The same can be said about the half-hearted Cuban invasion mounted by the administration last April, which, we trust, is not symptomatic of the methods to be invoked in holding off the felonious Khrushchev.

Young of the Cuban tree frog ( Osteopilus septentrionalis ) can occasionally be cannibalistic, the younger tadpoles attacking a larger, more developed tadpole when it is undergoing metamorphosis.

The usually nocturnal Cuban tree frog ( Osteopilus septentrionalis ) produces a rain call when there is rainfall during daylight hours.

A prominent family with this surname is the Cuban noble family that was involved in Cuban real estate prior to the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

In the American, Pacific, and both Cuban leagues, there is a tenth player, a designated hitter, who bats for the pitcher.

* Ivan, one of the protagonists of the historical novel by the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura Fuentes, El hombre que amaba a los perros ( The Man Who Loved Dogs ), is the editor of a university journal of veterinary medicine, who manages to make a living during the Special Period in Cuba by helping people take care of their dogs.

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

The prosperity seen from the boom in sugar production is a major reason that Cuban ethnicity became further enriched by new influx of Spanish migrants.

The economy of Cuba is a largely centrally planned economy dominated by state-run enterprises overseen by the Cuban government, though there remains significant foreign investment and private enterprise in Cuba.

While the rail infrastructure dates from colonial and early republican times, passenger service along the principal Havana to Santiago corridor is increasingly reliable and popular with tourists who can purchase tickets in Cuban convertible pesos.

The AstroBus lines operate with modern Chinese YUTONG buses, and are accessible to Cuban Residents of Cuba with their ID Card, and is payable in Cuba Pesos.

Like other countries in Oceania, Solomon Islands is a beneficiary of Cuban medical aid ; bilateral relations between Havana and Honiara must be viewed within the scope of Cuba's regional policy in Oceania.

Like other countries in Oceania, Tuvalu is a beneficiary of Cuban medical aid ; bilateral relations between Funafuti and Havana must be viewed within the scope of Cuba's regional policy in Oceania.

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

The situation in Cuba is so exceptional as to require the Cuban peso to be dealt with simply as an exception, since the United States forbids direct trade with Cuba.

This invasion is sometimes known as Shaba I. Mobutu had to request assistance, which was provided by Morocco in the form of regular troops who routed the MPLA and their Cuban advisors out of Katanga.

* 1961 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.

The Cuban government opposes the presence of the naval base, claiming that the lease is invalid under international law as it was not a sovereign nation at the time.

This is completely distinct from Cuban radio callsigns, which typically begin with CL, CM, CO, or T4.

" Cactus Curtain " is a term describing the line separating the naval base from Cuban controlled territory.

There is some controversy over whether the Cuban Ivory-billed Woodpecker is more appropriately recognized as a separate species.

Additionally, as an admirer of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, Sankara set up Cuban-style Committees for the Defense of the Revolution ( CDRs ).

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.

Cuban author and historian Carlos Franqui suggests otherwise in his book, Family Portrait With Fidel.

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.

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.