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.

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.

Developments in Cuba and Laos also suggested the advisability of an early summit meeting.

Carnegie also opposed the annexation of Cuba by the United States and in this, was successful with many other conservatives who founded an anti-imperialist league that included former presidents of the United States, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, and literary figures like Mark Twain.

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 Spanish Constitution of 1812, and the legislation passed by the Cádiz Cortes after it was set up in 1808, created a number of liberal political and commercial policies, which were welcomed in Cuba but also curtailed a number of previous political and commercial liberties.

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.

Cuba has also lent support to Palestinian nationalist groups against Israel.

" 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.

" He also told his son Sergei that on Cuba, Kennedy " would make a fuss, make more of a fuss, and then agree ".

* TuKola and Tropicola are brands from Cuba ( also sold widely in Italy ).

The Eisenhower administration also planned the Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba, which John F. Kennedy was left to carry out.

Joining the Sandinistas, he also travelled to Cuba to receive training in guerilla warfare from Fidel Castro's Marxist-Leninist government.

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.

During the New Jewel Movement, the Soviet Union tried to make the island of Grenada to function as a Soviet base, and also by getting supplies from Cuba.

The Great Auk also appeared on one stamp in a set of five depicting extinct birds issued by Cuba in 1974.

United States Naval Station Guantanamo Bay ( also called Gitmo or GTMO ) is located on of land and water at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba which the United States leased for use as a coaling ( fueling ) station following the Cuban-American Treaty of 1903.

Aside from publishing, Segal has also reported on gay life from far reaching places as Lebanon, Cuba, and East Berlin during the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Large-scale emigration, principally to the United States, and Canada ( predominantly to Quebec, with other areas of the country )-but also to Cuba, other areas of Europe and the Americas such as France ( with French Guiana ), Spain, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Ireland ; and Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and other Caribbean neighbors-has created what Haitians refer to as the Eleventh Department or the Diaspora.

The " Worldwide Press Freedom Index ", published by Reporters Without Borders, lists Maldives as a " very serious situation " ( a judgment also given to Libya, Cuba, and China ).

* The drink is also spelled Mohito and Moxito in certain cultural areas of Cuba.

In most Marxist-Leninist states this has taken the form of directly electing representatives to fill positions, though in some states ; such as China, Cuba, and the former Yugoslavia ; this system also included indirect elections such as deputies being elected by deputies as the next lower level of government.

" Santos later told Al Jazeera that peace was possible if there was " goodwill " on both sides .< Ref > http :// www. aljazeera. com / news / americas / 2012 / 09 / 20129816352348815. html </ ref > Santos told the General debate of the sixty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly on 26 September, that Venezuela and Chile were also helping in the discussion along with Cuba and Norway .< Ref > http :// gadebate. un. org / 67 / colombia </ ref >

Former President Fidel Castro of Cuba also criticized the use of hostage-taking by the guerrillas as " objectively cruel " and suggested that the group free all of its prisoners and hostages.

St. Kitts and Nevis also maintains diplomatic relations with the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, Cuba and South Korea, as well as with many Latin American countries and neighboring Eastern Caribbean states.

* Cuba is the only country in the Caribbean that maintains an embassy in Kazakhstan.

The Government of Cuba maintains close relationships with Iran and North Korea, and has provided safe haven to members of ETA after an agreement with the Spanish government ( under Felipe González ), FARC, and the ELN.

St. Vincent and the Grenadines maintains close relations with Cuba, which provides a number of scholarship and other exchange programs for Vincentians, particularly in the field of healthcare.

According to Human Rights Watch, even though Cuba, officially atheist until 1992, now " permits greater opportunities for religious expression than it did in past years, and has allowed several religious-run humanitarian groups to operate, the government still maintains tight control on religious institutions, affiliated groups, and individual believers.

Cuba maintains that the head of the US Special Interests section in Havana, James Cason has given money, gifts and support to dissidents in Cuba, associated with the Varela Project, and that: " For these reasons, a few dozen persons directly linked to the conspiratorial activities headed by James Cason have been arrested by the relevant authorities and will be brought to trial.

Internationally, it maintains fraternal relations with other communist and workers ’ parties and is a strong supporter of Cuba and Venezuela.

The CPM maintains close contacts with the Communist Party of Cuba, and supports normalised relations with the Republic of Cuba.

* Consulate of Cuba

The Captainship General of Cuba, encompassing Cuba and the governorships of Florida ( safe the English occupation between 1763 – 83 ), Santo Domingo ( until 1795 ), Puerto Rico, and the entire Louisiana Territory ( 1763 – 1803 )

In 1899 US General Leonard Wood appointed Emilio Bacardí Mayor of Santiago de Cuba.

The most outstanding attempts in support of annexation were made by former Spanish Army General Narciso López, who prepared four filibuster expeditions to Cuba in the US.

In 1944, General Jorge Ubico ’ s thirteen-year dictatorship ( 1931 – 44 ) of Guatemala was overthrown by the October Revolutionaries, a group of Guatemalan nationalists — politically dissident military officers, university students, and liberal professionals — who were politically empowered, by the almost-simultaneous revolutions that deposed superannuated dictatorships in Venezuela, Cuba, and El Salvador.

The relatively narrow Louisiana of New Spain had been a special province under the jurisdiction of the Captaincy General of Cuba while the vast region to the west was in 1803 still considered part of the Commandancy General of the Provincias Internas.

In 1906, President Roosevelt sent troops to restore order in Cuba during the revolt led by General Enrique Loynaz del Castillo, and Taft temporarily became the Civil Governor of Cuba, personally negotiating with Castillo for a peaceful end to the revolt.

* March 10 – General Fulgencio Batista re-takes power in Cuba.

* July 17 – Spanish-American War – Battle of Santiago Bay: Troops under United States General William R. Shafter take the city of Santiago de Cuba from the Spanish.

* July 24 – A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under General Don Juan Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain.

* Captaincy General of Cuba ( until 1898 )

More recently, articles in various financial periodicals, most notably Forbes magazine, have pointed to Fidel Castro, General Secretary of the Republic of Cuba since 1959, of likely being the beneficiary of up to $ 900 million, based on " his control " of state-owned companies.

The European Union accuses Cuba of " continuing flagrant violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms ", but also " Reiterates its condemnation of the US embargo on Cuba, and calls for it to be lifted forthwith, as the UN General Assembly has repeatedly demanded.

During the Cold War, many Latin American nations such as Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua until 1979, Cuba until 1959, and Chile under the regime of General Augusto Pinochet were seen as U. S. client states, as the U. S. government had significant influence over the policies of those dictatorships.

Clinton, along with a Zamora family friend named Alonso R. del Portillo, Attorney General Janet Reno, Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, and Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, reached an agreement with Cuba that would admit 20, 000 Cubans per year.

The community was named for General William Rufus Shafter who commanded US Forces in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

Luciano also ran a number of casinos in Cuba with the sanction of Cuban president General Fulgencio Batista, though the US government succeeded in pressuring the Batista regime to deport Luciano.

He sailed for Cuba and was charged with scouting for the U. S. advance by General William Rufus Shafter, overall commander of V Corps.

The Lord Chancellor ( Lord Dilhorne ), the Attorney General ( Sir John Hobson ) and the Solicitor General, ( Sir Peter Rawlinson ) privately gave Home their opinion that the American blockade of Cuba was a breach of international law, but he continued to advocate a policy of strong support for Kennedy.