Portal:Cuba

Republic of Cuba
*República de Cuba* (Spanish)
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Cuba (/ˈkjuːbə/ ^ⓘ KEW-bə, Spanish: [ˈkuβa] ^ⓘ), officially the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: República de Cuba [reˈpuβlika ðe ˈkuβa] ^ⓘ), is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet. Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both the American state of Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital; other major cities include Santiago de Cuba and Camagüey. The official area of the Republic of Cuba is 109,884 km² (42,426 sq mi) (without the territorial waters) but a total of 350,730 km² (135,420 sq mi) including the exclusive economic zone. Cuba is the second-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti, with over 11 million inhabitants.

Cuba is one of a few extant Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist states, in which the role of the vanguard Communist Party is enshrined in the Constitution. Cuba has an authoritarian regime where political opposition is not permitted. Censorship is extensive and independent journalism is repressed; Reporters Without Borders has characterized Cuba as one of the worst countries for press freedom. Culturally, Cuba is considered part of Latin America. It is a multiethnic country whose people, culture and customs derive from diverse origins, including the Taíno Ciboney peoples, the long period of Spanish colonialism, the introduction of enslaved Africans and a close relationship with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. (Full article...)

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Havana (/həˈvænə/; Spanish: La Habana [la aˈβana] ^ⓘ; Lucumi: Ilú Pupu Ilé) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center. The city had a population of 2,137,847 inhabitants in 2022, and it spans a total of 728.26 km² (281.18 sq mi) for the capital city side and 8,475.57 km² for the metropolitan zone – making it the largest city by area, the most populous city, and the second largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region.

The city of Havana was founded by the Spanish in the 16th century. It served as a springboard for the Spanish conquest of the Americas, becoming a stopping point for Spanish galleons returning to Spain. Philip II of Spain granted Havana the title of capital in 1607. Walls as well as forts were built to protect the city. (Full article...)

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Image 1Soldiers of FAR (from History of Cuba)
Image 2The Bay of Pigs Memorial in Miami, Florida (from History of Cuba)
Image 3States proposed in the Spanish Draft Federal Constitution of 1873, among which Cuba was included. (from History of Cuba)
Image 4The fortress of El Morro in Havana, built in 1589 (from History of Cuba)
Image 5Russian T-34 tank at Museo Giron, Cuba (from History of Cuba)
Image 6Taíno women preparing cassava bread (from History of Cuba)
Image 7President Carlos Prío Socarrás (left), with US president Harry S. Truman in Washington, D.C. in 1948 (from History of Cuba)
Image 8Rebel leaders engaged in extensive propaganda to get the U.S. to intervene, as shown in this cartoon in an American magazine. Columbia (the American people) reaches out to help oppressed Cuba in 1897 while Uncle Sam (the U.S. government) is blind to the crisis and will not use its powerful guns to help. Judge magazine, 6 February 1897. (from History of Cuba)
Image 9Cuban victims of Spanish reconcentration policies (from History of Cuba)
Image 10Banrarra Afro-Cuban dance troupe (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 11A monument to the Taíno chieftain Hatuey in Baracoa, Cuba (from History of Cuba)
Image 12Camilo Cienfuegos, Fidel Castro, Huber Matos, entering Havana on 8 January 1959 (from History of Cuba)
Image 13A 1736 colonial map by Herman Moll of the West Indies and Mexico, together comprising "New Spain", with Cuba visible in the center. (from History of Cuba)
Image 14A watercolor painting of Havana Bay, c. 1639 (from History of Cuba)
Image 15Public transportation in Cuba during the "Special Period" (from History of Cuba)
Image 16Three generations of women (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 17Depiction of an engagement between Cuban rebels and Spanish Royalists during the Ten Years' War (1868–78) (from History of Cuba)
Image 18Cuban PT-76 tank crew on routine security duties in Angola (from History of Cuba)
Image 19The Casino Español, Matanzas (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 20The wreckage of the USS Maine, photographed in 1898 (from History of Cuba)
Image 21Defense of a train attacked by Cuban insurgents (from History of Cuba)
Image 22The British Fleet Entering Havana, 21 August 1762, a 1775 painting by Dominic Serres (from History of Cuba)
Image 23Fidel Castro's July 26 Movement rebels mounted on horses in 1959 (from History of Cuba)
Image 24Spanish General Arsenio Martínez Campos in Havana, Colonial Cuba, 1878 (from History of Cuba)
Image 25Capablanca playing chess with his father José María Capablanca in 1892 (from Culture of Cuba)

