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Location of Cuba in the Caribbean
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 second-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti, with over 11 million inhabitants.
Cuba is one of a few extant socialist states , in which the role of the 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... )
Desmarest's hutia or the
Cuban hutia (
Capromys pilorides ) is a stout, furry, rat-like mammal found only on
Cuba and nearby islands. Growing to about 60 cm (2 ft), it normally lives in pairs and feeds on leaves, fruit, bark and sometimes small animals. It is the largest living
hutia (subfamily Capromyinae), a group of
rodents native to the Caribbean that are mostly endangered or extinct. Desmarest's hutia remains widespread throughout its range, though one subspecies (
C. p. lewisi ) native to the nearby
Cayman Islands went extinct shortly after European colonization in the 1500s. (
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General images
The following are images from various Cuba-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 A
watercolor painting of Havana Bay,
c. 1639 (from
History of Cuba )
Image 3 Tobacco fields in Cuba, 1859 (from
History of Cuba )
Image 4 Public transportation in Cuba during the "Special Period" (from
History of Cuba )
Image 6 Banrarra Afro-Cuban dance troupe (from
Culture of Cuba )
Image 7 Fidel Castro 's
July 26 Movement rebels mounted on horses in 1959 (from
History of Cuba )
Image 8 19th century view of Havana (from
History of Cuba )
Image 9 The fortress of
El Morro in Havana, built in 1589 (from
History of Cuba )
Image 10 The British Fleet Entering Havana, 21 August 1762 , a 1775 painting by
Dominic Serres (from
History of Cuba )
Image 11 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 12 The Bay of Pigs Memorial in
Miami , Florida (from
History of Cuba )
Image 13 Three generations of women (from
Culture of Cuba )
Image 14 The Casino Español, Matanzas (from
Culture of Cuba )
Image 15 Depiction of an engagement between Cuban rebels and Spanish Royalists during the
Ten Years' War (1868–78) (from
History of Cuba )
Image 16 Russian
T-34 tank at Museo Giron, Cuba (from
History of Cuba )
Image 17 The city walls of Havana, 1848 (from
History of Cuba )
Image 18 Defense of a train attacked by Cuban insurgents (from
History of Cuba )
Image 19 States proposed in the
Spanish Draft Federal Constitution of 1873 , among which Cuba was included. (from
History of Cuba )
Image 20 Capablanca playing chess with his father José María Capablanca in 1892 (from
Culture of Cuba )
Image 21 Cuban victims of Spanish reconcentration policies (from
History of Cuba )
Image 23 Soldiers of
FAR (from
History of Cuba )
Image 24 The wreckage of the
USS Maine , photographed in 1898 (from
History of Cuba )
Image 25 President
Carlos Prío Socarrás (left), with US president
Harry S. Truman in Washington, D.C. in 1948 (from
History of Cuba )
Image 26 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 27 Cuban
PT-76 tank crew on routine security duties in Angola (from
History of Cuba )
Image 28 A monument to the Taíno chieftain Hatuey in
Baracoa , Cuba (from
History of Cuba )
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Museum of the Revolution in Havana
...that Eastern Cuban cuisine forms the basis of criollo cooking, which shares a great deal of recipes with other Caribbean cuisines, but has the distinctive difference of making almost no use of peppers ?
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Boxing
Adolfo Horta , Featherweight Olympic boxer
Ariel Hernández , Middleweight Olympic boxer
Armando Martínez , Light middle-weight Olympic boxer
Benny Paret , boxer
Eliseo Castillo , boxer
Félix Savón , Olympic gold medal winning boxer
Florentino Fernández , boxer
Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz , amateur boxer
Joel Casamayor , boxer
Jorge Rubio , Boxing trainer.
José Napoles , boxer
Kid Charol , Boxer
Kid Chocolate , boxer
Kid Gavilan , boxer
Lorenzo Aragon Armenteros Olympic welterweight boxer
Luis Manuel Rodriguez , boxer
Mario César Kindelán Mesa , Olympic gold medal winning boxer
Raúl González , boxer
Roberto Balado , Olympic Super Heavyweight boxer
Sugar Ramos , world champion boxer
Teofilo Stevenson , amateur boxer
Yanqui Diaz , boxer
Yudel Johnson Cedeno Light-Welterweight Olympic Boxer
Athletics
Alberto Juantorena , basketball, track
Aliecer Urrutia , triple jump
Ana Fidelia Quirot 800m
Dayron Robles , Hurdling athlete
Emeterio González , javelin thrower.
