Episode 137 End for Batista As Cuba Falls on New Year's Eve Published Dec 11, 2022
Episode 137 cover’s a few key final events of Batista’s regime and his ouster and we also go out with the Mob on New Year’s eve and stay with Meyer Lansky in those wee morning hours of New Year’s day….as the mob scrambled in the midst of the fresh news regarding the toppled regime. Join us in this continuing miniseries on Cuban history as we continue to set the stage and explore the forces that were shaping the world in that era of the twentieth century. It’s history that immerses us in the Cuban story whose politics, geography, and economic circumstances would all collide and create an epicenter of geopolitical consequences. Consequences that would intersect in a crescendo right at the moment that JFK was coming to the Presidency. Understanding the leadup and history of Cuba is critical to this part of the journey that is JFK the Enduring Secret. The current group of episodes cover Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution. Enjoy! Jeff