In Havana it was criticized for showing a rather stereotypical view of Cubans, whilst in Moscow it was considered naïve, not revolutionary enough, even too sympathetic to the lives of the bourgeois pre-Fidel classes.

Despite this, and even as Castro's rebels began to overthrow Havana two years later, Trafficante was heard to insist that the revolution was, " a temporary storm " that would " blow over.

Other plots to assassinate Castro that are ascribed to the CIA include, among others: poisoning his cigars ( a box of the lethal smokes was actually prepared and delivered to Havana ); exploding seashells to be planted at a scuba diving site ; a gift diving wetsuit impregnated with noxious bacteria and mould spores, or with lethal chemical agents ; infecting Castro's scuba regulator apparatus with tuberculous bacilli ; dousing his handkerchiefs, his tea, and his coffee with other lethal bacteria ; having a former lover slip him poison pills ; and exposing him to various other poisoned items such as a fountain pen and even ice cream.

After the Cuban revolution of early 1959, Hemingway was on good terms with the Cuban government, and even officially presented a trophy in Havana in the summer of 1960 to Castro, for winning a sport fishing contest named for Hemingway.

He may have been born in 1908 in the Jesús María district of Havana or in Tampa, 1909 in the Marianao Beach district of Havana or in Tampa, 1912 in Tampa or Havana, or even 1915 in Havana.

The broadcast said Anderson, a Seattle ex-marine and Havana businessman, and McNair, of Miami, were condemned on charges of smuggling arms to Cuban rebels.

Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.

The name of Cuba itself, Havana, Camagüey, and many others were derived from the neo-Taíno language, and Indian words such as tobacco, hurricane and canoe were transferred to English and are used today.

After the upgrading of Seville's public bus fleet to CNG-powered and new vehicles, many of the decommissioned ones were donated to the city of Havana.

One afternoon, a group of off-duty soldiers from the U. S. Signal Corps were gathered in a bar in Old Havana.

Although most of them disappeared in a shipwreck near La Havana, approximately 70 copies reached Lima, from where they were sent to Cuzco in the heart of the defunct Inca Empire.

Plans were developed for the Davis government to flee to Havana, Cuba.

After Havana, Prado moved his music to Mexico, where his music and the dance were adopted.

An early indication of the central role that the DGI would play in the Cuban-Nicaraguan relationship is a meeting in Havana on July 27, 1979, at which diplomatic ties between the two countries were re-established after more than 25 years.

Many troops from North America were reassigned to participate in further British actions in the West Indies, including the capture of Spanish Havana when Spain belatedly entered the conflict on the side of France, and a British expedition against French Martinique in 1762.

During the occupation of Havana by British forces between August 1762 and July 1763, quantities of Cuban or Havanna mahogany were sent to Britain, and after the city was restored to Spain in 1763 small quantities continue to be exported, mostly to small ports on the north coast of Jamaica, from where it was sent to Britain.

Gold and silver from the mines in the New Granada and Peru were loaded in Cartagena on the galleons bound for Spain via Havana.

During an initial three-month stay at Havana, his first tasks were to properly survey that city and the nearby towns of Guanabacoa, Regla and Bejucal.

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?

The concept of clave as a form of music theory with its accompanying terminology, was fully developed during the big band era of the 1940s, when dance bands in Havana and New York City were enlarged.

The bands that were playing in Havana had meanwhile, been steadily evolving into something quite distinctly Cuban, and less like salsa.

They were also seen by President William McKinley in Savannah, Georgia before being sent to Cuba for occupation duties near Havana.

The remaining applicant cities — Havana, Istanbul, Leipzig and Rio de Janeiro — were eliminated.

" Earlier, on 12 September 1731, Rear Admiral Stewart had written to the Governor of Havana to complain of the " violence and villainies " of a Guarda Costa commander named Fandino who, " about the 20th April last sailed out of your harbor in one of those Guarda Costas, and met a ship of this island bound for England ; and after using the captain in a most barbarous inhuman manner, taking all his money, cutting off one of his ears, plundering him of those necessaries which were to carry the ship safe home ...".

His first ten bouts were in Havana, and then he had one in Cienfuegos, but soon he returned to Havana for three more wins.

Canseco was born in Havana, Cuba, and left Cuba with his cousins and family when he and his identical twin brother were infants.

Nevertheless, days before the invasion, multiple acts of sabotage were carried out, such as the El Encanto fire, an arson attack in a department store in Havana on 13 April, that killed one shop worker.

On 18 July 2007 it was reported that Cuba will receive 100 urban buses from Belarus before years end, destined for use in Havana.

Former President Uribe has criticized Santos for seeking peace " at any cost " and rejected the idea of holding talks .< Ref > http :// www. aljazeera. com / news / americas / 2012 / 08 / 20128280155953340. html </ ref > Telesur reported that FARC and the Colombian government had signed a preliminary agreement in Havana the same day.

The late " Havana Moon " reported in his own publication " The Numbers Factsheet " in October 1990 that " one particularly dangerous station has been interfering with air to ground traffic on 6577kHz, a frequency allocated to international aeronautical communications in the busy Caribbean sector ".

