Journey through the historical underbelly of europe. And most recently, cuba libre, che fidel and the improbable revolution that changed world history. As a college student, tony regular lay disappeared to hitchhike through the outback and travel through rural independent que where he briefly enjoyed now based in the east village of manhattan, he makes it a point to continue exploring in iceland, tee yes, sir ra del fuego, beijing, tasmania, to name a few. Tonys travel stories have been published in magazines like the New York Times, smithsonian magazine, have been translated into a dozen languages. Having been selected seven times for the best American Travel writing series. He is also a regular television guest on the History Channel where he has spoken about everything from the crusades to the birth of disco. Cuba low pray is available for sale and signing after the program. Please join me in welcoming tony perrottet. Thank you for coming out on a beautiful spring night. D. C. Is lo
Perrottet. A journey through the historical underbelly of europe and most recently, cuba libre. As a College Student tony regularly disappeared to hitchhike and travel through rural india. Tonys travel stories have been published in magazines and have been translated into a dozen languages and wildly anthologized. He is also a regular television guest on the History Channel where he has spoken about everything from the crew sausad the birth of disco. Please join me in welcoming t e tonetony perrottet. [ applause ] thank you for coming out. You may be wondering from my funny accent what is an australian doing living in new york and writing about cuba. Many have wondered. The reason is that i used to live in argentina and reported all around south america. If you live in latin america, every one there is thinking about cuba. What happened in cuba and whats going to happen. In that sense i felt like i really had to go. I finally did in 1996 which is called just after the soviet union coll
Minutes. Good morning. I call this meeting in the Senate Committee on agriculture forestry to order. The ambassador doud, mckinney and johansen we are happy to have you back again for the committee to discuss the need for certainty and our Global Agriculture markets. International trade policies and their impacts on the United States agricultural economy. Has been a topic of great interest over the last few years. And more particularly the last few months. In fact, it is the second time in the last year we are hearing about the efforts being made at the office of the United States trade representative and the department of agriculture. I hope eventually it will result in a longterm, reliable markets for the United States agriculture. A great deal has happened in the nine months since you all appeared before this committee perhaps the most significantly to our members was the successful passage and enactment of the 2018 farm bill. With the help of everybody here. Much like the negotiati
And in fact, in santa clara, supporters would make molotov cocktails for them and pass them out the windows so they could be used. So this happened, like, december 30, 1958. News filters out that they have managed to seize this train, and men go in, and it is like aladdins cave. They have hundreds of guns, machine guns, mortars, bazookas, and its this extraordinary thing. And word gets back to havana on new years eve, and the dictator , whose main worry at this stage was that there would be a military coup, or that he would be arrested and put on trial, decides to cut and run. So he has a regular new Years Eve Party, and if you have seen godfather part ii, its more or less accurate. He has a new Years Eve Party , has his chicken and rice at the cup of brandy, and then he reads a statement that he is about to leave havana, about to abandon cuba. And there are three dc4s waiting on the airstrip with a list of names of people who are coming with him. And people start running to the ofplan
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