He also demanded that Kennedy take additional measures to increase international tension: specifically to crush the Cuban revolution, resume nuclear testing, resist more vigorously admission of China to its lawful seat in the United Nations, and postpone non-military programs at home ''.

The RECE ( Cuban Representation in Exile ) also receives funding from Bacardi family members.

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.

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.

A subsequent U. S. trade embargo, instituted in October 1960 in response to Cuba's seizure of U. S .- owned properties, not only ensured that new vehicle exports would remain halted, but also denied Cuban motorists a direct source of replacement parts.

In June 2007, Nauru adopted the " Cuban literacy method ", reportedly used also in several other countries.

" Cuba has also lent support to the prominent Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) and the lesser-known Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) both received training from Cuba's General Intelligence Directorate, as well as financial and diplomatic support from the Cuban government.

The Irish Republican political party, Sinn Féin is also known to have close political links to the Cuban government.

There was also some evidence that the Department of Defense and the Air Force lobbied to get responsibility for the Cuban flights.

Kennedy also believed that United States ' allies would think of the US as " trigger-happy cowboys " who lost Berlin because they could not peacefully resolve the Cuban situation.

His father was Santiago's youngest mayor and also served in the Cuban House of Representatives.

He also read Lewis Carroll's poem " Jabberwocky " in a heavy Cuban accent ( he pronounced it " Habberwocky ").

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 Reagan administration insisted on the " Communist threat " posed by the Sandinistas — reacting particularly to the support provided to the Sandinistas by Cuban president Fidel Castro, by the Sandinistas ' close military relations with the Soviets and Cubans, but also furthering the Reagan administration's desire to protect U. S. interests in the region, which were threatened by the policies of the Sandinista government.

* Cuban oregano ( Plectranthus amboinicus, formerly Coleus aromaticus ), also of the mint family ( Lamiaceae ).

The following year, the new Cuban government under Fidel Castro also provided assistance.

They also brought in around 15, 000 Cuban troops to assist the Ethiopian military.

The FSLN also created neighborhood groups similar to the Cuban Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, called Sandinista Defense Committees ( or CDS ).

The revolution in Cuban education since the ousting of the US-backed Batista regime not only served as a model for Nicaragua but also provided technical assistance and advice.

Children also wear scarfs as members of Cuban young pioneers organization.

Burnham also let Cuban troops use Guyana as a transit point on their way to the war in Angola in the mid-1970s.

People of Latin American origin, a number of early Filipino settlers ( notably in Saint Malo, Louisiana ), known as " Manilamen ," from the annual cross-Pacific Galleon or Manila Galleon trade with neighboring Acapulco, Mexico, descendants of African American slaves, and some Cuban Americans have also settled along the Gulf Coast and, in some cases, intermarried into Cajun families.

* AMTRUNK: A CIA plan by New York Times journalist Tad Szulc initiated in February 1963, also called the " Leonardo Plan ," that was " an attempt to find disgruntled military officials in Cuba who might be willing to recruit higher military officials in a plot to overthrow Castro ", as well as to overthrow the Cuban government " by means of a conspiracy among high-level ... leaders of the government culminating in a coup d ' etat ".

AMTRUNK has also been described as a " CIA-DIA Task Force on Cuba ", and as " a plodding bureaucratic effort " that " had worked for months to identify Cuban leaders who might be able to stage a coup ".

Haiti has a rich blend of African and European music ; Cuban and Dominican influences also blend to create Haiti's diverse music.

El Salvador previously suspended diplomatic relations with Cuba 50 years ago due to the Cuban Revolution.

From adolescence, he dedicated his life to the promotion of liberty, political independence for Cuba and intellectual independence for all Spanish Americans ; his death was used as a cry for Cuban independence from Spain by both the Cuban revolutionaries and those Cubans previously reluctant to start a revolt.

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.

Considerable natural habitat previously existed within the province, although much of these areas has been destroyed during the period 1965 to 1991 during the Cuban intervention years.

The Carter administration established an Interest Section in Havana and the Cuban government reciprocated by establishing an Interest Section in Washington, D. C .. Cuba subsequently agreed to the release of several dozen political prisoners and allowed Cuban Americans to return to the island to visit relatives — a privilege that had been denied previously to Cuban citizens living abroad.

" In the campaign rhetoric, Kirk denounced Eckerd for having previously contributed to Democratic candidates, for allegedly running down a Cuban fisherman in a yacht race, and for spending lavishly from his personal fortune in the 1970 primary campaign. Though he defeated Eckerd, Kirk was then unseated, 57-43 percent, by the Democrat Reubin Askew, a state senator from Pensacola.

She was previously married to Miami-based Cuban financier Jorge Mora, with whom she welcomed their first child, Maya, in 2001.

He previously played for the New York Yankees ( 2003 – 04 ), the Chicago White Sox ( 2004 – 09 ), and the Colorado Rockies ( 2009 ), as well as the Cuban national team.

He previously held the position of President of the Cuban Senate in 1954 and 1959.

The head of Cubatabaco asked Avelino Lara, head of the El Laguito factory, to create a new super-premium blend which differed from all previously existing Cuban cigars.

The Cuban leadership was further upset when in September the United States Congress approved US Joint Resolution 230, which expressed Congress's resolve to prevent the creation of an externally-supported military establishment.

The popularized " mambo " in the United States would be viewed as a variant of son or salsa among Cuban dance and music specialists, and would later evolve into a mixture of salsa and rumba that is expressed in clubs and social settings worldwide.

Kevin Moore states: " There are two common ways that the three-side is expressed in Cuban popular music.

During the 1960s, he expressed his opposition to the Cuban Revolution in several discreetly poetic compositions.

In 2005, Cuban expressed interest in buying the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins.

Cuban has repeatedly expressed interest in owning a Major League Baseball franchise, and has thus far unsuccessfully attempted to purchase three franchises.

A few days after the John F. Kennedy assassination, he expressed the opinion in a confidential memo ( released in 1999 ) that, although he considered it unlikely, Cuban involvement in the killing could not be ruled out.

" And foreseeing the growth of North American expansionism, ( he was absolutely convinced of the inevitable victory of Cuban Arms ), he expressed in a letter to a friend of arms: " That ( country ) which attempts to seize Cuba, will gather the dust of its ground soaked in blood, if he does not perish in fight.

In an attempt to allay concerns about his being a dangerous leftist ( as Velasco's vice president he had expressed warm sympathy for Cuban leader Fidel Castro Ruz and made a much-criticized trip to the Soviet Union ), Arosemena named a cabinet that included Liberals and even Conservatives and quickly sent former President Galo Plaza on a goodwill trip to Washington.