CW 311 — Coletillas

Mikoyan, Soviet deputy premier and ice cream king, rolls into Havana in February 1960 with a 40-person delegation, a science exhibit, and advice for Castro to just take all the American-owned land without compensation. Meanwhile, Cuba's newspaper workers start inserting little clarification notes next to stories they disagree with.... which escalates until the clarifications are longer than the articles, and publishers start fleeing to Miami to write for the Herald. The oldest paper on the island holds an actual funeral for itself, complete with a coffin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices