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Cuba Republic of Cuba , is an island country , comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud , and 4,195 islands , islets and cays surrounding the main island. It 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 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 10 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...
The following are images from various Cuba-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 The Casino Español, Matanzas (from
Culture of Cuba )
Image 2 President
Carlos Prío Socarrás (left), with US president
Harry S. Truman in Washington, D.C. in 1948 (from
History of Cuba )
Image 3 Tobacco fields in Cuba, 1859 (from
History of Cuba )
Image 4 Capablanca playing chess with his father José María Capablanca in 1892 (from
Culture of Cuba )
Image 6 A 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 7 The Bay of Pigs Memorial in
Miami , Florida (from
History of Cuba )
Image 8 A monument to the Taíno chieftain Hatuey in
Baracoa , Cuba (from
History of Cuba )
Image 9 The city walls of Havana, 1848 (from
History of Cuba )
Image 10 Cuban
PT-76 tank crew on routine security duties in Angola (from
History of Cuba )
Image 11 Soldiers of
FAR (from
History of Cuba )
Image 12 19th century view of Havana (from
History of Cuba )
Image 13 The fortress of
El Morro in Havana, built in 1589 (from
History of Cuba )
Image 14 Camilo Cienfuegos ,
Fidel Castro ,
Huber Matos , entering Havana on 8 January 1959 (from
History of Cuba )
Image 15 Three generations of women (from
Culture of Cuba )
Image 16 States proposed in the
Spanish Draft Federal Constitution of 1873 , among which Cuba was included. (from
History of Cuba )
Image 17 Defense of a train attacked by Cuban insurgents (from
History of Cuba )
Image 18 Banrarra Afro-Cuban dance troupe (from
Culture of Cuba )
Image 19 A
watercolor painting of Havana Bay,
c. 1639 (from
History of Cuba )
Image 20 Russian
T-34 tank at Museo Giron, Cuba (from
History of Cuba )
Image 21 Cuban victims of Spanish reconcentration policies (from
History of Cuba )
Image 22 The British Fleet Entering Havana, 21 August 1762 , a 1775 painting by
Dominic Serres (from
History of Cuba )
Image 23 Depiction of an engagement between Cuban rebels and Spanish Royalists during the
Ten Years' War (1868–78) (from
History of Cuba )
Image 24 Public transportation in Cuba during the "Special Period" (from
History of Cuba )
Image 25 The wreckage of the
USS Maine , photographed in 1898 (from
History of Cuba )
Image 26 Rebel 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 27 Fidel Castro 's
July 26 Movement rebels mounted on horses in 1959 (from
History of Cuba )
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Entries here consist of Good and Featured articles, which meet a core set of high editorial standards. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz KASS -trohLatin American Spanish: [fiˈðel aleˈxandɾo ˈkastɾo ˈrus] Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist , he also served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state ; industry and business were nationalized , and socialist reforms were implemented throughout society. He is considered a communist dictator.
Born in
Birán , the son of a wealthy Spanish farmer, Castro adopted
leftist and
anti-imperialist ideas while studying law at the
University of Havana . After participating in rebellions against right-wing governments in the
Dominican Republic and
Colombia , he planned the overthrow of Cuban president
Fulgencio Batista , launching a failed
attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953. After a year's imprisonment, Castro travelled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group, the
26th of July Movement , with his brother
Raúl Castro and
Ernesto "Che" Guevara . Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the
Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a
guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the
Sierra Maestra . After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's prime minister. The United States came to oppose Castro's government and unsuccessfully attempted to
remove him by assassination ,
economic embargo , and counter-revolution, including the
Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. Countering these threats, Castro aligned with the
Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, resulting in the
Cuban Missile Crisis —a defining incident of the
Cold War —in 1962. (
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Che Guevara Mausoleum at Santa Clara.
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“
I do not fear prison, as I do not fear the fury of the miserable tyrant who took the lives of 70 of my comrades. Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
”
The concluding sentences of a four hour speech made by Fidel Castro in his own defense in court against the charges brought against him after leading an attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953.
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