The reported organizer of the Havana Conference was crime boss Lucky Luciano.

Five months after his death in November 2007 the New York Times reported he succumbed to lung cancer at a hospital in Havana, Cuba.

70 mph ( 110 km / h ) gusts were reported as far east as Boyeros Airport in the capital of Havana, along with a lowest recorded pressure of 979 mbar ( hPa ); however, no information on wind speeds in far western Cuba was available due to the relatively small size of the storm and the sparse population of the region.

Havana ’ s International Center for Neurological Restoration reported at the American Neurological Association meeting in October 2002 that two years after undergoing a bilateral dorsal subthalamotomy, 17 Cuban patients improved by an average of 50 % on movement tests, and they could dramatically reduce their daily ingestion of the Parkinson ’ s drug Levodopa.

On June 10, a weather station in Havana reported a minimum air pressure of 1002 mbar ( hPa ; 29. 59 inHg ); however, the minimum pressure of the system itself is unknown.

Routes that have benefited most so far are those from Havana to each of the 13 provincial capitals of the country.

" Havana openly advocates armed revolution as the only means for leftist forces to gain power in Latin America, and the Cubans have played an important role in facilitating the movement of men and weapons into the region.

Although they have been used on a limited basis to create other breeds ( such as the Havana Brown ) or add type to a breed in creation ( the Nebelung ), Russian Blues themselves are short-haired, blue-gray cats.

Tresillo, the habanera, and related African-based single-celled figures have long been heard in the left hand part of piano compositions by New Orleans musicians, for example — Louis Moreau Gottschalk (" Souvenirs From Havana " 1859 ), and Jelly Roll Morton (" The Crave " 1910 ).

The nearness to Havana or Santiago would add credibility especially to those people that might have heard the blast or have seen the fire.

Since the 1960s, several generations of guitar performers, professors and composers have been formed under the Cuban Guitar School at educational institutions such as the Havana Municipal Conservatory, the National School of Arts, and the Instituto Superior de Arte.

:" The women of Havana have a furious taste for dancing ; they spend entire nights elevated, agitated, crazy and pouring sweat until they fall spent.

His " Thirty truculent tongue-twisters ", which he claims circulated in Havana and which are reprinted in " The Color of Summer ", mock everyone from personal friends who he suggests may have spied on him to figures such as Nicolás Guillén, Alejo Carpentier, Miguel Barnet, Sarduy and of course Fidel himself.

Similarly, the Havana Hopewell tradition was thought to have spread up the Illinois River and into southwestern Michigan, spawning Goodall Hopewell.

The airline struggled throughout the early 1990s, however financial assistance from the Cayman Islands Government, financial re-structuring, a new fleet and the addition of new destinations ( Chicago, Boston, Fort Lauderdale and Havana ) seems to have helped the airline.

While the aim was to produce a series to distribute to the entirety of Latin America, the company halted production after six months due to unforeseen production difficulties ( At the time, Mexican television programming was scarce and often improvised, unlike the American-influenced Cuban market, apart from the fact that Mexican broadcasters weren't interested in foreign production ) and market considerations ( Until 1960, most South American countries did not have television services or supermarkets — by 1953, the only ones in the region were located in Havana -).

For some time, Muir appears to have regained his liberty in Havana, for he spoke to several American merchants explaining his plight.

Located on Havana's Avenida Infanta, the offices of Radio Havana Cuba share a facility with two other renowned national stations that have contributed greatly to the history of Cuban radio broadcasting: Radio Progreso and CMBF, Radio Musical Nacional.

While the breed developed in the UK became the Chestnut Brown Oriental and retained the Siamese conformation, it was developed in the USA to have a different head shape and became the Havana Brown.

The most likely explanation of the breed's name is that its coat color is very similar to that of Havana cigars, however, some have also argued that the breed's name is also derived from the Havana ( rabbit ) which also shares the color.

The term was used as the title of a 1948 photograph of an American tourist in Havana by the Cuban photographer Constantino Arias ( see infobox above ), but seems to have entered popular culture as the title of a 1958 book by authors William Lederer and Eugene Burdick.

The Havana Conference is considered to have been the most important mob summit since the Atlantic City Conference of 1929.

The film The Godfather Part II has an homage to the Havana Conference when Michael Corleone travels to Havana to have a meeting with several other mob bosses.

The narrative consists of the childhood and youth of José Cemí, told in a highly baroque experimental style, and depicts many scenes which have remarkable resonances with Lezama's own life as a young poet in Havana.

Cuba maintains that the head of the US Special Interests section in Havana, James Cason has given money, gifts and support to dissidents in Cuba, associated with the Varela Project, and that: " For these reasons, a few dozen persons directly linked to the conspiratorial activities headed by James Cason have been arrested by the relevant authorities and will be brought to trial.

Solo exhibitions of his works have been held in Helsinki, Finland, 1962 ; the Galleria H. Diafragma Canon, Milan, Italy, 1985 ; Galería Servando Cabrera, Havana, 1986 ; Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, 2000 ; COEX, Seoul, Korea, 2011.