The Cuban government is struggling to keep an aging Soviet-era power grid running while crippling U.S. sanctions make it ...

Unknown Speaker: At the height of tension over the Cuban Crisis, with the world purged ... with vituperative attack on the Americans-Cuban blockade. The military newspaper Red Star warned that ...

For the thirty-second time in so many years, the US blockade of Cuba was globally condemned at the UN General Assembly’s ...

In this October 18, 1962 recording, he dictates an account of the debates among his top advisors in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This tape was made two days after the president was ...

Though the blackouts have become the target of another round of media demonization of Cuba, the current crisis is really the result of the US blockade, which has starved the Cuban people of fuel ...

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ABILENE, Texas — Sixty-two years ago today the country was caught up in the Cuban Missile Crisis when we almost had a nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union. We spoke with the last living crew ...

During the darkness of the night on 25 October 1962 at Duluth Air Force Base, Minnesota, a sentry spotted something. The base ...

At the height of the Cuban missile crisis, a session of the executive ... Secretary Robert McNamara’s arguments for a naval blockade. “The members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were unanimous ...

Kennedy revealed the presence of Soviet-built missile ... a naval blockade of all offensive military equipment being shipped to the Communist island nation. The Cuban missile crisis of October ...

President Kennedy set up a special three-man committee today to handle negotiations looking toward an end to the Cuban crisis ... s promise to dismantle the missile bases.

Unknown Speaker: At the height of tension over the Cuban Crisis, with the world purged ... with vituperative attack on the Americans-Cuban blockade. The military newspaper Red Star warned that ...