“LESSONS FROM THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS”

October 25, 2019   A publication of the Cuban Studies Institute

This day in Cuban history…  “LESSONS FROM THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS”    October, 1962 *By Jaime Suchlicki In 1962, the Soviet Union surreptitiously introduced nuclear missiles into Cuba. A surprised, embarrassed and angry President John F. Kennedy blockaded the island and after eleven tense days the Soviet Union withdrew its missiles. The crisis, which brought the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust helped, among other things, to shape the perceptions of American foreign policy leaders toward the Soviet threat and the world. Some of the lessons of that crisis are still with us today. Continue Reading *Jaime Suchlicki is Director of the Cuban Studies Institute, CSI, a non-profit research group in Coral Gables, FL. He is the author of Cuba: From Columbus to Castro & Beyond, now in its 5th edition; Mexico: From Montezuma to the Rise of the PAN, 2nd edition, and of the recently published Breve Historia de Cuba. He is a highly regarded consultant to the public and private sector.

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