Cuban Missile Crisis Archives - Americas Quarterly

U.S. President John F. Kennedy holds emergency talks at the White House in September 1962.

When the Cuban Missile Crisis Shook the Hemisphere

As nuclear war loomed, ordinary people throughout Latin America made their voices heard.

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