Also, in August 2010 former Cuban president Fidel Castro wrote an article for the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma in which he cited Daniel Estulin ’ s 2006 book The Secrets of the Bilderberg Club, which, as quoted by Castro, describes " sinister cliques and the Bilderberg lobbyists " manipulating the public " to install a world government that knows no borders and is not accountable to anyone but its own self.

His proposal to exhibit the front pages of the Daily Mirror covering the Cuban Missile Crisis was rejected by the organisers Robert Filliou and Daniel Spoerri.

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.

He eventually joined the Cuban Revolutionary Army that was fighting for independence from Spain in 1896 after having been inspired to join following a rousing speech given by Gen. Daniel E. Sickles at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

" The original line up, familiar from the records, included Ruben González and Guillermo Rubalcava ( piano ), Orlando López ( bass ), Amadito Valdés ( timbale ), Carlos González and Roberto Valdés ( bongos & Cuban percussion ), Ángel Terry ( congas ), Daniel Ramos, Alejandro Pichardo y “ Guajiro ” Mirabal ( trumpets ), Alberto “ Molote ” Martínez and Jesús “ Aguaje ” Ramos ( trombones ) and, Raúl Planas, Manuel Licea, Pío Leiva, Ibrahim Ferrer and Félix Baloy ( lead singers ).

* The Cuban Embargo: An Interview with Naval Academy Professor Daniel Masterson by History News Network

* Nestor Ponce de León ( Feb. 26, 1837-Dec. 17, 1899 ) Cuban exile to the US, publisher, founder, secretary and treasurer of the Junta Central Revolucionaria in New York city to which José Martí belonged

* Patricio Ponce de León ( 1919 – 2010 ), Cuban mycologist

His parents, Carlos Ponce, Sr. and Esther Freyre, emigrated from Cuba after the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro.

The salsa conflict can be summarized as a disagreement between those who do not recognize salsa as anything other than Cuban music with another name, and those who strongly identify with salsa as a music and culture distinct from its Cuban counterpart.

Both helped stir public sentiment in favor of the Cuban Junta and against the Spanish and are seen as two of the principal triggers of the Spanish-American War.

American sentiment favored the Cuban rebels and President Grant appeared to be on the verge of acknowledging Cuban belligerency.

Though the United States had been a dominant force in Cuban politics since 1898 causing anti-American sentiment among the educated, the U. S. presence was lessened under Brú.

When King Amadeus finally had the bill in his desk, which would extend the 1837 Abolition Act to the Antilles, he was put on notice of a coup financed by Cuban plantationers and industrialists if he signed.

When Spain opened the Cuban trade ports, it quickly became a popular place.

When the Cuban government accused the United States of stealing water, base commander John D. Bulkeley ordered that the pipelines be cut and a section removed.

: 2010 Eric G. Swedin, When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

When the Ten Years ' War broke out in Cuba in 1868, clubs of supporters for the Cuban nationalist cause formed all over Cuba, and José and his friend Fermín joined them.

When over Cuba the drone will begin transmitting on the international distress frequency a " MAY DAY " message stating he is under attack by Cuban MIG aircraft.

* When U. S. troops captured his mansion in Baghdad, they found a personal zoo stocked with lions and cheetahs ; an underground parking garage for his collection of luxury cars ; paintings glorifying him and his mother with Saddam ( which was known to have infuriated his father ); Cuban cigars inscribed with his name ; and millions of dollars worth of fine wines, liquor and heroin.

When André arrives back in Washington, he finds his home empty: his wife deserted him due to his Cuban love interest and returned to Paris.

" When Cuban leader Fidel Castro, was asked in the early 2000s what was the difference between democracy in Cuba and democracy in the United States, Castro reportedly replied, " I don't have to answer questions from Helen Thomas.

When the Posadists split from the Fourth International in 1962 they took the Cuban section with them leaving meaning no other Trotskyist group was represented in Cuba in the 1960s.

When it failed to provide a cargo manifest, Cuban officials seized the ship, its cargo, and its crew.

When the United States entered the Spanish – American War in 1898, Boyce set sail for Cuban waters aboard the ship Three Friends.

When Cuban President Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar was eventually overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1959, the mob had to look elsewhere for a landing and storage facility for their narcotics shipments.

When the Spanish army withdrew in defeat in 1821 after the decisive Battle of Carabobo in present day Venezuela, López, who had fought at Carabobo, left with them as did many other battle survivors including Calixto Garcia de Luna e Izquierdo, who would be grandfather of Cuban Independence major general Calixto Garcia.

When the aircraft were performing a Cuban 8, alternate pilot Wayne MacLellan recognized that he was too low to the ground and aborted the manoeuvre.

When handled, Cuban tree frogs secrete a toxic mucus from their skin.

