Caribbean Islands

America’s secret war in the Caribbean from 1957 to 1967 was marked by paranoia and ineptitude, as this excellent history shows For the British, the Caribbean summons up the beaches of innumerable ex-colonies, now Commonwealth countries. Americans remember a different bunch of their very own ex-colonies: the ever-troubled islands of Hispaniola and Cuba. All too often, the histories of these once …

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Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder and the Cold War in the Caribbean by Alex von Tunzelmann – review

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