Fidel Castro

Proclamation 3447, issued by President John F. Kennedy on February 3, 1962, established an embargo on all trade between the United States and Cuba.

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Cuba, Volume VI is a collection of U.S. government documents detailing the shift in U.S.-Cuban relations from 1958 to 1960. It focuses on the Cuban Revolution, the fall of Fulgencio Batista's government, and the early years of Fidel Castro…

Law #3 of the Sierra Maestra on Agrarian Reform aimed to redistribute land to the landless peasants. This law established the principle of granting ownership to tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and squatters, while providing compensation for landowners. It allowed for the free distribution of land up…

Issued from Fidel Castro's rebel base in the Sierra Maestra mountains, the Sierra Maestra Manifesto was a crucial document of the Cuban Revolution. It aimed to rally support against the Batista dictatorship by promising a return to the 1940 Constitution, free elections within a year of Batista…

"History Will Absolve Me" was a two-hour-long speech delivered by Fidel Castro on October 16, 1953. It served as a defense during his trial for his attack on the Moncada Barracks. More a political manifesto than a legal argument, Castro used the trial to condemn the oppressive regime of…

The Alliance for Progress was a major foreign aid initiative by President John F. Kennedy. It aimed to promote economic development, social reform, and democratic stability in Latin America. Driven by Cold War anxieties and the desire to stop the spread of communism, the ten-year program sought to…

In 1966, Congress enacted the Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA). This granted Cuban citizens permanent resident status when entering the United States. It exempted them from immigrant quotas and certain inadmissibility grounds.

<p>Sixty-five years after the revolution, socialist regulations and the continuing embargo have brought on economic collapse and decaying cities.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Was the Cuban leader always a Marxist or did the United States impel him in that direction? A distinguished historian of Cuban affairs examines the critical years when the Castro revolution became a communist dictatorship.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In the twilight of Castro’s regime, one of the soldiers who put him in power recalls what it was like to be a<em> <span class="typestyle"> fidelista</span></em> up in the hills four decades ago when a whole new, just, democratic world was there for the building.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Sexy and melancholy, festive and forlorn, the island has always heated the Yankee imagination. The author visits there in the late afternoon of a straitened era and looks back on four centuries of passionate misunderstandings.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How a J. P. Morgan partner and the former Secretary of the Navy defused a revolution just by being good guys</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Cuban Missile Crisis as seen from the Kremlin</span></p>

<p>Incriminating new evidence has come to light in KGB files and the authors' interviews of former Cuban intelligence officers which indicates that Fidel Castro probably knew in advance of Oswald's intent to kill JFK.</p>