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636 relations: ABC News (United States), ABC-Clio, Abolitionism, Ada Ferrer, Afro-Cubans, Agrarian reforms in Cuba, Agriculture in Cuba, Al Jazeera English, Alan Gross, ALBA, Alejo Carpentier, Algeria, Amateur boxing, Amnesty International, Anastas Mikoyan, Ancestry-informative marker, Andalusians, Anglo-Spanish War (1762–1763), Angola, Angolan Civil War, Antonio Maceo, Antonio Quintana Simonetti, Apartheid, Aponte conspiracy, Arawakan languages, Archipelago, Artemisa Province, Asian people, Associated Press, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, AuthorHouse, Authoritarianism, Autosome, Avalon Project, Baháʼí Faith, Ballot, Barack Obama, Baracoa, Barbados, Baroque, Baseball in Cuba, Basilica of San Francisco de Asís, Havana, Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, Battle of Dos Ríos, Battle of El Caney, Battle of Las Guasimas, Battle of Quifangondo, Battle of San Juan Hill, Battle of Santa Clara, Battle of Santiago de Cuba, ... Expand index (586 more) »
- 1515 establishments in the Spanish West Indies
- 1898 disestablishments in the Spanish West Indies
- 1898 establishments in the United States
- 1902 disestablishments in the United States
- 1902 establishments in North America
- Communist states
- Countries in North America
- Countries in the Caribbean
- Greater Antilles
- One-party states
- Spanish-speaking countries and territories
- States and territories established in 1902
ABC News (United States)
ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.
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ABC-Clio
ABC-Clio, LLC (stylized ABC-CLIO) is an American publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings.
Abolitionism
Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world.
Ada Ferrer
Ada Ferrer is a Cuban-American historian.
Afro-Cubans
Afro-Cubans (Afrocubano) or Black Cubans are Cubans of full or partial sub-Saharan African ancestry.
Agrarian reforms in Cuba
The agrarian reforms in Cuba sought to break up large landholdings and redistribute land to those peasants who worked it, to cooperatives, and the state.
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Agriculture in Cuba
Agriculture in Cuba has played an important part in the economy for several hundred years.
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Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera English (AJE; lit) is a 24-hour English-language news channel operating under Al Jazeera Media Network, which is partially funded by the government of Qatar.
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Alan Gross
Alan Phillip Gross (born May 2, 1949) is a former United States government contractor employed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
ALBA
ALBA or ALBA–TCP, formally the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América) or the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples' Trade Treaty (Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América – Tratado de Comercio de los Pueblos), is an intergovernmental organization based on the idea of political and economic integration of Latin American and Caribbean countries.
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Alejo Carpentier
Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period.
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. Cuba and Algeria are member states of the United Nations and republics.
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Amateur boxing
Amateur boxing is the variant of boxing practiced in clubs and associations around the world, at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games, as well as at the collegiate level.
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.
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Anastas Mikoyan
Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (Анастас Иванович Микоян; Anastas Hovhannesi Mikoyan; – 21 October 1978) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union.
Ancestry-informative marker
In population genetics, an ancestry-informative marker (AIM) is a single-nucleotide polymorphism that exhibits substantially different frequencies between different populations.
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Andalusians
The Andalusians (andaluces) are the people of Andalusia, an autonomous community in southern Spain.
Anglo-Spanish War (1762–1763)
The Anglo-Spanish War (Spanish: Guerra Anglo-Española) was a military conflict fought between Britain and Spain as part of the Seven Years' War.
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Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa. Cuba and Angola are member states of the United Nations and republics.
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Angolan Civil War
The Angolan Civil War (Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002.
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Antonio Maceo
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Apartheid
Apartheid (especially South African English) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s.
Aponte conspiracy
The Aponte conspiracy (also known as the Aponte rebellion) was a large-scale slave rebellion in Cuba that occurred in 1812.
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Arawakan languages
Arawakan (Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper), also known as Maipurean (also Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America.
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Archipelago
An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
Artemisa Province
Artemisa Province is one of the two new provinces created from the former La Habana Province, whose creation was approved by the Cuban National Assembly on August 1, 2010, the other being Mayabeque Province.
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Asian people
Asian people (or Asians, sometimes referred to as Asiatic peopleUnited States National Library of Medicine. Medical Subject Headings. 2004. November 17, 2006.: Asian Continental Ancestry Group is also used for categorical purposes.) are the people of the continent of Asia.
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy
The Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE) is a professional association for the study of the Cuban economy.
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AuthorHouse
AuthorHouse, formerly known as 1stBooks, is a self-publishing company based in the United States.
Authoritarianism
Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.
Autosome
An autosome is any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome.
Avalon Project
The Avalon Project is a digital library of documents relating to law, history and diplomacy.
Baháʼí Faith
The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people.
Ballot
A ballot is a device used to cast votes in an election and may be found as a piece of paper or a small ball used in voting.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
Baracoa
Baracoa, whose full original name is: Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Baracoa ("Our Lady of the Assumption of Baracoa"), is a municipality and city in Guantánamo Province near the eastern tip of Cuba.
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Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands. Cuba and Barbados are countries in North America, countries in the Caribbean, island countries, member states of the United Nations, republics and small Island Developing States.
Baroque
The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.
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Baseball in Cuba
Baseball was popularized in Cuba by Nemesio Guillot, who founded the first major baseball club in the country.
Basilica of San Francisco de Asís, Havana
The Basílica Menor of San Francisco de Asís (Minor Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi; also the Convento de San Francisco de Asis) is a Catholic minor basilica and Franciscan convent in the district of Old Havana, Cuba.
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Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale was fought intermittently between 14 August 1987 and 23 March 1988, south and east of the town of Cuito Cuanavale, Angola, by the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) and Cuba against South Africa and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) during the Angolan Civil War and South African Border War.
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Battle of Dos Ríos
The Battle of Dos Ríos was fought in Cuba during its war of independence from Spain.
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Battle of El Caney
The Battle of El Caney was fought on July 1, 1898, during the Spanish-American War.
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Battle of Las Guasimas
The Battle of Las Guasimas of June 24, 1898 was a Spanish rearguard action by Major General Antero Rubín against advancing columns led by Major General "Fighting Joe" Wheeler and the first land engagement of the Spanish–American War.
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Battle of Quifangondo
The Battle of Quifangondo (popularly known as Nshila wa Lufu, or Battle of Death Road in Kikongo) was fought on 10 November 1975, near the strategic settlement of Quifangondo, Luanda Province, between the People's Armed Forces of Liberation of Angola (FAPLA), armed wing of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), and the National Liberation Army of Angola (ELNA), armed wing of the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA).
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Battle of San Juan Hill
The Battle of San Juan Hill, also known as the Battle for the San Juan Heights, was a major battle of the Spanish–American War fought between an American force under the command of William Rufus Shafter and Joseph Wheeler against a Spanish force led by Arsenio Linares y Pombo.
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Battle of Santa Clara
The Battle of Santa Clara was a series of events in late December 1958 that led to the capture of the Cuban city of Santa Clara by revolutionaries under the command of Che Guevara.
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Battle of Santiago de Cuba
The Battle of Santiago de Cuba was a decisive naval engagement that occurred on July 3, 1898 between an American fleet, led by William T. Sampson and Winfield Scott Schley, against a Spanish fleet led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, which occurred during the Spanish–American War.
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Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs (Bahía de los Cochinos) is an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones located on the southern coast of Cuba.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion (sometimes called Invasión de Playa Girón or Batalla de Playa Girón after the Playa Girón) was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by the United States of America and the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF), consisting of Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, clandestinely financed and directed by the U.S.
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Bee hummingbird
The bee hummingbird, zunzuncito or Helena hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae) is a species of hummingbird, native to the island of Cuba in the Caribbean.
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; West Germany) from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany). Cuba and Berlin Wall are eastern Bloc.
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
Biodiversity action plan
A biodiversity action plan (BAP) is an internationally recognized program addressing threatened species and habitats and is designed to protect and restore biological systems.
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Birth control
Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent unintended pregnancy.
Birth rate
Birth rate, also known as natality, is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population for a given period divided by the length of the period in years.
Black Spring (Cuba)
Black Spring was the 2003 crackdown by the Cuban Government on Cuban dissidents.
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Blockade
A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes people, by military force.
Bolero
Bolero is a genre of song which originated in eastern Cuba in the late 19th century as part of the trova tradition.
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Bolivian Campaign
The Ñancahuazú Guerrilla or Ejército de Liberación Nacional de Bolivia (National Liberation Army of Bolivia; ELN) was a group of mainly Bolivian and Cuban guerrillas led by the guerrilla leader Che Guevara which was active in the Cordillera Province of Bolivia from 1966 to 1967.
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Borders of Mexico
Mexico shares international borders with three nations.
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Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport and martial art.
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Brazilian Armed Forces
The Brazilian Armed Forces (Forças Armadas Brasileiras) are the unified military forces of the Federative Republic of Brazil.
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British America
British America comprised the colonial territories of the English Empire, and the successor British Empire, in the Americas from 1607 to 1783.
Cabo Catoche
Cabo Catoche or Cape Catoche, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, is the northernmost point on the Yucatán Peninsula.
Calixto García
Calixto García Íñiguez (August 4, 1839 – December 11, 1898) was a Cuban general in three Cuban uprisings, part of the Cuban War for Independence: the Ten Years' War, the Little War, and the War of 1895, itself sometimes called the Cuban War for Independence, which bled into the Spanish–American War, ultimately resulting in national independence for Cuba.
Camagüey
Camagüey is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third-largest city with more than 333,000 inhabitants.
Camagüey Province
Camagüey is the largest of the provinces of Cuba.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Canarreos Archipelago
Canarreos Archipelago is an archipelago of Cuba.
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Canary Islanders
Canary Islanders, or Canarians (canarios), are the people of the Canary Islands, an autonomous community of Spain near the coast of northwest Africa.
Captaincy General of Cuba
The Captaincy General of Cuba (Capitanía General de Cuba) was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire created in 1607 as part of Habsburg Spain attempt to better defend and administer its Caribbean possessions. Cuba and Captaincy General of Cuba are 1898 disestablishments in the Spanish West Indies, new Spain, Spanish West Indies and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
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Caracas
Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas).
