Telegraph.co.uk
| Apr 11, 2013
Fidel Castro made a rare public appearance this week and the old revolutionary appears to be alive and well -- but missing Hugo Chávez terribly. At the opening of a primary school in Havana, the 86-year-old became visibly emotional during a...
Euronews
| Mar 4, 2013
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a "severe" new respiratory infection, following his latest cancer surgery, officials have revealed, raising speculation that he may not have long to live. "Today there is a worsening of respiratory functio...
Associated Press
| Feb 24, 2013
Cuba's Castro dynasty is nearing an end. Raúl Castro has just announced that he will step down as the nation's president in 2018 at the end of his current five-year term. The 81-year-old leader, who replaced his famous brother, Fidel, as he...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 18, 2013
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned home after more than two months of medical treatment in Cuba following cancer surgery. So far, the ailing leader, 58, is lying low, but the announcement of his return in a series of tweets today has be...
Euronews
| Feb 16, 2013
The Venezuelan government is perhaps hoping that the first pictures of President Hugo Chavez since his last operation for cancer in Cuba will boost its popularity. People in Venezuela including Chavez supporters have been hit by a recent hike in p...
Euronews
| Feb 3, 2013
Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro, 86, chatted with well-wishers and reporters in Havana in a rare appearance as he voted in the country's general election. It was the first time he was seen in public for any length of time since 2010. "The p...
NTDTV
| Jan 30, 2013
Lawyers for suspects accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks want to get a better idea of what life in the Guantanamo Bay detention center is like for their clients. The lawyers, who argue that harsh pretrial conditions could spare their clients the ...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 20, 2013
A two month unilateral ceasefire declared by armed groups in Colombia has ended. The truce had been offered as a gesture of good will during on-going peace talks in Cuba. Sunday's deadline has civilians bracing themselves for an upsurge in violence.
Democracy Now!
| Jan 10, 2013
Venezuela has postponed today's presidential inauguration as Hugo Chávez remains hospitalized in Cuba. The Venezuelan Supreme Court says Chávez is still president, but the opposition is calling for a caretaker government and new elec...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 4, 2013
Hugo Chavez is battling a severe lung infection and suffering "respiratory deficiency," the Venezuelan government says. Officials have been under pressure from the opposition to release details on the president's condition and it's not clear what ...
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...the United States had to declare war against Cuba’s motherland, Spain in 1898. The United States had at least 3 reason to go into war with Spain...
— Mar 30 at 09:21 am
...the motivation, ambition and role of women in the Cuban Revolution from 1953-1959. Additionally, I will look at what Fidel Castro and the leader...
— last Wednesday at 05:21 pm
...of people to freely leave or enter their country of origin, has been evident in Cuba during the last 50 years. It is obvious that the Cuban gove...
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the capital of Cuba and its largest city, followed by Santiago de Cuba. To the north of Cuba lies the United States and the Bahamas, Mexico is to the west, the Cayman Islands and Jamaica are to the south, and Haiti and the Dominican Republic are to the southeast.
In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on what is now the island of Cuba and claimed it for the Kingdom of Spain. Cuba remained a colony of Spain until the Spanish–American War of 1898, after which it came briefly under the administration of the United States until gaining formal independence in 1902. Its fragile democracy became increasingly dominated by radical politics, and while the Cuban Constitution of 1940 sought to strengthen its democratic system, the country came under the dictatorship of former president Fulgencio Batista in 1952, who intensified already rampant corruption, political repression and crippling economic regulations. Growing unrest and instability led to the ousting of Batista in January 1959 by the July 26 movement, which afterward established a new administration under Fidel Castro. By 1965, the country had developed into a single-party state under the revived Communist Party of Cuba, which holds power to date.
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