http://afrocubaweb.com/acoutacw.htm Website on Afro-Cuban culture
http://www.nacub.org/ Homepage of Cuba’s Catholic Church
http://www.amnesty.org/ Amnesty International
http://www.cubanet.org/ Reports by dissident journalists and international agencies
http://www.herald.org/ Homepage of the Miami Herald
http://www.cubainfo.de/ Cuban Tourist Office, Frankfurt
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba Current web link for the Latin America Information Center of the University of Texas
http://www.state.gov/www/regions/wha/cuba/index.html Cuba page of the US State Department
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cu.html World factbook of the Central Intelligence Agency, Cuba section
http://www.latinworld.com/caribe/index.html Latin America search engine for Caribbean
http://www.carilat.de German-based information and news about the Caribbean and Latin America
http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/IIK/ Institut für Iberoamerika-Kunde, Hamburg
http://www.fu-berlin.de/lai/ Latin America Institute of the Free University, Berlin
http://www.irela.org/es/index.asp Instituto de Relaciones Europeos Latinoamericanas
12 Author’s website and e-mail address
http://www.skierka.de
[email protected]
Index
Note: FC denotes Fidel Castro
AAWH
Abalkin, Leonid
Abrantes, José
Acción Radical Ortodoxo (ARO)
ADN News Agency
Adzhubei, Alexei
Afghanistan
Africa
African, Caribbean and Pacific states (ACP)
Afro-Cuban religions
Agramonte, Roberto
agriculture: reform; diversification; self-sufficiency drive (1990s); see also private farmers’ markets; sugar
Agrupación Católica
Alarcón, Ricardo
Alegría del Pío
Alekseev, Aleksandr
Alerta
Algeria
Allende, Salvador
Almeida, Juan
Alpha
Álvarez Barragano, José
Álvaro Bremer, Alejandro
American Association for World Health (AAWH)
American Studies Center (Centro de Estudios sobre América – CEA)
Amnesty International
Amparo
Anastasio, Albert “Butcher”
Anderson, John Lee
Anderson, Rudolph, Jr
Andropov, Yuri
Angola
Aquí la Iglesia (Here is the Church)
Aragónes, Emilio
Arbenz Guzmán, Jácobo
Arcos, Gustavo
Argentina
Argote, María Luisa
Arrufat, Antón
Arteaga y Betancourt, Manuel, Cardinal
Artimé, Manuel
Association of Caribbean States (ACS)
Attwood, William
Authentic Revolutionary Party of Cuba (Auténticos)
Axen, Hermann
Aznar, José María
Baader-Meinhof terrorist group
Bacardi rum company
Baker, James
Balfour, Sebastian
Balzac, Honoré de
Banes
Barbara, damage to
Barbeito, Francisco
Barker, Bernard
Barnet, Miguel
Barquín, Ramón
Barrientos, René
Batista y Zaldívar, Fulgencio, Plate 10; FC’s opposition, guerrilla warfare against; attack by Echeverría (1957); resignation and flight; trials of supporters of regime
Bay of Pigs invasion (1961), used as propaganda
Bayamó Barracks attack (1953)
Bayo Giraud, Alberto
Beauvoir, Simone de
Belgium
Ben Bella, Ahmed
Betancourt, Rómulo
Betto, Frei
Bible
bicycles
biological weapons; FC rumored to be developing US accused of using
biotechnology
Birán
Biryuzov, Sergei
Bishop, Maurice
Bissell, Richard
black market
Blanco Río, Manuel
Bohemia
Bolívar, Simon
Bolivia
Bonanno, Joe
Bonne, Félix
Bonsal, Philip W.
Borge, Tomás
Bosch, Juan
Bosch, Orlando
Boumedienne, Hoari
Bourne, Peter G.
BRAC (Bureau for the Suppression of Communist Subversion)
Brazil xviii
Brezhnev, Leonid
Brigade 2506
Brothers to the Rescue
Buena Vista Social Club
Bulgaria
Bundy, McGeorge
Bunke, Tamara “Tania”
Bureau for Revolutionary Planning and Coordination
Burlatsky, Fyodor
Burton, Dan
Bush, George
Bush, George W
Bush, Jeb
Cabell, Charles P.
Cabrera Infante, Guillermo
Caesar, Julius
“Cambio Cubano” (Cuban Change)
Canada
CANF see Cuban American National Foundation Cantillo, Eulogio
capitalism
Carazo, Rodrigo
Cárdenas, Lázaro
Caribbean
Caribbean Forum
CARICOM economic community
Caritas
Carpentier, Alejo
Carranza Valdéz, Julio
Carreras, Enrique
Carter, Jimmy; visit to Cuba (2002)
Casa de las Americas
Cason, James
Castañeda, Jorge G.
