‘Homeland or death’: How Cuba would defend itself against a US attack
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- With Castro indicted, a US military operation in Cuba could be imminent, but Havana is not entirely defenceless, some analysts argue.
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- The academic and podcaster was then living in a house with 13 other people, and when the storm hit, there was no panic – everyone already knew their role.
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With Castro indicted, a US military operation in Cuba could be imminent, but Havana is not entirely defenceless, some analysts argue.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo. A woman walks past a house displaying a poster of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, Cuba's former President Raul Castro and late Argentina-born revolutionary leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, in Havana, Cuba, on May 19, 2026 [Yamil Lage/AFP]By Urooba Jamal Published On 21 May 202621 May 2026Helen Yaffe, in her frequent, regular trips to Cuba for the last 30 years, remembers once when a Category Four hurricane barrelled its way to the island.
The academic and podcaster was then living in a house with 13 other people, and when the storm hit, there was no panic – everyone already knew their role.