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JFK The Enduring Secret

Episode 125 History of Cuba Part 3

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

Ruby, Dallas, Murder, Society & Culture, Coup D'etat, History, Government, President, Documentary, Kennedy, Jfk, Johnson, Oswald, Fbi, Mafia, Cia, Assassination

4.6659 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Episode 125 is the third in a multiple episode wander on the history of Cuba dating all the way back to the island conquest by Spain. We take you swiftly through hundreds of years of colonial rule that shaped the geopolitics of the region and defined its 20th century relationship with the United States. In today's episode we cover the period from the beginnin of the Cuban revolution of 1895 up through the coup by Bautista in the 1930's and we also roll the tape back a...

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0:00.0

Cocco Seco

0:02.0

Coco Seco

0:04.0

Cocoa

0:05.0

Cocoa I'm going to be able to be. And so you know, Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.

0:52.4

I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

1:10.2

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.

1:14.0

Today's episode is episode 125 in its part three of our series on the history of Cuba.

1:22.0

As you know, this is a significant wander into the history of this country, which figures so intricately into the story

1:29.7

of the JFK assassination. And yes, I know, we stopped and were on a wander and we went back way

1:37.0

back in time. But it was worth it, I think, for those of you who have listened to the first two

1:42.1

parts of this mini-series,

1:47.0

and if you like history, it's a good one.

1:52.1

Today's episode will take us all the way up to the 1930s, and that'll set us up nicely for a pivot really back into when the mob got started in Cuba in part four.

2:00.6

So, without further ado, let's listen today to episode 125 of JFK, the Enduring Secret.

2:11.0

Coco secco, gop,

2:13.6

Cocoa seco,

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go cocaqueco, Coco Seco! Pocco! Mopo! ...you

2:19.3

... As I often do, we'll start this episode with a wander back through the history of American involvement

2:51.5

in Cuba to give you some more context on how these stories intertwine. Looking back to episode

2:59.2

124, we discussed the long-standing American ambitions of the annexation of Cuba, ambitions that

3:07.2

were almost as old as the United States itself,

3:10.2

with the idea really taking hold during the administration of Thomas Jefferson.

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