Hector Herrera , sprinter
Ioamnet Quintero , high jumper
Iván García , sprinter
Iván Pedroso , long jump
Javier Sotomayor , track and field record setter
Joel Isasi , sprinter
Joel Lamela , sprinter
Jorge Aguilera , sprinter
Lazaro Martínez , sprinter
Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda , sprinter
Osleidys Menéndez , javelin
Roberto Hernández (track athlete)
Roberto Moya , discus throw
Víctor Moya , high jumper
Yargelis Savigne , jump
Yipsi Moreno , hammer thrower
Yoandri Betanzos , triple jump
Yoel García , triple jumper
Yoel Hernández hurdler
Yudelkis Fernández long jumper.
Yunaika Crawford , hammer thrower
Yuniel Hernández , hurdler
Other
Adolfo Luque , Cincinnati Reds
Alberto Delgado Pérez , soccer
Alex Sánchez , Baseball Free Agent
Ariel Pestano , Cuban Baseball Player
Ariel Prieto , Oakland Athletics
Aurelio Monteagudo , Kansas City Athletics
Barbaro Garbey , Detroit Tigers
Bert Campaneris , Kansas City Athletics
Brayan Peña , Atlanta Braves
José Raúl Capablanca , chess world champion, grandmaster considered "the Mozart of Chess"
Cristóbal Torriente , Negro Leagues - Baseball Hall of Fame
Danys Báez , Cleveland Indians
Diego Seguí , Kansas City Athletics
Eli Marrero , New York Mets
Esteban Bellán , first Latin American professional baseball player to play in the United States
Germán Mesa , trainer for the Cuban national baseball team
Héctor Socorro , footballer
Ibrahim Rojas , flatwater canoer
Jack Calvo , Washington Senators
José Canseco , Oakland Athletics
José Cardenal , San Francisco Giants
José Contreras , Chicago White Sox
José Méndez , Kansas City Monarchs - Baseball Hall of Fame
José Tartabull , Kansas City Athletics
Juan Corzo , chess
Juan Tuñas , former Cuban footballer
Kendry Morales
Lázaro Bruzón , chess grandmaster
Liván Hernández , Arizona Diamondbacks
Luis Tiant , Cleveland Indians
Martín Dihigo , Negro Leagues - Baseball Hall of Fame
Mike Cuellar , Cincinnati Reds
Minnie Miñoso , Chicago White Sox - Baseball Legend
Octavio “Cookie” Rojas , Cincinnati Reds
Omar Linares , Pinar del Río Vegueros, Cuban national baseball team
Orestes Destrade , New York Yankees
Orlando Hernández , New York Mets
Ozzie Canseco , Oakland Athletics
Pedro Ramos , Washington Senators
Preston Gómez , Washington Senators
Rafael A. Lecuona , Gymnast
Rafael Palmeiro , Baltimore Orioles
Ray Noble , New York Giants
René Arocha , St. Louis Cardinals
René Monteagudo , Washington Senators
Rey Ángel Martínez , soccer
Rey Ordóñez , Baseball Free Agent
Roberto "Bobby" Estalella , Washington Senators
Rodolfo Falcon , swimmer
Rolando Arrojo , Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Sandy Amorós , Brooklyn Dodgers
Tomás Fernández , footballer in the 1938 world cup
Tony Fossas , Texas Rangers
Tony González , Cincinnati Reds
Tony Oliva , Minnesota Twins
Tony Pérez , Cincinnati Reds
Tony Taylor , Chicago Cubs
Yanelis Yuliet Labrada Diaz , Olymipic silver medallist in Taekwondo
Yuniesky Betancourt , Seattle Mariners
Zoilo Versalles , baseball player and first Latin American major league MVP 1965
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“
If it is the case that Christians go to Heaven, then I chose to go to Hell, to ensure I never have to clap eyes on such brutes again.
”
Taíno chief Hatuey to a Spanish Franciscan friar before being tied to the stake and burnt alive at Yara , 1512 .
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