Juan Tamayo of El Nuevo Herald has a piece on the 50th anniversary of the Battle at Escambray (the last armed internal combat against the Castro dictatorship.) Fifty years ago, Rivera was one of up to 4,000 Cubans battling Castro’s brand new government in a little-known, but nasty guerrilla war that raged in parts of [...]
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Putin generation of military elites
September 30, 2010Columnist Miguel Cossio discusses in El Nuevo Herald Raúl Castro’s firm steps in consolidating the military elite in power. The recent naming of a colonel to head CIMEX, Cuba’s largest commercial corporation, confirms the ascension of what Cossio calls the Putin generation in Cuba that is not just merely surviving but perpetuating the lineage: This [...]