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Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
Caribbean cuisine
Caribbean cuisine is a fusion of West African, (Caribbean.). Accessed July 2011.
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Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.
Caribbean Spanish
* Caribbean Spanish (español caribeño) is the general name of the Spanish dialects spoken in the Caribbean region. Cuba and Caribbean Spanish are Spanish West Indies.
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Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo (18 April 1819, Bayamo, Spanish Cuba – 27 February 1874, San Lorenzo, Spanish Cuba) was a Cuban revolutionary hero and First President of Cuba in Arms in 1868.
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Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (August 12, 1871 – March 28, 1939) was a Cuban writer, politician, diplomat, and President of Cuba.
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Carlos Prío Socarrás
Carlos Manuel Prío Socarrás (July 14, 1903 – April 5, 1977) was a Cuban politician.
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Catalans
Catalans (Catalan, French and Occitan: catalans; catalanes, Italian: catalani, cadelanos) are a Romance ethnic group native to Catalonia, who speak Catalan.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
Cay
A cay, also spelled caye or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island on the surface of a coral reef.
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Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands is a self-governing British Overseas Territory, and the largest by population. Cuba and Cayman Islands are former Spanish colonies, Greater Antilles and island countries.
Celia Cruz
Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso (21 October 1925 – 16 July 2003), known as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban singer and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century.
Cengage Group
Cengage Group is an American educational content, technology, and services company for higher education, K–12, professional, and library markets.
Censorship in Cuba
Censorship in Cuba is the topic of accusations put forward by several foreign groups-organizations and political leaders, as well as Cuban dissidents.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Cha-cha-cha (dance)
The cha-cha-cha (also called cha-cha), is a dance of Cuban origin.
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Cha-cha-chá (music)
Cha-cha-chá is a genre of Cuban music.
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Chapman & Hall
Chapman & Hall is an imprint owned by CRC Press, originally founded as a British publishing house in London in the first half of the 19th century by Edward Chapman and William Hall.
Charles Edward Magoon
Charles Edward Magoon (December 5, 1861 – January 14, 1920) was an American lawyer, judge, diplomat, and administrator who is best remembered as a governor of the Panama Canal Zone; he also served as Minister to Panama at the same time.
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Charter of the United Nations
The Charter of the United Nations (UN) is the foundational treaty of the United Nations.
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Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (14 June 1928The date of birth recorded on was 14 June 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quoted by Jon Lee Anderson), asserts that he was actually born on 14 May of that year. Constenla alleges that she was told by Che's mother, Celia de la Serna, that she was already pregnant when she and Ernesto Guevara Lynch were married and that the date on the birth certificate of their son was forged to make it appear that he was born a month later than the actual date to avoid scandal.
Chinese Cubans
Chinese Cubans (chino-cubano) are Cubans of full or mixed Chinese ancestry who were born in or have immigrated to Cuba.
Christianity in Cuba
Christianity has played an important role in Cuba's history.
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
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Chromista
Chromista is a proposed but polyphyletic biological kingdom, refined from the Chromalveolata, consisting of single-celled and multicellular eukaryotic species that share similar features in their photosynthetic organelles (plastids).
Ciego de Ávila Province
Ciego de Ávila is one of the provinces of Cuba, and was previously part of Camagüey Province.
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Cienfuegos
Cienfuegos, capital of Cienfuegos Province, is a city on the southern coast of Cuba.
Cienfuegos Province
Cienfuegos is one of the provinces of Cuba.
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CimaVax-EGF
CimaVax-EGF is a vaccine used to treat cancer, specifically non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC).
Cobalt
Cobalt is a chemical element; it has symbol Co and atomic number 27.
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Coffee production in Cuba
Coffee has been grown in Cuba since the mid-18th century.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Colony of Virginia
The Colony of Virginia was a British, colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776.
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Colorados Archipelago
The Colorados Archipelago (Archipiélago de los Colorados, also called Archipiélago de Santa Isabel and Archipiélago de Guaniguanico) is a chain of isles and cays on Cuba's north-western coast.
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Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an American independent non-profit, non-governmental organization, based in New York City, with correspondents around the world.
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Communist Party of Cuba
The Communist Party of Cuba (Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) is the sole ruling party of Cuba.
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Communist state
A communist state, also known as a Marxist–Leninist state, is a one-party state in which the totality of the power belongs to a party adhering to some form of Marxism–Leninism, a branch of the communist ideology. Cuba and communist state are communist states.
Concert dance
Concert dance (also known as performance dance or theatre dance in the United Kingdom) is dance performed for an audience.
Congo Basin
The Congo Basin (Bassin du Congo) is the sedimentary basin of the Congo River.
Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba
The Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (Congreso del Partido Comunista de Cuba) is the highest decision-making body of the Cuban party-state.
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Constitution of Cuba
Even before attaining its independence from Spain, Cuba had several constitutions either proposed or adopted by insurgents as governing documents for territory they controlled during their war against Spain.
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Convention on Biological Diversity
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is a multilateral treaty.
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Corsican language
Corsican (endonym: corsu; full name: lingua corsa) is a Romance language consisting of the continuum of the Italo-Dalmatian dialects spoken on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, France, and in the northern regions of the island of Sardinia, Italy, located due south.
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Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international relations.
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COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
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Cuba at the Olympics
Cuba first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900, and has sent athletes to compete in 20 of 28 Summer Olympic Games overall.
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Cuba–Soviet Union relations
After the establishment of diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Cuba became increasingly dependent on Soviet markets and military aid and was an ally of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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Cuban bread
Cuban bread is a fairly simple white bread, similar to French bread and Italian bread, but has a slightly different baking method and ingredient list (in particular, it generally includes a small amount of fat in the form of lard or vegetable shortening); it is usually made in long, baguette-like loaves.
Cuban cactus scrub
The Cuban cactus scrub is a xeric shrubland ecoregion that occupies on the leeward coast of Cuba.
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Cuban convertible peso
The convertible peso (sometimes given as CUC$ and informally called a cuc or a chavito) was one of two official currencies in Cuba, the other being the Cuban peso.
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Cuban Democracy Act
The Cuban Democracy Act (CDA), also known as the Torricelli Act or the Torricelli-Graham Bill, was a bill introduced and sponsored by U.S. Congressman Robert Torricelli and aimed to tighten the U.S. embargo on Cuba.
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Cuban dissident movement
The Cuban dissident movement is a political movement in Cuba whose aim is to replace the current government with a liberal democracy.
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Cuban dry forests
The Cuban dry forests are a tropical dry forest ecoregion that occupies on Cuba and Isla de la Juventud.
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Cuban exile
A Cuban exile is a person who emigrated from Cuba in the Cuban exodus.
Cuban intervention in Angola
The Cuban intervention in Angola (codenamed Operation Carlota) began on 5 November 1975, when Cuba sent combat troops in support of the communist-aligned People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) against the pro-western National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA).
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Cuban migration to Miami
Cuban immigration has greatly affected Miami-Dade County since 1959, creating what is known as "Cuban Miami." However, Miami reflects global trends as well, such as the growing trends of multiculturalism and multiracialism; this reflects the way in which international politics shape local communities.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba.
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Cuban moist forests
The Cuban moist forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion that occupies on Cuba and Isla de la Juventud.
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Cuban National Ballet
The Cuban National Ballet (Ballet Nacional de Cuba) is a classical ballet company based at Great Theatre of Havana in Havana, Cuba, founded by the Cuban prima ballerina assoluta, Alicia Alonso in 1948.
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Cuban peso
The Cuban peso (in Spanish peso cubano, ISO 4217 code: CUP) also known as moneda nacional, is the official currency of Cuba.
Cuban pine forests
The Cuban pine forests are a tropical coniferous forest ecoregion on the Caribbean islands of Cuba and Isla de la Juventud.
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Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution (Revolución cubana) was the military and political effort to overthrow Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship which reigned as the government of Cuba between 1952 and 1959.
Cuban Revolution of 1933
The Cuban Revolution of 1933 (Revolución cubana de 1933), also called the Sergeants' Revolt, was a coup d'etat that occurred in Cuba in September 1933.
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Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces
The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias; FAR) are the military forces of Cuba.
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Cuban salsa
In Cuba, a popular dance known as Casino was marketed abroad as Cuban-style salsa or Salsa Cubana to distinguish it from other salsa styles when the name was popularized in the 1970s.
Cuban Spanish
Cuban Spanish is the variety of the Spanish language as it is spoken in Cuba.
Cuban thaw
The Cuban thaw (deshielo cubano) was the normalization of Cuba–United States relations that began in December 2014, ending a 54-year stretch of hostility between the nations.
Cuban trogon
The Cuban trogon or tocororo (Priotelus temnurus) is a species of bird in the family Trogonidae.
Cuban War of Independence
The Cuban War of Independence, also known in Cuba as The Necessary War (La Guerra Necesaria), fought from 1895 to 1898, was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Ten Years' War (1868–1878) and the Little War (1879–1880).
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Cubans
Cubans (Cubanos) are people from Cuba or people with Cuban citizenship.
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Culture of Cuba
The culture of Cuba is a complex mixture of different, often contradicting, factors and influences.
Culture of Spain
The culture of Spain is influenced by its Western origin, its interaction with other cultures in Europe, its historically Catholic religious tradition, and the varied national and regional identities within the country.
Da Capo Press
Da Capo Press is an American publishing company with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.
Daína Chaviano
Daína Chaviano (born 19 February 1957, Havana), Encyclopædia Britannica.
Dahomey
The Kingdom of Dahomey was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904.
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Danzón
Danzón is the official musical genre and dance of Cuba.
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De Havilland Vampire
The de Havilland Vampire is a British jet fighter which was developed and manufactured by the de Havilland Aircraft Company.
