The United States Department of State has no information on their activities on Cuban territory.

With the exception of service marks for the Council of Europe and the Cuban stamp, all stamps were engraved by Wolfgang Seidel and by the Austrian State Printing Office in a complex combination printing process produces ( intaglio printing, rotogravure printing, as well as metal stamping ).

Executive power is exercised by the Cuban Government, which is represented by the Council of State and the Council of Ministers.

According to the Cuban Constitution Article 94, the First Vice President of the Council of State assumes presidential duties upon the illness or death of the president.

* Cuban Council of State

Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz ( born 3 June 1931 ) is a Cuban politician and revolutionary who has been President of the Council of State of Cuba and the President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba since 2008 ; he previously exercised presidential powers in an acting capacity from 2006 to 2008.

According to the Cuban Constitution of 1976, Article 94, the First Vice President of the Council of State assumes presidential duties upon the illness or death of the president.

He has been a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and the Second Secretary of its Politburo since the Party's formation in October 1965 ; also, the First Vice President of the Cuban Council of State, of the National Assembly of the Popular Power and of the Council of Ministers since these were created in 1976.

A Cuban Perspective on Management of Persistent Vegetative State.

* Rostov Institute of Physical Training and Sports ( branch of the Cuban State University of Physical Training, Sports and Tourism )

* Abelardo Colome Ibarra, Cuban vice president of the State Council

According to the Cuban Constitution of 1976, the President is the chief executive of the Council of State of Cuba.

* Heidi Härkönen: Girls ' 15-Year Birthday Celebration as Cuban Women's Space Outside of the Revolutionary State.

In 1870, Secretary of State Hamilton Fish persuaded President Grant not to recognize Cuban belligerency and the United States maintained an unstable peace with Spain.

There was no knowledge that four mercenaries had already been killed and Secretary of State Hamilton Fish believed the Virginius was just another ship captured aiding the Cuban rebellion.

Upon implementation of the Cuban Constitution of 1976, Fidel Castro became Cuba's Head of State in 1976, and Dorticós was displaced and named President of the National Bank and a member of the Council of State.

Also, some of the Varela Project leaders were accused by the Cuban government of accepting foreign political support from James Cason of the United States State Department for political purposes, which is against the law in Cuba and many other countries, including the United States.

Per the State Department, the Cuban Penal Code includes the concept of " dangerousness ," defined as the " special proclivity of a person to commit crimes, demonstrated by his conduct in manifest contradiction of socialist norms.

Oswaldo Payá, a long-time opponent of the Cuban government, remains free, but the resulting crackdown by the authorities has resulted in the incarceration of 75 political prisoners with terms from 6 to 28 years, after being charged and convicted of " acts against the independence or the territorial integrity of the State.

* In defense of the Cuban revolution: an answer to the State Department and Theodore Draper.

As Attorney General Hoar worked with President Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State Hamilton Fish over contentious issues as settling the Alabama Claims with England and in keeping the U. S. from recognizing Cuban belligerency during the Ten Years War.

* Orestes Ferrara, a professor at the University of Havana, Cuban Secretary of State and delegate to the Constitutional Convention

Born in Harlem, New York, of Cuban descent, John Carlos was a gifted high school athlete and outstanding student who went on to study at East Texas State University on a full track-and-field scholarship.

* January 10 – In accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 626 and the New York Accords, Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola.

His most famous moment came on October 25, 1962, during the Cuban missile crisis, when he gave a presentation at an emergency session of the Security Council.

On July 31, 2006, during the 2006 Cuban transfer of duties, Fidel Castro delegated his duties as President ( Dictator ) of the Council of state, first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party and the post of commander in chief of the armed forces to first Vice President Raúl Castro.

The Executive Committee of the National Security Council ( EXCOMM ) was established in the autumn of 1962 to manage the emerging Cuban Missile Crisis.

He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council ( ExComm ) during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In March 1961, the CIA helped Cuban exiles in Miami to create the Cuban Revolutionary Council ( CRC ), chaired by José Miró Cardona, former Prime Minister of Cuba in January 1959.

Their analysis garnered worldwide attention when the Kennedy Administration declassified and made public a portion of the images depicting the Soviet missiles on Cuban soil ; Adlai Stevenson presented the images to the United Nations Security Council on October 25, 1962.

" Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina said that the resolution furthers " the repeated attempts by the Security Council to amplify its powers beyond those which were granted it by the Charter.

Sturgis further testified that while he had often heard of " Eduardo ," a CIA political officer who had been active in the work of the Cuban Revolutionary Council in Miami prior to the Bay of Pigs operation in April 1961, he had never met him and did not know until 1971 or 1972 that " Eduardo " was E. Howard Hunt.

