He served on Prime Minister Fidel Castro's Economic Advisory Group from 1965 to 1968 before spending fourteen years as the economic adviser at the Cuban embassy in Belgrade, overseeing Cuba's economic and technological cooperation with Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.

they had orders to that effect straight from President Kennedy, who thought at first, as did most others, that it was four followers of Cuba's Fidel Castro who had taken over the 707.

* 2011 – Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.

José Antonio Saco, one of Cuba's foremost thinkers, was expelled from Cuba.

Of Cuba's vintage American cars, many have been modified with newer engines, disc brakes and other parts, often scavenged from Soviet cars, and most bear the marks of decades of use.

The two countries moved to establish relations from the 2000s ( decade ), and particularly from 2007, within the context of Cuba's growing interest in the Pacific Islands region.

Cuba has also purchased from China a wide range of items including bicycles, rice cookers, energy-saving lightbulbs and diesel-electric locomotives with the aim of providing a boost to Cuba's national infrastructure.

This situation came to an end on 3 June 2009, when foreign ministers assembled in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, for the OAS's 39th General Assembly, passed a vote to lift Cuba's suspension from the OAS.

" Cuba has also lent support to the prominent Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) and the lesser-known Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) both received training from Cuba's General Intelligence Directorate, as well as financial and diplomatic support from the Cuban government.

US dollars were ubiquitous in Cuba's economy after its legalization in 1991, but were officially removed from circulation in 2004 and replaced by the convertible peso.

* 1868 – Carlos Céspedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence

Rider attached to the Army Appropriations Bill of 1901 designed to protect Cuba's independence from foreign intervention.

In late 2010, Fidel Castro, who no longer holds office in Cuba's government, stated that he considers Israel has a ' right to exist ', which is a shift from his regime's earlier policy.

Because of Cuba's political situation, the country had been isolated from American musicians for nearly 20 years when Dizzy visited.

The Cuban Revolutionary Party's ' Bases and Statutes ' aimed at: 1 ) Winning absolute independence for Cuba and aiding that of Puerto Rico ; 2 ) ordering a ' generous and brief war ' that would ensure peace and happiness for all Cuba's inhabitants ; 3 ) organizing this war so that it should be ' republican in spirit and methods ', and lead to a society fulfilling ' in the historical life of the continent '; 4 ) ensuring that no ' authoritarian spirit and bureaucratic make-up of the colony ' would exist in the new Cuba ; 5 ) preventing any one particular group from having more power than other groups ; 6 ) creating a harmonious fatherland with economic prosperity ensured by allowing outlets for the economic activities of all its inhabitants ; 7 ) maintaining friendly relations with the U. S .; and, 8 ) bringing the above intentions through a set of concrete aims: to unite all Cubans living abroad, to bring together all factions inside and outside of Cuba, to prepare inside Cuba the knowledge and spirit of the revolution, to collect funds, to establish relations with friendly peoples to accelerate the success of the war, and finally, to organize the Cuban Revolutionary Party according to the secret rules agreed upon by the founding organizations.

Upon Cuba's evacuation by Spain, it was to be occupied by the United States, and the United States would assume and discharge any obligations that under international law could result from the fact of its occupation.

On January 1, 1959, Fidel Castro proclaimed the victory of the Cuban Revolution from a balcony on Santiago de Cuba's city hall.

Fernando Ortiz, the first great Cuban folklorist, described Cuba's musical innovations as arising from the interplay (' transculturation ') between African slaves settled on large sugar plantations and Spaniards or Canary Islanders who grew tobacco on small farms.

The first day of broadcasting was chosen to commemorate the anniversary of Cuba's independence from United States rule, May 20, 1902.

The station came to be named Radio Martí after Cuban writer José Martí, who had fought for Cuba's independence from Spain and against U. S. influence in the Americas.

He was leading a group of rebels against the Spanish royalist army in the first skirmish in Cuba's struggle for independence from Spain ( see History of Cuba ).

