* 1960 – Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.

Category: American people of Cuban descent

Category: American writers of Cuban descent

In the American, Pacific, and both Cuban leagues, there is a tenth player, a designated hitter, who bats for the pitcher.

The 1523 " Turin map " of the islands was the first to refer to them as Los Lagartos, meaning alligators or large lizards, By 1530 they were known as the Caymanes after the Carib word caimán for the marine crocodile, either the American or the Cuban crocodile, Crocodylus acutus or C. rhombifer, which also lived there.

The arrival of the British immediately opened up trade with their North American and Caribbean colonies, causing a rapid transformation of Cuban society.

This suppression and the success of independence movements in the former Spanish colonies on the North American mainland led to a rise of Cuban nationalism, and a number of independence conspiracies took place during the 1820s and 1830s, but all failed.

FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >

Initially, the idea of having Ball and the distinctly Latino Arnaz portray a married couple encountered resistance as they were told that Desi's Cuban accent and Latin style would not be agreeable to American viewers.

Category: American people of Cuban descent

Category: American entertainers of Cuban descent

Ornithologists have traditionally recognized two subspecies of this bird: the American Ivory-billed, the more famous of the two, and the Cuban Ivory-billed Woodpecker.

It concluded not only that the Cuban and American Ivory-billed woodpeckers are genetically distinct, but also that they and the Imperial form a North American clade within Campephilus that appeared in the Mid-Pleistocene.

The American Ornithologists ' Union Committee on Classification and Nomenclature has said it is not yet ready to list the American and Cuban as separate species.

While recent evidence suggesting that American Ivory-billed Woodpeckers may still exist in the wild has caused excitement in the Ornithology community, no similar evidence exists for the Cuban Ivory-billed bird, believed to be extinct since the last sighting in the late 1980s.

Under American advice ( by American envoy John Kenneth Galbraith who made and ran American policy on the war as all other top policy makers in USA were absorbed in coincident Cuban Missile Crisis ) Nehru refrained, not according to the best choices available, from using the Indian air force to beat back the Chinese advances.

The U. S. Department of Transportation defines Hispanic as, " persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central or South American, or others Spanish or Portuguese culture or origin, regardless of race.

Listed below are the 28 categories tabulated in the 2000 United States Census: Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican Republic ; Central American: Costa Rican, Guatemalan, Honduran, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, Salvadoran, Other Central American ; South American: Argentinian, Bolivian, Chilean, Colombian, Ecuadorian, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Uruguayan, Venezuelan, Other South American ; Other Hispanic or Latino: Spaniard, Spanish, Spanish American, All other Hispanic or Latino.

The Cuban Exile journalist and author John O ' Donnell-Rosales, who was born in the area of Cuba with the last confirmed sightings, reported sightings near the Alabama coastal delta in 1994, but these were never properly investigated by state wildlife officials.

In the Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novel The Old Man and the Sea, the central character of the work is an aged Cuban fisherman who, after 84 days without success on the water, heads out to sea to break his run of bad luck.

The character of Memín Pinguín was inspired by Cuban children seen by the author Yolanda Vargas Dulché on her travels.

The arrangement commonly used, without credit in Cuba, is believed to be that of José Norman, author of Cuban Pete.

The Cuban composer Antonio Rodriguez-Ferrer, was the author of the musical introductory notes to the Cuban national anthem.

Cuban author and historian Carlos Franqui suggests otherwise in his book, Family Portrait With Fidel.

He is the cousin of famed Cuban author Daína Chaviano.

* Cuban author Leonardo Padura Fuentes ' novel El hombre que amaba a los perros (" The Man Who Loved Dogs "), Tusquets, Barcelona, 2009, refers to the lives of both Trotsky and Mercader, exploring the motivations and historical context of the assassination.

Cuban is an admirer of author / philosopher Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.

23 years after pinning him up the pillory for his " anti-revolutionary activities ", the Cuban people pay homage to Lezama Lima through the release of a film, Strawberry and Chocolate ( 1994 ): Lezama is a model to Diego, a wayside gay intellectual ; and David, a member of the local communists youths, discovers the author of " Paradiso ", and becomes a man after a grand " a la Lezama " supper.

He was the author of the first Cuban law regulating the procedures of constitutional judicial review passed by Congress in 1903 and in force until 1949, with amendments in 1922 and 1935.

According to information from Seymour M. Hersh, author of The Dark Side of Camelot during early preparations to the Bay of Pigs Invasion, President Dwight D. Eisenhower personally asked then-Governor of Alabama John Malcolm Patterson ( who served as a lieutenant in Eisenhower's staff during the World War II ) to use the aircraft of Air National Guard of Alabama ( Patterson, as Governor, was commander-in-chief of the guard ) by Cuban émigrés to attack and pilots to train them in deep secret in Nicaragua.

According to Vicenzo Perna, author of Timba: The Sound of the Cuban Crisis, timba needs to be spoken of because of its musical, cultural, social, and political reasons ; its sheer popularity in Cuba, its novelty and originality as a musical style, the skill of its practitioners, its relationship with both local traditions and the culture of the black Diaspora, its meanings, and the way its style brings to light the tension points within society.

José Azel, a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami and the author of the recently published book, < i > Mañana in Cuba </ i > ( Tomorrow in Cuba ) presents an opposing perspective:

Dulce María Loynaz was the daughter of the famous General Enrique Loynaz del Castillo, a hero of the Cuban Liberation Army and author of Cuban National Anthem lyrics ; and sister of poet Enrique Loynaz Muñoz.

In addition, her talents and her family ’ s social position brought her into personal contact with some of the major Spanish-language authors of the century, including ill-fated Spanish author Federico García Lorca and Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral ( Mistral won the Nobel Prize in 1945 ), Cuban author Alejo Carpentier and the Spanish writer Juan Ramón Jiménez, who won the Nobel Prize.

* Julián Acuña Galé ( 1900 – 1973 ), Cuban botanist for whom the standard author abbreviation " Acuna " is used when citing a botanical name

* Tomás Diez Acosta ( born 1946 ), Cuban revolutionary, teacher, and author

Pío Leyva ( May 5, 1917-March 22, 2006 ) was a Cuban singer and the author of the well-known guaracha El Mentiroso (" The Liar ").

One year later, Cuban author Ernesto Juan Castellanos wrote a book about the statue, John Lennon en La Habana with a little help from my friends, and about the ban that John Lennon and The Beatles suffered in Cuba during the ' 1960s and ' 1970s.

" Venezuelan salsa star Oscar D ’ León ’ s 1983 tour of Cuba is mentioned prominently by every Cuban I ’ ve ever interviewed on the subject.

On November 29, 2004, the Cuban government released three of those arrested in the March 2003: Oscar Espinosa Chepe, Marcelo López, and Margarito Broche.

He famously answered that Oscar was not his only son, because every Cuban who had died for the revolution he started, was also his son.

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