A version of the Cuban bolero is danced throughout the Latin dance world ( supervised by the World Dance Council ) under the misnomer ' rumba '.

Though commercial concerns continued to dominate foreign policy, Frondizi took part in negotiations between President Kennedy and Cuban representative Ernesto Che Guevara after an Inter-American Economic and Social Council summit in Punta del Este, Uruguay, in August 1961.

After retirement from athletics in 1984, Juantorena has served in many official capacities, including as the Vice President of the National Institute for Sports, Physical Education and Recreation for Cuba, Vice Minister for Sport of Cuba, and Vice-President, later Senior Vice-President of the Cuban Olympic Committee.

In a debate on October 21, 1984 between Reagan and his opponent, former Vice President Walter Mondale, panelist Henry Trewhitt brought up how President Kennedy had to go for days on end without sleep during the Cuban Missile crisis.

* In the essay The Cuban Missile Crisis: Second Holocaust, an alternate history in which the 1962 crisis developed into war, the Soviets manage to destroy Washington, D. C. and kill President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and most of their political and military advisors.

They had feuds with the Cuban Commandos and Karachi Vice in Stampede and won the Stampede International Tag-Team titles for the second time on December 12, 1988.

Corps General Abelardo Colomé Ibarra ( born 13 September 1939 in Oriente, Cuba ) is a Vice President of the Council of State of Cuba and the Cuban Minister of the Interior.

Until the Cuban fiasco and the Communist military victories in Laos, almost any observer would have said that President Kennedy had blended a program that respected, generally, the opinions voiced both by Mr. Nixon and the professors.

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.

* 1926 – Fidel Castro, Cuban lawyer and politician, 15th President of Cuba

The United States had been embarrassed publicly by the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961, which had been launched under President John F. Kennedy by CIA-trained forces of Cuban exiles.

In January 1962, General Edward Lansdale described plans to overthrow the Cuban Government in a top-secret report ( partially declassified 1989 ), addressed to President Kennedy and officials involved with Operation Mongoose.

On October 7, Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticós spoke at the UN General Assembly: " If ... we are attacked, we will defend ourselves.

East-West tensions increased during the first term of U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( 1981 – 1985 ), reaching levels not seen since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis as Reagan increased US military spending to 7 % of the GDP.

Following the 1933 Cuban Revolution, led by Fulgencio Batista, which overthrew President Gerardo Machado, Alberto Arnaz was jailed and all of his property was confiscated.

U. S. President Carter initially hoped that continued American aid to the new government would keep the Sandinistas from forming a doctrinaire Marxist-Leninist government aligned with the Soviet bloc, but the Carter administration allotted the Sandinistas minimal funding to start them off, and the Sandinistas resolutely turned away from the U. S., investing Cuban and East European assistance into a new army of 75, 000.

* 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U. S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.

* 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval " quarantine " of the Communist nation.

* 1882 – Ramón Grau, Cuban physician and politician, 6th President of Cuba ( d. 1969 )

* August 23 – Unable to control a rebellion Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma requests United States intervention.

** U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the use of $ 1. 0 million for the relief and resettlement of Cuban refugees, who had been arriving in Florida at the rate of about 1, 000 per week.

* November 20 – The Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U. S. President John F. Kennedy ends the blockade of the Caribbean nation.

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (; born August 13, 1926 ) is a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008.

Involving himself in armed rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he concluded that the U. S .- backed Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, who was widely seen as a dictator, had to be overthrown ; to this end he led a failed armed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953.

* 1961-Bay of Pigs Invasion in April ; CIA-trained Cuban exiles invaded Cuba and were defeated at the Bay of Pigs ; captured and ransomed by President Kennedy

The Catholic News Agency ( CNA ), in an online news story article posted by Alejandro Bermudez on Saturday, March 31, 2012, stated that, in response to a specific request made personally to Cuban President Raul Castro by Pope Benedict XVI, during his Apostolic Visitation of Leon, Mexico and the island in March of 2012, following the pattern of small advances in Church-Cuban relations, it was decreed by the Communist Party and Castro and his advisers that in 2012, Good Friday would be made a holiday, with a possibility that the move could perhaps be made permanent ( following the move of the late Pope John Paul II, who got Fidel Castro to declare Christmas Day a holiday-which is still the case-due to a personal request during his landmark trip in 1998 ).

During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, LeMay clashed again with U. S. President John F. Kennedy and Defense Secretary McNamara, arguing that he should be allowed to bomb nuclear missile sites in Cuba.

Though commercial concerns continued to dominate foreign policy, conflict resolution was again ventured into when President Arturo Frondizi initiated negotiations between U. S. President John F. Kennedy and Cuban representative Ernesto Che Guevara during a Western Hemisphere summit in Uruguay in August 1961.