History of Latin America
Revisiting the Cuban Revolution
Lecture outline
Readings: Monday: Gorney "Cuba's New Now"; Burnett, "In Cuba's Press Room"
Thurs: Miller, "Epilogue;" Video, "Black in Latin America: Cuba, the Next Revolution"
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To the left, El Jefe (photograph by E. Wright Ledbetter, reproduced in Cuba: Picturing Change (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999). To the right, a street in Havana in the 1990s (reproduced in Jaime Suchlicki, Cuba: From Columbus to Castro and Beyond (Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 2002).
President Obama's speech in Havana, 2016
The Cuba - USAID Twitter story
Orlando Bosch, wanted by Cuba for the blowing up of a 1976 airliner and other attacks, died around the same time that Luis Posada Carriles was acquited in El Paso of immigration fraud in 2011. Santiago Alvarez, who acted as Posada's spokesperson, was convicted in 2006 of conspiring to possess arms in his quest to overthrow the Cuban government, in Fort Lauderdale, FL. .
It's not too hard to find the official Cuban and U.S. information services on the web (or on my Pinboard)...
but dissident Cubans and others also appear in the blogosphere.
Yoani Sanchez has been internationally recognized, and she has many colleagues.
Cuba has oil, but it's hard to reach.
In 2001, five Cuban spies who had infiltrated an anti-Castro group in Miami were arrested, tried, and given four consecutive life sentences by a U.S. federal court on espionage and conspiracy charges.
(One is imprisoned in Oxford, WI.). Here is the defense statement of one of them.