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.

There was considerable evidence of a tacit rapprochement with Castro in Cuba, previously a bete noire to Trujillo -- thus illustrating the way in which totalitarianism of the right and left coalesces.

Moreover, Col. Faget's information on Cuba was too outdated to be useful in `` screening '' Castro agents ; ;

As the press in Cuba was gradually throttled by the Castro regime, more and more Cuban publishers, editors and correspondents were forced into exile.

Freedom of the press was lost in Cuba because of decades of corruption and social imbalances.

He was marching up and down the locker room of the Grassy Brae Golf Club shouting, `` Bomb 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.

Once the full extent of this Russian military penetration of Cuba was clear, President Kennedy announced we would take whatever action was appropriate to prevent this, even if we had to go it alone.

On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

For Castro was bringing Cuba not freedom, but hatred.

Once this was over, a massive development cooperation in the field of health and education brought in numerous civil personnel from Cuba.

From 1975 to 1989, Angola was aligned with the Eastern bloc, in particular the Soviet Union, Libya, and Cuba.

The aim was to secede Cuba from Spain, and annex it as a US state as Florida had been in 1824 through the Adams-Onis Treaty.

While in Puerto Rico slavery was 2 % of the population and blacks were less than 11 %, Cuba was 30 % black and slaves wee the backbone of the plantation economy.

After Amadeus abandonment in 1873, Parliament declared the Federal Republic ( including the Cuba, Puerto Ico and he Pacific Archipelagos ), the first act of President Estanbislao Figueras was to extend the Abolition Act to Puerto Rico.

Cuba and Puerto Rico, reached tremendous levels of development and wealth, to the point that Spain's First Train was between Havana and Camaguey, and the world's first telegraph was in Puerto Rico, as Samuel Morse lived there with his daughter, married to a Puerto Rican businessman.

ARIN formerly covered Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands ( UK ), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela until LACNIC was formed.

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

* Streets were also named after him in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, in Budapest, Hungary ( between 1961 and 1990 ); Jakarta ( between 1945 to 1967 ); Belgrade, Serbia ; Sofia, Bulgaria ( until 1991-2 ) Skopje, Republic of Macedonia ; Bata and Malabo, Equatorial Guinea ; Tehran, Iran ; Algiers, Algeria ( Rue Patrice Lumumba ); Santiago de Cuba, Cuba ( since 1960, formerly Avenida de Bélgica ); Łódź, Warsaw, Poland ; Kiev, Ukraine ; Perm, Russia ; Rabat, Morocco ; Maputo, Mozambique ; Leipzig, Germany ; Lusaka, Zambia (" Lumumba Street "); Kampala, Uganda (" Lumumba Avenue "); Tunis, Tunisia ; Fort-de-France, Martinique ; Montpellier, France ; Accra, Ghana ; Antananarivo, Madagascar ; Rotterdam, Netherlands ; Alexandria, Egypt and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

* 1930: On October 30, Cubana de Aviación's ( formerly known as Compañía Nacional Cubana de Aviación Curtiss ) first ever flight Havana-Santiago de Cuba carried the mail using a Ford Trimotor with stops in Santa Clara, Morón and Camagüey.

On 15 April 1961, at about 06: 00 Cuba local time, eight Douglas B-26B Invader bombers in three groups simultaneously attacked three Cuban airfields at San Antonio de los Baños and at Ciudad Libertad ( formerly named Campo Columbia ), both near Havana, plus the Antonio Maceo International Airport at Santiago de Cuba.

A volante is a two-wheeled, one-or two-passenger Spanish carriage formerly much used in Cuba.

The act extended the territorial application of the initial embargo to apply to foreign companies trading with Cuba, and penalized foreign companies allegedly " trafficking " in property formerly owned by U. S. citizens but expropriated by Cuba after the Cuban revolution.

A supposed King Vulture relative from Quaternary cave deposits on Cuba turned out to be bones of the eagle-sized hawk Buteogallus borrasi ( formerly in Titanohierax ).

On November 13, Fish formerly protested to Polo and stated that the U. S. had a free hand concerning Cuba and the Virginius Affair.

He formerly was an open advocate of the Cuban revolution as in Cuba for Beginners and a strong Soviet bloc sympathizer until the end of the Cold War.

The Bee Hummingbird or Zunzuncito ( Mellisuga helenae ) is a species of hummingbird that is endemic to dense forests and woodland edges on the main island of Cuba and ( formerly ) on the Isla de la Juventud, also part of the nation of Cuba.

The United States also control the formerly British island territories of the Sandwich Islands ( including Hawaii ), Bermuda and the Bahamas ; Cuba, purchased by the Confederacy in the 1870s, remains Confederate.

* 1902: The Liberal Party of Cuba was founded by many of those who had formerly been members of the PRC.

The Intelligence Directorate (, or DI, formerly known as Dirección General de Inteligencia or DGI ) is the main state intelligence agency of the government of Cuba.

Many Chinese also settled Cuba as contract laborers and they formerly boast the largest Chinatown in Western Hemisphere as most Chinese Cubans left for Florida.

* Hotel Tryp Habana Libre ( formerly the Habana Hilton ), Havana, Cuba, 1958

It was formerly quite frequent on Cuba but has become severely reduced in number and may be almost extinct there.

It is now confined to central Cuba and the Dominican Republic ; populations formerly also occurred in southern Puerto Rico and Haiti, but have become extinct there due to intensive land use.

Bordering the park is the Santa Clara Libre ( formerly the Santa Clara Hilton ), " Gran Hotel ", Teatro de La Caridad ( a National Monument of Cuba.

A Marine Security Guard or Marine Embassy Guard is a member of the the Marine Corps Embassy Security Group, ( formerly Marine Security Guard Battalion ), a battalion-sized organization of U. S. Marines whose detachments provide security at American Embassies, American Consulates and other official United States Government offices such as the U. S. Interests Section in Havana, Cuba, or the United States Mission to NATO in Brussels, Belgium.