US officials were worried that one of the Cuban or Soviet SAMs in Cuba might shoot down a CIA U-2, initiating another international incident.

When they ordered another round, one soldier suggested that they toast ¡ Por Cuba Libre!

** U. S. troops are sent to the Dominican Republic by President Lyndon B. Johnson, " for the stated purpose of protecting U. S. citizens and preventing an alleged Communist takeover of the country ", thus thwarting the possibility of " another Cuba ".

It was 1517 before another expedition from Cuba visited Central America, landing on the coast of Yucatán in search of slaves.

It was 1517 before another expedition from Cuba explored Central America.

Rubén Blades ’ album Siembra was heard everywhere on the island throughout the mid-80s and has been quoted extensively in the guías and coros of everyone from Van Van ’ s Mayito Rivera ( who quotes ' Plástico ' in his guías on the 1997 classic Llévala a tu vacilón ), to El Médico de la Salsa ( quoting another major hook from ' Plástico '—' se ven en la cara, se ven en la cara, nunca en el corazón '— in his final masterpiece before leaving Cuba, Diós sabe ).

Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders were among the 30, 000 troops who waited in Tampa for the order to ship out to Cuba during the summer of 1898, filling the town to bursting and delivering another huge boost to the local economy.

Based on Lucayan names for the islands, Granberry & Vescelius argue for two origins of colonization ; one from Hispaniola to the Turks and Caicos Islands through Mayaguana and Acklins and Crooked Islands to Long Island and the Great and Little Exuma Islands, and another from Cuba through Great Inagua Island, Little Inagua Island and Ragged Island to Long Island and the Exumas.

The name " Yuba City " was finally picked after a dispute about the name of the new village, but after discovering another location had already been given that name, a new name, " Cuba City ," was selected.

Castro warned the U. S. that " Cuba is not another Guatemala " in one of many combative diplomatic exchanges before the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961.

About 90 minutes after the eight B-26s had taken off from Puerto Cabezas to attack Cuban airfields, another B-26 departed on a deception flight that took it close to Cuba but headed north towards Florida.

Guy Banister, another Minutemen member in New Orleans, had been accused by Garrison of involvement in the assassination and was connected to Lee Harvey Oswald through the Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflet.

As a result, he was transferred to another part of Cuba known as Isla de Pinos instead of further imprisonment.

The following night, another lecture, " Los Pinos Nuevos ", was given by Martí in another Tampa gathering in honor of the medical students killed in Cuba in 1871.

After arriving in Cuba, she met Bui Huy Toan, another Vietnamese student and her future fiancé.

Outside the United States there is another sculpture of Alma Mater on the steps of the monumental entrance to the Universidad de La Habana, in Havana, Cuba.

The year 1934 was also another historic period for the nation's aviation industry when Dr. Albert Forsythe and Charles C. Anderson ( the godfathers of African American aviation ) arrived in Jamaica from Cuba.

* Torricelli Act, another part of the United States ' long running embargo against Cuba

In fact, Kayserling confused de Torres with another Spanish explorer who in 1514 was granted an estate and Indian slaves in Cuba.

Anxious to return to Port Nicholson and his appointed rendezvous with the survey ship, Cuba, Wakefield crossed the island to Kororareka, where he chartered another ship to take him south.

CAFTA-DR is also seen as a stepping stone towards the FTAA, another ( more ambitious ) free trade agreement that would encompass all the South American and Caribbean nations as well as those of North and Central America except Cuba.

U. S. president Richard Nixon stated his fear that Chile could become " another Cuba ", and the U. S. cut off most of its foreign aid to Chile and supported Allende's opponents in Chile during his presidency, intending to encourage Allende's resignation, his overthrow, or his defeat in the impending election of 1976.

The hierarchy, along with the military leadership and the economic elite, also feared communist influence in the republic, and they warned of the potential for " another Cuba ".

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.

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.

* 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.

They concluded that it could " mislead the viewer as to the true nature of the product " as the advert contained so many pieces of Caribbean imagery, one might conclude it came from Cuba.

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

Cuba remains one of the few officially socialist states in the world.

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.

The Cuban missile crisis — known as the October crisis in Cuba and the Caribbean crisis () in the USSR — was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other ; the crisis occurred in October 1962, during the Cold War.

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

The United States argues this point is irrelevant because Cuba apparently ratified the lease post-revolution, and with full sovereignty, when it cashed one rent check in accordance with the disputed treaty.

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.

Cuba has three militia organizations: The Territorial Troops Militia Milicias de Tropas Territoriales of about one million people ( half women ), the Youth Labor Army Ejército Juvenil del Trabajo devoted to agricultural production, and a naval militia.

This came as Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams admitted one of the men was the party's representative in Cuba.

However, this changed when the Soviet Union, Somalia's former ally and one of the world's two superpowers, along with Cuba opted to throw their support behind the newly-Communist Derg of Ethiopia in the Ogaden War of 1977 – 78.

* 1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Literacy Campaign was one of the success stories of the Sandinistas ' reign and Cuba played an important part in this, providing teachers on a yearly basis after the revolution.

* October 4 – Hurricane Flora, one of the worst Atlantic storms in history, hits Hispaniola and Cuba killing nearly 7, 000 people.

There are a number of insular species ; these include a number of species found in the Greater Sundas, one species in the Philippines as well as two monophyletic genera endemic to Cuba and Hispaniola respectively.

" In one of the most memorable moments in U. N. history, Stevenson then showed photographs that proved the existence of missiles in Cuba, just after the Soviet ambassador had implied they did not exist.

Referred to by Cuba as " el bloqueo " ( the blockade ), the US embargo on Cuba remains one of the longest-standing embargoes.