Cuban State Council Vice President Carlos Lage declared in 2007 that Cuba would receive 1, 142 more Chinese buses for urban transport before years end

* 1924 – Carlos Humberto Romero, President of El Salvador

* 1992 – A coup d ' état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.

PLH's Carlos Roberto Flores took office on 27 January 1998, as Honduras ' fifth democratically elected President since free elections were restored in 1981, with a 10 % margin over his main opponent PNH nominee Nora Gúnera de Melgar ( the widow of former leader Juan Alberto Melgar ).

In Costa Rica in May 1997, former President Carlos Roberto Reina met with former US President Bill Clinton, his Central American counterparts, and the President of the Dominican Republic to reaffirm support for strengthening democracy, good governance, and promoting prosperity through economic integration, free trade, and investment.

* 1950 – General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.

* 1896 – Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines ( 1957 – 1960 ) ( d. 1971 )

In January 1980 after clashing with Governor Carlos Romero Barceló, Lopez was forced to resign the chairmanship of the New Democratic Party in exchange of the Governor becoming the President of Carter's campaign in Puerto Rico and throwing the New Progressive Party behind the president's re-election efforts.

* 1887 – Carlos Dávila, Chilean politician, President of Chile ( d. 1955 )

In 2011, 48th President of Paraguay Juan Carlos Wasmosy, 49th President of Paraguay Raúl Cubas Grau, 50-th President of Paraguay Luis Ángel González Macchi and the President of the Chamber of Deputies Óscar González Daher participated in the Global Peace Festival of the Unification Church.

* President Carlos Lleras Restrepo ( Colombia )

* President Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy ( Ecuador )

* President Carlos Manuel Piedra ( Cuba )

* President Carlos Prío Socarrás

* July 17 – Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala ( d. 2003 )

* May 9 – Juan Carlos Wasmosy becomes the first democratically elected President of Paraguay in nearly 40 years.

** The National Assembly of Venezuela designates Ramón José Velásquez as successor of suspended President Carlos Andrés Pérez.

* December 29 – Argentina passes a measure allowing President Carlos Menem and all future presidents to run for a second term.

* March 13 – Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras ( d. 2003 )

Carlos Prío Socarrás ( July 14, 1903 – April 5, 1977 ) was the President of Cuba from 1948 until he was deposed by a military coup led by Fulgencio Batista on March 10, 1952, three months before new elections were to be held.

Prío, called El presidente cordial (" The Cordial President "), was committed to a rule marked by civility, primarily in its respect for freedom of expression.

In 1952, Lansky even offered then President Carlos Prío Socarrás a bribe of U. S. $ 250, 000 to step down so Batista could return to power.

In Cuba, where he returned by requirement of his friends in the Authentic Revolutionary Party, he played a notorious part in the political life of Havana, being recognized as a promoter of social legislation and author of the speech pronounced by President Carlos Prío Socarrás when the body of José Martí was transferred to Santiago de Cuba.

The money to purchase the Granma had been raised in the U. S. state of Florida by former President of Cuba Carlos Prío Socarrás.

Once the full extent of this Russian military penetration of Cuba was clear, President Kennedy announced we would take whatever action was appropriate to prevent this, even if we had to go it alone.

You can see it, for example, in the extensive efforts President Kennedy has made to enlist solid bipartisan support for his actions toward both Cuba and Laos ; ;

This is the question now facing President Kennedy: How to put a stop to the Soviet buildup in Cuba and to Communist infiltration of this hemisphere??

But he did recommend that President Kennedy state clearly that if Communist countries shipped any further arms to Cuba that it would not be tolerated.

At one time, while still under the impression that he was dealing with a Cuban plot, the President talked about invoking a total embargo on trade with Cuba.

* 1926 – Fidel Castro, Cuban lawyer and politician, 15th President of Cuba

After Amadeus abandonment in 1873, Parliament declared the Federal Republic ( including the Cuba, Puerto Ico and he Pacific Archipelagos ), the first act of President Estanbislao Figueras was to extend the Abolition Act to Puerto Rico.

* 1956 – Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.

Soon after Fidel Castro declared Cuba a socialist state, Costa Rican President Mario Echandi ended diplomatic relations on 10 September 1961 with the island through Executive Decree Number 2, in compliance with sanctions placed on Cuba by the Organization of American States.

In 1805 President Thomas Jefferson considered possessing Cuba for strategic reasons, sending secret agents to the island to negotiate with Governor Someruelos.

On 2 December 1823, US President James Monroe specifically addressed Cuba and other European colonies in his proclamation of the Monroe Doctrine.

And again on October 17, Soviet embassy official Georgy Bolshakov brought President Kennedy a " personal message " from Khrushchev reassuring him that " under no circumstances would surface-to-surface missiles be sent to Cuba.

Sending antiaircraft missiles into Cuba, he reasoned, “ made sense only if Moscow intended to use them to shield a base for ballistic missiles aimed at the United States .” On August 10, he wrote a memo to President Kennedy in which he guessed that the Soviets were preparing to introduce ballistic missiles into Cuba.

President Kennedy signs the Proclamation for Interdiction of the Delivery of Offensive Weapons to Cuba at the Oval Office on October 23, 1962.

* 1976 – Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

* 2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.

A perpetual lease for the area around Guantánamo Bay was offered February 23, 1903, from Tomás Estrada Palma, who became the first President of Cuba.

In mid-1848, President Polk authorized his ambassador to Spain, Romulus Mitchell Saunders, to negotiate the purchase of Cuba and offer Spain up to $ 100 million, an astounding sum at the time for one territory, equal to $ in present day terms.

* 2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

President Ortega's decision to support radical regimes such as Iran and Cuba, his harsh rhetoric against the United States and capitalism, and his use of government institutions to persecute political enemies and their businesses, has had a negative effect on perceptions of country risk, which by some accounts has quadrupled since he assumed office.