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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, and the first Catholic president. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress before his presidency.
Jair Bolsonaro
Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and former military officer who served as the 38th president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1991 to 2019.
Augusto Pinochet
dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990
Carlos Menem
Argentinean president between 1989 and 1999
Gloria Estefan
Cuban-American singer (born 1957)
Alfredo Stroessner
military dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989
Ted Cruz
American politician (born 1970)
Andy Garcia
American actor and director (born 1956)
Pitbull
American rapper (born 1981)
Robert McNamara
American businessman and Secretary of Defense (1916-2009)
Ron DeSantis
American politician (born 1978)
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
Dictador of Nicaragua (1967–72, 1974–79)
Allen W. Dulles
first civilian and longest-serving Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)
Reinaldo Arenas
Cuban poet/novelist/playwright (1943–1990)
Operation Northwoods
Proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government that originated within the U.S. Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States government in 1962
Meyer Lansky
American gangster
María Conchita Alonso
Cuban-Venezuelan singer
United States embargo against Cuba
economic sanctions imposed by the United States on Cuba in 1958 and again in 1960
Ladies in White
Cuban women opposition movement
Guillermo Fariñas
Cuban dissident
Cuban Project
CIA anti-Castro effort aka Operation Mongoose
Huber Matos
Cuban revolutionary (1918-2014)
Luis Somoza Debayle
President of Nicaragua from 1956 to 1963
Yoani Sánchez
Cuban blogger, journalist, writer and human rights activist
Oswaldo Payá
Cuban activist (1952-2012)
Sam Giancana
American mobster (1908–1975)
Juanita Castro
sister of Fidel Castro, stateswoman (1933-2023)
Alina Fernández
Cuban political critic
Luis Posada Carriles
Cuban terrorist and CIA agent (1928–2018)
Daisy Fuentes
Cuban-American actress, comedian, model, television host, and former weather presenter (born 1966)
Eduardo Bolsonaro
Brazilian politician, lawyer and federal police officer, Former Federal Deputy of Brazil from 2015 to 2025
Orlando Zapata
Cuban activist (1967-2010)
Raúl Rivero
Cuban poet, writer and dissident (1945–2021)
Lincoln Díaz-Balart
American politician (1954–2025)
William Alexander Morgan
American revolutionary (1928–1961)
Claude Pepper
American politician (1900–1989)
Escambray rebellion
armed rebellion against the Cuban government from 1959 to 1965
Santo Trafficante
American crime boss
Carlos Franqui
Cuban writer (1921-2010)
John Roselli
American mobster (1905–1976)
Armando Valladares
American diplomat and former Cuban prisoner
Oscar Espinosa Chepe
Cuban dissident (1940–2013)
María Elvira Salazar
American journalist and politician (born 1961)
Ana María Polo
Cuban-American lawyer, professor of procedural law, judge and presenter (born 1959)
David Ferrie
Accused of involvement in JFK assassination
Pedro Luis Boitel
Cuban writer and dissident (1931–1972)
Operation 40
CIA initiative targeting Cuba
Frank Sturgis
United States military, undercover operative (1924-1993)
Carlos Bolsonaro
Brazilian politician and Member of the City Council of Rio de Janeiro (2001–2025)
Marta Beatriz Roque
Cuban dissident
Óscar Elías Biscet
Cuban activist
Ștefan Baciu
Romanian and Brazilian writer (1918–1993)
US-Cuba Democracy PAC
William D. Pawley
American diplomat (1896–1977)
Helms–Burton Act
US federal law affecting Cuban economy
United States and state-sponsored terrorism
U.S. support given to terrorist and paramilitary organizations
Gorki Águila
Cuban musician and dissident
Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez
Cuban engineer and journalist
Cuban dissident movement
Political movement in Cuba whose aim is "to replace the current regime with a more democratic form of government"
Operation Ortsac
proposed invasion of Cuba