Outstanding moments in the Cuban Revolution have fascinated readers for decades. But, a lesser-known insurgency also took place in Cuba in the 1960s that has not received as much attention. This is particularly true for English-speaking audiences and academicians who may not be familiar with much of the material in this monograph, which utilized as […]
Books in Focus: Cuba’s Eternal Revolution by Miguel A. Faria, MD Read More »
Between 1968 and 1979, one hundred seventy-eight American airplanes were hijacked to Cuba. This was the era of Vietnam war protests, the drug culture, hippies, free love, the civil rights movement, and racial violence. Some who seized airliners were revolutionaries, while others were fugitives with criminal pasts. Many skyjackers believed Cuba, ruled by their hero,
This summary refers to a momentous essay written by my friend, Dr. Russell L. Blaylock, who has studied political science, in general, and totalitarianism and communism, in particular, for nearly five decades. Dr. Blaylock wrote the paper in 1989, but the manuscript had been lost. Fortunately, he had sent me a copy, which I had
The purges of the Red Terror in the 1930s ended with Beria who replaced Nikolai Yezhov (or Ezhov) and ended the Yezhovshchina. Stalin probably realized that war was coming and, as pointed out by his friend Kliment Voroshilov, he had already decimated the members of the Politburo and the officers of the Red Army. It
More than one thousand communists, socialists, and fellow travelers rallied on March 18 in Lafayette Square, next to the White House, and then marched across town in support of Russia, China, Cuba, and causes such as reparations for blacks and massive defense cuts. I was there covering the rally, taking dozens of pictures, in order
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In Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2003), Simon Sebag Monefiore provides us with a galvanizing portrait of Joseph Stalin “as human and complicated as he is brutal” and chronicles the lives of the notorious henchmen who entered the court of the Red Tsar. Among the many atrocious incidents cited in the book, there