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Decolonization of the Americas
The decolonization of the Americas occurred over several centuries as most of the countries in the Americas gained their independence from European rule. Cuba and decolonization of the Americas are Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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Democracy-Dictatorship Index
Democracy-Dictatorship (DD), index of democracy and dictatorship or simply the DD index or the DD datasets was the binary measure of democracy and dictatorship first proposed by Adam Przeworski et al. (2010), and further developed and maintained by Cheibub, Gandhi, and Vreeland (2009).
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Democratic centralism
Democratic centralism is the organisational principle of communist states and of most communist parties to reach dictatorship of the proletariat.
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Deutsche Welle
("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.
Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar
Diego Velázquez de CuéllarPronounced: (1465 – c. June 12, 1524) was a Spanish conquistador and the first governor of Cuba. Cuba and Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar are Spanish West Indies.
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Dirección de Inteligencia
The Intelligence Directorate (Dirección de Inteligencia, DI), commonly known as G2 and, until 1989, named Dirección General de Inteligencia (DGI), on cubamilitar.org is the main state intelligence agency of the government of Cuba.
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
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Dominican Civil War
The Dominican Civil War, also known as the April Revolution, took place between April 24, 1965, and September 3, 1965, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north. Cuba and Dominican Republic are countries in North America, countries in the Caribbean, former Spanish colonies, former colonies in North America, Greater Antilles, island countries, member states of the United Nations, new Spain, republics, small Island Developing States, Spanish West Indies, Spanish colonization of the Americas and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
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Dominican Restoration War
The Dominican Restoration War or the Dominican War of Restoration was a guerrilla war between 1863 and 1865 in the Dominican Republic between nationalists and Spain, the latter of which had recolonized the country 17 years after its independence.
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Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Duke University Press
Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University.
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Dulce María Loynaz
Dulce María Loynaz Muñoz (Havana, Cuba; 10 December 1902 – 27 April 1997) was a Cuban poet, and is considered one of the principal figures of Cuban literature.
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Dutch people
The Dutch (Dutch) are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
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Earl of Albemarle
Earl of Albemarle is a title created several times from Norman times onwards.
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Eclecticism
Eclecticism is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to gain complementary insights into a subject, or applies different theories in particular cases.
Economy of Cuba
The economy of Cuba is a planned economy dominated by state-run enterprises.
EcuRed
EcuRed is a Cuban online encyclopedia built on MediaWiki software.
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Elections in Cuba
Elections in Cuba are held at municipal, provincial, and national levels.
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Encomienda
The encomienda was a Spanish labour system that rewarded conquerors with the labour of conquered non-Christian peoples. Cuba and encomienda are Spanish West Indies and Spanish colonization of the Americas.
Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
Erislandy Lara
Erislandy Lara Santoya (born 11 April 1983) is a Cuban-American professional boxer who is the current WBA middleweight champion, having held the title since 2021.
Eritrean Liberation Front
The Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF), colloquially known as Jebha, was the main independence movement in Eritrea which sought Eritrea's independence from Ethiopia during the 1960s and the early 1970s.
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Eritrean War of Independence
The Eritrean War of Independence was a war for independence which Eritrean independence fighters waged against successive Ethiopian governments from 1 September 1961 to 24 May 1991.
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Ernesto Lecuona
Ernesto Lecuona y Casado (August 7, 1895 – November 29, 1963) was a Cuban composer and pianist, many of whose works have become standards of the Latin, jazz and classical repertoires.
Escambray rebellion
The Escambray rebellion was an armed conflict from 1959 to 1965 in the Escambray Mountains during which several insurgent groups fought against the Cuban government led by Fidel Castro.
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Esteban Lazo Hernández
Juan Esteban Lazo Hernández (born 26 February 1944) is a Cuban politician who has been the President of the National Assembly of People's Power, Cuba's parliament, since 2013.
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ETECSA
Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. (Telecommunications Company of Cuba; ETECSA) is the Cuban state company that provides telephony and communications services in Cuba.
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Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. Cuba and Ethiopia are member states of the United Nations.
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.
Evo Morales
Juan Evo Morales Ayma (born 26 October 1959) is a Bolivian politician, trade union organizer, and former cocalero activist who served as the 65th president of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019.
Explorations in Economic History
Explorations in Economic History is a peer-reviewed academic journal of quantitative economic history.
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Federal Security Service
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB or FSS) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB; its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) which was reorganized into the FSB in 1995.
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Feudalism
Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries.
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008.
Filipino Cubans
Filipino Cubans are Cubans of Filipino ancestry.
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba is the top leader of Cuba.
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Florida
Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Cuba and Florida are former Spanish colonies.
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FOCSA Building
The FOCSA Building is a residential and commercial block in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana, Cuba.
Folk religion
In religious studies and folkloristics, folk religion, traditional religion, or vernacular religion comprises various forms and expressions of religion that are distinct from the official doctrines and practices of organized religion.
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.
Forest Landscape Integrity Index
The Forest Landscape Integrity Index (FLII) is an annual global index of forest condition measured by degree of anthropogenic modification.
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Francoist Spain
Francoist Spain (España franquista), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (dictadura franquista), was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title Caudillo.
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804October 8, 1869) was an American politician who served as the 14th president of the United States from 1853 to 1857.
Free people of color
In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were primarily people of mixed African, European, and Native American descent who were not enslaved.
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Freedom House
Freedom House is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. It is best known for political advocacy surrounding issues of democracy, political freedom, and human rights.
Freedom in the World
Freedom in the World is a yearly survey and report by the U.S.-based non-governmental organization Freedom House that measures the degree of civil liberties and political rights in every nation and significant related and disputed territories around the world.
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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, political theorist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.
Fulgencio Batista
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (born Rubén Zaldívar; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and as a military dictator from 1952 until his overthrow in the Cuban Revolution in 1959.
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Galician language
Galician (galego), also known as Galego, is a Western Ibero-Romance language.
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Galicians
Galicians (galegos; gallegos) are a Romance-speaking European ethnic group from northwestern Spain; they are closely related to the northern Portuguese people and has its historic homeland in Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula.
Garland Science
Garland Science was a publishing group that specialized in developing textbooks in a wide range of life sciences subjects, including cell and molecular biology, immunology, protein chemistry, genetics, and bioinformatics.
Güiro
The güiro is a percussion instrument consisting of an open-ended, hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side.
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Gender role
A gender role, or sex role, is a set of socially accepted behaviors and attitudes deemed appropriate or desirable for individuals based on their sex.
Gender-affirming surgery
Gender-affirming surgery is a surgical procedure, or series of procedures, that alters a person's physical appearance and sexual characteristics to resemble those associated with their identified gender.
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Geography of Cuba
Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea.
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George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle
George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle KG PC (London, 8 April 1724 – 13 October 1772), styled Viscount Bury until 1754, was a British general and nobleman.
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George Pocock
Admiral Sir George Pocock or Pococke, KB (6 March 1706 – 3 April 1792) was a British officer of the Royal Navy.
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
Gerardo Machado
Gerardo Machado y Morales (28 September 1869 – 29 March 1939) was a general of the Cuban War of Independence and President of Cuba from 1925 to 1933.
Gloria Estefan
Gloria María Milagrosa Estefan (née Fajardo García; born 1 September 1957) is a Cuban-American singer, actress, and businesswoman.
Golan Heights
The Golan Heights (Haḍbatu l-Jawlān or; רמת הגולן), or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau, at the southwest corner of Syria.
Governorate of Cuba
Since the 16th century the island of Cuba had been under the control of the governor-captain general of Santo Domingo. Cuba and Governorate of Cuba are Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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Granma Province
Granma is one of the provinces of Cuba.
Greater Antilles mangroves
The Greater Antilles mangroves is a mangrove ecoregion that includes the coastal mangrove forests of the Greater Antilles – Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico.
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Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..
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Greenwood Publishing Group
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.
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Group of 77
The Group of 77 (G77) at the United Nations (UN) is a coalition of developing countries, designed to promote its members' collective economic interests and create an enhanced joint negotiating capacity in the United Nations.
Guam
Guam (Guåhan) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean. Cuba and Guam are former Spanish colonies, island countries and small Island Developing States.
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Guanahani
Guanahaní (meaning "small upper waters land") was the Taíno name of an island in the Bahamas that was the first land in the New World sighted and visited by Christopher Columbus' first voyage, on 12 October 1492.
Guanahatabey
The Guanahatabey (also spelled Guanajatabey) were an Indigenous people of western Cuba at the time of European contact.
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp,Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), also called GTMO (pronounced Gitmo /ˈɡɪtmoʊ/ ''GIT-moh'') on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Base Naval de la Bahía de Guantánamo), officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB, (also called GTMO, pronounced Gitmo as jargon by members of the U.S. military) is a United States military base located on of land and water on the shore of Guantánamo Bay at the southeastern end of Cuba. Cuba and Guantanamo Bay Naval Base are 1898 establishments in the United States.
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Guantánamo Province
Guantánamo is the easternmost province of Cuba.
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Guatemalan Civil War
The Guatemalan Civil War was a civil war in Guatemala fought from 1960 to 1996 between the government of Guatemala and various leftist rebel groups.
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Guerrilla warfare
Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.
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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Gibara, 22 April 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, screenwriter, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín, and used Guillermo Cain for the screenplay of the cult classic film Vanishing Point (1971).
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Guillermo Rosales
Guillermo Rosales (1946–1993) was a Cuban novelist.
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Guinea
Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa. Cuba and Guinea are member states of the United Nations and republics.
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Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau (Guiné-Bissau; script; Mandinka: ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫ ߓߌߛߊߥߏ߫ Gine-Bisawo), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (República da Guiné-Bissau), is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 2,026,778. Cuba and Guinea-Bissau are member states of the United Nations, republics and small Island Developing States.
Gulf Coast campaign
The Gulf Coast campaign or the Spanish conquest of West Florida in the American Revolutionary War, was a series of military operations primarily directed by the governor of Spanish Louisiana, Bernardo de Gálvez, against the British province of West Florida.
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Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.
Habsburg Spain
Habsburg Spain refers to Spain and the Hispanic Monarchy, also known as the Catholic Monarchy, in the period from 1516 to 1700 when it was ruled by kings from the House of Habsburg.
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas. Cuba and Haiti are countries in North America, countries in the Caribbean, former Spanish colonies, Greater Antilles, island countries, member states of the United Nations, republics and small Island Developing States.
