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Miami’s Freedom Tower reopens as Trump ramps up arrests in city of Cuban migrant pride

Miami’s Freedom Tower stood as a beacon of hope for Cubans fleeing communist rule at the height of the Cold War

The Independent UK

Cuban Media Criticizes Miss Cuba Universe 2025, Lili Estefan's Daughter and Gloria Estefan's Niece

The recently crowned Miss Universe Cuba 2025, is facing sharp criticism from Cuba's state-controlled press, which has accused the beauty pageant of being a "superficial" industry that "objectifies" women. Lina Luaces was elected the representative of the island in Miss Universe on July 2025 in Miami.

Latin Times

Exiled child returns to Miami’s Freedom Tower: ‘They massacred my teddy bear’

Having fled Castro’s Cuba at age five, Jorge Malagón Márquez honors the landmark reopening in September

The Guardian - US

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In Cuba, Castro's 'Influencer' Grandson Causes A Stir

Cuban influencer Sandro Castro has chosen a very different path to his revolutionary grandfather Fidel, using his name to pursue online fame while occasionally poking fun at the island's dire shortages of food, medicine, power and fuel.

International Business Times

Three Revolutions by Simon Hall review – how Russia, China and Cuba changed forever

A historian explores eyewitness accounts of the most dramatic political unpheavals of the 20th century

The Guardian - UK

Gloria Estefan: ‘My abuser told me he’d kill my mother if I told anyone’

INTERVIEW: The Cuban-American superstar talks to Fiona Sturges about her childhood abuser and her father’s disappearance, the ‘inhumanity’ of Trump’s America, and why her new album is her masterpiece... plus why she’s catching up on ‘Stranger Things’

The Independent UK

Voices: When US presidents talk of regime change, we must be careful what they wish for

COMMENT: With Donald Trump apparently warming to the idea of overthrowing Iran’s theocratic rulers, history reminds us that whenever the White House upturns an unsatisfactory regime, from Fidel Castro to Saddam Hussein, it contrives only to make matters worse, says Sean O’Grady

The Independent UK

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‘Um, actually’: Ted Cruz forced to backpedal after wrongly claiming communism tortured his dad in Cuba

Ted's dad actually fought WITH Castro.

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Bill Maher roasts Sean Penn for meeting Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro but not Trump

Chat show host on the defensive after Oscar-winning actor says he could have done more ‘editing’ in his response to dining with the president at the White House earlier this year

The Independent UK

US military parade has global counterparts in democracies, monarchies and totalitarian regimes

The military parade to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary and its convergence with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday are combining to create a peacetime outlier in U.S. history

The Independent UK

Barbara Walters, the unflattering truth

The director of "Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything" discusses the challenge of telling Walters' multifaceted story

Salon

20 Last-Minute Decisions That Changed History For Better Or For Worse

Sometimes a decision made in the blink of an eye can even change the course of history.

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US jury’s $30m verdict brings hope for Cuban exiles over confiscated land

Lawsuit brought under Helms-Burton could spur others pursuing compensation for property seized by Castro

The Guardian - US

20 Last-Minute Decisions That Changed The Course Of History

Sometimes a decision made in the blink of an eye can even change the course of history.

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“Fidel Castro hadn’t decided if it was going to work for him or not”: the time Audioslave made a historic visit to Cuba and got the green light from Castro himself

The rock supergroup became the first US band to play an open-air concert in the country in 2005, wowing Havana with the most epic show of their career

International Business Times

'La Bolita,' Cuban Lottery Offering Hope In Tough Times

Every day, as he has done for 20 years, Carlos makes the rounds collecting bets in central Havana for "la bolita" -- a clandestine national lottery that provides a sliver of hope for Cubans struggling to make ends meet.

Salon

Rubio pushes Trump's theocratic purge

In a new war on federal workers, State Department employees are told to snitch on people with Pride flags

The Guardian - UK

Mario Vargas Llosa obituary

Peruvian novelist, essayist and aspiring politician who was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 2010

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Cuba Resurrects Dollar-only Stores, A Symbol Of Inequality

In communist Cuba, some customers are more equal than others, as a 40-year-old math teacher who was out shopping recently in Havana with his son discovered.

Al Jazeera

Putin wants US ‘recognition’ of Russian gains in Ukraine: Historian

Russian-British historian Sergey Radchenko talks to Al Jazeera about Moscow’s desire for status on the world stage.

The Independent UK

The release of a 1961 plan to break up the CIA revives an old conspiracy theory about who killed JFK

Newly released material from documents associated with President John F. Kennedy's assassination show that a key adviser wanted to break up the CIA after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961

Al Jazeera

New JFK assassination files: What was revealed about Oswald and CIA plots?

New files released on Tuesday don’t shed new light on Kennedy’s assassination. But they reveal details about CIA plots.

The Guardian - US

Trump releases thousands of pages on John F Kennedy assassination

Experts doubt new trove of information will change underlying facts in case of 35th president’s death

The Texas Tribune

Rafael Cruz, father of Ted Cruz, wants Texas to require school lessons about “evil” of communism

The prominent right-wing pastor told state lawmakers that an anti-communist curriculum is crucial to reaffirming that America is a “Christian country.”

The Independent UK

JFK, RFK and MLK: The conspiracies behind each assassination that continue to enthrall amateur sleuths

As the deadline for the release of the files looms, Rhian Lubin revisits some of the outlandish and more compelling theories out there about the killings of JFK, RFK and MLK

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