September: After spending months recovering and training in the mountains of Cuba, Ché Guevara leaves for Bolivia to try to spark a continental revolution. November 2: U.S. President Lyndon B.

In late April, Cuba’s state sugar monopoly reported a harvest this year of just 68% of the planned 1.2 million tonnes ... But ever since the 1959 revolution, the country has been unable to ...

Most in danger of being lost are the social clubs that produced the music that ended up ... Social Club' Broadway Review: Cuba Ignites Before and After the Revolution appeared first on TheWrap.

By 1958, the revolution had spread throughout Cuba, culminating in the fall of Havana in early 1959. Batista fled the country in 1959 and Castro formed a liberal nationalist government.

These vintage cars, relics of Cuba’s precommunist past, survive because of their ingenuity, so claim their proud owners without exception, as though it is the default statement to make.