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Haitian Creole
Haitian Creole (kreyòl ayisyen,; créole haïtien), or simply Creole (kreyòl), is a French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12million people worldwide, and is one of the two official languages of Haiti (the other being French), where it is the native language of the vast majority of the population.
Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution (révolution haïtienne or La guerre de l'indépendance; Lagè d Lendependans) was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti.
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Haitian Vodou in Cuba
The religion of Haitian Vodou has been present in Cuba since at least the 18th century.
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Haitians
Haitians (French: Haïtiens, Ayisyen) are the citizens of Haiti and the descendants in the diaspora through direct parentage.
Harcourt (publisher)
Harcourt was an American publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children.
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Havana
Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. Cuba and Havana are 1515 establishments in the Spanish West Indies.
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Havana syndrome
Havana syndrome (also known as "anomalous health incidents") is a disputed medical condition reported primarily by U.S. diplomatic, intelligence, and military officials stationed in overseas locations.
Havana's International Book Fair
Havana’s International Book Fair (Spanish: ’’Feria Internacional del Libro de La Habana") is an annual public festival to promote Cuban government sanctioned books and writing that spans between February and March.
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Hedychium coronarium
Hedychium coronarium, the white garland-lily or white ginger lily, is a perennial flowering plant in the ginger family Zingiberaceae, native to the forest understorey of Asia.
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Helms–Burton Act
The Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act of 1996 (Helms–Burton Act)) is a United States federal law which strengthens and continues the United States embargo against Cuba. It extended the territorial application of the initial embargo to apply to foreign companies trading with Cuba, and penalized foreign companies allegedly "trafficking" in property formerly owned by U.S.
Herbert S. Klein
Herbert S. Klein (born January 6, 1936) is an American historian.
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto (1497 – 21 May 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula. Cuba and Hernando de Soto are Spanish West Indies.
Heteronormativity
Heteronormativity is the concept that heterosexuality is the preferred or normal sexual orientation.
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Hispaniola
Hispaniola (also) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles. Cuba and Hispaniola are Greater Antilles and Spanish West Indies.
History Today
History Today is a history magazine.
History Will Absolve Me
History Will Absolve Me (Spanish: La historia me absolverá) is the title of a two-hour speech made by Fidel Castro on 16 October 1953.
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Holguín Province
Holguín is one of the provinces of Cuba, the third most populous after Havana and Santiago de Cuba.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.
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House church
A house church or home church is a label used to describe a group of Christians who regularly gather for worship in private homes.
Hudson Austin
Hudson Austin (26 April 1938 – 24 September 2022) was a general in the People's Revolutionary Army of Grenada.
HuffPost
HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.
Hugo Chávez
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician and military officer who served as the 47th president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period of forty-seven hours in 2002.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.
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Human Sciences Research Council
The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) of South Africa is Africa's largest dedicated social science and humanities research agency and policy think tank.
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Hurricane Irma
Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful Cape Verde hurricane that caused widespread destruction across its path in early September 2017.
Indentured servitude
Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years.
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Index of Cuba-related articles
The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to Cuba.
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Infection
An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce.
Infobase
Infobase is an American publisher of databases, reference book titles and textbooks geared towards the North American library, secondary school, and university-level curriculum markets.
International Futures
International Futures (IFs) is a global integrated assessment model designed to help with thinking strategically and systematically about key global systems (economic, demographic, education, health, environment, technology, domestic governance, infrastructure, agriculture, energy and environment).
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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.
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Internment
Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges.
Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East. Cuba and Iraq are member states of the United Nations.
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Irreligion in Latin America
Irreligion in Latin America refers to various types of irreligion, including atheism, agnosticism, deism, secular humanism, secularism and non-religious.
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Irving Louis Horowitz
Irving Louis Horowitz (September 25, 1929 – March 21, 2012) was an American sociologist, author, and college professor who wrote and lectured extensively in his field, and in his later years came to fear that it risked being seized by left-wing ideologues.
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Isla de la Juventud
Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Youth) is the second-largest Cuban island (after Cuba's mainland) and the seventh-largest island in the West Indies (after mainland Cuba itself, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and Andros Island).
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Island country
An island country, island state, or island nation is a country whose primary territory consists of one or more islands or parts of islands. Cuba and island country are island countries.
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory). Cuba and Jamaica are countries in North America, countries in the Caribbean, former Spanish colonies, Greater Antilles, island countries, member states of the United Nations and small Island Developing States.
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James Buchanan
James Buchanan Jr. (April 23, 1791June 1, 1868) was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician who served as the 15th president of the United States from 1857 to 1861.
James K. Polk
James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 11th president of the United States from 1845 to 1849.
Japanese Cubans
Japanese Cubans (Japanese: 日系キューバ人) are people of Japanese ancestry resident in Cuba.
Jardines de la Reina
Jardines de la Reina (Gardens of the Queen) is an archipelago in the southern part of Cuba, in the provinces of Camagüey and Ciego de Ávila.
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Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
John, Prince of Asturias
John, Prince of Asturias and Girona (Juan; 30 June 1478 – 4 October 1497), was the only son of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile, and heir apparent to both their thrones for nearly his entire life.
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Jorge Armando Pérez
JA Pérez is a Cuban humanitarian, author, and evangelist.
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Jorge I. Domínguez
Jorge I. Domínguez (born 1945), a scholar of Latin American studies in the United States, taught at Harvard University from 1972 to 2018, when he retired as the Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico.
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José Lezama Lima
José María Andrés Fernando Lezama Lima (December 19, 1910 – August 9, 1976) was a Cuban writer, poet and essayist.
José Martí
José Julián Martí Pérez (January 28, 1853 – May 19, 1895) was a Cuban nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of his role in the liberation of his country from Spain.
José Miguel Gómez
José Miguel Gómez y Arias (6 July 1858 – 13 June 1921) was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was one of the leaders of the rebel forces in the Cuban War of Independence.
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José Raúl Capablanca
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was the third world chess champion from 1921 to 1927.
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Journal of Latin American Studies
The Journal of Latin American Studies, established in 1969, is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press.
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Kalabari tribe
The Kalabari are a sub-group of the Ijaw people living in the eastern Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
Karl Marx
Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.
Key West
Key West is an island in the Straits of Florida, within the U.S. state of Florida.
Kingdom of Great Britain
The Kingdom of Great Britain was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800.
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La Bayamesa
"El Himno de Bayamo" is the national anthem of Cuba.
Landing of the Granma
Granma is a yacht that was used to transport 82 fighters of the Cuban Revolution from Mexico to Cuba in November 1956 to overthrow the regime of Fulgencio Batista.
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Las Tunas Province
Las Tunas is one of the provinces of Cuba.
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Latin American School of Medicine
Latin American School of Medicine (LASM) (Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina (ELAM)) formerly Latin American School of Medical Sciences (Escuela Latinoamericana de Ciencias Médicas), is an international public medical school operated by the Cuban government established in 1999 and supported by the Venezuelan Government (RBDEV).
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Latin Grammy Awards
The Latin Grammy Awards (stylized as Latin GRAMMYs) are awards presented by the Latin Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the Latin music industry.
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Leonardo Padura Fuentes
Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes (born October 10, 1955) is a Cuban novelist and journalist.
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Lester D. Mallory
Lester DeWitt Mallory (April 21, 1904 – June 21, 1994) was an American diplomat.
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LGBT community
The LGBT community (also known as the LGBTQ+ community, LGBTQIA+ community, GLBT community, or queer community) is a loosely defined grouping of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals united by a common culture and social movements.
LGBT rights in Cuba
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Cuba have significantly varied throughout modern history.
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Lichen
A lichen is a symbiosis of algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species, along with a yeast embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship.
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Life expectancy
Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.
List of Caribbean islands
Most of the Caribbean countries are islands are in the Caribbean Sea, with only a few in inland lakes.
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List of colleges and universities in Cuba
The following is an incomplete list of colleges and universities in Cuba.
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List of countries and dependencies by area
This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area.
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List of countries and dependencies by population
This is a list of countries and dependencies by population.
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List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita
A country's gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita is the PPP value of all final goods and services produced within an economy in a given year, divided by the average (or mid-year) population for the same year.
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List of countries by Human Development Index
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) compiles the Human Development Index (HDI) of 193 nations in the annual Human Development Report.
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List of countries by literacy rate
This is a list of countries by literacy rate.
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List of institutions using the term "institute of technology" or "polytechnic"
This is a list of institutions using the term institute of technology or polytechnic.
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List of islands by area
This list includes all islands in the world larger than.
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List of islands of Cuba
This is a list of islands of Cuba.
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List of national birds
This is a list of national birds, including official birds of overseas territories and other states described as nations.
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List of national flowers
In a number of countries, plants have been chosen as symbols to represent specific geographic areas.
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List of political parties in Cuba
This article lists political parties in Cuba.
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List of presidents of the National Assembly of People's Power
This article lists the presidents of the National Assembly of People's Power (Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular), the legislative body of the Republic of Cuba, since its establishment in 1976.
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List of socialist states
Several past and present states have declared themselves socialist states or in the process of building socialism. Cuba and List of socialist states are communist states.
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List of wars involving the Soviet Union
This is a list of wars involving the Soviet Union (30 December 1922 – 26 December 1991).
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List of water sports
Water sports or aquatic sports are sports activities conducted on waterbodies and can be categorized according to the degree of immersion by the participants.
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Literacy
Literacy is the ability to read and write.
Little War (Cuba)
The Little War or Small War (Guerra Chiquita) was the second of three conflicts between Cuban rebels and Spain.
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Luanda
Luanda (/luˈændə, -ˈɑːn-/, Portuguese) is the capital and largest city of Angola.
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Lucumí language
Lucumí consists of a lexicon of words and short phrases derived from the Yoruba language and used for ritual purposes in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and their Diasporas.
Luis Marcano
Luis Marcano (29 September 1831-16 May 1870) was a Dominican Republic general of the pre-independence Cuban Army during the Ten Years' War.
Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).