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... that José Ramón Balaguer fought as a soldier-medic for Fidel Castro's rebel army before becoming Cuba's minister of public health?
... that Brooklyn Nine-Nine actress Melissa Fumero is the daughter of Cubans who fled to the U.S. as teenagers?
... that Cuban ballerinas and sisters Lorena and Lorna Feijóo both moved to the U.S., and once split the roles of Black and White Swans in Swan Lake, which are usually danced by the same person?
... that after his release from a hospital for the criminally insane, Richard Dixon burgled $16 from a credit union and hijacked a jet to Cuba?
... that before his Major League Baseball career, Leo Posada represented Cuba internationally in cycling?
... that Rudi Kappel, co-founder of the first airline of Suriname, was arrested both on entering and leaving Santiago de Cuba?

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Surface map of the storm on October 10

The 1910 Cuba hurricane, popularly known as the Cyclone of the Five Days, was an unusual and destructive tropical cyclone that struck Cuba and the United States in October 1910. It formed in the southern Caribbean on October 9 and strengthened as it moved northwestward, becoming a hurricane on October 12. After crossing the western tip of Cuba, it peaked in intensity on October 16, corresponding to Category 4 on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale. That same day, the hurricane moved in a counterclockwise loop and hit Cuba again. It then tracked toward Florida, landing near Cape Romano. After moving through the state, it hugged the coast of the Southeastern United States on its way out to sea.

Due to its unusual loop, initial reports suggested it was two separate storms that developed and hit land in rapid succession. Its track was subject to much debate at the time; eventually, it was identified as a single storm. Analysis of the event gave a greater understanding of weather systems that took similar paths. (Full article...)

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Yarisley Silva Rodríguez (born 1 June 1987) is a Cuban pole vaulter. She won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics – the first Latin American athlete to win an Olympic medal in that event.

Silva became the first Cuban woman to reach a world class standard in the pole vault. Her personal bests of 4.90 m (16 ft 3⁄4 in) outdoors and 4.78 m (15 ft 8 in) indoors are the Cuban and Central American and Caribbean records for the event. (Full article...)

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Tobacco field in Pinar del Rio

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...that soon after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Fidel Castro pledged to underwrite the debts of the Havana Sugar Kings baseball team, by playing an exhibition contest between his own pickup squad Los Barbudos ("The Bearded Ones") and a military police team?

...that Pico Turquino in the Sierra Maestra mountains is the highest point in Cuba at 6,749 feet?

...that Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was a Cuban filmmaker who wrote and directed more than 20 features, documentaries, and short films, and is known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba?

...that the Godfrey-Milliken Bill, was a Private Member's Bill introduced in the Canadian parliament by MPs Peter Milliken and John Godfrey to parody and attack the Helms-Burton Act devised by the United States, which aimed to tighten the United States embargo against Cuba?

...that Cubana de Aviación's Tropicana Special flights, which began in 1956, ferried club customers from Miami to the Tropicana Club in Havana and returned them to Florida at 4am the following morning?

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I began singing ‘Dos gardenias’ (by Isolina Carrillo) and Ry Cooder recorded it. It was that way that I joined, without being in the project, because I was not part of the Buenavista (Social Club) project. I recorded four songs. Afterwards, came the tours, the Grammy. I did not know what the Grammy was, and I was told it is an award. I liked it a lot. I am still here, singing, and I will continue to sing as long as I have strength.

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Singer Ibrahim Ferrer.

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