The detention and beating of Yoani Sanchez and friends is business as usual for the Castro brothers.  Their so-called people’s revolution has in fact been a half-century reign of terror against the Cuban people.  Bombings, executions, hijackings, torture, imprisonment, the deliberate drowning of women and children,  fear tactics imposed by Stasi style security agents with [...]

Via Cubanology, comes the exciting news of the release of Manuel Márquez-Sterling's important book, "Cuba 1952-1959:  The True Story of Castro's Rise to Power."
The son of  Cuba's seminal figure, Dr. Carlos Márquez Sterling, this book is a must have.  For a taste of the historical treasures sure to await you within its pages, visit the [...]

Try as they might, through historical revision and ruin, the castro dictatorship has not succeeded in erasing the true history of Cuba.  A year or so ago, when I posted about my then newly acquired copy of the 1958 Ciudad la Habaña phone book,  I was overwhelmed with requests for look-ups.  I wanted to somehow post the entire directory but I just [...]

There is a treasure trove of videos from Cuba BC,  courtesy Memorias de Cuba at Vimeo.com. Go now and take a walk down memory lane. What the dictator has destroyed must not be forgotten.
Inspección de los nuevos Omnibus (1940) from Memoria de Cuba on Vimeo
 
 
H/T:  Peter
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Saw the cover to this article while walking down Las Olas. Not to0 bad.
Gustavo Villoldo, a stocky figure in green army fatigues, stands just inside the tiny laundry room where the Cuban revolutionary's corpse rests atop a sink. For five months, the CIA operative has led soldiers hunting Guevara through the rough crags and valleys [...]

This stunning post from Capital Hill Cubans serves as a reminder to those celebrating this weeks OAS decision on Cuba:
"Indifference is not a beginning, it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she [...]

While going through all the papers and documents and other things in my mom's house,  I stumbled across the documents she and my grandparents brought with them when they left Cuba.  I stumbled across this document from the Secretary General from the University of Havana dated 2/8/60.  It describes the achievement of a woman who [...]

Some weeks back, my parents, sister and I were interviewed by documentary filmmaker and good friend Joe Cardona for his latest project: My Suitcase Full of Hope: The Story of the Cuban Freedom Flights. It's not only an honor for me to be featured in one of Joe's films, but doubly so to have my [...]

Please scroll down and read  Humberto Fontova's comment on my misinformed post.  I'm guilty of being too trusting and not doing enough research. Due to the late hour, I have not yet had a chance to contact the author, a good friend,  but I have no doubt of his good intent.  Meanwhile,  I apologize to our readers for [...]

Hmmm.
BEIRUT: Police from seven nations arrested 17 people in the island of Curacao Tuesday suspected of involvement in an international drug ring with links to Hizbullah, Dutch authorities said. "The organization had international contacts with other criminal networks that financially supported Hizbullah in the Middle East. Large sums of drug money flooded into Lebanon, from [...]

The latest Cubanology Bi-Weekly article is up, "Cuba let us not forget the Future."
Jose ponders the importance of history, read it  here.

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In a New York Times blog article talking about the first 100-days of this and previous presidents, the author includes this interesting conversation between the great general and former president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and a shell shocked John F. Kennedy right after the Bay of Pigs invasion, which was botched by his own administration. The [...]

Grito de Baire, February24, 1895

The War of Independence (1895-1898)
The War of Independence (Guerra de Independencia) started on 24 February 1895, under the intellectual leadership of the writer and philosopher José Martí, who is considered by all Cubans as Father of the Country. Martí gave the order to start the Revolution on that date, which started [...]