquished: Cuba's Resistance to Fidel Castro by Enrique Encinosa
Unvanquished: Cuba's Resistance to Fidel Castro is a cliffhanger, non-fiction book that reads like a novel. It's the stupendous work of the serious scholar, Enrique Encinosa, who has written the...
View ArticleCuba — Our Terrorist Neighbor to the South
Ninety miles from our southern border, one of the world's wealthiest men (worth $1.4 billion, according to Forbes magazine) lives like a king, while his subjects, the Cuban people, live in abject...
View ArticleCuban 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...
View ArticleFidel 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 ArticleUnvanquished: Cuba's Resistance to Fidel Castro by Enrique Encinosa
Unvanquished: Cuba's Resistance to Fidel Castro is a cliffhanger, non-fiction book that reads like a novel. It's the stupendous work of the serious scholar, Enrique Encinosa, who has written the...
View ArticleCuba — Our Terrorist Neighbor to the South
Ninety miles from our southern border, one of the world's wealthiest men (worth $1.4 billion, according to Forbes magazine) lives like a king, while his subjects, the Cuban people, live in abject...
View ArticleCuban 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
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