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There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.

~Aaron Mcgruder

Topics: About America Attacks Behind Castro Cia Come Cuba Evidence Get Going How Just New Order Out Planning Set Soil Some Terrorist Up War Were

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I remembered staffing a volunteer table for ACT UP in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood in 1991, on the corner of Castro and 18th Street, and on my table were posters, stickers, and t-shirts that bore the same slogan in all caps - ACT UP slogan house style. I wore one of those shirts to model for passers-by.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Act Bore Caps Castro Corner Francisco House Model Neighborhood Posters Remembered Same San Shirts Slogan Staffing Street Style Table Those Up Volunteer Were Wore T-Shirts

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Fidel Castro's most scandalous show trial was not mounted against a political figure but against a writer: Heberto Padilla. In 1971, after 38 days of detention, Mr. Padilla was forced to 'confess' at the Cuban writers' union to the charges of 'subversive activities.'

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Activities After Against Castro Charges Confess Cuban Days Detention Figure Forced Most Political Scandalous Show Subversive Trial Union Writer Writers Mr

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I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro.

~Artie Lange

Topics: Castro Communist Country Dealt Fidel Castro First First Name His Movie Movie Set Name Once Prima Run Say Set Who

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I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No.

~Bill O'Reilly

Topics: Castro Down Encouraged Fidel Castro He Kennedy Know Now Outsiders Possibly Pushed Sitting

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Particularly during the late 1960s, a large number of American skyjackers earnestly believed that Fidel Castro's Cuba was an egalitarian, post-racial utopia.

~Brendan I. Koerner

Topics: American Believed Castro Cuba Earnestly Egalitarian Large Large Number Late Number Particularly Utopia 1960S

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While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Broken Broken Promises Castro Cuban Deliver Fidel Castro Fluent Future Havana He His Joke Leader Marathon Only Promises Spanish Speeches Speechless Tense Used While Would

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Ali vs. Stevenson would have served as a symbolic battle between the United States and Cuba, capitalism and communism: Castro's values instilled in his boxers pitted against the values of 'merchandise' boxers from the rest of the world.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Against Ali Battle Between Boxers Capitalism Castro Communism Cuba His Instilled Merchandise Rest Served States Symbolic United United States Values World Would

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When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Asked Attempt Castro Dropped First Government He His Insurrection Intellectually Name Poet Put Responsible Trial Who

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My documentary 'Split Decision' examines Cuban-American relations, and the economic and cultural paradoxes that have shaped them since Castro's revolution, through the lens of elite Cuban boxers forced to choose between remaining in Cuba or defecting to America.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: America Between Boxers Castro Choose Cuba Cuban Cultural Decision Documentary Economic Elite Forced Lens Paradoxes Relations Remaining Revolution Shaped Since Split Them Through

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