Fidel Castro and Cuba

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Fidel Castro, who led the 1959 Cuban Revolution against then-president Fulgencio Batista, has stepped down as president of Cuba after 49 years.  His brother Raul was named the new president by Cuba's National Assembly.  Raul Castro has been leading the country since July 2006 due to Fidel Castro's poor health. Find out more about: Cuba and Fidel Castro | Cuba and the U.S. | Cuban Americans

Cuba and Fidel Castro

Cuba After Fidel Castro -- from the BBC News.  Also see their Country Profile: Cuba

Cuba -- collection of articles and links from the New York Times

Country Profile: Cuba -- from the Library of Congress, Federal Research Division

Background Note: Cuba -- from the U.S. Department of State

Cuba: The Human Development Index -- fact sheet from the United Nations Development Programme.  Also see the full list of data for Cuba

Cuba -- statistics and information from the World Health Organization

Country Briefings: Cuba -- articles from The Economist

Fidel Castro History Archive -- speeches from the Marxists Internet Archive

American Experience: Fidel Castro -- web site for the PBS program, including a transcript

Reference Books: located in the Reference Section of the St. Paul campus library

• Countries and Their Cultures
  GN 307 .C68 2001
  see the article "Cuba"
• Current Biography
  CT 100 .C8
  see articles "Castro, Fidel" in the 1970 & 2001 volumes, and "Castro, Raul" in the 1977 volume
• Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture
  F 1046 .E53 1996
  see "Castro Ruz, Fidel," "Castro Ruz, Raul," "Cuba," and "Cuban Missle Crisis" in vol. 2
• Encyclopedia of World Poverty
  HV 12 .E54 2006
  see the article "Cuba"
• The Europa World Year Book
  JN 1 .E85 2007
  see the article "Cuba"
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide
  HQ 1115 .G74 2003
  see "Cuba" in vol. 5
• The Human Rights Encyclopedia
  JC 571 .L523 2001
  see the article "Cuba"
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
  G 63 .W67 2001
  see "Cuba" in vol. 3

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Cuba and the United States

Cuba -- information from the U.S. Department of State, including links to the U.S. Interests Section, Cuba website and the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba

U.S. - Cuba Relations -- Backgrounder report from the Council on Foreign Relations, a "nonpartisan resource for information and analysis."  Also see their other information on Cuba.

Center for International Policy's Cuba Program -- "The CIP Cuba program opposes the current containment policy towards Cuba and seeks a policy that will be productive in terms of real US interests and objectives."

Cuba Documentation Project -- information related to the Bay of Pigs invasion and other U.S-Cuba relations in the 1960s.  From the National Security Archive at George Washington University.

Cuban History: Missile Crisis -- information from the Marxists Internet Archive

Reference Books: located in the Reference Section of the St. Paul campus library

• Cold War America: 1946 to 1990
  E 741 .G75 2003
  see "The Cuban Missle Crisis: President John F. Kennedy's Report to the Nation, October 22, 1962" on page 595
• Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
  E 183.7 .E52 2002
  see the entries in the index under "Cuba"
• Encyclopedia of American History
  E 174. E53 2003
  see "Bay of Pigs" and "Cuban Missle Crisis" in vol. 9
• Global Perspectives on the United States
  E 895 .G56 2007
  see the article "Cuba"
• The Sixties in America
  E 169.12 .S446 1999
  see "Bay of Pigs Invasion," "Castro, Fidel," and "Cuban Missle Crisis" in vol. 1

Cuban Americans

Cuban America -- collection of documents from CubaInfo, a project of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University

Cuban American National Foundation -- a "non-profit organization dedicated to advancing freedom and democracy in Cuba"

Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994 -- text on Google Books of a book published by University of California Press

Times Topics: Cuban Americans -- collection of stories from the New York Times

Reference Books: located in the Reference Section of the St. Paul campus library

• Encyclopedia of American Immigration
  JV 6465 .E53 2001
  see the article "Cuba" in vol. 3, page 1109
• Immigration and Asylum: from 1900 to the present
  JV 6012 .I56 2005
  see "Cuban Migration, "Guantanamo Bay" and "Mariel Boatlift"
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos & Latina in the United States
  E 184 .S75 O97 2005
  see "balseros," "Cuban Embargo," "Cubans and Cuban Americans" and "Mariel Boatlift"