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.
"South African aviation on the ground and its tanks flying," is the phrase loaded with sarcasm with which Fidel, speaking to a group of diplomats from non-aligned countries gathered in Havana, described what happened on March 23, 1988 in the Angolan locality of Cuito Cuanavale.
Five years ago, the visit of a president of the United States for the first time in more than eight decades seemed to indicate that the two countries were finally finding a way to coexistence.
On March 19, 1998, Prensa Latina reported an unusual event from Geneva: Cuba, the country that the United States had been describing since 1982 as a sponsor of terrorism, was acknowledged as a victim of this type of actions.
The 18 of this marks a year the confirmation of the first positive for COVID-19 in the province, when a 57-year-old Canadian citizen was diagnosed with the disease, a few hours after his arrival at a hotel in the tourist destination of Holguín.