Africa, 11, 12, 19, 21, 22, 24, 42–43, 145, 148, 163, 173, 175, 177–179, 181, 243, 246, 249, 365, 388, 390–391, 394, 399, 431, 433, 439, 445, 490, 511
African National Congress (ANC), 15, 19
Agramonte, Ignacio, 103, 329, 335, 337, 357, 517
agrarian reform, 68, 148–150, 155, 172, 207, 253, 364
Agrarian Reform Law, 148
Algeria, 11, 171, 177–178, 184, 306, 433, 487
Allende, Salvador, 14, 359, 385, 514
Almeida, Juan, x, 3, 4, 37, 317
Alpha 66, 311–312
American revolution, 101
Angola, 18, 39, 43, 390, 432, 434, 439, 488
apartheid, 18, 19, 42–43, 389–390, 441, 445, 488
Argentina, 17, 25, 172, 256, 396, 459
arms race, 174, 181, 186, 401, 406
Arteaga, Cardinal, 94
ASEAN, 459
Associated Press (AP), 150, 166, 168, 174, 275, 284
Ayacucho, battle of, 460
Baraguá Protest, 131, 335, 355
Batista, Fulgencio, ix–x, 1–4, 7, 45, 51, 57, 60–62, 74, 76–78, 80, 84, 90–91, 93–94, 98–99, 103, 108–112, 114, 116, 119, 121–122, 128, 133, 135, 143, 145–147, 150, 153, 176, 201, 203, 286, 350, 382, 447, 464, 466, 502, 505, 507
Bay of Pigs, 9, 12, 18, 43, 195, 198, 253, 267, 370–371, 381, 417, 419, 428–429, 441, 484, 507
blockade against Cuba, 10, 21, 26, 27, 34, 36, 39, 269, 304–308, 349, 397, 418, 435–436, 446, 449, 452, 484, 490, 496, 500, 502, 505, 507
Bolívar, Simón, 252, 450, 456, 459–461, 473, 476
Bolivia, 12, 13, 18, 22, 27, 63, 172, 256, 325–326, 396, 443, 489
Bush, George W., 25, 26, 491–494, 496–497, 499, 501, 504, 510
Cabral, Amilcar, 488
Camp Columbia, 60–61, 76, 108, 111, 115, 119–124, 128, 133, 146
CARICOM, 457
Carmichael, Stokely, 293–294
Castro, Raúl, x, 3, 4, 27, 37, 56, 315, 514, 516-517
Catholic church, 209, 219, 379
Central America, 191, 254, 472, 473
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 250, 310–311, 371
Céspedes, Carlos Manuel de, 103, 328–329, 333, 335, 337, 340, 357–358, 442, 517
Chibás, Eduardo, 2, 58, 94, 464
Chile, 14, 172, 359–360, 363, 365, 368–369, 371, 377–378, 381, 383
China, 7, 8, 99, 180, 182–183, 445, 457, 475
Cienfuegos, Camilo, x, 4, 5, 6, 124, 136, 195, 318
Clinton, Bill, 22
Columbus, Christopher, 73, 206, 475
Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba (CAFC), 499
Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs), 8, 12, 423
Congo, 12, 171, 173, 176–178, 184, 288, 433, 488
constitution of 1940, 5, 66, 95–96, 101, 203–205
constitution of Guáimaro (1869), 101, 333, 355
Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), 14, 19
Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), 22
Cuban Communist Party, x, 11, 15, 18, 20, 22, 35, 275, 282, 292, 417, 514
Cuban Family Code, 14
Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), 225, 230
Cuban People’s (Orthodox) Party, ix, 2, 464
Declaration of Independence, the US, 102
Declaration of San José, the, 7, 186
Díaz Balart, Lincoln, 496
Díaz Lanz, Pedro Luis, 6
disarmament, 174, 178–181, 389
Dorticós, Osvaldo, 6
DRE, see Revolutionary Student Directorate
Echevarría, José Antonio, 3
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 6, 7, 8, 165, 175, 179
Elián González, 23
Engels, Friedrich, 244, 283, 442, 462–464, 512
English revolution, 101
ETA, 496
Ethiopia, 433
European Union, 459
FAR, see Revolutionary Armed Forces
fascism, 183, 246, 366–367, 383, 436, 494
Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), 423
Federation of University Students (FEU), 4
French revolution, 101, 237, 277, 361, 376, 460
FSLN, see Sandinista National Liberation Front
García, Calixto, 109, 335, 340
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 402
Gómez, Máximo, 103, 329–330, 335, 338, 340, 433, 442
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 17, 18, 20, 437
Granma (boat), x, 3, 31, 40, 124, 286, 315–316, 382, 441, 463
Great Depression, the, 143, 402
Group of 77, 11, 17, 23, 403, 407, 414
Guantánamo, 20, 21, 24, 124, 167–170, 254, 270, 329, 397
Guatemala, 3, 148, 157–158, 172, 316, 511
Guayasamín, Oswaldo, 36
Guevara, Ernesto Che, x, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 22, 31, 124, 285–286, 288, 315–326, 352, 433–446, 488–489, 497
Guiteras, Antonio, 349–440
Hatuey, 350
Helms-Burton law, the, 22, 490, 507
History Will Absolve Me, ix, 2, 45–105, 127, 465
Hitler, Adolf, 94, 183, 206, 365, 441, 492–493
ICAIC, see Cuban Film Institute
immigration, 12, 65, 139, 276–278, 504, 509
INRA, see National Institute of Agrarian Reform
Integrated Revolutionary Organizations (ORI), 9, 10, 282
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 23, 305, 513
Israel, 306–308, 392–394, 487–488
Italy, 70
Japan, 184, 189, 191, 418, 457
Johnson, Lyndon, 276–280, 288, 310–312
July 26 Movement, ix, x, 2, 3, 4, 9, 110
Kennedy, John F., 8, 9, 10, 11, 42, 170–171, 191, 206, 269
Kennedy, Robert, 42
Khrushchev, Nikita, 151, 167, 174, 207
Kosovo, 496
Latin American Solidarity Organizations (OLAS), 12, 293–294, 298, 309, 312
Lenin, Vladimir, 244, 436, 442, 462, 464–465, 512
Lincoln, Abraham, 184–185, 336
literacy, 8, 10, 160, 195, 207, 253, 255, 484, 490, 501
literacy campaign, 8, 10, 160, 195, 207, 253, 255, 484
López, Narciso, 331–332
Lumumba, Patrice, 176–177, 488
Maceo, Antonio, 63–64, 86, 103, 320, 329–330, 334–336, 338–339, 341, 357, 429, 431, 441–442, 517
Maceo, José, 329
Machado, Gerardo, 1, 60, 79, 135
Malvinas [Falkland] Islands, 17, 395
mambises, 63, 131, 284, 327, 340–341, 344, 351
Martí, José, 4, 32, 37, 40, 49, 52, 67, 72–74, 79, 82, 103–104, 126, 198, 241–242, 320, 329–330, 332, 337–340, 342, 351–352, 355, 357–378, 427, 442, 450–451, 459–461, 463, 465, 485, 515, 517
Marx, Karl, 174, 244–245, 283, 297, 442, 452, 455, 462–464, 512
Matos, Huber, 6
Matthews, Herbert, 3
McNamara, Robert, 310–311
Mella, Julio Antonio, 349, 440
Mexico, x, 3, 17, 31, 35, 157, 172, 185, 276, 349, 396, 459
Military Intelligence Service (SIM), 46, 86, 94
Miranda, Francisco, 460
Miró Cardona, José, 5
Mobutu Sese Seko, Joseph, 176, 488
Moncada, ix, 2, 19, 40, 46, 48, 59, 66, 76–78, 83, 211, 342, 440, 463–464, 469, 471
Movement of Nonaligned Countries, viii, 9, 16, 20, 22, 387–388, 391, 394, 397–398, 401, 405–407
Mozambique, 390
Namibia, 43, 390–391, 433, 488
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 8, 179, 394
National Assembly of Cuba, 15, 21, 22, 25, 437, 473, 507, 517
National Council of Culture, 213, 223–224, 228–229, 231
National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA), 6, 232
Neto, Agostinho, 488
New Jewel Movement, 16
Nicaragua, 16, 19, 143, 157, 396, 439, 489
Nkrumah, Kwame, 179
