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Another weapon in the cultural war against Cuba

Another weapon in the cultural war against Cuba

CIA efforts to create publishing houses and literary magazines to attract Cuban writers was intended to separate them from the country’s institutions and steer them toward an anti-government stance

Most of the CIA's covert operations in Latin America during the 1960s were directed against the Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro. "No more Cubas", was the agency's slogan at the time.

The deep roots of a nation - the "Baraguá Protest"

The deep roots of a nation - the "Baraguá Protest"

«Cuba's future will be an eternal Baraguá»

"… Our generation received the heritage, the spirit of everything that other generations did: the heritage of Céspedes and Yara; the heritage of Agramonte, Calixto García, Máximo Gómez; the heritage of Maceo, the heritage of this singular, extraordinary act that was the Baraguá Protest" Fidel Castro Ruz

Cuba’s war of independence was re-initiated February 24, 1895

Cuba’s war of independence was re-initiated February 24, 1895

José Martí entrusted Juan Gualberto Gómez, a son and grandson of slaves, to re-launch the insurrection, with the independence forces better organized and more determined than ever

Every February 24, Juan Gualberto Gómez, son and grandson of slaves, raised a Cuban flag at Villa Manuela, his residence in the Mantilla neighborhood of Havana, after Spanish colonialism had been replaced by U.S. domination. Flying the lone star flag on this date was his way of saying that Cuba's sovereignty was an aspiration that had not been forgotten.

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