Cold War 316: “I Cannot Wait For You”
The CIA’s master plan for the Bay of Pigs invasion was, apparently, a cakewalk. The frogmen hit the coral reef they thought was seawee...
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20 of 193 episodesCold War 315: Like an Iron Filing to a Magnet
Castro expropriated every American-owned asset in Cuba, got kicked out of his New York hotel for looking like a credit risk, and ended up ho...
Cold War 314: The Coffins of United Fruit
Eisenhower signs off on a covert plan to overthrow Castro in March 1960…. a plan which, to be clear, is literally titled “Progra...
Cold War 313: Pick Up the Gun (CUBAN REVOLUTION #38)
The CIA didn’t want Cuba buying weapons from Britain, so Allen Dulles quietly leaned on the British ambassador to kill the deal…...
Cold War 312: Fatherland or Death (CUBAN REVOLUTION #37)
A Belgian munitions ship called La Coubre blows up in Havana Harbour, killing somewhere between 75 and 100 people…. and Castro immedia...
Cold War 311: Coletillas (CUBAN REVOLUTION #36)
Mikoyan, Soviet deputy premier and ice cream king, rolls into Havana in February 1960 with a 40-person delegation, a science exhibit, and ad...
Cold War 310: Ice Cream and Ideology (CUBAN REVOLUTION #34)
Cuba, 1959/1960, and Fidel Castro is desperately trying to walk the middle path…. no communism, no capitalism, just “humanism...
The Man Who Owned Everything: Cold War 309: Cuban Revolution #33
This week we dig into the fallout from Castro’s agrarian reform law — the land grabs, the diplomatic notes flying between Havana and W...
The Land They Were Never Meant To Own – Cold War 308 (Cuban Revolution #33)
On this episode we dig into the centrepiece of Cuba’s revolution — the Agrarian Reform Act of 1959. We break down exactly what the law...
Fidel Does America – Cold War 307 (Cuban Revolution #32)
Fidel is the newly installed as Prime Minister of Cuba — and immediately does on a charm offensive to the United States, where he wows crowd...
Prime Minister Castro – Cold War #306 (Cuban Revolution #31)
This week we’re deep in the early days of Castro’s Cuba — watching a revolutionary figure out he’s now got to actually run...
Revolutionary Justice – Cold War 305 (Cuban Revolution #30)
This week we dig into the messy aftermath of Castro’s victory — the revolutionary tribunals, the firing squads, and the international...
The Dove Has Landed – CW 304 (Cuban Revolution #29)
It’s January 1959, and Fidel Castro has just pulled off the impossible — a ragtag band of bearded rebels from the Sierra Maestra mount...
Fangio, Fatigues, and the Fall of Batista (CW 303) (Cuban Revolution #28)
It’s April 1958, and Cuba is a powder keg with a sputtering fuse. Fulgencio Batista is bleeding support from every direction — the church, t...
Cold War #300 – Castro Goes Viral (Cuban Revolution #25)
Episode 300 marks a major waypoint for the Cold War Podcast, and the discussion dives straight back into the hard mechanics of revolution. C...
Cold War #299 – Castro Is Dead. Long Live Castro! (Cuban Revolution #24)
In this episode, Cameron and Ray pick up the Cuban Revolution story at its most fragile moment: Fidel Castro has just landed in eastern Cuba...
Cold War #295 – History Will Absolve Me (Cuban Revolution #20)
Fidel Castro’s first attempt to ignite revolution in Cuba ends in disaster — but also forges the legend. We follow the aftermath of the fail...
Cold War #294 – Castro’s First Swing: The Moncada Misfire (Cuban Revolution #19)
In this episode, Cam and Ray bring their trademark banter and historical nerdery to the story of Fidel Castro’s first attempt at revolution...
Cold War #293 – Castro’s Crossroads (Cuban Revolution #18)
In this episode of Cold War, Cameron and Ray dig into the aftermath of Batista’s March 1952 coup in Cuba and how it shaped Fidel Castro’s ea...
Cold War #292 – Batista’s Bloodless Coup: Havana 1952 (Cuban Revolution #17)
In this episode of The Cold War, Cameron and Ray take us to Havana in 1952, when Fulgencio Batista staged a meticulously planned coup d’état...