John Storm Roberts states: " It was the Cuban connection, but increasingly also New York salsa, that provided the major and enduring influences — the ones that went deeper than earlier imitation or passing fashion.

The Cuban connection began very early and was to last at least twenty years, being gradually absorbed and re-Africanized.

There has been a strong connection with Cuban music, Venezuelan, Puerto Rican, and other Caribbean countries both through commerce and migration.

" According to Ricardo Alarcon, President of Cuba's National Assembly, a year later, an application to change venue for the same reason was granted by the same court in an employment case with a Cuban connection.

John Storm Roberts states: " It was the Cuban connection, but increasingly also New York salsa, that provided the major and enduring influences — the ones that went deeper than earlier imitation or passing fashion.

The Cuban connection began very early and was to last at least twenty years, being gradually absorbed and re-Africanized.

The same can be said about the half-hearted Cuban invasion mounted by the administration last April, which, we trust, is not symptomatic of the methods to be invoked in holding off the felonious Khrushchev.

As the press in Cuba was gradually throttled by the Castro regime, more and more Cuban publishers, editors and correspondents were forced into exile.

Until the Cuban fiasco and the Communist military victories in Laos, almost any observer would have said that President Kennedy had blended a program that respected, generally, the opinions voiced both by Mr. Nixon and the professors.

The dethroning of queen Isabel II meant a vacuum that was profited by the Bank of New York and some Cubans opposed to the projected extension of the 1837 Abolition Act to finance a Texas style " independence " revolution known as the Cuban 10 Years War ( 1868 – 78 ) lost by the Cubans.

In Cuba peninsular Spaniards began to boycott Cuban products made by slaves, and the issue turned nationalistic.

When King Amadeus finally had the bill in his desk, which would extend the 1837 Abolition Act to the Antilles, he was put on notice of a coup financed by Cuban plantationers and industrialists if he signed.

This led to the end of the Carlist revolts and the victory over the New York backed Cuban revolutionaries, and led to a huge backing both by insular and peninsular Spaniards of Alfonso as a wise and able king.

* Ivan, one of the protagonists of the historical novel by the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura Fuentes, El hombre que amaba a los perros ( The Man Who Loved Dogs ), is the editor of a university journal of veterinary medicine, who manages to make a living during the Special Period in Cuba by helping people take care of their dogs.

Section 211 denied trademark protection to Cuban businesses products expropriated after the Cuban revolution, a provision keenly sought by Bacardi.

The act was aimed primarily at Havana Club brand in the US, which was created by the José Arechebala company which was confiscated without compensation in the Cuban revolution.

The Havana Club trademark had been registered by the Cuban government in the United States without permission of the rightful owners.

Section 211 has been challenged unsuccessfully by the Cuban government and the European Union in US courts ; however, the act has been ruled illegal by the WTO ( August 2001 ).

Havana Club is owned by the Cuban government and has a business joint venture with the French company Pernod Ricard.

The Cuban packages scandal revealed arms smuggling from the Communist Cuba to Chile ; Allende – surrounded by KGB advisors – had turned Chile into a center for Soviet operations in Latin America.

In the years following its independence, Cuba saw significant economic development, but also political corruption and a succession of despotic leaders, culminating in the overthrow of the dictator Fulgencio Batista by the communist revolutionary Fidel Castro during the 1953-9 Cuban Revolution.

The prosperity seen from the boom in sugar production is a major reason that Cuban ethnicity became further enriched by new influx of Spanish migrants.

In 1820, Spain abolished the slave trade, hurting the Cuban economy even more and forcing planters to buy more expensive, illegal, and troublesome slaves ( as demonstrated by the events surrounding the ship Amistad ).

The declaration of independence by the 13 British colonies of North America, and the victory of the French Revolution of 1789, influenced early Cuban liberation movements, as did the successful revolt of black slaves in Haiti in 1791.

As a result of the political upheavals caused by the Iberian Peninsular War and the removal of Ferdinand VII from the Spanish throne, a separatist rebellion emerged among the Cuban Creole aristocracy in 1809 and 1810.

The first Cuban labour organisation, the Cigar Makers Guild, was created in 1878, followed by the Central Board of Artisans in 1879, and many more across the island.

