Fidel Castro Offered Former SS Officers Jobs in Cuba

  According to declassified documents, Fidel Castro hired former SS officers to train his Cuban fighting forces.  Bearded Communist  The bearded communist leader also tried to buy weapons from neo-Nazis during the Cuban missile crisis. A German intelligence agency has released information gathered during the stand-off at the height of the Cold War. The files show […]

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Cuba: The Petrified Forest

It was Fidel Castro's first major speech since the July 26 anniversary of his 1953 attack on the Moncada barracks that started the Cuban revolution. There he stood last week before a crowd of 50,000 in Havana's Plaza de la Revolucin, meandering for hours about everything and nothing — poverty, classroom shortages, taxes, new houses, and the problem of bureaucrats who do “absolutely nothing.” Then, amid the chatter, he dropped two electric statements that instantly set telephones jangling from Miami to Washington

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The color and complexity of Cuba’s cigars

Synonymous with Cuba, just like Castro and Che Guevara, cigars are revered by connoisseurs and part of the country’s political landscape. Neighbors know what I do, and it seems to draw the men to me — and they open up about certain things that the guys who actually come to see me with their wives just don’t

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