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Magic realism
Magic realism, magical realism or marvelous realism is a style or genre of fiction and art that presents a realistic view of the world while incorporating magical elements, often blurring the lines between fantasy and reality.
Maleconazo
The Maleconazo was a protest on 5 August 1994, in which thousands of Cubans took to the streets around the Malecón in Havana to demand freedom and express frustration with the government.
Mambo (music)
Mambo is a genre of Cuban dance music pioneered by the charanga Arcaño y sus Maravillas in the late 1930s and later popularized in the big band style by Pérez Prado.
Manifesto of Montecristi
The Manifesto of Montecristi is the official document of the Revolutionary Party in Cuba; it was written by José Martí and signed by himself and Máximo Gómez on March 25, 1895 in Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic.
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Manuel Marrero Cruz
Manuel Marrero Cruz (born 11 July 1963) is a Cuban politician currently serving as the Prime Minister of Cuba, and the first since re-establishment of the office of Prime Minister in December 2019 after the 43-year abolition of the position dating from 1976.
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Manuel Urrutia Lleó
Manuel Urrutia Lleó (December 8, 1901 – 5 July 1981) was a liberal Cuban lawyer and politician.
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Manumission
Manumission, or enfranchisement, is the act of freeing slaves by their owners.
Maraca
A maraca, sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music.
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Marímbula
The marímbula is a plucked box musical instrument of the Caribbean.
Mariel boatlift
The Mariel boatlift was a mass emigration of Cubans who traveled from Cuba's Mariel Harbor to the United States between April 15 and October 31, 1980.
Market socialism
Market socialism is a type of economic system involving social ownership of the means of production within the framework of a market economy.
Marxism–Leninism
Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology that became the largest faction of the communist movement in the world in the years following the October Revolution.
Maryland
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
Matanzas
Matanzas (Cuban; Ayá Áta) is the capital of the Cuban province of Matanzas.
Matanzas Province
Matanzas is one of the provinces of Cuba.
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Maurice Bishop
Maurice Rupert Bishop (29 May 1944 – 19 October 1983) was a Grenadian revolutionary and the leader of New Jewel Movement – a Marxist–Leninist party that sought to prioritise socio-economic development, education, and black liberation – that came to power during the 13 March 1979 revolution that removed Eric Gairy from office.
Mayabeque Province
Mayabeque Province is one of two new provinces created from the former La Habana Province, whose creation was approved by the Cuban National Assembly on August 1, 2010, the other being Artemisa Province.
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Mayohuacán
The mayohuacán or bayohabao was a wooden slit drum played by the indigenous Taíno people of the Caribbean.
Máximo Gómez
Máximo Gómez y Báez (November 18, 1836 – June 17, 1905) was a Cuban-Dominican Generalissimo in Cuba's War of Independence (1895–1898).
Measles
Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable infectious disease caused by measles virus.
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Medical tourism
Medical tourism is the practice of traveling abroad to obtain medical treatment.
Medication
A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.
Megalocnidae
Megalocnidae is an extinct family (alternatively considered to be a superfamily as Megalocnoidea) of sloths, native to the islands of the Greater Antilles from the Early Oligocene to the Mid-Holocene.
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Mengistu Haile Mariam (መንግሥቱ ኀይለ ማርያም, pronunciation:; born 21 May 1937) is an Ethiopian former politician and former military officer who was the head of state of Ethiopia from 1977 to 1991 and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia from 1984 to 1991.
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Mexico City
Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.
Miguel Ángel Barnet Lanza
Miguel Ángel Barnet Lanza (born January 28, 1940) is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer.
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Miguel Díaz-Canel
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (born 20 April 1960) is a Cuban politician and engineer who is the 8th and current First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba since 2021, and as well as the 17th President of Cuba since 2019.
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Military dictatorship
A military dictatorship, or a military regime, is a type of dictatorship in which power is held by one or more military officers.
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Miller Center of Public Affairs
The Miller Center is a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in United States presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history.
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Minority Rights Group International
Minority Rights Group (MRG) is an international human rights organisation, headquartered in London, with offices in Budapest and Kampala.
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Minsk
Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers.
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Mission Barrio Adentro
Mission Barrio Adentro (English: Mission Into the Neighborhood) is a Venezuelan social welfare program established by the President Hugo Chávez.
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Moa, Cuba
Moa is a municipality and an industrial city in the Holguín Province of Cuba.
Modesto Díaz
Modesto Díaz (1826–1892) was a Dominican Major General of the Cuban Liberation Army.
Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic
San Fernando de Monte Cristi, also known as Montecristi, is the capital town of Monte Cristi Province in the Dominican Republic.
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Moralism
Moralism is a philosophy that arose in the 19th century that concerns itself with imbuing society with a certain set of morals, usually traditional behaviour, but also "justice, freedom, and equality".
Moros y Cristianos (dish)
Moros y Cristianos is a traditional Cuban dish served both in homes and in restaurants.
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Mountaineering
Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains.
Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest. Cuba and Mozambique are member states of the United Nations and republics.
MPLA
The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, abbr. MPLA), from 1977–1990 called the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party, is an Angolan social democratic political party.
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Mulatto
Mulatto is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry.
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Multidimensional Poverty Index
Multidimensional Poverty Indices use a range of indicators to calculate a summary poverty figure for a given population, in which a larger figure indicates a higher level of poverty.
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Multinational state
A multinational state or a multinational union is a sovereign entity that comprises two or more nations or states.
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Multiracial people
The terms multiracial people or mixed-race people refer to people who are of more than two ''races'', and the terms multi-ethnic people or ethnically mixed people refer to people who are of more than two ethnicities.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
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National Assembly of People's Power
The National Assembly of People's Power (Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular) is the supreme organ of power of the Republic of Cuba.
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National Capitol of Cuba
The National Capitol of Cuba, also known as Capitolio Nacional de La Habana (National Capitol of La Habana), and often simply referred to as El Capitolio (The Capitol), is a public edifice in Havana, the capital of Cuba.
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NBC News
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.
Neoclassical architecture
Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.
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New Spain
New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España; Nahuatl: Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain. Cuba and New Spain are former Spanish colonies, former colonies in North America, Spanish West Indies, Spanish colonization of the Americas and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
New York University Press
New York University Press (or NYU Press) is a university press that is part of New York University.
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising. Cuba and Nicaragua are countries in North America, former Spanish colonies, member states of the United Nations, republics and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
Nicaraguan Revolution
The Nicaraguan Revolution (Revolución Nicaragüense or Revolución Popular Sandinista) began with rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s, the ouster of the dictatorship in 1978–79, and the Contra War, fought between the government and the Contras from 1981 to 1990.
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Nicolás Guillén
Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista (10 July 1902 – 16 July 1989) was a Cuban poet, journalist and political activist.
Non-Aligned Movement
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a forum of 120 countries that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc.
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Nuclear warfare
Nuclear warfare, also known as atomic warfare, is a military conflict or prepared political strategy that deploys nuclear weaponry.
Ogaden War
The Ogaden War, also known as the Ethio-Somali War (ye’ītiyop’iya somalīya t’orinet), was a military conflict fought between Somalia and Ethiopia from July 1977 to March 1978 over the sovereignty of Ogaden.
Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
One-drop rule
The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th-century United States.
One-party state
A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system or single-party system is a governance structure in which only a single political party controls the ruling system. Cuba and one-party state are one-party states.
Operation Northwoods
Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation that originated within the US Department of Defense of the United States government in 1962.
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Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
The Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS, French: Organisation des États d'Afrique, des Caraïbes et du Pacifique) is a group of countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that was created by the Georgetown Agreement in 1975.
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Organization of American States
The Organization of American States (OAS or OEA; Organización de los Estados Americanos; Organização dos Estados Americanos; Organisation des États américains) is an international organization founded on 30 April 1948 to promote cooperation among its member states within the Americas.
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Oshun
Oshun (also Ọṣun, Ochún, and Oxúm) is the Yoruba orisha associated with love, sexuality, fertility, femininity, water, destiny, divination, purity, and beauty, and the Osun River, and of wealth and propersity in Voodoo.
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Outline of Cuba
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Cuba: Cuba – island country in the Caribbean.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Pact of Zanjón
The Pact of Zanjón ended the armed struggle of Cubans for independence from the Spanish Empire that lasted from 1868 to 1878, the Ten Years' War.
Pacte de Famille
The Pacte de Famille (Family Compact; Pacto de Familia) is one of three separate, but similar alliances between the Bourbon kings of France and Spain.
Palo (religion)
Palo, also known as Las Reglas de Congo, is an African diasporic religion that developed in Cuba during the late 19th or early 20th century.
Parameters (journal)
Parameters is a quarterly academic journal published by the United States Army War College.
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Partido Independiente de Color
The Partido Independiente de Color (PIC) was a Cuban political party composed almost entirely of African former slaves.
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Patria o Muerte, Venceremos
Patria o Muerte, Venceremos is an official national motto of Cuba, adopted in 1960.
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Patria y Vida
"Patria y Vida" ("Homeland and Life") is a slogan and song associated with the July 2021 Cuban protests.
Pedagogy
Pedagogy, most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners.
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (born 27 January 1950, in Matanzas, Cuba) is a Cuban novelist.
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Pentarchy of 1933
Pentarchy of 1933, formally known as the Executive Commission of the Provisional Government of Cuba, was a coalition that ruled Cuba from September 5 to September 10, 1933 after Gerardo Machado was deposed on August 12, 1933.
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Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit.
People's Supreme Court of Cuba
The People's Supreme Court (Tribunal Supremo Popular) is the highest body of judicial power in Cuba.
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Peterson Institute for International Economics
The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), known until 2006 as the Institute for International Economics (IIE), is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It was founded by C. Fred Bergsten in 1981 and has been led by Adam S. Posen since 2013.
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Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center (also simply known as Pew) is a nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Cuba and Philippines are former Spanish colonies, island countries, member states of the United Nations and republics.
Pico Turquino
Pico Turquino, sometimes erroneously spelled as Pico Torquino, is the highest point in Cuba.
Pinar del Río Province
The Pinar del Río Province is one of the 15 provinces of Cuba.
