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- Happy new year...
- Let the private sector do it
- Tax relief for entrepreneurs, and other economic news
- The tradecraft of Alan Gross
- The Christmas rush
- 2,900 prisoners to be released
- Migration reform: not quite yet
- Odds and ends
- 357,000 entrepreneurs
- Oficios
- Quotable
- Odds and ends
- Unhinged
- Quotable
- Odds and ends
- It's over
- Mauricio's world
- Mario's Christmas amendment: Not yet a done deal
- President Obama on Laura Pollan and Cuban American...
- Christmas with Mario
- Time to meet again
- Oil news
- Odds and ends
- Today's flotilla (Updated)
- Odds and ends
- And dumber still (Updated)
- Trinidad
- Odds and ends
- More on Alan Gross
- Fireworks coming
- Odds and ends
- "The document lacks a vision of the future"
- Dumb and dumber
- Odds and ends
- On the orishas
- Quotable
- Alan Gross, on his own
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1 comment:
Beautiful place. Another quick note on history, and how President John F. Kennedy definitely spared the city some destruction in April 1961.
Trinidad was the original landing site the CIA selected for the Bay of Pigs landing, before JFK insisted on moving it to a more secluded location with a landing strip (Which Trinidad did not have at the time).
The invasion location was moved about 70 km west, and we got the name "Bay of Pigs".
If things had remained at Trinidad, the invasion may just have succeeded (If you define success as helping the invading force land, establish a beach head and connect with anti- Castro forces, who were already nearby in the Sierra Escambray mountains).
Of course, we would have a different name for the whole fiasco. I guess Ancon Beach does not sound as interesting as "The Bay of Pigs."
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