William M. LeoGrande, in a paper written for the Cuba Transition Project at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami, wrote of the 1992 election law: " unprecedented openness in debate, not just among party members, but also among the entire populace, so as to foster greater participation and build ' the necessary consensus ' for the government's policy response ... Eventually, some three million people participated in the pre-Congress discussions ", but " When the new electoral law was finalized … it dashed any hopes for a significant opening to alternative voices.

When asked about the modification of his novel in the film adaptation, Hijuelos said, " My only concern was that the Cuban culture be treated with respect and the music be authentic and accurate to the period.

When the SWP moved away from Trotskyism in the early 1980s, a faction fight broke out in the RWL between supporters of the SWP and supporters of a Trotskyist position over the issue of Leon Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution and the nature of the Cuban Revolution.

When the Cuban government offered to sentence the 12 persons implicated in crimes ( purportedly boat theft, kidnapping, and assaulting federal officers ) to 10 years in prison, the United States agreed to return them.

When the Peruvian ambassador refused to return the exiled citizens to the authorities, Castro removed the Cuban guards from the embassy, basically opening the door to the 4, 000 plus asylum seekers that came into the embassy within the next few days.

When the Cuban Missile Crisis begins, they ask their guests to leave, and they head down into the shelter.

When living as a student in Europe, she claims to have engaged in the black market between East and West, running Cuban rum, smuggling jewels from the Soviet Union and laundering East Bloc currencies.

The dethroning of queen Isabel II meant a vacuum that was profited by the Bank of New York and some Cubans opposed to the projected extension of the 1837 Abolition Act to finance a Texas style " independence " revolution known as the Cuban 10 Years War ( 1868 – 78 ) lost by the Cubans.

" In July 1994, 41 Cubans drowned attempting to flee the country aboard a tugboat ; the Cuban government was later accused of sinking the vessel deliberately.

By 2006, only two elderly Cubans still crossed the base's North East Gate daily to work on the base, because the Cuban government prohibits new recruitment.

After the Cuban Revolution, some Cubans sought refuge on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.

In the fall of 1961, Cuban troops planted an barrier of Opuntia cactus along the northeastern section of the fence surrounding the base to stop Cubans from escaping Cuba to take refuge in the United States.

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.

* 1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123, 000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.

The island was in a terrible economic depression, and Spanish general Valeriano Weyler, sent to crush the rebellion, herded Cuban peasants into concentration camps, leading hundreds of Cubans to their deaths.

On 7 April the Cuban government granted permission for the emigration of Cubans seeking refuge in the Peruvian embassy.

* November 2 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123, 000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.

Further, his intelligence-gathering efforts on Spanish troop dispositions and equipment was extremely meagre, though he had a number of sources available to him, including reconnaissance reports by Cuban rebel forces as well as espionage obtained from indigenous Cubans.

The result of this monitoring has been a conclusion that there is no systematic legal policy of the Cuban government to persecute those Cubans who have been returned.

Cubans | Cuban school girls in their uniforms.

They were not ' golden years ' by any means, but in two elections ( 1944 and 1948 ), Cubans has the opportunity to express their desire for a rule of civil liberties, primacy of Cuban culture, and achievement of economic independence.

If there were sharp contradictions in Cuban society under the Autenticos, the circumstances differed only in degree from the complexities and dynamics encountered in free societies everywhere ( how often did Cubans compare Havana with Chicago?

Rumba became more accepted among Cubans and was a recognized cultural expression that identified as a part of the Cuban people.

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.

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.

Back in New York Martí joined General Calixto García's Cuban revolutionary committee, made up of exiled & disheveled Cubans who wanted independence for Cuba.

In his pamphlet from February 11, 1873, called " The Spanish Republic and the Cuban Revolution ", he argued that " Cubans do not live as Spaniards live (...).

At his point he refined his ideological platform, basing it on a Cuba held together by pride in being Cuban, a society that ensured " the welfare, and prosperity of all Cubans ".

The Cuban Revolutionary Party's ' Bases and Statutes ' aimed at: 1 ) Winning absolute independence for Cuba and aiding that of Puerto Rico ; 2 ) ordering a ' generous and brief war ' that would ensure peace and happiness for all Cuba's inhabitants ; 3 ) organizing this war so that it should be ' republican in spirit and methods ', and lead to a society fulfilling ' in the historical life of the continent '; 4 ) ensuring that no ' authoritarian spirit and bureaucratic make-up of the colony ' would exist in the new Cuba ; 5 ) preventing any one particular group from having more power than other groups ; 6 ) creating a harmonious fatherland with economic prosperity ensured by allowing outlets for the economic activities of all its inhabitants ; 7 ) maintaining friendly relations with the U. S .; and, 8 ) bringing the above intentions through a set of concrete aims: to unite all Cubans living abroad, to bring together all factions inside and outside of Cuba, to prepare inside Cuba the knowledge and spirit of the revolution, to collect funds, to establish relations with friendly peoples to accelerate the success of the war, and finally, to organize the Cuban Revolutionary Party according to the secret rules agreed upon by the founding organizations.