Castro [y Argiz], Ángel (FC’s father), Plate
Castro, Ángela (FC’s sister)
Castro, Augustina (FC’s sister)
Castro, Emma (FC’s sister)
Castro, Fidel Alejandro
LIFE EVENTS: birth; family life; baptism; education; early letter to President Roosevelt, Plate; first insurrection; Havana University; alleged assassination attempts by; joins PPC; marriage; opposition to Batista regime; divorce; exile in Mexico; fund-raising in US, Plate; guerrilla war against Batista regime, Plates; victory parade Plate; becomes prime minister; suspected of involvement in assassination of President Kennedy; becomes head of state; visits abroad as leader, (China Rome Plate UN, Plate UNESCO Plate, US, Plate, USSR,, Plate)
PERSONALITY AND OPINIONS: appearance; baseball player; convinced of affinity between Christianity and Communism; on death and Cuba’s future; ethical values, health; influence of Catholicism; leadership style, leisure activities, Plate; love affairs; love of reading; and music; as orator, Plates; popularity with women Plate; portraits Plates; private life; religious beliefs; role; on socialism/Communism; survivor of assassination plots; understanding of democracy; understanding of human rights; as a winner
Castro, Fidelito (FC’s son)
Castro, Juana (FC’s sister)
Castro, Lidia (FC’s half-sister)
Castro, Lina see Ruz González Castro, Manolo
Castro, Pedro Emilio (FC’s half-brother)
Castro, Ramón (FC’s brother)
Castro, Raúl (FC’s brother) Plate; exile in Mexico; guerrilla war against Batista regime Plate; establishment of revolution; and USSR; elimination attempts; and PSP/ORI; and Che Guevara; meets the Pope; and intellectuals; power; visits GDR; possible successor to FC
Casuso, Teresa “Teté”
Catholicism; attitude to Cuban Revolution; Communist Party and; influence on FC; and opposition in Brazil; visit of John Paul II to Cuba
caudillo
CCDHRN
CCPHD
CEA
Ceauşescu, Nicolae
censorship
/> Center for Social Studies (CES)
Central America
Centro de Estudios sobre América (CEA – American Studies Center)
Centro de Estudios sobre Europa (European Studies Center)
CEPAL
Cervantes, Miguel de
Céspedes, Carlos Manuel de
Chase, Gordon
Chávez, Hugo
Chernenko, Konstantin
Chibás, Eduardo
Chibás, Raúl
Chile
China; Che Guevara’s leaning towards; trade with
Chrétien, Jean
Christian Liberation Movement
Christianity see religion Christmas celebrations
Christopher, Warren
Church, Frank
CIA; anti-Castro activities; assassination plots; and nuclear missile crisis; and President Kennedy’s assassination; Third World involvement
Cienfuegos; Martí’s memorial Plate
Cienfuegos, Camilo, Plate
Cigar Aficionado
Cimex
cinema
CIS
civil liberties; see also democracy; freedom of opinion; human rights
civil society
civil war see guerrilla warfare Clark, Juan
Clinton, Bill
CNN News
Coard, Bernard
Colombia
Colomé Ibarra, Abelardo
Comecon
Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs)
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
Communism; see also Communist Party of Cuba; Partido Socialista Popular; Partido Unido de la Revolución Socialista
Communist Party of Cuba (PCC); attitude to Christianity; Fourth Congress (1991); Fifth Congress (1997); see also Granma (newspaper)
Communist Youth (UJC)
Confederación de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC – Confederation of Cuban Workers); Sixteenth Congress (1989)
Congo
Congo (Brazzaville)
Congress of Writers and Artists (1961)
Constitutions: (1902); (1940); (1976); (1992); (2002)
Conte Agüero, Luís
Corinthia (yacht)
corruption
Cortázar, Julio
Costa Rica
Costello, Frank
Coubre explosion
Council for Mutual Economic Aid (Comecon)
CPSU; Twenty-Seventh Congress (1986)
Crahan, Margaret
crime
Cruz, Maria Elena
CTC see Confederación de Trabajadores de Cuba
Cuba: struggle for independence; declared “Socialist state”; development of national identity; denied right of selfdetermination; identified by US as part of “axis of evil”; political future; see also Cuban Revolution; Batista y Zaldívar, Fulgencio; Grau San Martín, Ramón; Prio Socarrás, Carlos; and individual topics e.g. economy
Cuban American National Foundation (CANF)
Cuban central bank see Cuban National Bank
Cuban Commission for Human Rights (CCPHD)
Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN)
Cuban Committee for Democracy
Cuban Council (Concilio Cubano)
Cuban exiles; anti-Castro activities; FC’s fund-raising, Plate 9; links with assassination of John F. Kennedy; and refugees
Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC)
Cuban National Bank
Cuban Patriotic Council
Cuban Revolution: birth of; establishment; ethical standards; laws; popular attitudes to, (see also political dissent)
Cuban Studies
Cuban Trade Union Federation (CTC) see Confederación de Trabajadores de Cuba
Cubapetróleo
Cubela, Rolando
cuentapropistas
cultural congresses
cultural policy
Custodio, Isabel
Czechoslovak Communist Party
Czechoslovakia
Daniel, Jean
Debray, Régis
democracy, FC’s understanding of
Dennison, Robert
development policy; see also Third World
Diario de la Marina
Díaz, Jesús
Díaz-Balart, Lincoln
Díaz-Balart, Mirta
Díaz-Balart, Rafael
Díaz Lanz, Pedro Luis
Dirección General de Inteligencia (DGI)
Directorio Revolucionario (DR)
Dobrynin, Anatoly
Domínguez, Jorge I.
