During Angola's civil war Cuban forces fought to install a Marxist-Leninist MPLA-PT government, against Western-backed UNITA and FLNA guerrillas and the South-African army.

The Havana Club trademark had been registered by the Cuban government in the United States without permission of the rightful owners.

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 ).

The Cuban government in partnership with French company Pernod Ricard, sells its Havana Club internationally, except for the United States and its territories.

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

However, in October 2004, the Cuban government announced an end to this policy: from November US dollars would no longer be legal tender in Cuba, but would instead be exchanged for convertible pesos ( since April 2005 at the exchange rate of $ 1. 08 ) with a 10 % tax payable to the state on the exchange of US dollars cash — though not on other forms of exchange.

" 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.

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.

The Cuban government sets most prices and rations goods to citizens.

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.

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

The Cuban government supported and still supports the Republican cause, but opposed the attacks which took place on civilian targets by Sinn Féin's military ally, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and of course attacks on civilians by their loyalist enemies such as the Ulster Volunteer Force and Ulster Defence Association.

Air Force General Curtis LeMay presented a pre-invasion bombing plan to Kennedy in September, while spy flights and minor military harassment from US forces at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base were the subject of continual Cuban diplomatic complaints to the US government.

A variety of factors contributed: social and economic injustice and racism against the indigenous population, the 1954 coup which reversed reforms, weak civilian control of the military, the United States support of the government, and Cuban support of the insurgents.

The U. S. continues to send monthly checks for the inflation-adjusted lease amount ($ 4, 085 ) to the Cuban government.

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

The Cuban government says this was only done because of " confusion " in the heady early days of the revolution, while the U. S. government maintains that the cashing constitutes an official validation of the treaty.

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.

In 1964, the Cuban government stopped the flow.

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.

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

* 1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

The constitution states that all legally recognized civil liberties can be denied to anyone who opposes the decision of the Cuban people to build socialism.

* The Cuban Missile Crisis ( October 1962 ) – a near-military confrontation between the U. S. and the Soviet Union about the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

In March, the Cuban government allowed Spanish Police to travel to Cuba to confirm the presence of suspected ETA members.

In the Canary Islands, Isa, a local kind of Jota, is now popular, and Latin American musical ( Cuban ) influences are quite widespread, especially in the presence of the charango ( a kind of guitar ).

The presence of Cuban planes or ships merely investigating the intent of the vessel could be fairly compelling evidence that the ship was taken under attack.

His four-star military rank, experience at Strategic Air Command and presence advising President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis were considered foreign-policy assets to the Wallace campaign.

At the same time, Kapuściński never revealed in his public reporting on the Angolan conflict the presence in Angola of Cuban " instructors " and the participation of units of Cuban soldiers in the armed combat on the side of the MPLA ( making only veiled references to the fact with expressions like, " the MPLA is not bereft of all support "), while at the same time expatiating on the Egyptian, Portuguese, and South African mercenaries fighting on the side of FNLA and UNITA.

Cámpora assumed his functions on 25 May 1973, in the presence of Chilean President Salvador Allende and Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticós.

He remained steadfast in South Africa's administration of the neighbouring territory South-West Africa, particularly while there was a presence of Cuban troops in Angola to the north.

However, the U. S. government soon discovered Luciano's presence in Havana and pressured the Cuban government to expel him.

In addition to the spread of recorded Cuban music, the presence of Cuban troops allied with the Marxist MPLA movement helped to popularize Cuban rhythms.

It can also be said that to some extent Castroism influenced those communist governments that took control in Western and Southern Africa, particularly in Angola and Congo-Kinshasa due in part to the presence of Cuban troops and officials in those countries for many years.

* October 14-A U. S. Air Force Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance flight over Cuba reveals the presence of launchpads for medium-range ballistic missiles, triggering the Cuban Missile Crisis.

One wonders why the Carter Administration fails to see any threatening pattern in the Soviet presence, by way of Cuban proxies, in so much of Africa, which is the source of minerals absolutely essential to the industrialized democracies of Japan, Western Europe, and the U. S. We are self-sufficient in only 5 of the 27 minerals important to us industrially and strategically, and so the security of our resource life line is essential.

Then there is the Soviet, Cuban and East German presence in Ethiopia, South Yemen, and now the invasion and subjugation of Afghanistan.

Many famous people from the continent came to the island to film, and some leading Cuban actors had a strong presence mainly in Mexico and Argentina.

But the Cuban governor, Luis de las Casas, was so afraid that their presence there provoked a massive black insurrection in that island, that he pressured the Spanish government to throw them out of his colony.

On July 23, 1898, Lieutenant John Heard anchored his force at the mouth of the Mani-Mani River and began unloading supplies intended for the Cuban insurgents operating in northwestern Cuba, unaware that the Spanish had discovered his presence and assembled a large force of cavalry in the environs.

Disgruntled Cuban generals who early had taken their troops into the interior and posed a threat to the U. S. presence were invited by Lawton to participate in local government and in fact, became quite instrumental in establishing and protecting the peace.

East Germany's state television newscast, Aktuelle Kamera, reported on the ceremony and the unveiling of a bust of Ernst Thälmann on 18 August 1972 in the presence of the GDR ambassador, some East German delegates, and approximately 100 Cuban representatives.

The Sino-Soviet ideological dispute, the Soviet Union's repressive interventions in Czechoslovakia and other Warsaw Pact countries, the presence of the Cuban Revolution in Latin America, and the emergent global student movement inspired in the humanist socialism of the Frankfurt School and the New Left ( by the time of the early opposition to the Vietnam War ) were main ideological issues that the traditional Chilean left ( the Socialist Party and the Communist Party ) had to deal with amid their relative political stagnation in the beginning of the 1960s.

" This was at the peak of the Cuban Missile crisis, where the United States and the Soviet Union came alarmingly close to nuclear war over the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.