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The Latest Breaking News from the Cuban Revolution

Trump’s Cuba report borrowed heavily from my book on an anti-imperialist movement – but twisted the arguments

For decades after the Cuban Revolution’s victory in 1959, influential anticommunist circles in the United States claimed that Cuba’s communist government sowed social division and allied with left-wing groups to help defeat Washington during the Cold War.

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Life in Cuba revolves around small bursts of electricity as blackouts last for days

Daily life for Cubans across the island has devolved into a complex web of crises, marking one of the most severe periods since the Cuban revolution

The Independent UK

Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, a key figure of the Cuban Revolution and ally of Fidel Castro, has died

Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, a key figure in the Cuban Revolution and former vice president, has died at 94

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Cuba pushes through sweeping free-market reforms in biggest economic shift since the revolution

Observers are calling Cuba's new free-market reforms the most sweeping economic overhaul on the island's communist economy since the Cuban revolution while the grandson of former President Raúl Castro says in an interview that Cuba must seek to move its economy forward

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Supreme Court Sides With U.S. Company In Cuba Property Seizure Case

The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Havana Docks Corp. in a long-running fight over property seized by Fidel Castro's regime after the Cuban Revolution.

International Business Times

Trump’s ‘Venezuela solution’ to Cuba would see the island nation returned to a client state

The U.S. and Cuban governments have been at odds since the conclusion of the Cuban Revolution 67 years ago. Yet despite pressure, embargoes and various CIA plots, the communist government in Havana has resisted the wishes of its very powerful neighbor separated by just 90 miles (145 kilometers) of water.

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Cuban troubadour Silvio Rodríguez, icon of the revolution, dwells on island's troubles in new album

He was the poetic voice of the Cuban Revolution, an inspiration for millions of Latin Americans living under dictatorships throughout the 1960s and 1970s who dreamt of the ideal Cuba that he — and his guitar — helped evoke

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Seven things to read and watch on the 70th anniversary of the movement that sparked the Cuban revolution

It’s been 70 years since the moment that sparked the Cuban revolution. On July 26 1953, an attack on army barracks in eastern Cuba heralded the consolidation of a Cuban national resistance movement against the dictatorship of General Batista. A group of 111 young rebels attacked the army barracks, the…

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