The preparation of the Bay of Pigs invasion entered its final stage in March 1961, with the CIA station officers in Guatemala involved in a feverish traffic of encrypted cables to and from the United States, unaware that one of those reports on the training of the invading brigade in the Central American country would alert the Cuban leadership to the details of the attack.

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The performance of the Olympic and world medalists trained in Holguín was reflected in the new literary work "Holguineros en el podio", by journalist and historian Calixto José González Betancourt, presented last Sunday at the Alex Urquiola provincial library.

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After the New York Times confirmed that a truck carrying “humanitarian aid” was burned by opposition thugs - not Venezuelan security forces – someone alerted me that this unusual favor offered by the corporate press, publishing a well known fact, was a way to develop legitimacy around the issue of Venezuela and that I should be ready for the next lie that would not be long in coming. Read more Truth or a visa: The New York Times spreads lies about Cuba and Venezuela

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Due to the positive results of the season, 10 football players from Holguín have been included in the national preselections, which were recently summoned for international events involving the different categories.

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