The White House itself has taken steps to remove a former Batista official, Col. Mariano Faget, from his preposterous position as interrogator of Cuban refugees for the Immigration Service.

Somehow, the pictures and stories of Soviet T-34 tanks on Cuban beaches and Russian Mig jet fighters strafing rebel troops has brought home to all of us the stark, blunt truth of what it means to have a Russian military base 90 miles away from home.

Section 211 has been challenged unsuccessfully by the Cuban government and the European Union in US courts ; however, the act has been ruled illegal by the WTO ( August 2001 ).

Bacardi in the UK, despite having no business ties ( in terms of production ) to Cuba today, has decided to re-emphasize its Cuban heritage in recent years.

Havana Club is owned by the Cuban government and has a business joint venture with the French company Pernod Ricard.

Apart from a brief period in the 1990s, however, the Castro government has forbidden the sale of Cuban vehicles to foreigners.

" 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.

According to the US, the Cuban Government has taken no action against al-Qaida or other terrorist groups.

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

However, since the Cuban Revolution, the government under Fidel Castro has cashed only one of these checks.

The Cuban government has not removed its corresponding minefield outside the perimeter.

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.

The last reported sighting of the Cuban subspecies ( C. p. bairdii ), after a long interval, was in 1987 ; it has not been seen since.

* 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.

Wenders has directed several highly acclaimed documentaries, most notably Buena Vista Social Club ( 1999 ), about Cuban musicians, and The Soul of a Man ( 2003 ), on American blues.

** Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.

Her father has Cuban ancestry.

Mahogany is still widely used for fine furniture ; however, the rarity of Cuban mahogany and over harvesting of Honduras and Brazilian mahogany has diminished their use.

Hostility between Cuba and the United States has been persistent since soon after the Cuban Revolution.

U. S. policy has evolved into the current " wet feet, dry feet " rule: If a Cuban is picked up at sea or walking toward shore, he / she will be repatriated by force.

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.

The clock has not always been set and reset as quickly as events occur ; the closest nuclear war threat, the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, reached crisis, climax, and resolution before it could be set to reflect that possible doomsday.

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 ".

Emilio Bacardí, Don Facundo's eldest son, was repeatedly imprisoned and was exiled from Cuba for having fought in the rebel army against Spain in the Cuban War of Independence.

In addition to these topics of special interest to cigar smokers, the interview touched upon bilateral relations between the United States and Cuba, during the course of which Castro accused the United States of repeatedly " moving the goalposts back " for ending the Cuban economic embargo and claimed that " no other country has as unblemished behavior about human rights " as Cuba.

Southern-backed filibusters, including Narciso López, had failed repeatedly to overthrow the colonial government despite considerable support among the Cuban people for independence, and a series of reforms on the island made Southerners apprehensive that slavery would be abolished, leading to Cuba's " Africanization.

Terms like " cojones " were repeatedly used by the Cuban fighter pilots.

" In a reference to the Cuban MiG pilot's understanding that the aircraft they were attacking were the same ones that had been repeatedly and continuously flying off Cuba's coast, they also transmitted the following, " He won't give us any more fucking trouble.

This bombing campaign would continue until 1980 with the embassy and the Cuban consulate in Montreal being repeatedly attacked.

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 also previously expressed interest in becoming a minority owner of the New York Mets after owner Fred Wilpon announced in 2011 that he was planning to sell up to a 25 % stake in the team.

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.

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.

While it remained unchanged in its forms, there was a steady decline in interest among the Cuban youth.

In the 1960s, Boise Cascade acquired a majority interest in the Cuban Electric Co., the primary electric utility in pre-Castro Cuba.

In 1995, Cuban and fellow Indiana University alumnus Todd Wagner started Audionet, combining their mutual interest in Indiana Hoosier college basketball and webcasting.

DealBook, a section of The New York Times, reported through an anonymous source that Cuban believed the investigation was motivated by an SEC employee having taken offense to his interest in possibly distributing the film Loose Change.

In the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution and his appointment as Prime Minister of Cuba, Castro began to take a more active interest in the development of his political ideals.

The success of both the album and film sparked a revival of international interest in traditional Cuban music and Latin American music in general.

Of interest to scuba divers is a 330-foot ( 100-m ) Russian Koni class frigate built in the Soviet Union in 1984 for the Cuban Navy.

Lansky quickly suggested that Luciano purchase a $ 150, 000 interest in the Hotel Nacional, a plush casino and hotel owned by Lansky and his silent partner, Cuban president Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar.

Barnes has encouraged the SWP's growing interest in the Cuban Communist Party.

2929 holds a significant interest in HDNet, which Cuban co-founded in 2001 as an all-high definition cable channel.

However, whilst there has been much academic and media interest in Cuban hip hop, few Cuban groups have managed to be heard outside of the island.

Vidali ’ s interest in Modotti is believed to be related to the killing of her then current lover, Cuban communist Julio Antonio Mella, a founder of the Comintern version of the Communist Party of Cuba ( Tennant, 1999 ).

Nestor's love ballad captures the interest of one of the customers, who turns out to be the Cuban bandleader and American television star Desi Arnaz ( played by his son, Desi Arnaz, Jr .).

He first travelled to Spain in 1924 on a concert tour with violinist Marta de la Torre ; his successful piano recitals in 1928 at Paris coincided with a rise in interest in Cuban music.

Along with the latest two and with former congressman Lincoln Díaz-Balart, he has developed initiatives and activities in favour of Cuban democracy, a subject in which he shows interest as well.

Most of his interest in the Mavericks has since been sold to Mark Cuban.