The street-level truth about Cuba National Edition

[Peter Goodspeed]'s articles out of Miami were puzzlingly evasive of some simple hard facts about Cuban- American history. For more than 100 years now, the U.S. has done an exemplary job of meddling in Cuba. In the first half of the century, after leaving Cuba out of their negotiations with Spa...

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Published inNational post (Toronto)
Main Author Gower, Mike
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Don Mills, Ont Postmedia Network Inc 20.03.2007
Subjects
Covert operations
Goodspeed, Peter
Zak, Yedi
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Summary:[Peter Goodspeed]'s articles out of Miami were puzzlingly evasive of some simple hard facts about Cuban- American history. For more than 100 years now, the U.S. has done an exemplary job of meddling in Cuba. In the first half of the century, after leaving Cuba out of their negotiations with Spain, the U.S. intervened militarily a handful of times. After Castro's victory -- no one mentions the broad public support that enabled a handful of men to overthrow a government -- the U.S. embarked on a half-century of punitive diplomatic politics and covert operations.
ISSN:1486-8008