Venezuela op highlights Cuba’s long history of exporting mercenaries

Cuba has always exported and trained soldiers for three main reasons: power, politics and payments. In April 1959, in the ...
insider.si.edu

Cuba an American history Ada Ferrer

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Prologue: There and Here -- Part I: Dispatches from The First America -- Chapter 1: Heaven and Hell -- Chapter 2: Key to the Indies -- Chapter 3: Copper Virgin -- ...
Time

What the U.S. and Cuba Can Learn From the Past

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. Cuba is about to change. As ...
WLRN

'For my descendants,' Cuban American author tells Cuba's history through lens of his ancestors

The House On G Street is Lisandro Perez' newest book. The title refers to the house that his grandfather built in 1920 in Vedado, Havana Cuba. "I got a sense of belonging and a sense of family in that ...

Cuba faces new challenge after Maduro's fall

Cuba is navigating another delicate moment in its recent history after the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by ...
The Washington Post

Archivist Preserves Cuba History In Longhand

TRINIDAD, Cuba -- For 56 years, Carlos Zerquera has preserved Trinidad's history with his only tools: a pen, a steady hand and the patience of a redwood tree. Working in a straight-backed chair at a ...