Washington D.C., April 20, 2018 – Back-channel diplomacy, conducted by an ABC News reporter named Lisa Howard resolved a potential crisis with Cuba in mid-1964, according to documents posted today by the National Security Archive. After the CIA obtained “disturbing” intelligence reports that Fidel Castro had threatened to shoot down U.S. reconnaissance planes in retaliation for the Coast Guard seizure of four Cuban fishing boats, Howard secretly traveled to Cuba to convey a U.S.
See The Cuban Revolution Unfold In Burt Glinn's Photos (1959)
1959: The year Fidel Castro completely charmed America
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Putin said Russia is militarily ready for a Cuban Missile-style crisis if Trump is foolish enough to want one - and that his missiles could reach the US faster that theirs could hit Moscow.
IBTimes UK looks back at the times of the leader who defied 11 American presidents.
Exhibition dates: 24th November 2012 – 3rd February 2013 Many thankx to the Museum de Moderne Salzburg for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the ph…
CLICHÉS DE MODE (6/23)- Cet été, Le Figaro décrypte des photographies de personnalités qui ont marqué le monde de la mode. Aujourd'hui, un révolutionnaire marxiste-léniniste dont le monde entier a entendu parler.
El complejo es visitado por Leonid Brezhnev, Indira Gandhi, Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, etc.
Fidel Castro plays baseball in Havana, 1959.
Not a guy you want to cross.
En una zona tan compleja, diversa y convulsa, pocas figuras han gozado y gozan del consenso de Fidel Castro.
Homenaje del blog del viejo topo al Comandante Fidel Castro en su 89º aniversario - Una narración visual a través de 228 imágenes...
Fidel Castro plays baseball for the “Bearded Ones”, shortly after he overthrew the Batista regime in Havana, 1959
Alguna vez, en los años 60, Fidel Castro presumió de ser un hereje del marxismo
George McGovern & Fidel Castro in 1975
This round was Fidel Castro's way of demonstrating his scorn for the bourgeoisie. But the game he loathed survived his rule, though plans to make the island a golfer's paradise have foundered. Leonard Doyle reports from Havana
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The footage came to light after a Syrian activist linked to it on Twitter, aiming a threat at Syria's leader Bashar Al Assad.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States, died on Friday.
1974 :: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi with Vice-President of Iraq Saddam Hussein