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Planned economy
A planned economy is a type of economic system where the distribution of goods and services or the investment, production and the allocation of capital goods takes place according to economic plans that are either economy-wide or limited to a category of goods and services.
Platt Amendment
On March 2, 1901, the Platt Amendment was passed as part of the 1901 Army Appropriations Bill.
Politburo of the Communist Party of Cuba
The Politburo is the highest political organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.
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Political prisoner
A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity.
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Political strongman
In politics, a strongman is a type of authoritarian political leader—civilian or military—who exerts control through military enforcement and has, or has claimed to have, strong popular support.
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Politics of Cuba
Cuba has had a socialist political system since 1961 based on the "one state – one party" principle.
PolitiFact
PolitiFact.com is an American nonprofit project operated by the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, with offices there and in Washington, D.C. It began in 2007 as a project of the Tampa Bay Times (then the St. Petersburg Times), with reporters and editors from the newspaper and its affiliated news media partners reporting on the accuracy of statements made by elected officials, candidates, their staffs, lobbyists, interest groups and others involved in U.S.
Polytechnic José Antonio Echeverría
The today Technological University José Antonio Echeverría, in its beginnings the University City José Antonio Echeverría (CUJAE), whose old acronyms are still used for its popular recognition.
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Pope Francis
Pope Francis (Franciscus; Francesco; Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936) is head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State.
Portuguese people
The Portuguese people (– masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country in the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west of Europe, who share a common culture, ancestry and language.
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President of Bolivia
The president of Bolivia (Presidente de Bolivia), officially known as the president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Presidente del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is head of state and head of government of Bolivia and the captain general of the Armed Forces of Bolivia.
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President of Cuba
The president of Cuba (Presidente de Cuba), officially the president of the Republic of Cuba (Presidente de la República de Cuba), is the head of state of Cuba.
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President of Venezuela
The president of Venezuela (Presidente de Venezuela), officially known as the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is the head of state and head of government in Venezuela.
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Preventive healthcare
Preventive healthcare, or prophylaxis, is the application of healthcare measures to prevent diseases.
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Prime Minister of Cuba
The prime minister of Cuba (Primer Ministro de Cuba), officially known as the president of the Council of Ministers (Presidente del Consejo de Ministros de Cuba) between 1976 and 2019, is the head of government of Cuba and the chairman of the Council of Ministers (cabinet).
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Prostitution in Cuba
Prostitution in Cuba is not officially illegal; however, there is legislation against pimps, sexual exploitation of minors, and pornography.
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Protectorate
A protectorate, in the context of international relations, is a state that is under protection by another state for defence against aggression and other violations of law.
Protozoa
Protozoa (protozoan or protozoon; alternative plural: protozoans) are a polyphyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, that feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic debris.
PT-76
The PT-76 is a Soviet amphibious light tank that was introduced in the early 1950s and soon became the standard reconnaissance tank of the Soviet Army and the other Warsaw Pact armed forces.
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Puerto Rico
-;. Cuba and Puerto Rico are 1898 disestablishments in the Spanish West Indies, former Spanish colonies, former colonies in North America, Greater Antilles, island countries, new Spain, small Island Developing States, Spanish West Indies, Spanish colonization of the Americas and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
Quintana Roo
Quintana Roo, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo (Estado Libre y Soberano de Quintana Roo), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico.
Raúl Castro
Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz (born 3 June 1931) is a Cuban retired politician and general who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-party communist state, from 2011 to 2021, and President of Cuba between 2008 and 2018, succeeding his brother Fidel Castro.
Rafael Trujillo
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina (24 October 1891 – 30 May 1961), nicknamed El Jefe, was a Dominican military commander and dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from August 1930 until his assassination in May 1961.
Ramón Grau
Ramón Grau San Martín (13 September 1881 – 28 July 1969) was a Cuban physician who served as President of Cuba from 1933 to 1934 and from 1944 to 1948.
Ramfis Trujillo
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Martínez (5 June 1929 – 27 December 1969), better known as Ramfis Trujillo Martínez, was the son of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic, after whose 1961 assassination he briefly held power.
Rances Barthelemy
Rances Barthelemy (born 25 June 1986) is a Cuban professional boxer.
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RAND Corporation
The RAND Corporation is an American nonprofit global policy think tank, research institute, and public sector consulting firm.
Rapping
Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular".
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Rationing in Cuba
Rationing in Cuba is organized by the government and implemented by means of a Libreta de Abastecimiento ("Supplies booklet") assigned to every individual.
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Redfield Proctor
Redfield Proctor (June 1, 1831March 4, 1908) was a U.S. politician of the Republican Party.
Reinaldo Arenas
Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright known as a vocal critic of Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban government.
Remedios, Cuba
Remedios, also known as San Juan de los Remedios, is a city and municipality located from the northern coast of Cuba, in the center of the island.
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RWB; Reporters sans frontières; RSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization focused on safeguarding the right to freedom of information.
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Republic of Cuba (1902–1959)
The Republic of Cuba, covering the historical period in Cuban history between 1902 and 1959, was an island country comprised the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud (since 1925) and several minor archipelagos. Cuba and Republic of Cuba (1902–1959) are states and territories established in 1902.
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
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Ropa vieja
Ropa vieja ("old clothes") is a dish with regional variations in Latin America, the Philippines, and Spain.
Rosen Publishing
The Rosen Publishing Group is an American publisher specializing in educational books catering to readers from pre-Kindergarten through grade 12.
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center is a cancer research and treatment center located in Buffalo, New York.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.
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Russia Beyond
Russia Beyond (formerly Russia Beyond The Headlines) is a Russian multilingual project operated by RT (formerly Russia Today) parent ANO TV-Novosti, founded by the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.
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Rutgers University Press
Rutgers University Press (RUP) is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in New Brunswick, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University.
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Sabana-Camagüey Archipelago
Sabana-Camagüey (Archipiélago de Sabana-Camagüey) is an archipelago that lies on Cuba's north-central Atlantic coast.
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Sabotage
Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity, government, effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction.
Sacred language
A sacred language, holy language or liturgical language is a language that is cultivated and used primarily for religious reasons (like Mosque service) by people who speak another, primary language (like Persian, Urdu, Pashtu, Balochi, Sindhi etc.) in their daily lives.
Sahrawis
The Sahrawis, or Sahrawi people (صحراويون), are an ethnic group native to the western part of the Sahara desert, which includes the Western Sahara, southern Morocco, much of Mauritania, and along the southwestern border of Algeria.
Saint-Domingue
Saint-Domingue was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1697 to 1804. Cuba and Saint-Domingue are former colonies in North America and island countries.
Salsa (dance)
Salsa is a Latin American dance, associated with salsa music. It originated in the late Eastern Cuba and gained popularity in New York in 1960.
Salsa music
Salsa music is a style of Caribbean music, combining elements of Cuban, Puerto Rican, and American influences.
Salvador Valdés Mesa
Salvador Antonio Valdés Mesa (born 13 June 1945) is a Cuban politicianDamien Cave,, The New York Times, 24 February 2013 and former trade union leader.
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Salvadoran Civil War
The Salvadoran Civil War (guerra civil de El Salvador) was a twelve-year period of civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition or "umbrella organization" of left-wing groups backed by the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro as well as the Soviet Union.
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Same-sex adoption
Same-sex adoption is the adoption of children by same-sex couples.
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Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex.
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Sancti Spíritus Province
Sancti Spíritus is one of the provinces of Cuba.
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Sand War
The Sand War was a border conflict between Algeria and Morocco fought from September 25 to October 30, 1963, although a formal peace treaty was not signed until February 20, 1964.
Santa Clara, Cuba
Santa Clara is the capital city of the Cuban province of Villa Clara.
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Santería
Santería, also known as Regla de Ocha, Regla Lucumí, or Lucumí, is an Afro-Caribbean religion that developed in Cuba during the late 19th century.
Santiago de Cuba
Santiago de Cuba is the second-largest city in Cuba and the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province. Cuba and Santiago de Cuba are 1515 establishments in the Spanish West Indies.
Santiago de Cuba Province
Santiago de Cuba Province is the second most populated province in the island of Cuba.
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Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo (meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. Cuba and Santo Domingo are Spanish West Indies.
Sarah Rainsford
Sarah Elizabeth Rainsford is a BBC foreign correspondent who has reported from Russia, Ukraine, Spain, Turkey, Cuba, Afghanistan and Iraq while working for the BBC since 1999.
Secretariat of the Communist Party of Cuba
The Secretariat is the highest executive organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.
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Seven Stories Press
Seven Stories Press is an independent American publishing company.
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Seven Years' War
The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas.
Sex tourism
Sex tourism is the practice of traveling to foreign countries, often on a different continent, with the intention of engaging in sexual activity or relationships in exchange for money or lifestyle support.
Sherritt International
Sherritt International is a Canadian resource company, based in Toronto, Ontario.
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Siege
A siege (lit) is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or by well-prepared assault.
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Siege of Havana
The Siege of Havana was a successful British siege against Spanish-ruled Havana that lasted from March to August 1762, as part of the Seven Years' War.
Sierra Maestra
The Sierra Maestra is a mountain range that runs westward across the south of the old Oriente Province in southeast Cuba, rising abruptly from the coast.
Simba rebellion
The Simba rebellion, also known as the Orientale revolt, was a regional uprising which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1963 and 1965 in the wider context of the Congo Crisis and the Cold War.
Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors.
Slavery in colonial Spanish America
Slavery in the Spanish American viceroyalties was an economic and social institution which existed throughout the Spanish Empire including Spain itself. Cuba and Slavery in colonial Spanish America are Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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Slavery in Cuba
Slavery in Cuba was a portion of the larger Atlantic Slave Trade that primarily supported Spanish plantation owners engaged in the sugarcane trade.
Slavery in Latin America
Slavery in Latin America was an economic and social institution that existed in Latin America before the colonial era until its legal abolition in the newly independent states during the 19th century.
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Smallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.
Socialism
Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.
