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.

Cuban American author Oscar Hijuelos won a Pulitzer for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, and Cristina García received acclaim for Dreaming in Cuban.

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.

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.

Research by boxing historian Enrique Encinosa has uncovered 22 amateur bouts ( listed below ), verified through Cuban newspapers Diario de la Marina and La Noche, as well as various books published by biographers or the Cuban government.

According to Cuban musician and music historian Leonardo Acosta, however, the reverse is true.

Music historian Robert Palmer has noted that the style's influences are quite diverse, and include the Afro-Caribbean " Bo Diddley beat ", elements of " big band swing " and Latin music like the Cuban son and " Mexican rhythms ".

* 1819 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary ( d. 1874 )

On 10 October 1868, landowner Carlos Manuel de Céspedes made the " Grito de Yara ", the " Cry of Yara ", declaring Cuban independence and freedom for his slaves.

Cuban State Council Vice President Carlos Lage declared in 2007 that Cuba would receive 1, 142 more Chinese buses for urban transport before years end

The work of Dr. William Gorgas deploying the techniques pioneered by Cuban physician Carlos Finley made it possible to rid the area of yellow fever between 1902 and 1905.

Carlos Finlay, a Cuban doctor and scientist, first proposed in 1881 that yellow fever might be transmitted by mosquitoes rather than direct human contact.

** Carlos Emilio Morales, Cuban jazz guitarist

The leader of this revolution, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, would have been inspired to create the first Cuban flag named La Demajagua in honor of the place where the revolt began.

For the Cuban wrestler with the same name see Carlos Julian Ortíz </ center >

Other boxers he fought in his career were the world champions American Denny Moyer, Cuban Luis Rodríguez, Argentinian Carlos Monzón, Nigerian Dick Tiger, Mexican José Nápoles and in his last title try, German Eckhard Dagge.

Gavilan was managed by Yamil Chade, a part Lebanese, part Cuban boxing manager ( based in Puerto Rico ) who also directed the careers of Wilfredo Gómez, Wilfred Benítez, Carlos De León and Félix Trinidad among others.

Arriving at the capital he contacted fellow Cuban Carlos Sauvalle, who had been deported to Spain a year before Martí and whose house served as a center of reunions for Cubans in exile.

Carl Oglesby, Bernardine Dohrn, Julie Nichamin, Brian Murphy, Allen Young and other members of SDS were primarily responsible for the idea, organization and negotiations with Carlos Rafael Rodríguez and other members of the Cuban government.

After 1970, Cuban composers such as Leo Brouwer, Jesús Ortega, Carlos Fariñas and Sergio Vitier began also creating electroacoustic pieces ; and in the 1980 ’ s a group of composers that included: Edesio Alejandro, Fernando ( Archi ) Rodríguez Alpízar, Marietta Véulens, Mirtha de la Torre, Miguel Bonachea and Julio Roloff, started receiving instruction and working at the ICAP Electroacoustic Studio.

Among many other guitarists related to the Cuban Guitar School, we can mention the following names: Carlos Molina, Sergio Vitier, Flores Chaviano and Efraín Amador Piñero, as well as: Armando Rodriguez Ruidiaz, Martín Pedreira, Lester Carrodeguas, Mario Daly, José Angel Pérez Puentes and Teresa Madiedo.

Carlos Manuel ( born 1973 ) is a Cuban singer, known simply as " Carlos Manuel ".

* Carlos Finlay, a Cuban doctor, first proposes that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes rather than direct human contact.

Sturgis moved to Miami in 1957 where the Cuban wife of his uncle Angelo Vona introduced him to former Cuban president Carlos Prio, who with other anti-Batista Cubans were plotting their return to power.

* Carlos Varela ( wrestler ) ( born 1966 ), Cuban wrestler

* Carlos Julian Ortíz ( born 1974 ), Cuban freestyle wrestler

* Carlos Gutierrez ( born 1953 ), Cuban American, 35th U. S. Secretary of Commerce and former Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Kellogg Company.

The groups continued to oppose Pinochet's government from exile, and helped inspire nueva canción singers from Uruguay ( Daniel Viglietti ), El Salvador ( Yolocamba l ' ta ), Mexico ( Amparo Ochoa ) and Nicaragua ( Carlos and Luís Enrique Mejía Godoy ), as well as Cuban nueva trova artists like Pablo Milanés.

Even the strongest hurricanes do not strip the bark off trees, and Cuban meteorologist José Carlos Millás estimates that this phenomenon would require rain and winds over.