DEATHS
Brigade to honor Manuel Perez Garcia, WWII and Bay of Pigs veteran
Manuel Perez Garcia was a veteran of the Cuban military and the World War II U.S. Army when he tried to reenlist for the Korean War.
REPORTS AND SPEECHES (.MP3)
- John Kennedy, 1961
- Flag ceremony, 1962
- Miami-Dade historian
- Veterans feel betrayed
- WLRN report (Spanish)
Strategic maps (.PDF)
Weapons and supplies (.PDF)
Historic documents (.PDF)
MIAMI
History of Cuban exile pilots who served in the Congo in the early 1960s being preserved
Few realize that a unit of 100 Cuban exile pilots was sent to the Congo in the months after the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion to help fight leftist rebels.
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Old history exposes new dirty tricks
The foreign policy chapter of the official CIA history also exposes new spy agency lies and manipulations, sometimes called dirty tricks, in America’s bid to cover up the clandestine training of Cuban exiles.
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CIA’s Bay of Pigs foreign policy laid bare
A recently released, and brutally honest, look at the run-up to the disastrous Bay of Pigs Operation focuses on the CIA’s prominent role.
Multimedia
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War court
Pentagon charges former U.S. resident at Guantánamo in terror plot
The Pentagon’s war crimes prosecutor proposes to put a graduate of a suburban Baltimore high school ...
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Awaiting pope: New Castro, same mess of an economy
Fourteen years after the last papal visit, some reforms have taken root in Cuba, but the economy is still a...
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American Alan Gross' contractor work in Cuba detailed
Piece by piece, in backpacks and carry-on bags, American aid contractor Alan Gross made sure laptops, smart...
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CUBA
Sen. Feinstein singles out Cuba as potential drug smuggling point
A California senator who chairs a congressional caucus on international drug trafficking warned last week t...
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Antonio Jorge
Funeral services for Antonio Jorge, expert on Cuban economy, FIU professor
Funeral services will be Thursday for Antonio Jorge, a respected and prolific Miami-based economist who was...
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GOP report questions Guantánamo releases
Facing domestic political pressures, the Bush and Obama administrations released or transferred 600 terror...
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Environment
Guantánamo -- the place with the prison camps -- is going green
Better known for its experiment in offshore detention, interrogation and military justice, Guantánamo ...
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CUBA
Cuban ex-CIA agent Posada returns to Miami
After being acquitted in a trial for perjury in federal court in El Paso, former CIA-agent Luis Posada Carr...
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CUBANET
TWO INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS ARRESTED COVERING ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTEST
Two independent are being held by police following their arrest while covering an anti-government demonstra...
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CUBANET
4-year sentence for living in Havana without permission
Dissident Duartes Miguel Lara Rodríguez has been sentenced to four years in prison on charges of being a “...
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CUBANET
Man arrested for stealing his own pressure cooker
Leonardo Díaz says he taken to the police station in handcuffs on Tuesday because he didn't have proof of p...
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CUBANET
Police captain under investigation for abuse of power
A captain in the National Revolutionary Police force has been accused of selling pedicabs he confiscated fr...
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CUBANET
Whereabouts of detained independent journalist unknown
Independent journalist Yosvani Anzardo Hernández was arrested over the weekend by two State Security agents...
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CUBANET
Anti-government slogans appear in Havana
Anti-government slogans were written on Tuesday on the walls next to Havana's Mariano theater and near a po...
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