Cuba joined the League of Nations in 1920.

Cuba joined the United Nations in 1945.

Cuba joined the Organization of American States ( OAS ) in 1948.

The boycott was joined by 14 Eastern Bloc countries and allies, including Cuba ( but not Romania ).

In some contexts it also refers to other countries in the Soviet sphere of influence during the Cold War — such as North Korea ( especially in the years surrounding the Korean War ) and Cuba ( particularly after it joined the Comecon ).

When the Ten Years ' War broke out in Cuba in 1868, clubs of supporters for the Cuban nationalist cause formed all over Cuba, and José and his friend Fermín joined them.

Back in New York Martí joined General Calixto García's Cuban revolutionary committee, made up of exiled & disheveled Cubans who wanted independence for Cuba.

Afterwards Rodney's squadron, amounting to 8 ships of the line joined the British expedition to Cuba bringing the total number of ships of the line to 15 by the end of April 1762.

When he returned from Cuba in 1943, he joined the Charlie Spivak band, which led him out to California for the first time, to make a band picture.

In 1939, he married Puerto Rican Arah Mina López, a journalist who joined him as he returned to Cuba in 1939.

Cuba also joined the Non-Aligned Movement and the organization was headed by both Fidel Castro and Raúl Castro.

In 2003, filmmakers Brett Rapkin and Josh Dixon gathered a guerrilla film crew and joined Lee on a barnstorming trip to Cuba.

However, when Cuba joined the boycott of those Olympics his last chance of international glory was ended.

After the takeover, anti-Batistas and liberals joined the M-26-7 movement, which gained control over Cuba.

The Movement was joined with other bodies to form the United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution, which in turn became the Communist Party of Cuba in 1965.

Informally the island was used by fishermen from Cuba and from the British Bahamas, who were later joined by others from the United States after the latter nation's independence.

During the Spanish-American War, he joined the Army, and served in Cuba with the Rough Riders.

On his return to Cuba, he joined with Hernan Cortes and as part of that expedition, helped found the city of La Rica Villa de la Vera Cruz ( today Veracruz ) in Mexico.

In 2008, The Rutherford Institute joined a coalition of civil libertarians and activists who called upon President George W. Bush to release a number of Muslim Uighurs who were being detained indefinitely in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

When Spain joined France in 1762 he was sent as second in command with Sir George Pocock in the British expedition against Cuba which took Havana.

He joined the school's baseball team, already having learned the game before coming to New York, when American sailors brought the game to Cuba.

Having learned the game in Cuba when American sailors brought the game to island, he soon joined the school's team, the Fordham Rose Hill Baseball Club.

The members ( listed from earliest joining and alphabetically if they joined on the same day ) at this time were Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, the British Empire, Canada, Chile, the Republic of China, Colombia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Italy, Liberia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Persia / Iran, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Siam, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Union of South Africa, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, Yugoslavia, Venezuela, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Luxembourg, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Ireland, Ethiopia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Turkey, Iraq, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Afghanistan and Ecuador.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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Cuba is currently a lead country on the United Nations Human Rights Council, and is a founding member of the organization known as the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, a member of the Latin American Integration Association and the United Nations.

Due to this huge amount of support, Cuba became a major sponsor of Marxist " wars of national liberation " not only in Latin America, but worldwide.

Although Latin Jazz is most popularly associated with artists from the Caribbean ( particularly Cuba ) and Brazil, young Mexican Americans have played a role in its development over the years, going back to the 1930s and early 1940s, the era of the zoot suit, when young Mexican American musicians in Los Angeles and San Jose began to experiment with banda, a Jazz-like Mexican music that has grown recently in popularity among Mexican Americans such as Jenni Rivera.

Other prominent Latin American composers are Leo Brouwer of Cuba, Antonio Lauro of Venezuela and Enrique Solares of Guatemala.

Like Castro, Khrushchev felt that a US invasion of Cuba was imminent, and that to lose Cuba would do great harm to the communist cause, especially in Latin America.

All Latin American and Caribbean countries except Cuba and Venezuela enjoyed much more economic freedom than Haiti on the Index of Economic Freedom of 2006.

Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a FreesoilerAn 1854 cartoon depicts a giant Free Soil Party | free soiler being held down by James Buchanan and Lewis Cass standing on the Democratic Party ( United States ) | Democratic platform marked " Kansas ", " Cuba " and " Central America " ( referring to accusations that southerners wanted to annex areas in Latin America to expand slavery ).

Red Dawn ( 1984 ) depicts an alternate 1980s in which the United States is invaded by the Soviet Union, Cuba, Nicaragua, and other Latin American allies of the U. S. S. R. and a group of small-town high school students engage in guerrilla warfare in their resistance of the occupation, eventually beating the communists.

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.

Upon assuming office in 1981, U. S. President Ronald Reagan condemned the FSLN for joining with Cuba in supporting Marxist revolutionary movements in other Latin American countries such as El Salvador.

Uruguay also is a member of the Latin American Integration Association ( ALADI ), a trade association based in Montevideo that includes 10 South American countries plus Mexico and Cuba.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Castro led Cuba into its economic " Special Period ", before taking the country into the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas in 2006 and forging alliances with other nations in the Latin American " Pink Tide ".

In Latin America, many Cantonese-speaking migrants arrived as indentured labourers particularly in Peru ( to work in the deadly guano fields ) and Cuba ( to labor in sugar plantations ) giving those countries substantial Chinatowns.

Former National Intelligence Officer for Latin America and Cuba expert Professor Brian Latell argues in his book After Fidel, that the plan to assassinate Somoza was devised in Havana with direct input from Fidel Castro.

Several countries once had diplomatic relations with Israel, but have since broken or suspended them ( Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela in Latin America ; Mauritania in the Arab League ; Chad, Guinea, Mali and Niger in non-Arab Africa ; and Iran until the Islamic revolution ).

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.