Join GPL and Tim Weed for a peek at Cuba's complex history. The Spanish-American war of 1898 ended Spain’s four hundred year rule of Cuba. Cuba became a U.S. protectorate and decades of instability followed, culminating in Batista’s military dictatorship. The 1959 Cuban Revolution is one of the great underdog stories in history, in which a tiny band of young rebels prevailed against all odds. This nationalist revolution quickly fell under the sway of the USSR and Cuba’s previously close ties with the U.S. were abruptly severed.

Tim Weed is an award-winning novelist and lecturer. Co-founder of the Cuba Writers Program and a featured expert for National Geographic Expeditions in Cuba, Spain, Portugal, Tierra del Fuego, and Patagonia, Tim has lived and worked in more than twenty-five countries on every continent except Antarctica.

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