Jorge Luis Vasquez, a Cuban who was imprisoned in East Germany, states that the East German Stasi trained the personnel of the Cuban Interior Ministry ( MINIT ).< ref > The relationship between the KGB and the Cuban Intelligence Directorate ( DI ) was complex and marked by both times of close cooperation and times of extreme competition.

* April 22 – In a predawn raid, federal agents seize 6-year old Elián González from his relatives ' home in Miami, Florida and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington, DC, ending one of the most publicized custody battles in U. S. history.

According to Liddy, when the plan was finally approved, " there was no longer enough lead time to get the Cuban waiters up from their Miami hotels and into place in the Washington Hotel where the dinner was to take place " and the plan was " put into abeyance pending another opportunity ".

One part of Operation Northwoods was to " develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington.

# We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington.

When André arrives back in Washington, he finds his home empty: his wife deserted him due to his Cuban love interest and returned to Paris.

The teenagers find a downed United States Air Force F-15 pilot, Lt. Col. Andrew Tanner and learn about the current state of the war: several cities such as Washington, D. C., Kansas City, and Omaha have been obliterated, America's Strategic Air Command has been crippled in a surprise attack by Cuban saboteurs who had posed as immigrants illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, and the paratroopers the youths have encountered were dropped from fake commercial airliners to seize key positions in preparation for subsequent massive assaults via Mexico and Alaska.

Some socialist political leaders in Latin America are vocal and well-known critics of the Washington Consensus, such as Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Cuban ex-President Fidel Castro, Bolivian President Evo Morales, and Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador.

Blades was born in Panama City, Panama, the son of Cuban musician and actress Anoland Diaz ( real surname Bellido de Luna ), and Ruben Dario Blades, Sr., a gifted athlete, percussionist and later a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in Washington, DC.

In Washington Nash covered major historical events, among them the Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

The Carter administration established an Interest Section in Havana and the Cuban government reciprocated by establishing an Interest Section in Washington, D. C .. Cuba subsequently agreed to the release of several dozen political prisoners and allowed Cuban Americans to return to the island to visit relatives — a privilege that had been denied previously to Cuban citizens living abroad.

While a student at Grinnell College ( Iowa ) in 1961, Coyote was one of the organizers of a group of twelve students who traveled to Washington, D. C. during the Cuban Missile Crisis supporting U. S. President John F. Kennedy's " peace race ".

A scandal erupted in April 1908 after Elsie filed for divorce, alleging adultery with Agnes O ' Brien Ruíz, the wife of the Cuban attaché in Washington, D. C ..

Luciano, Lansky, and President Batista tried to strike back by halting all Cuban sugar exports to the US, but it had no effect on Washington.

One of the U. S. Cuban patriots was John F. Patterson who bought a former Confederate steamer Virgin at the Washington Navy Yard, renaming her Virginius.

During the Cuban missile crisis KGB resident in Washington, D. C. Aleksandr Fomin ( real name Alexander Feklisov ) he played a huge role in resolving this conflict.

Soviet leadership started the deployment of nuclear missiles in the belief that Washington would not detect the Cuban missile sites until it was too late to do anything about them.

While a student at Grinnell College ( Iowa ) in 1961, Bisson was one of a group of twelve students who traveled to Washington, D. C. during the Cuban Missile Crisis supporting U. S. President John F. Kennedy's " peace race ".

* In the essay The Cuban Missile Crisis: Second Holocaust, an alternate history in which the 1962 crisis developed into war, the Soviets manage to destroy Washington, D. C. and kill President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and most of their political and military advisors.

* Virginia, Maryland Prepare for Cuban Detente by Fredrick Kunkle, The Washington Post, May 4, 2009

Other assignments included chief of the search and rescue branch in Juneau, Alaska, deputy chief of staff in Washington, and commanding officer at Air Station Miami, where the station received a Coast Guard unit commendation for Cuban exodus operations during October and November 1965.

The idea was born when a member recommended " doing more than lobbying in Washington " to overthrow the Cuban Communist government of Fidel Castro.

* U. S. radio broadcasting to Cuba: policy implications Washington, DC: Cuban American National Foundation 1982 ( CANF pamphlet # 1 )

* The Cuban Scene: censors & dissenters by Carlos Ripoll Washington, DC: Cuban American National Foundation 1982 ( CANF pamphlet # 2 )