Dominican Republic
Donovan, James
Dorticós Torrado, Osvaldo
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich
DR
Draper, Theodore
drug-trafficking
Dubcek, Alexander
Dulles, Allen
Dulles, John Foster
Durán, Alfredo
East German Socialist Unity Party (SED)
Eastern Bloc; and emigration to Florida; collapse
Echeverría, José Antonio
Eckstein, Susan
Economist, The
economy: after war of independence; Batista regime; FC promises reform; after the revolution; embargo by US; Che Guevara in charge of; after Guevara; rectificación period,; military and; período special; dollarization (1993 onwards); future
Ecuador
education; see also literacy
Edwards, Jorge
Edwards, Sheffield
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Ejército Juvenil de Trabajo (Young Labor Army)
El Salvador
El Uvero
Elena Mederos Foundation
emigration,; (1994) Elián González affair
energy consumption; see also oil supplies
Engels, Friedrich
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus
Erickson, Robert B.
Escalante, Aníbal
Escambray Mountains, counterrevolutionary groups
Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina
Espín, Vilma
Esquivel, Alfred “Chino”
Esterline, Jacob
ETECSA
Ethiopia/Somalia conflict
EU; Andrei Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
European Studies Center (Centro de Estudios sobre Europa)
Exner, Judith
Falklands War
FAR see Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias
FBI
Federación Estudiantil Universitaria (FEU)
Fernández, Pablo Armando
Fernández Caral, Óscar
Fernández-Ferrer, Alina (FC’s daughter), Plate
Fernández-Ferrer, Orlando
Fernández Pujals, Leopoldo
fidelismo
Financial Times
Finca Mañacas (Palm Farm), Plate
First National Catholic Congress (1959)
First National Congress of Education and Culture (Havana 1971)
Fischetti, Charlie
Fischetti, Rocco
FitzGerald, Desmond
Flynn, Errol
Ford, Gerald
foreign investment see joint ventures
foreign policy: Che Guevara as spokesman; see also Latin America; Third World policy; and individual countries
Franco, Francisco
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Franqui, Carlos
FRD (Revolutionary Democratic Front)
freedom of opinion
Fuentes, Carlos
Fuentes, Norberto
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (FAR)
Fujimori, Alberto
G-2, secret police
Gadea, Hilda
Gagarin, Yuri
Gaitán, Gloria
Gaitán, Jorge Eliécer
Gambino, Carlo
gangsterismo
García Márquez, Gabriel, Plate
García Olivares, Julio
Garrison, Jim
Gaviata
GDR: opinions on revolutionary government; and Che Guevara; developing tensions between Cuba and passim, FC visits; Honecker’s visits to Cuba; and Cuban emigration; on Alpha; on housing situation in 1987; collapse; see also ADN news agency
general strikes
Genovese, Vito
Germany
Giancana, Salvatore “Momo”
glasnost
Gobrecht, Horst
Gómez, René
Gómez Santos, Isidoro
González, Elián
González, Felipe
González, María Antonia
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Grabendorff, Wolf
Gramsci, Antonio
Granma (“Grandmother” – boat)
Granma (“Grandmother” – newspaper)
Grass, Günther
Gratius, Susanne
Grau San Martín, Ramón
Grechko, Andrei
Grenada
Gromyko, Andrei
Guantánamo naval base
Guardia, Antonio de la
Guardia, Patricio de la
“Guardién” (FC’s dog)
Guatemala; training camp for Bay of Pigs invasion
Guerra, Eutimio
guerrilla warfare; civil war against Batista regime, Plates; see also Latin America; Third World policy
Guevara, Aleida see March, Aleida
Guevara, Alfredo
Guevara, Ernesto “Che”, Plate; FC’s relationship with; guerrilla war against Batista regime; establishment of revolution; attempts to eliminate; in charge of economy and foreign policy; theoretician of the new man concept,; and PSP; and intellectuals; decline; death; state funeral; martyr and cult figure
Guillán, Nicolás
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Gutiérrez Menoyo, Eloy
Haiti
Halpern, Samuel
Hamburg Institute of Latin American Studies
Hammarskjøld, Dag
Hart, Armando
Harvey, William
Haubrich, Walter
Havana: FC’s education at Belén (Bethlehem) College; associations of Hotel Nacional with Mafia; Echeverria’s attack on presidential palace Plate; capture; FC’s victory parade Plate; appearance in 1990s
Havana interrogation
Havana University
Havana Yacht Club
Hawkins, Jack
health system
Hegel, G. W. F.
Helms, Jesse
Helms-Burton Act
Hemingway, Ernest
Henkel, Hans-Olaf
Hermanos al Rescate (Brothers to the Rescue)
Hermida, Ramón
Hernández, Francisco
Hernández, Melba
Hesse, Hermann
Heyser, Richard S.
Hinckle, Warren
hispanidad
Hoffmann, Bert
Holy Week celebrations
Honecker, Erich
Hoover, J. Edgar
Horowitz, Irving L.
housing
Houston, scuttling of
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