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Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, 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. Cuba is the third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 11 million inhabitants. It is the largest country in the Caribbean by area.

Cuba is a socialist state, in which the role of the Communist Party is enshrined in the Constitution. Cuba has an authoritarian government 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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The Guantanamo Bay detention camp ( Spanish: Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison within the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Gitmo ( /ˈɡɪtmoʊ/ GIT-moh), on the coast of Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. , of the 779 people detained there since January 2002 when the military prison first opened after the September 11 attacks, 740 had been transferred elsewhere, 30 remained there, and nine had died while in custody.

The camp was established by U.S. President George W. Bush's administration in 2002 during the War on Terror following the September 11, 2001 attacks. Indefinite detention without trial led the operations of this camp to be considered a major breach of human rights by Amnesty International, and a violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments of the United States Constitution by the Center for Constitutional Rights. There are also testimonies of abuse and torture of prisoners. ( Full article...)

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Image 1A watercolor painting of Havana Bay, c. 1639 (from History of Cuba)
Image 2Defense of a train attacked by Cuban insurgents (from History of Cuba)
Image 3Banrarra Afro-Cuban dance troupe (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 4 Camilo Cienfuegos, Fidel Castro, Huber Matos, entering Havana on 8 January 1959 (from History of Cuba)
Image 5 Taíno women preparing cassava bread (from History of Cuba)
Image 6The fortress of El Morro in Havana, built in 1589 (from History of Cuba)
Image 719th century view of Havana (from History of Cuba)
Image 8A 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 9President Carlos Prío Socarrás (left), with US president Harry S. Truman in Washington, D.C. in 1948 (from History of Cuba)
Image 10 Fidel Castro's July 26 Movement rebels mounted on horses in 1959 (from History of Cuba)
Image 11The Bay of Pigs Memorial in Miami, Florida (from History of Cuba)
Image 12States proposed in the Spanish Draft Federal Constitution of 1873, among which Cuba was included. (from History of Cuba)
Image 13The British Fleet Entering Havana, 21 August 1762, a 1775 painting by Dominic Serres (from History of Cuba)
Image 14Depiction of an engagement between Cuban rebels and Spanish Royalists during the Ten Years' War (1868–78) (from History of Cuba)
Image 15A monument to the Taíno chieftain Hatuey in Baracoa, Cuba (from History of Cuba)
Image 16The Casino Español, Matanzas (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 17Soldiers of FAR (from History of Cuba)
Image 18The city walls of Havana, 1848 (from History of Cuba)
Image 19Cuban victims of Spanish reconcentration policies (from History of Cuba)
Image 20Rebel 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 21Cuban PT-76 tank crew on routine security duties in Angola (from History of Cuba)
Image 22Spanish General Arsenio Martínez Campos in Havana, Colonial Cuba, 1878 (from History of Cuba)
Image 23Tobacco fields in Cuba, 1859 (from History of Cuba)
Image 24Capablanca playing chess with his father José María Capablanca in 1892 (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 25Russian T-34 tank at Museo Giron, Cuba (from History of Cuba)
Image 26The wreckage of the USS Maine, photographed in 1898 (from History of Cuba)
Image 27Three generations of women (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 28Public transportation in Cuba during the "Special Period" (from History 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 Rudi Kappel, co-founder of the first airline of Suriname, was arrested both on entering and leaving Santiago de Cuba?
... that after his movement's victory in the Cuban Revolution, television broadcasts showed Camilo Cienfuegos freeing parrots from birdcages, declaring that the birds had "a right to liberty"?
... that Joan Boada was named a principal dancer at the Cuban National Ballet at age 16, but later defected and ended up at the San Francisco Ballet?
... 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 Brooklyn Nine-Nine actress Melissa Fumero is the daughter of Cubans who fled to the U.S. as teenagers?

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Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas (29 February 1952 – 22 July 2012) was a Cuban political activist. A Roman Catholic, he founded the Christian Liberation Movement in 1987 to oppose the one-party rule of the Cuban Communist Party. He attracted international attention for organizing a petition drive known as the Varela Project, in which 25,000 signatories petitioned the Cuban government to guarantee freedom of speech and freedom of assembly as well as to institute a multi-party democracy. In recognition of his work, he received the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize and People in Need's Homo Homini Award.

On 22 July 2012, he died in a car crash under controversial circumstances. The Cuban government stated that the driver had lost control of the vehicle and collided with a tree, while Payá's children and one of the car's passengers asserted that the car had been deliberately run off of the road. In 2023, a ruling by the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) held the Cuban state responsible for the murder of Oswaldo Payá. ( Full article...)

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José Ramón Machado Ventura (born 26 October 1930) is a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the First Vice President of the Council of State of Cuba from 2008 to 2013. With the election of Raúl Castro as President of Cuba on 24 February 2008, Machado was elected to succeed him as First Vice President, serving until 2013. He was elected Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in 2011. ( Full article...)

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Church tower at Manaca Ignaza, Valle de los Ingenios

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...that Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (pictured) is known as Padre de la Patria, (English:Father of the Homeland) in Cuba, having declared the nation's independence from Spain in 1868?

...that the Cauto River is the longest river in Cuba at 213 miles?

... that the Cuban convertible peso was introduced as one of two official currencies in Cuba to replace the US dollar, which was removed from circulation in 2004?

...that Cuban politician Carlos Lage Dávila is current executive Secretary of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, and has been described as Cuba's de facto prime minister?

...that ballerina Alicia Alonso now directs the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, and in June 2002 was designated a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador?

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Ay, no ha que llorar, que la vida es un carnaval!

es mas bello vivir cantando.
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