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 Canadian government in response issued a crackdown on the FLQ and suspended civil liberties in Quebec, forcing the FLQ leadership to flee to exile in Cuba where the Cuban government accepted their entry.

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.

While declaring their support to the Cuban and the leftist Nicaraguan governments, they were more critical of the Castroist and Sandinista leadership.

The Able Archer 83 exercise in November 1983, a realistic simulation of a coordinated NATO nuclear release, has been called most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis, as the Soviet leadership keeping a close watch on it considered a nuclear attack to be imminent.

The two American Trotskyists came to the conclusion to fully support the Cuban Revolution and the leadership of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.

Writing in 2007, the British Trotskyist group Permanent Revolution characterised the RCG's position as being " distinctive on the British left by their open espousal of left Stalinism, which essentially consists of an uncritical support for the leadership of anti-imperialist struggles, an uncritical support for the Cuban regime, a completely undemocratic internal structure, an active participation in anti-racist struggles and complete rejection of any united front work within the British labour movement, trade unions or Labour Party.

Some Trotskyist groups such as Socialist Action, while having some disagreements with the Cuban leadership, consider Cuba a healthy workers ' state.

Soviet leadership started the deployment of nuclear missiles in the belief that Washington would not detect the Cuban missile sites until it was too late to do anything about them.

As head of GRU, Serov was a player in the Cuban Missile Crisis, helping the Soviet leadership with American intelligence.

On New Year's Day, 1959, it seemed that the College would be able to continue on with its program in Cuba as the new Cuban leadership allowed it to operate with no restrictions.

Thirteen Days is a 2000 docudrama directed by Roger Donaldson about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, seen from the perspective of the US political leadership.

This project, called Consolidating and Strengthening Cuban Managerial Capabilities, is to be implemented under the leadership of EFMD together with ESADE, a business school in Barcelona, and the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education.

In the late 1970s Breitman opposed what he saw as a growing fixation of the SWP's top leadership on the Castroist leadership of the Cuban Communist Party.

Until the Cuban fiasco and the Communist military victories in Laos, almost any observer would have said that President Kennedy had blended a program that respected, generally, the opinions voiced both by Mr. Nixon and the professors.

Hours after a parade of his new Soviet tanks and artillery, Dictator Fidel Castro suddenly confronted the U.S. with a blunt and drastic demand: within 48 hours, the U.S. had to reduce its embassy and consulate staffs in Cuba to a total of eleven persons ( the embassy staff alone totaled 87 U.S. citizens, plus 120 Cuban employees ).

When King Amadeus finally had the bill in his desk, which would extend the 1837 Abolition Act to the Antilles, he was put on notice of a coup financed by Cuban plantationers and industrialists if he signed.

However, due to concerns over the previous Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista the company had started foreign branches a few years prior to the revolution ; the Company moved the ownership of the Company's trademarks, assets and proprietary formulas out of the country to the Bahamas prior to the revolution as well as constructing plants in Puerto Rico and Mexico after the prohibition era to save in import taxes for rum being imported to the US.

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

The Cuban packages scandal revealed arms smuggling from the Communist Cuba to Chile ; Allende – surrounded by KGB advisors – had turned Chile into a center for Soviet operations in Latin America.

Regarding relations with New Zealand, Cuban ambassador Jose Luis Robaina Garcia said his country had " admiration for New Zealand's independent foreign policy ".

The United States had been embarrassed publicly by the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961, which had been launched under President John F. Kennedy by CIA-trained forces of Cuban exiles.

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.

The air force had over 150 combat aircraft with about 7, 000 officers who were watched over by an estimated 5, 000 Cuban and Czechoslovak advisers.

They claim that the underlying economic motivation eroded any claims of moral superiority, leaving the hostile acts in ( Korea, Hungary, Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Nicaragua ) to stand on their own in justifying the human lives the conflicts had destroyed.

* 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.

By the time people began to talk about rock and roll as having a history, Cuban music had vanished from North American consciousness.

Beginning in 1967, the Cuban General Intelligence Directorate, or DGI, had begun to establish ties with various Nicaraguan revolutionary organizations.

Virginius was flying the United States flag and had an American registry ; the US did not at first realize it was secretly owned by Cuban insurgents.

* October 17 – The remains of Che Guevara are laid to rest with full military honours in a specially built mausoleum in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba, where he had won the decisive battle of the Cuban Revolution 39 years before.

** U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the use of $ 1. 0 million for the relief and resettlement of Cuban refugees, who had been arriving in Florida at the rate of about 1, 000 per week.

Involving himself in armed rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he concluded that the U. S .- backed Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, who was widely seen as a dictator, had to be overthrown ; to this end he led a failed armed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953.

Further, his intelligence-gathering efforts on Spanish troop dispositions and equipment was extremely meagre, though he had a number of sources available to him, including reconnaissance reports by Cuban rebel forces as well as espionage obtained from indigenous Cubans.

Guevara had appeared in the Congo with approximately 100 men who planned to bring about a Cuban style revolution.

* The war led to a 22-year suspension of the Central American Common Market, a regional integration project that had been set up by the United States largely as a means of counteracting the effects of the Cuban Revolution.

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 ".

According to him, the Sandinistas had won power in July 1979 with the assistance of massive, covert Cuban military aid.

Prior to the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Cuba maintained strong economic and political ties to the United States.

In all three games the strong Cuban female team lead by Regla Torres and Mireya Luis won the Gold medal.

But all Khrushchev's ( probably sincere ) attempts to build a strong personal relationship with the new president failed, as his typical combination of bluster, miscalculation and mishap resulted in the Cuban fiasco.

Like his Cuban-American colleagues in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, Diaz-Balart is a strong advocate of maintaining the Cuban embargo, saying " Some people do not understand the embargo of Cuba.

While having strong attachments with the Cuban Communist Party, it stressed its independence from the Soviet Union or China.

There has been a strong connection with Cuban music, Venezuelan, Puerto Rican, and other Caribbean countries both through commerce and migration.

By mid 1976 the Cuban expeditionary force had established its most important structures in Huambo town in the area of San Pedro, Lufefena and Cruzeiro, and strong garrisons in most of the other municipal capitals and main towns, but UNITA had the control of nearly all of the territory in between.

Son, described as " the bedrock of Cuban music ", has shaped much of twentieth-century Latin music, and had a strong impact on popular music, not only in Latin America, but also in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Danzón was also very popular in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, Mexico, because of the strong Cuban influence in the region.

The producers of Scarface were convinced that he was right for the role based on his strong audition, as well as his authentic Cuban background.

He formerly was an open advocate of the Cuban revolution as in Cuba for Beginners and a strong Soviet bloc sympathizer until the end of the Cold War.

A strong advocate for a Central American canal, Morgan was also a staunch supporter of the Cuban revolutionaries in the 1890s.

Timba is a Cuban genre of music based on popular Cuban music along with salsa, American funk / R & B, and the strong influence of Afro-Cuban folkloric music.

Many of Trabuco's biggest hits result from Amaray's unabashed R & B influences being filtered through Simonet's strong Cuban aesthetic and arranging genius.

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.

One of the most prolific and strong branches of the Cuban cinema in the last 40 years has been documentaries and short-films.

The director ’ s strong anti-Castro stance gave voice to the growing community of Cuban political exiles in the U. S. in the 1980s.

It has strong Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican influences.

Cuban Spanish shows strong heritage to the Spanish of the Canary Islands.