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.

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 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.

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.

Portuondo and other Bacardí family members initially supported the Cuban revolutionaries, including Fidel Castro and the broader M-26-7 movement: Bosch personally donated tens of thousands of dollars to the movement, and acted as an intermediary between the revolutionaries and the CIA to assuage the latter's concerns.

Arnaz, Jr. played the drums and, supported by the SNL band, Desi sang both " Babalu " and another favorite from his dance band days, " Cuban Pete "; the arrangements were similar to the ones used on I Love Lucy.

Demonstrating independence from the U. S., Mexico supported the Cuban government since its establishment in the early 1960s, the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua during the late 1970s, and leftist revolutionary groups in El Salvador during the 1980s.

American attempts to overthrow the Castro regime with the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion by Cuban exiles supported by the CIA failed.

After beating back several waves of Grenadian and Cuban troops supported by BTR-60s, the SEALs decided that their position at the radio tower was untenable.

After an attack against Fidel Castro's Communist forces at the Bay of Pigs, Stevenson unwittingly disputed allegations that the attack was financed and supported by the Central Intelligence Agency, claiming instead that the anti-Communist forces were supported by dissident Cuban émigrés.

Accordingly, both Zaire and China covertly funneled aid to the FNLA ( and later, UNITA ) in order to prevent the MPLA, who were supported and augmented by Cuban forces, from coming to power.

During the Cuban missile crisis he supported diplomatic efforts.

In the 1960s, under the leadership of Chairman Mehdi Ben Barka, the Cuban Tricontinental Conference ( Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America ) recognised and supported the validity of revolutionary anti-colonialism as a means for colonised peoples of the Third World to achieve their self-determination, which policy angered the U. S. and France.

In the latter post, which he held from 1960 to 1963, he supported United States resolve in the Cuban Missile Crisis and was the United Kingdom's signatory of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in August 1963.

President Kennedy supported the statement made by Stevenson: " I have emphasized before that this was a struggle of Cuban patriots against a Cuban dictator.

By about 10: 30 on 18 April, Cuban troops and militia, supported by tanks, took Playa Larga after Brigade forces had fled towards Girón in the early hours.

Here Martí supported Cuban independence freely.

Gompers, who had ties with the Cuban cigar workers in the U. S .. called for American intervention in Cuba ; he supported the resulting war with Spain in 1898.

The SWP had supported the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro.

Cuban financially supported Grokster in the Supreme Court case, MGM v. Grokster.

Ros-Lehtinen has defended former fugitive Velentin Hernández, convicted of murdering Luciano Nieves, a fellow Cuban exile who supported negotiations with the Cuban government, In the 1980s Ros-Lehtinen lobbied for the release and pardon of Cuban exile Orlando Bosch, who had been convicted of terrorist acts and has also been accused of involvement in the 1976 bombing of Cubana Flight 455, which killed 73 people, helping organize an " Orlando Bosch day " to gain support for his release.

Between November 1975 and January 4, 1976, the Cabinda exclave was invaded by soldiers of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ), which was one of the dominant independence movements in Angola, supported by Cuban troops.

They also carried out operations in support of UNITA rebels in Angola and against the Cuban troops that supported the Angolan government.

In September, 1960 he joined a group of Cuban exiles in Guatemala, supported by the CIA, to receive military training.