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 254, 437
October Missile Crisis, 42, 269–270, 276, 311, 370, 441, 507
OLAS, see Latin American Solidarity Organizations
Organization of African Unity (OAU), 391–392
Organization of America States (OAS), 7, 10, 157–159, 170, 251, 254–255, 312
ORI, see Integrated Revolutionary Organizations
Palestine, 392–393
Panama, 19, 24, 26, 158, 171, 184, 250, 258, 396, 439
People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), 488
Platt Amendment, 141, 166, 242, 341, 343
Polisario Front, the, 392
Popular Socialist Party (PSP), 9, 464
Prío Socarrás, Carlos, 74, 76, 80
Puerto Rico, 141, 171, 242, 270, 277, 339, 395–396
Punta del Este, 9, 10, 252–254, 261
PURS, see United Party of the Socialist Revolution
racism, 5, 24, 41, 279, 336, 389–390, 393, 441, 467, 486
Rebel Army, x, 4, 32, 108, 122, 133, 146, 201, 462, 484
Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), 5, 281, 432, 441, 515
Revolutionary Student Directorate (DRE), 4, 9
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 437
Roosevelt, Theodore, 341
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 102, 244
Rubido, Colonel Rego, 107, 114–115, 119, 121–122, 124
Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), 16, 19, 396, 489
Santa Clara, 5, 22, 318, 443–444
Santiago de Chile, 14, 359, 370
September 11 terrorist attacks, 24, 477, 490–491, 509–510
SIM, see Military Intelligence Service
slavery, 288, 331–333, 338, 346–347, 355–356, 361
Smith, Adam, 454–455
Southern Africa, 445
South Africa, 21, 22, 24, 178, 390–391, 394
Soviet Union, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 39, 43, 139, 151, 154, 156, 158–159, 167, 170, 174, 179–180, 183, 185, 202, 246, 269, 271–272, 304–305, 375–376, 394, 418, 436, 439, 449, 454, 462, 468–469, 490, 507, 511, 513
Spain, 26, 140–141, 182–184, 265, 276, 331, 339–341, 434, 475
Sucre, General José Antonio, 459
Third World debt, 402, 404, 406–408, 410, 438, 478
Torricelli Act, the, 21, 490, 507
Touré, Sékou, 179
Tricontinental conference, the, 12, 309, 320
Trujillo, Rafael Leonidas, ix, 1, 6, 128, 143, 451
UNEAC (Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba), 228
Union of Young Communists (UJC), 423, 515, 517
UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola), 439
Unitary Action Party (PAU), 94
United Fruit Company, 68, 150, 157, 172, 203
United Kingdom, 17, 101, 143, 173
United Nations (UN), 8, 11, 14, 16, 19, 21, 23, 27, 137–139, 148, 157, 159, 162, 165, 171–172, 175–176, 178, 182–183, 387, 389–394, 397, 401, 404, 409, 411, 413–415, 480, 489, 491–492, 496, 501, 506, 513
United Party of the Socialist Revolution (PURS), 10, 282
United Press International (UPI), 150, 168, 174, 284
UN Commission on Human Rights (UNHRC), 496
UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 11, 401–402
Urrutia, Manuel, 5, 6, 112, 120, 122–123, 126, 132
Venezuela, 5, 15, 23, 24, 172, 257, 302, 396, 447, 456, 460–461, 467–468, 472–475
Venezuelan Communist Party, 304
Vietnam, 8, 11, 12, 254, 277, 285, 288, 325–326, 376, 445, 488, 497
Walker, Reverend Lucius, 494
Warsaw Pact, the, 437
Western Sahara, 392
World Trade Organization (WTO), 23
Zanjón Pact, the, 335–336, 342
Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), 390–391