Socialist state
A socialist state, socialist republic, or socialist country, sometimes referred to as a workers' state or workers' republic, is a sovereign state constitutionally dedicated to the establishment of socialism.
Socioeconomics
Socioeconomics (also known as social economics) is the social science that studies how economic activity affects and is shaped by social processes.
Son cubano
Son cubano is a genre of music and dance that originated in the highlands of eastern Cuba during the late 19th century.
South Yemen
South Yemen, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, officially abbreviated to Democratic Yemen, was a state that existed from 1967 to 1990 as the only communist state in the Middle East and the Arab world. Cuba and South Yemen are communist states.
Southeastern United States
The Southeastern United States, also referred to as the American Southeast, the Southeast, or the South, is a geographical region of the United States located in the eastern portion of the Southern United States and the southern portion of the Eastern United States.
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Soviet Armed Forces
The Soviet Armed Forces, also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922) and the Soviet Union (1922–1991) from their beginnings in the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923 to the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
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Soviet Army
The Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union (Sovetskiye sukhoputnye voyska) was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992.
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. Cuba and Soviet Union are communist states.
Spanish American wars of independence
The Spanish American wars of independence (Guerras de independencia hispanoamericanas) took place throughout Spanish America during the early 19th century, with the aim of political independence from Spanish rule. Cuba and Spanish American wars of independence are Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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Spanish colonization of the Americas
The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile. Cuba and Spanish colonization of the Americas are former Spanish colonies and Spanish West Indies.
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Spanish cuisine
Spanish cuisine consists of the traditions and practices of Spanish cooking.
Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. Cuba and Spanish Empire are Spanish colonization of the Americas.
Spanish Florida
Spanish Florida (La Florida) was the first major European land-claim and attempted settlement-area in northern America during the European Age of Discovery. Cuba and Spanish Florida are new Spain and Spanish colonization of the Americas.
Spanish West Indies
The Spanish West Indies, Spanish Caribbean or the Spanish Antilles (also known as "Las Antillas Occidentales" or simply "Las Antillas Españolas" in Spanish) were Spanish territories in the Caribbean. Cuba and Spanish West Indies are 1898 disestablishments in the Spanish West Indies, former Spanish colonies, former colonies in North America, new Spain, Spanish colonization of the Americas and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
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Spanish–American War
The Spanish–American War (April 21 – December 10, 1898) began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. Cuba and Spanish–American War are Spanish West Indies.
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Special Period
The Special Period (Período especial), officially the Special Period in the Time of Peace (Período especial en tiempos de paz), was an extended period of economic crisis in Cuba that began in 1991 primarily due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Comecon.
Sport of athletics
Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking.
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Straits of Florida
The Straits of Florida, Florida Straits, or Florida Strait (Estrecho de Florida) is a strait located south-southeast of the North American mainland, generally accepted to be between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, and between the Florida Keys (U.S.) and Cuba.
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Strike action
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike and industrial action in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.
Sugar plantations in the Caribbean
Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were a major part of the economy of the islands in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
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Surrogacy
Surrogacy is an arrangement, often supported by a legal agreement, whereby a woman agrees to childbirth on behalf of another person(s) who will become the child's parent(s) after birth.
Syncretism
Syncretism is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought.
Taíno
The Taíno were a historic Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, whose culture has been continued today by Taíno descendant communities and Taíno revivalist communities. Cuba and Taíno are Spanish West Indies.
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Taíno language
Taíno is an extinct Arawakan language that was spoken by the Taíno people of the Caribbean.
Teachers College, Columbia University
Teachers College, Columbia University (TC) is the graduate school of education, health, and psychology of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City.
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Telephone numbers in Cuba
Telephone numbers in Cuba all have the same format, consisting of the country code (53), followed by an area code.
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Ten Years' War
The Ten Years' War (Guerra de los Diez Años; 1868–1878), also known as the Great War (Guerra Grande) and the War of '68, was part of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain.
The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.
The Bahamas
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. Cuba and the Bahamas are countries in North America, countries in the Caribbean, island countries, member states of the United Nations and small Island Developing States.
The BMJ
The BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, published by BMJ Group, which in turn is wholly-owned by the British Medical Association (BMA).
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The Bodley Head
The Bodley Head is an English book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House.
The Cuba Libre Story
The Cuba Libre Story is a documentary series that portrays the history of Cuba from colonial times to 2015.
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The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
The Economist Democracy Index
The Democracy Index published by the Economist Group is an index measuring the quality of democracy across the world.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation, sometimes referred to simply as "Heritage", is an activist American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1973, it took a leading role in the conservative movement in the 1980s during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies were taken from Heritage Foundation studies, including its Mandate for Leadership.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
The Militant
The Militant is an international socialist newsweekly connected to the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the Pathfinder Press.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Quarto Group
The Quarto Group is a global illustrated book publishing group founded in 1976.
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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The Wilson Quarterly
The Wilson Quarterly is a magazine published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. The magazine was founded in 1976 by Peter Braestrup and James H. Billington.
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The World Factbook
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
Tomás Estrada Palma
Tomás Estrada Palma (July 6, 1835 – November 4, 1908) was a Cuban politician, the president of the Cuban Republican in Arms during the Ten Years' War, and the first President of Cuba, between May 20, 1902, and September 28, 1906.
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Total fertility rate
The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime, if they were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through their lifetime, and they were to live from birth until the end of their reproductive life.
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Tourism in Cuba
Tourism in Cuba is an industry that generates over 4.7 million arrivals, and is one of the main sources of revenue for the island.
Trafford Publishing
Trafford Publishing is a book publishing company for self-publishing authors.
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Transaction Publishers
Transaction Publishers was a New Jersey-based publishing house that specialized in social science books and journals.
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Transgender hormone therapy
Transgender hormone therapy, also called hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT), is a form of hormone therapy in which sex hormones and other hormonal medications are administered to transgender or gender nonconforming individuals for the purpose of more closely aligning their secondary sexual characteristics with their gender identity.
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Treaty of Paris (1763)
The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, following Great Britain and Prussia's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War.
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Treaty of Paris (1898)
The Treaty of Peace between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain, commonly known as the Treaty of Paris of 1898, was signed by Spain and the United States on December 10, 1898, that ended the Spanish–American War.
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Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), or the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty, is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal being their total elimination.
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Tres (instrument)
The tres (Spanish for three) is a three-course chordophone of Cuban origin.
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Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean region of North America. Cuba and Trinidad and Tobago are countries in North America, countries in the Caribbean, former Spanish colonies, island countries, member states of the United Nations, republics and small Island Developing States.
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Trinidad, Cuba
Trinidad is a town in the province of Sancti Spíritus, central Cuba.
Tropic of Cancer
The Tropic of Cancer, also known as the Northern Tropic, is the Earth's northernmost circle of latitude where the Sun can be seen directly overhead.
Tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.
Tryp Habana Libre
Hotel Tryp Habana Libre is one of the larger hotels in Cuba, situated in Vedado, Havana.
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UNITA
The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola, abbr. UNITA) is the second-largest political party in Angola.
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United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.
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United Nations General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ.
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United States Army War College
The United States Army War College (USAWC) is a U.S. Army educational institution in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on the 500-acre (2 km2) campus of the historic Carlisle Barracks.
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United States Department of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.
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United States embargo against Cuba
The United States embargo against Cuba prevents US businesses, and businesses organized under US law or majority-owned by US citizens, from conducting trade with Cuban interests.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.
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United States International Trade Commission
The United States International Trade Commission (USITC or I.T.C.) is an agency of the United States federal government that advises the legislative and executive branches on matters of trade.
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United States invasion of Grenada
The United States and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada, north of Venezuela at dawn on 25 October 1983.
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United States Military Government in Cuba
The United States Military Government in Cuba (Spanish: Gobierno militar estadounidense en Cuba or Gobierno militar americano en Cuba), was a provisional military government in Cuba that was established in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War in 1898 when Spain ceded Cuba to the United States.
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United States Secretary of War
The secretary of war was a member of the U.S. president's Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's administration.
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Universal health care
Universal health care (also called universal health coverage, universal coverage, or universal care) is a health care system in which all residents of a particular country or region are assured access to health care.
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University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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University of Colorado Boulder
The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado, United States.
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University of Florida
The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida.
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University of Havana
The University of Havana (UH; Universidad de La Habana) is a public university located in the Vedado district of Havana, the capital of Cuba.
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University of Miami
The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private research university in Coral Gables, Florida.
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University of Minnesota Press
The University of Minnesota Press is a university press that is part of the University of Minnesota.
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University of Nebraska Press
The University of Nebraska Press (UNP) was founded in 1941 and is an academic publisher of scholarly and general-interest books.
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University of North Carolina Press
The University of North Carolina Press (or UNC Press), founded in 1922, is a not-for-profit university press associated with the University of North Carolina.
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University of Pittsburgh Press
The University of Pittsburgh Press is a scholarly publishing house and a major American university press, part of the University of Pittsburgh.
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University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
The University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras; UPR-RP, or informally La IUPI) is a public land-grant research university in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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University of Santiago de Cuba
The University of Oriente - Santiago de Cuba (Universidad de Oriente - Santiago de Cuba, UO) is a university located in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
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University of Texas Press
The University of Texas Press (or UT Press) is a university press that is part of the University of Texas at Austin.
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University Press of Florida
The University Press of Florida (UPF) is the scholarly publishing arm of the State University System of Florida, representing Florida's twelve state universities.
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USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
USS Maine (1889)
Maine was a United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April.
UTC−04:00
UTC−04:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −04:00.
UTC−05:00
UTC−05:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −05:00.
Valeriano Weyler
Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, 1st Duke of Rubí, 1st Marquess of Tenerife (17September 183820October 1930) was a Spanish general and colonial administrator who served as the Governor-General of the Philippines and Cuba, and later as Spanish Minister for War.
Varadero
Varadero, also referred to as Playa Azul (Blue Beach), is a resort town in the province of Matanzas, Cuba, and one of the largest resort areas in the Caribbean.
Vertically transmitted infection
A vertically transmitted infection is an infection caused by pathogenic bacteria or viruses that use mother-to-child transmission, that is, transmission directly from the mother to an embryo, fetus, or baby during pregnancy or childbirth.
