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2021, The Havana's Cuban Boys in Dallas
General information about my new book about how the Soviet Union and Cuba killed JFK. Book just pieces of evidence with official documents and photos.
Anthology, edited jointly with Steve Ludlam of Sheffield University, of short articles on decades of US terrorism and subversion against Cuba, and Cuba's response to the 'war on terror' announced by President Bush following the 9/11 attack.
published in: Pablo A. Baisotti (ed.): A New Struggle for Independence in Modern Latin America. Abingdon – New York, Routledge, 2022. pp. 236-256. A book chapter on the history of the relations between Cuba and the United States of America (full chapter not available online due to copyright reasons). Un capítulo de libro sobre la historia de las relaciones entre Cuba y los Estados Unidos (capítulo entero no disponible online debido a los derechos de copyright de la editorial). Könyvfejezet Kuba és az Amerikai Egyesült Államok kapcsolatáról (a teljes fejezet nem érhető el online a kiadói szerzői jogok miatt) https://www.routledge.com/A-New-Struggle-for-Independence-in-Modern-Latin-America/Baisotti/p/book/9780367487485
What constitutes a conspiracy, and what are the stakes of popular theories of conspiracy? This article addresses these questions through an ethno-historical examination of narratives about conspiracies endured and posited by Cuban people. Long before the Revolution in 1959, continuing through the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, numerous assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, and onward to recent claims of biological warfare orchestrated by the government of the US, conspiracy theories have circulated widely in Cuba and its diasporic enclaves. Drawing on ethnographic and historical data, the article embeds present-day narratives of conspiracy in the longer-run history of Cuban conspiracy theories such as those initially presented in the case of the USS Maine and its nineteenth-century precursors, notably including the stationing of the HMS Romney in Havana harbour, and the so-called conspiracy of La Escalera in 1844. It argues, ultimately, that these tales are always morality tales, counterposing nefarious agents of an illegitimate external power to the imagined community of those (including the narrator's self and audience) thus disenfranchised. In that sense, then, the truth value of any particular account of conspiracy is irrelevant to the larger truth of Empire.
The Venceremos Brigade is an 'anti-imperialist Education Project' that began its travel to Cuba in 1969 to support and learn about the Cuban Revolution. On Venceremos trips, North American volunteers offer aid to Cuban government projects while touring the island nation and learning about both Cuba and revolutionary ideals. Participants in the projects are involved for both personal and political reasons, offering a model for productive political relations born of hostilities. Although its story remains undocumented within histories of both the US Left and US-Cuban relations, by 2015, the group had sent more than 9,000 North American activists to the island. Through reading newspapers from Cuba, Venceremos Press Publications in the US, and by listening to personal narratives, this article documents this important political education project that continues to model productive relations today. As Cuba and the US approach normalised relations, the moment manifests with a presence that most US citizens have not experienced for decades. For most North Americans, the current shift is a complete turn from relations begun at the inception of the Cuban Revolution. In truth, this shift mirrors the work that the Venceremos Brigade has been realising for decades. I found the Venceremos Brigade among the weeds of the American Left, modelling a distinct and positive form of US-Cuban relations amidst a political context hostile to Cuba. Born from fraught relations, the Brigade has persisted throughout the period defined
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This book is 480 pages proving that the CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff plotted to kill JFK based on some 50 years of dedicated research by many authors and declassified files. It is about the continuation of CIA’s political warfare and the assassination operations and CIA working with the North American mafia. It is an edition as of Nov. 2019.
Because of their myriad complexity, the networks for cays that make up the western side of the Bahamian archipelago have historically been a haven for pirates. Their proximity to Cuba has also provided political rebels with ideal locations from which to launch attacks on the island. During the Cuban War of Independence (1868-78) Cuban ‘independentistas’ used the Bahamas as a base for raids on the Spanish Colony and, starting from the onset of counterrevolutionary activity in 1959, the British cays were used by anti-Castro exiles to stage commando raids on Cuban shipping and the Cuban mainland. The raids, in which US citizens participated, became a diplomatic bone of contention between Britain, Cuba and the United States and a point of friction between the Kennedy administration and the Cuban exile lobby. At the Kennedy administration’s apparently covert request (and to the exiles’ chagrin) from March 1963 the British authorities began to move against the raids. This paper examines the diplomatic and political evidence available and seeks to establish exactly how far the British were acting under the guidance of Washington. At a time when the British were very publicly refusing US demands to stop trading with Cuba, the secret cooperation over the raids provides an example of the way the so called ‘special relationship’ works. The paper ends with a discussion about how far the material supports conspiracy theories regarding the assassination of Kennedy in November 1963
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