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??

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 ''.

After Cuba and Laos, it was argued, Mr. Khrushchev will interpret the President's consent to the meeting as further evidence of Western weakness -- perhaps even panic -- and is certain to try to exploit the advantage he now believes he holds.

Baseball is the leading team sport in both Japan and Cuba, and the top level of play is similarly split between two leagues: Japan's Central League and Pacific League ; Cuba's West League and East League.

Professional boxing remains by far the most popular form of the sport globally, though amateur boxing is dominant in Cuba and some former Soviet republics.

* 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.

The main brand of rum in Cuba is called Havana Club, a formerly private company nationalized by the government.

However, after 1998, it began to describe the drink as Cuba Libre – literally translated as " Free Cuba " which is the original name of the drink and how it's mostly called in Latin America.

Georgetown, the capital of the Cayman Islands is south of Havana, Cuba, and northwest of Kingston, Jamaica, and are between Cuba and Central America.

Christopher Columbus, on his first voyage to the Americas, sailed south from what is now the Bahamas to explore the northeast coast of Cuba and the northern coast of Hispaniola.

" That rich island ," he wrote on 1 December 1881, " the key to the Gulf of Mexico, is, though in the hands of Spain, a part of the American commercial system … If ever ceasing to be Spanish, Cuba must necessarily become American and not fall under any other European domination.

The economy of Cuba is a largely centrally planned economy dominated by state-run enterprises overseen by the Cuban government, though there remains significant foreign investment and private enterprise in Cuba.

Transportation in Cuba is composed of a system of railways, roads, airports, waterways, ports and harbours:

As with most public transport in Cuba, the vehicles used are second hand, and the flagship Tren Francés (" French train ") between Havana and Santiago de Cuba is operated by coaches originally used in Europe between Paris and Amsterdam on the ex-TEE express.

The AstroBus lines operate with modern Chinese YUTONG buses, and are accessible to Cuban Residents of Cuba with their ID Card, and is payable in Cuba Pesos.

In 1999, an article in Time magazine claimed " In Cuba [...] hitchhiking is custom.

Hitchhiking is what makes Cuba move.

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.

The most famous example of a claim is the apocryphal story that artist Frederic Remington telegrammed Hearst to tell him all was quiet in Cuba and " There will be no war.

He forcefully asked the Soviet representative, Valerian Zorin, if his country was installing missiles in Cuba, punctuated with the famous demand " Don't wait for the translation, answer ' yes ' or ' no '!

It quickly became a hit with the artistic community who were experimenting with the new medium of computer graphics, and will remain most famous for its use by Larry Cuba to create the original " attacking the death star will not be easy " animation in Star Wars.

One of the earliest is Ma Teodora, by a freed slave, Teodora Gines of Santiago bumba crotch de Cuba, who was famous for her compositions.

The style began in Cuba and later became famous in the black community of Mexico.

In December 1946, Adonis and Luciano met at the famous Havana Conference of U. S. organized crime bosses in Cuba.

The most famous example of an economic sanction is the fifty-year-old United States embargo against Cuba.

") Aiding them in their quest is Lucky Jack, a feisty, peg-legged rabbit, but a selfish horse named Buck ( Cuba Gooding Jr .), eagerly working in the service of Rico, a famous bounty hunter, seeks the glory for himself.

Later on danzón developed in Mexico City, specially in the famous Salón México ; in fact, it has survived as a dance longer there than in Cuba.

Lezama Lima's first published work, a long poem called " Muerte de Narciso ," released when he was only twenty-seven, made him immediately famous within Cuba and established Lezama's well-wrought style and classical subject matter.

Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, better known as Alberto Korda or simply Korda ( September 14, 1928 in Havana, Cuba – May 25, 2001 in Paris, France ) was a Cuban photographer, remembered for his famous image Guerrillero Heroico of Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.

On the other side of the spectrum, Carlos Varela is famous in Cuba for his open criticism of some aspects of Castro's revolution.

Another " missing-in-action " Revé alumnus who might well extended to this list was Tony GarcÌa, the pianist and musical director of the early 1990s and the arranger of Revé famous " Mi salsa tiene sandunga " which became the theme song of Cuba televisionís most important music show, Mi Salsa.

He routinely expressed his desire for Cuba to return to the way it used to be ; such was the occasion when he made one of his famous jokes, involving a TWA flight he supposedly took between Havana and Miami.

Author of a famous method of piano playing ( 1831 ) which was in print until the late 19th century, he ran in Paris what is sometimes called a factory for aspiring virtuosos and taught scores of pupils from as far away as Cuba.

Fellow musician Barbarito Torres said of Leyva: " Pio has always been a famous singer in Cuba.

: For the famous nightclub in Havana, Cuba see Tropicana Club

* Remedios, Cuba, a municipality in the province of Villa Clara, Cuba, famous for its Christmas festivities, called parrandas, in which two ' barrios ' ( El Carmen and San Salvador ) compete the whole night to show the best fireworks

Cándido Fabré ( born in San Luis, Santiago de Cuba ) is a Cuban musician, song writer, and singer, famous for his art of improvisation.

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.

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 ; ;

next for Cuba: an arms blockade??

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.

This group pleads with the administration to `` give no further support for the invasion of Cuba by exile groups ''.

Mr. Nixon, for his part, would oppose intervention in Cuba without specific provocation.

Initially the White House reaction was that the bitter exchanges with Moscow over Cuba and the conflict in Laos had dampened prospects for a meeting.

Diario De La Marina was the oldest and most influential paper in Cuba, with a reputation for speaking out against tyranny.

Some provinces of the Anglican Communion have begun ordaining women as bishops in recent decades for example, the United States, New Zealand, Canada and Cuba.

The 1880s and 90s were turbulent times for Cuba and the company.

Emilio Bacardí, Don Facundo's eldest son, was repeatedly imprisoned and was exiled from Cuba for having fought in the rebel army against Spain in the Cuban War of Independence.

In 1912 Emilio Bacardi travelled to Egypt where he purchased a mummy for the future Emilio Bacardí Moreau Municipal Museum in Santiago de Cuba ,( mummy still on display ).

The New York plant was soon shut down due to Prohibition, yet during this time Cuba became a hotspot for US tourists.

Facing increased competition in the rum market from the now international brand Havana Club, the company concluded that it was important for sales to associate its rum with Cuba.

Bacardi has faced criticism and legal problems for supposedly attempting to falsely convince consumers they were purchasing rum made in Cuba rather than just marking its heritage.

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.

Archeological evidence suggests that, before Columbus ' arrival, the indigenous Guanajatabey, who had inhabited the island for centuries, were driven to the west of Cuba by the arrival of two subsequent waves of migrants, the Taíno and Ciboney.

The treaty gave Britain Florida in exchange for Cuba on the recommendation of the French, who advised that declining the offer could result in Spain losing Mexico and much of the South American mainland to the British.

This led to disappointment in Britain, as many believed that Florida was a poor return for Cuba and Britain's other gains in the war.

As a result, the national militia of Cuba, established by the Constitution and a potential instrument for liberal agitation, was dissolved, a permanent executive military commission under the orders of the governor was created, newspapers were closed, elected provincial representatives were removed and other liberties suppressed.