Culturas Encontradas: Cuba y los Estados Unidos Harvard U. Press, 2001.

* Hernández, José M. Cuba and the United States: Intervention and Militarism, 1868 – 1933 U. of Texas Press, 1993.

While many older Soviet and European cars remain in service in Cuba, they are largely eclipsed by the island's great 1950s Cadillacs, Packards, De Sotos and similar products from one of the most ornate styling periods in U. S. auto history.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Cuba openly supported the black nationalist and Marxist-oriented Black Panther Party of the U. S. Many members found their way into Cuba for political asylum, where Cuba welcomed them after they had been convicted of crimes in the U. S.

The U. S. list of state sponsors of international terrorism includes Cuba.

U. S. fugitives from justice and ETA members are living legally in Cuba.

Cuba refuses to extradite U. S. fugitives by stating that approval would be contingent upon the U. S. returning wanted Cuban criminals and that it will no longer provide safe haven to new U. S. fugitives who may enter Cuba.

According to a 1965 deposition by Fausto Rodriguez, the Cuba Libre was first mixed at a Cuban bar in August 1900 by a member of the U. S. Signal Corps, referred to as " John Doe ".

Victims from 2010 Haiti earthquake are unloaded at U. S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

By the war's end, the U. S. government had obtained control of all of Cuba from Spain.

* NSGtmo. navy. mil — " U. S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Cuba: The United States ' oldest overseas Naval Base "

* 1898 – Spanish-American War: U. S. war ships set sail for Cuba.

* 1898 – Spanish-American War: U. S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.

* 1898 – Spanish-American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is destroyed by the U. S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba.

One day he assigned me to lay bare a `` plot '' by the Duponts to supply munitions to a wholly fictitious revolution he said was about to occur in Cuba.

but I liked to think of him at ninety swimming and working at Key West long after Hemingway had moved to Cuba.

There was considerable evidence of a tacit rapprochement with Castro in Cuba, previously a bete noire to Trujillo -- thus illustrating the way in which totalitarianism of the right and left coalesces.

Ultimately either the Trujillos would have been returned to power or the conflict would have produced conditions favorable to a takeover by Dominican elements responsive to Castro in Cuba.

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

Freedom of the press was lost in Cuba because of decades of corruption and social imbalances.

It must be recognized as a slow-acting tool designed to prevent political and military crises such as those recently confronted in Laos and Cuba.

Mr. Speaker, in my latest newsletter to my constituents I urged the imposition of a naval blockade of Cuba as the only effective method of preventing continued Soviet armaments from coming into the Western Hemisphere in violation of the Monroe Doctrine.

Cuban S.S.R.: Whatever may have been the setbacks resulting from the unsuccessful attempt of the Cuban rebels to establish a beachhead on the Castro-held mainland last week, there was at least one positive benefit, and that was the clear-cut revelation to the whole world of the complete conversion of Cuba into a Russian-dominated military base.

In fact, one of the major reasons for the failure of the ill-starred expedition appears to have been a lack of full information on the extent to which Cuba has been getting this Russian military equipment.

Russian tanks and planes in Cuba jeopardize the security of the United States, violate the Monroe Doctrine, and threaten the security of every other Latin American republic.

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.

But the Latin American republics who have been rather inclined to drag their feet on taking action against Castro also reacted swiftly last week by finally throwing Cuba off the Inter-American Defense Board.

Personally, I think we ought to set up an immediate naval blockade of Cuba.

We simply can't tolerate further Russian weapons, including the possibility of long-range nuclear missiles, being located in Cuba.

In it they see a way to isolate Cuba, stop infiltration, maybe finish Castro, too.

On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.

Another strategy -- bolder and tougher -- was also attracting notice in Washington: a naval and air blockade to cut Cuba off from the world, destroy Castro.

The Navy, on April 25, announced it is bringing back the carrier Shangri-La from the Mediterranean, increasing to four the number of attack carriers in the vicinity of Cuba.

It is his relentlessness and unwaivering adherence to this revolutionary artistic philosophy that has enabled him to paint such pictures as `` The Invasion of Cuba ''.

It was only after we had responded, with what I fear were similar cliches, that she went into action by questioning our desire for friendship and understanding with a challenge about aggressive and warlike actions by the U.S. Government in Cuba and Laos.

For example, effective mine barriers from Florida to Cuba and across the Yucatan Channel from Cuba to Mexico would remove all requirements for harbor defense, inshore patrol, convoy escort, shipping control, and mine defense for the entire Gulf of Mexico.

One Latin American country, Cuba, has become a Soviet bridgehead ninety miles off our coast.

Bead tree seeds are the necklaces of South Pacific islanders and the eyes of Buddha dolls in Cuba.

* Foner, Philip S. A History of Cuba and its Relations with the United States, 1962.

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.

* Four Decades of Failure: The U. S. Embargo against Cuba

* CNN Video Report: Is Trade Embargo with Cuba Hurting U. S. Interests?

* Keep the Embargo on Cuba by Kim R. Holmes, The Heritage Foundation, June 23, 1995

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fr: Embargo des États-Unis contre Cuba

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pt: Embargo dos Estados Unidos a Cuba

* February 3, 1962: Embargo against Cuba was announced

Among the many other well known Pro Castro groups who are in favor of the Cuban regime, most prominent of these groups are the Brigada Antonio Maceo, Alianza Martiana, Miami Coalition Against the Embargo of Cuba, Alianza de Trabajadores de la Comunidad Cubana, Cuban American Defense League and Rescate Cultural AfroCubano, to name a few.