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Vice President of Cuba
The vice president of Cuba, previously the vice president of the Council of State between 1976 and 2019, is the second highest political position obtainable in the Council of State of Cuba.
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Villa Clara Province
Villa Clara is one of the provinces of Cuba.
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Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist.
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia.
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Wall Street Crash of 1929
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, Crash of '29, or Black Tuesday, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929.
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War of Attrition
The War of Attrition (Ḥarb al-Istinzāf; Milḥemet haHatashah) involved fighting between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and their allies from 1967 to 1970.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
Webometrics Ranking of World Universities
The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, also known as Ranking Web of Universities, is a ranking system for the world's universities based on a composite indicator that takes into account both the volume of the Web content (number of web pages and files) and the visibility and impact of these web publications according to the number of external inlinks (site citations) they received.
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Western African Ebola epidemic
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in Western Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history.
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Western Hemisphere
The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian—which crosses Greenwich, London, England—and east of the 180th meridian.
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Western Sahara
Western Sahara is a disputed territory in North-western Africa. Cuba and Western Sahara are former Spanish colonies and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
Westview Press
Westview Press was an American publishing company headquartered in Boulder, Colorado founded in 1975.
White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States.
White Latin Americans
White Latin Americans or European Latin Americans (sometimes Euro-Latinos) are Latin Americans of European descent.
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Wiki
A wiki is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser.
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Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
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William and Mary Quarterly
The William and Mary Quarterly is a quarterly history journal published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
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William McKinley
William McKinley (January 29, 1843September 14, 1901) was an American politician who served as the 25th president of the United States from 1897 until his assassination in 1901.
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.
World Food Programme
The World Food Programme (WFP) is an international organization within the United Nations that provides food assistance worldwide.
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World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
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World Politics
World Politics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering political science and international relations.
World Press Freedom Index
The World Press Freedom Index (WPFI) is an annual ranking of countries compiled and published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) since 2002 based upon the organization's own assessment of the countries' press freedom records in the previous year.
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World Wide Fund for Nature
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is a Swiss-based international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.
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Wrestling
Wrestling is a martial art and combat sport that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset.
Xenophobia
Xenophobia (from ξένος (xénos), "strange, foreign, or alien", and (phóbos), "fear") is the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange.
Yale Law School
Yale Law School (YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.
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Yellow journalism
In journalism, yellow journalism and the yellow press are American newspapers that use eye-catching headlines and sensationalized exaggerations for increased sales.
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Yemen
Yemen (al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen, is a sovereign state in West Asia. Cuba and Yemen are member states of the United Nations.
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Yom Kippur War
The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was an armed conflict fought from 6 to 25 October 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria.
Yoruba language
Yoruba (Yor. Èdè Yorùbá,; Ajami: عِدعِ يوْرُبا) is a language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in Southwestern and Central Nigeria.
Yoruba people
The Yoruba people (Ọmọ Odùduwà, Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire) are a West African ethnic group who mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo.
Yucatán Channel
The Yucatán Channel or Straits of Yucatán (Spanish: Canal de Yucatán) is a strait between Mexico and Cuba.
Yucatán Peninsula
The Yucatán Peninsula (also,; Península de Yucatán) is a large peninsula in southeast Mexico and adjacent portions of Belize and Guatemala.
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Zoé Valdés
Zoé Valdés (born May 2, 1959 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban novelist, poet, scriptwriter, film director and blogger.
.cu
.cu is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Cuba.
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1940 Constitution of Cuba
The 1940 Constitution of Cuba was implemented during the presidency of Fulgencio Batista on 10 October 1940.
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1952 Cuban coup d'état
The 1952 Cuban coup d'état took place in Cuba on March 10, 1952, when the Cuban Constitutional Army, led by Fulgencio Batista, intervened in the election that was scheduled to be held on 1 June 1952, staging a coup d'état and establishing a de facto military dictatorship in the country.
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1994 Cuban rafter crisis
The 1994 Cuban rafter crisis which is also known as the 1994 Cuban raft exodus or the Balsero crisis was the emigration of more than 35,069 Cubans to the United States via makeshift rafts.
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19th parallel north
The 19th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 19 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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2009 Cuban government dismissals
In March 2009, President Raúl Castro of Cuba dismissed numerous government ministers.
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2018 Cuban parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Cuba on 11 March 2018 to elect members of the National Assembly of People's Power.
See Cuba and 2018 Cuban parliamentary election
2021 Cuban protests
A series of protests against the Cuban government and the Communist Party of Cuba began on 11 July 2021, triggered by a shortage of food and medicine and the government's response to the resurgent COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba.
See Cuba and 2021 Cuban protests
2022 Cuban Family Code referendum
A referendum was held on 25 September 2022 in Cuba to approve amendments to the Family Code of the Cuban Constitution.
See Cuba and 2022 Cuban Family Code referendum
24th parallel north
The 24th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 24 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, about north of the Tropic of Cancer.
See Cuba and 24th parallel north
26th of July Movement
The 26th of July Movement (Movimiento 26 de julio; M-26-7) was a Cuban vanguard revolutionary organization and later a political party led by Fidel Castro.
See Cuba and 26th of July Movement
4th millennium BC
The 4th millennium BC spanned the years 4000 BC to 3001 BC.
See Cuba and 4th millennium BC
74th meridian west
The meridian 74° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, South America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
See Cuba and 74th meridian west
85th meridian west
The meridian 85° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, Central America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
See Cuba and 85th meridian west
9th century
The 9th century was a period from 801 (represented by the Roman numerals DCCCI) through 900 (CM) in accordance with the Julian calendar.
See also
1515 establishments in the Spanish West Indies
- Cuba
- Havana
- Santiago de Cuba
1898 disestablishments in the Spanish West Indies
1898 establishments in the United States
- American Anti-Imperialist League
- American Bryological and Lichenological Society
- American Hospital Association
- American Labor Union
- American Optometric Association
- Association of Directory Publishers
- Cape Nome Mining District Discovery Sites
- Chesapeake Beach Railway
- Community of the Transfiguration
- Court of Neptune Fountain
- Cuba
- Dewey Medal
- Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
- King Koil
- Marquis Who's Who
- Social Democratic Party of America
- Spanish Campaign Medal
- Ten American Painters
- Territory of Hawaii
- United Kennel Club
1902 disestablishments in the United States
1902 establishments in North America
- Cuba
Communist states
- China
- Communist state
- Criticism of communist party rule
- Cuba
- Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
- Democratic Kampuchea
- Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
- Democratic Republic of Madagascar
- Derg
- East Germany
- Highest organ of state power
- Hungarian People's Republic
- Inner Mongolian People's Republic
- Laos
- List of communist states
- List of socialist states
- Mass killings under communist regimes
- Mongolian People's Republic
- North Korea
- People's Committee of North Korea
- People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
- People's Republic of Angola
- People's Republic of Benin
- People's Republic of Bulgaria
- People's Republic of China
- People's Republic of Kampuchea
- People's Republic of Mozambique
- People's Republic of the Congo
- People's Revolutionary Government (Grenada)
- People's Socialist Republic of Albania
- People's republic
- Polish People's Republic
- Provisional People's Committee of North Korea
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Socialist Republic of Romania
- Somali Democratic Republic
- South Yemen
- Soviet Central Asia
- Soviet Union
- Soviet republics
- Soviet satellite states
- Urban planning in communist countries
- Vietnam
Countries in North America
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Barbados
- Belize
- Canada
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- List of North American countries by GDP (PPP)
- List of North American countries by GDP (PPP) per capita
- List of North American countries by GDP (nominal)
- List of North American countries by GDP (nominal) per capita
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- The Bahamas
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United States
Countries in the Caribbean
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Barbados
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Grenada
- Haiti
- Jamaica
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- The Bahamas
- Trinidad and Tobago
Greater Antilles
- Anglo-French War (1778–1783)
- Antillean Confederation
- Antilles
- Cayman Islands
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- Effects of Hurricane Sandy in the Greater Antilles
- Eleutherodactylus portoricensis
- Erechthis
- Erechthis levyi
- Greater Antilles
- Haiti
- Hispaniola
- Islands of Cuba
- Islands of Haiti
- Islands of Jamaica
- Islands of Puerto Rico
- Islands of the Cayman Islands
- Islands of the Dominican Republic
- Jamaica
- List of Indigenous names of Caribbean islands
- Navassa Island
- Pre-Arawakan languages of the Greater Antilles
- Puerto Rico
One-party states
- Carpatho-Ukraine
- Central African Empire
- China
- Cuba
- Eritrea
- Estado Novo (Portugal)
- Laos
- North Korea
- One-party state
- People's Republic of Angola
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Vietnam
- Wa State
- Zaire
Spanish-speaking countries and territories
- Alta California
- Andorra
- Argentina
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Captaincy General of Chile
- Captaincy General of Cuba
- Captaincy General of Guatemala
- Captaincy General of Puerto Rico
- Captaincy General of Santo Domingo
- Captaincy General of Venezuela
- Captaincy General of Yucatán
- Captaincy General of the Philippines
- Chile
- Colombia
- Colony of Santiago
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Guatemala
- Hispanidad
- Honduras
- Insular Government of Porto Rico
- Intendancy of San Salvador
- List of countries and territories where Spanish is an official language
- Mexico
- New Spain
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Province of Las Californias
- Provincias Internas
- Puerto Rico
- Republic of Texas
- Republic of Yucatán
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- Spain
- Spanish West Indies
- Upper Peru
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Viceroyalty of New Granada
- Viceroyalty of Peru
- Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
- Western Sahara
States and territories established in 1902
- Ashanti Protectorate
- Cuba
- Emirate of Nejd and Hasa
- Emirate of Riyadh
- Gurian Republic
- Kulangsu International Settlement
- Lepanto-Bontoc
- Mindoro (province)
- Orange River Colony
- Republic of Cuba (1902–1959)
- Senegambia and Niger
- Territory of Quintana Roo
- Transvaal Colony
- United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
- Weber County, New Zealand
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