Cuba provides medical aid to Kiribati.

Additionally, Cuba provides doctors, as well as scholarships for I-Kiribati medical students.

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.

Cuba provides medical aid to Vanuatu, sending doctors to the country and providing scholarships for ni-Vanuatu medical students to study in Cuba.

It is owned and paid for by several countries: Venezuela ( which provides 54 % of the network's budget ), Argentina ( 15 %), Cuba ( 14 %), Uruguay ( 7 %), Bolivia ( 5 %) and Nicaragua ( 5 %).

Article # 88 ( h ) of the Constitution of Cuba, adopted in 1976, provides for citizen proposals of law, prerequisite that the proposal be made by at least 10 000 citizens who are eligible to vote.

Cuba provides medical aid to the country.

Cuba provides medical aid to Nauru ; an unspecified number of Cuban doctors are serving in Nauru.

Cuba provides medical aid to Tuvalu.

In October 2008, Cuba signed an agreement with the Brazilian state oil company Petrobras, which provides for Petrobras to drill for oil and gas in deep waters off the north shore of Cuba.

The 3rd Article of the provisional Constitution of the Catalan Republic, written and approved in 1928 in Cuba by the Assemblea Constituent ( Constituent Assembly ) of Catalan separatism, specifically provides that the official flag of the Catalan Republic consists of four red bars on a yellow field, superimposed with a blue triangle and white five-pointed star.

Notably in late November 1999, the U. S. Coast Guard opted to bring six-year old Elián González and two other survivors of an ill-fated journey to the United States rather than taking them to Cuba as the migration agreement provides.

The company provides services to the public of Cuba, as well as the millions of tourists who vacation in the Republic of Cuba.

A Canadian Medical Association Journal paper states that " The famine in Cuba during the Special Period was caused by political and economic factors similar to the ones that caused a famine in North Korea in the mid-1990s.

* Canadian Poetry Online: David McFadden-Biography and six poems ( Eight Medical Students, Xavier Simpático and His Old Church, Havana All Night Long, One-Legged Man in Shorts, Dreamland Cuba, The Death of Greg Curnoe, Nuclear Physicist Seeks New Home )

Prior to his death in 1821 he had leased Cuba Court to the Army Medical Board on a 61-year lease.

In August 2006 the United States under George W. Bush created the Cuban Medical Professional Parole program, specifically targeting Cuban medical personnel and encouraging them to defect when they are working in a country outside of Cuba.

A letter published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal ( CMAJ ) criticizes the American Journal of Epidemiology for not taking all factors into account and says that " The famine in Cuba during the Special Period was caused by political and economic factors similar to the ones that caused a famine in North Korea in the mid-1990s.

El Médico began his musical career interpreting rap with his studies at la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Santiago de Cuba ( Medical School in Santiago, Cuba ).

* West Palm Jews Visit to Aid Brethren in Cuba by John Lantigua, The Miami Herald, July 15, 2009

He has guest appeared on other television shows, including Lou Grant, Kojak, The Rockford Files, Alice, Newhart, Murder, She Wrote and Married ... with Children, and has also acted in the mini-series Roots: The Next Generations and the Robert De Niro / Cuba Gooding Jr. film Men of Honor.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

In Cuba peninsular Spaniards began to boycott Cuban products made by slaves, and the issue turned nationalistic.

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.

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.

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.

Soon after Fidel Castro declared Cuba a socialist state, Costa Rican President Mario Echandi ended diplomatic relations on 10 September 1961 with the island through Executive Decree Number 2, in compliance with sanctions placed on Cuba by the Organization of American States.

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 traveling Dominican clergyman and writer Bartolomé de las Casas estimated that the neo-Taino population of Cuba had reached 350, 000 by the end of the 15th century.

After Columbus ' arrival, Cuba became a Spanish colony, ruled by a Spanish governor in Havana.

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.

Cuba has been ruled by Castro's Communist Party of Cuba, although Castro himself formally stepped down as leader in 2008, to be replaced by his brother Raúl Castro.

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.

These are Havana Bay, set in communist Cuba ; Wolves Eat Dogs, which follows Renko in the disaster of Chernobyl ; Stalin's Ghost in which Arkady returns to a Russia led by Vladimir Putin, and Three Stations.

Havana Bay is set in Cuba ; Wolves Eat Dogs is set in Moscow and in the areas affected by the Chernobyl disaster.