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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.
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* Cuba is the only country in the Caribbean that maintains an embassy in Kazakhstan.
The Government of Cuba maintains close relationships with Iran and North Korea, and has provided safe haven to members of ETA after an agreement with the Spanish government ( under Felipe González ), FARC, and the ELN.
St. Kitts and Nevis also maintains diplomatic relations with the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, Cuba and South Korea, as well as with many Latin American countries and neighboring Eastern Caribbean states.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines maintains close relations with Cuba, which provides a number of scholarship and other exchange programs for Vincentians, particularly in the field of healthcare.
According to Human Rights Watch, even though Cuba, officially atheist until 1992, now " permits greater opportunities for religious expression than it did in past years, and has allowed several religious-run humanitarian groups to operate, the government still maintains tight control on religious institutions, affiliated groups, and individual believers.
Internationally, it maintains fraternal relations with other communist and workers ’ parties and is a strong supporter of Cuba and Venezuela.
The CPM maintains close contacts with the Communist Party of Cuba, and supports normalised relations with the Republic of Cuba.
Cuba also maintains Consulate General offices in Toronto and Montreal.
Cuba and head
American armed forces leaders began to perceive Kennedy as going soft on Cuba, and the President became increasingly unpopular with the military, a rift that came to a head during Kennedy's disagreements with the service chiefs over the Cuban Missile Crisis.
* 1870-Benito Vines becomes the head of the Meteorological Observatory at Belen in Havana, Cuba.
The growing tension between Britain and Spain came to a head in 1731 during an incident known as Jenkin's Ear, when a British merchant captain was captured for illegal trading off the coast of Cuba by a Spanish privateer, and in punishment for his alleged breach of the strict laws forbidding foreign commerce with Spanish colonies, he had an ear cut off.
In May 1900, Reed, a major, returned to Cuba when he was appointed head of the Army board charged by Surgeon General George Miller Sternberg to examine tropical diseases including yellow fever.
The President of the Council of State of Cuba is the head of state of Cuba.
The president of the Council of State is, at the same time, the president ( As Premier ) of Council of Ministers of Cuba, the head of government.
An article by John Cherian in the Indian magazine Frontline alleged that RWB " is reputed to have strong links with Western intelligence agencies " and " Cuba has accused Robert Meynard the head of the group, of having CIA links ".
In March 2003, the government of Cuba arrested dozens of people ( including self-identified journalists and human rights activists ), and charged them with sedition due to their alleged cooperation with James Cason, head of the United States Interests Section in Havana.
In 1520, Diego Velazquez de Cuellar, the governor of Cuba, not wishing to see Cortés succeed, sent Narváez after him at the head of a large expedition of ships and Spanish troops, with instructions to bring Cortés back, dead or alive.
Manuel Piñeiro Losada ( Matanzas, Cuba, March 14, 1933-Havana, March 11, 1998 ), known as Barba Roja ( Spanish: " red beard "), was a Cuban political and military figure, a leading character of the Cuban Revolution, as the first head of Fidel Castro's security apparatus ( known as Dirección General de Inteligencia ( DGI ): General Intelligence Directorate ).
The pilots Alaminos, Camacho, and Álvarez decided, on the initiative of Alaminos, to navigate to Florida rather than head directly for Cuba.
He worked with the Customs Bureau to create an equitable system of collections and was praised by the bureau head in Cuba for his work in raising and protecting a substantial amount of money.
Puhl also is a Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Texas Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, and served as head coach for the Canadian national baseball team in a win over Cuba at the Olympic qualifier in 2006 and at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Chin Martinez was the head of the taxi drivers retirement fund in Cuba during the 1950s, and used his connections to prevent his brother's assassination, Alfredo Martínez Calderín, who then joined Raul Castro in the II Frente Oriental Frank País.
He collected plants in Jamaica, Cuba, Venezuela, and Vera Cruz, despatching seeds and plants to Philip Miller head gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden in London.
This increased Canary emigration to other Latin American areas, especially Argentina and Uruguay, as well as providing more immigrants for Venezuela, but the majority continued to head for Cuba.
McNelly's Rangers surprised a group of sixteen Mexican cattle thieves and one white man, driving about 300 head of cattle toward the Rio Grande, and also toward Juan Cortina, and a steamer headed for Cuba.
Cuba and US
The aim was to secede Cuba from Spain, and annex it as a US state as Florida had been in 1824 through the Adams-Onis Treaty.
After the Cuban War of Independence and the US occupation of Cuba, " The Original Cuba Libre " and the Daiquiri were both born with Bacardi rum.
In 1899 US General Leonard Wood appointed Emilio Bacardí Mayor of Santiago de Cuba.
The New York plant was soon shut down due to Prohibition, yet during this time Cuba became a hotspot for US tourists.
The annexation of Cuba was repeatedly supported by the US.
On 2 December 1823, US President James Monroe specifically addressed Cuba and other European colonies in his proclamation of the Monroe Doctrine.
Cuba, located just from the US city of Key West, was of interest to the doctrine's founders, as they warned European forces to leave " America for the Americans ".
The most outstanding attempts in support of annexation were made by former Spanish Army General Narciso López, who prepared four filibuster expeditions to Cuba in the US.
Although Cuba remained Spanish politically, economically it became increasingly dependent on the US.
The USSR saw Cuba as having far more appeal with new revolutionary movements, western intellectuals, and members of the New Left, given Cuba's perceived David and Goliath struggle against US " imperialism ".
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 2001, a group of activists collected thousands of signatures for the Varela Project, a petition requesting a referendum on the island's political process was openly supported by former US president Jimmy Carter during his historic 2002 visit to Cuba.
In July 2012, Cuba received its first American goods shipment in over 50 years, following the partial relaxation of the US embargo to permit humanitarian shipments.
In August 1962, after some unsuccessful operations by the US to overthrow the Cuban regime ( Bay of Pigs, Operation Mongoose ), the Cuban and Soviet governments secretly began to build bases in Cuba for a number of medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles ( MRBMs and IRBMs ) with the ability to strike most of the continental United States.
The US announced that it would not permit offensive weapons to be delivered to Cuba and demanded that the Soviets dismantle the missile bases already under construction or completed in Cuba and remove all offensive weapons.
Publicly, the Soviets would dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba and return them to the Soviet Union, subject to United Nations verification, in exchange for a US public declaration and agreement never to invade Cuba.
The Cuban leadership had a strong expectation that the US would invade Cuba again and they enthusiastically approved the idea of installing nuclear missiles in Cuba.
On the same day, the US announced a major military exercise in the Caribbean, PHIBRIGLEX-62, which Cuba denounced as a deliberate provocation and proof that the US planned to invade Cuba.
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