Ros-Lehtinen's maternal grandparents were Sephardic Jews from Turkey who had been active in Cuba's Jewish community.

Savon announced his retirement from the ring, but will help train Cuba's fighters for the 2004 Athens Olympics.

* Guide to Cuba's Political and Electoral System by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

* U. S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Cuba's Vice-President Carlos Rafael Rodríguez met secretly in Mexico City at the home of Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda Gutman, to discuss whether Cuba would cease funding of guerilla operations in Central America.

The Cuban National Assembly Constitution and Legal Affairs Committee tabled the Varela Project citizens ' initiative and responded with a counter initiative, the petition for which collected 8. 1 million signatures, to request that Cuba's National Assembly amend the constitution to state " Socialism and the revolutionary political and social system ... are irrevocable ; and Cuba will never again return to capitalism.

* Economic Struggles of the 80s from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives

Less respect for the legal conventions was displayed by Castro's right hand man, Che Guevara, who edified the Inter-American Economic and Social council meeting in Montevideo by reading two secret American documents purloined from the United States embassy at Caracas, Venezuela.

Two strong dissents from the majority report of the Joint Economic Committee ( May 2 ) by Senators Proxmire and Butler allege that the New Deal fiscal policy of the Thirties did not work.

Small Business Administration, What It Is, What It Does, SBA Services For Community Economic Development, and various other useful publications on currently important management, technical production, and marketing topics are available, on request, from Small Business Administration, Washington 25, D.C..

In the event the rupees set aside for loans under Section 104 ( E ) of the Act are not advanced within six years from the date of this Agreement because the Export-Import Bank of Washington has not approved loans or because proposed loans have not been mutually agreeable to the Export-Import Bank of Washington and the Department of Economic Affairs of the Government of India, the Government of the United States of America may use the rupees for any purpose authorized by Section 104 of the Act.

Unless within the sixty-day period the Export-Import Bank has received such a communication from the Department of Economic Affairs it shall be understood that the Department of Economic Affairs has no objection to the proposed loan.

Essays in European Economic History, 1500 – 1800, ( 1974 ), translated articles from Annales

According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research ( CEPR ), the period from 1980 – 2005 has seen diminished progress in terms of economic growth, life expectancy, infant and child mortality, and to a lesser extent education.

In September 2007, Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) intervened to attempt to resolve the dispute over two villages along the Benin-Burkina Faso border that remain from a 2005 ICJ decision.

The four left the Labour Party as a result of policy changes enacted at the January 1981 Wembley conference which committed the party to unilateral nuclear disarmament and withdrawal from the European Economic Community.

* The Economic Impact of a U. S. Slowdown on the Americas from the Center for Economic and Policy Research

Apart from the United Nations, Cameroon is very active in other multilateral organisations or global institutions such as the Francophonie, the Commonwealth, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, The Group of 77, the Non-Aligned Movement, the African Union and the Economic Community of Central African States.

Also involved in scandals has been José María Figueres, former President from PLN and former head of the World Economic Forum.

Similarly, the Economic and Financial Affairs Council is composed of national finance ministers, and they are still one per state and the chair is held by the member coming from the presiding country.

It frequently received aid from those countries and the regional financial institutions they influenced, such as the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development.

Additionally, Rumsfeld was a four-term U. S. Congressman from Illinois ( 1962 – 1969 ), Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity ( 1969 – 1970 ), Counsellor

With Lenin's admission of limited private enterprise through his New Economic Policy ( NEP ) of 1921, Russia began receiving fiction films from afar, an occurrence that Vertov regarded with undeniable suspicion, calling drama a " corrupting influence " on the proletarian sensibility (" On ' Kinopravda ,'" 1924 ).

The field dates from the 1944 classic Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern.

* Economic Costs of El Niño / La Niña and Economic Benefits from Improved Forecasting from " NOAA Socioeconomics " website initiative