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Subversive Historian – 12/11/09

Ernesto “Che” Guevara at the UN Back in the day on December 11th, 1964, Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara addressed the United Nations. As a selected spokesperson for the Cuban government, Guevara arrived to New York two days prior to his speech before the General Assembly. Even though Guevara’s travel aspirations had always sought out [...]

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Subversive Historian – 10/28/09

The Death of Camilo Cienfuegos Back in the day on October 28th, 1959, Cuban revolutionary Camilo Cienfuegos mysteriously died. The long bearded swashbuckler boarded an airplane flying from Camaguey to Havana fifty years ago when it disappeared over the ocean at night. The Cuban government immediately organized a massive search lasting days, but could not recover [...]

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Subversive Historian – 10/12/09

Boca de Sama Attack Back in the day on October 12th, 1971, the small Cuban fishing village of Boca de Sama in the Eastern part of the island was attacked by boat. Gustavo Villoldo, a Cuban exile and CIA agent at the time, recently spoke of his role in the operation in a feature story published [...]

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Hortensia Bussi Passes Away

The world lost a great living symbol of democracy yesterday when Hortensia Bussi, widow of Salvador Allende, passed away in her sleep. She was 94 at the time of her death in Santiago, Chile.  Bussi became the First Lady of the world’s longest and thinnest country when her husband, a self-described Marxist, won the presidential [...]

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A Grin Without A Cat

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXIXa-PXGYI] French filmmaker Chris Marker’s three hour epic cinematic meditation on the rise and the fall of the new left has finally arrived to home video. His documentary “A Grin Without A Cat,” traverses the world over from Vietnam, to Cuba, to Chile, to France in compiling a mosaic of rare historical footage from the late [...]

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