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Cuba, officially the 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...)

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Aerial view of Bulkeley Hall, the headquarters and administration building at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Spanish: Base Naval de la Bahía de Guantánamo), officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB, (also called GTMO, pronounced Gitmo /ˈɡɪtmoʊ/ GIT-moh as jargon by members of the U.S. military) is a United States military base located on 45 square miles (117 km²) of land and water on the shore of Guantánamo Bay at the southeastern end of Cuba. It has been leased to the United States with no end date since 1903 as a coaling station and naval base, making it the oldest overseas U.S. naval base. The lease was $2,000 in gold per year until 1934, when the payment was set to match the value of gold in dollars; in 1974, the yearly lease was set to $4,085.

Since taking power in 1959, the Cuban communist government has consistently protested against the U.S. presence on Cuban soil, arguing that the base was imposed on Cuba by force and is illegal under international law. Since 2002, the naval base has contained a military prison, for alleged unlawful combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other places during the War on Terror. Cases of alleged torture of prisoners by the U.S. military, and their denial of protection under the Geneva Conventions, have been criticized. The base has been a focal point for debates over civil liberties, notably influenced by the landmark 2008 Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v. Bush. This ruling affirmed the constitutional right of detainees to challenge their detention through habeas corpus, highlighting the ongoing tensions between national security measures and fundamental civil liberties. (Full article...)

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Image 1Spanish General Arsenio Martínez Campos in Havana, Colonial Cuba, 1878 (from History of Cuba)
Image 2President Carlos Prío Socarrás (left), with US president Harry S. Truman in Washington, D.C. in 1948 (from History of Cuba)
Image 3The wreckage of the USS Maine, photographed in 1898 (from History of Cuba)
Image 4The Casino Español, Matanzas (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 5Fidel Castro's July 26 Movement rebels mounted on horses in 1959 (from History of Cuba)
Image 6A watercolor painting of Havana Bay, c. 1639 (from History of Cuba)
Image 7Defense of a train attacked by Cuban insurgents (from History of Cuba)
Image 8Cuban troops advancing on Brigade 2506 invaders at the Bay of Pigs. (from History of Cuba)
Image 9Sexual reorientation therapy at a Cuban UMAP camp. (1967) (from History of Cuba)
Image 10Three generations of women (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 11The city walls of Havana, 1848 (from History of Cuba)
Image 12Soldiers of FAR (from History of Cuba)
Image 13Tobacco fields in Cuba, 1859 (from History of Cuba)
Image 14The fortress of El Morro in Havana, built in 1589 (from History of Cuba)
Image 1519th century view of Havana (from History of Cuba)
Image 16Mariel refugees on boat to Florida (1980). (from History of Cuba)
Image 17Photo of President Miguel Díaz-Canel in 2023. (from History of Cuba)
Image 18A 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 19Protests against the visit of soviet diplomat Anastas Mikoyan, dispersed by a policeman firing his gun. (February 5, 1960) (from History of Cuba)
Image 20Cuban PT-76 tank crew on routine security duties in Angola (from History of Cuba)
Image 21Cuban victims of Spanish reconcentration policies (from History of Cuba)
Image 22Camilo Cienfuegos, Fidel Castro, Huber Matos, entering Havana on 8 January 1959 (from History of Cuba)
Image 23A monument to the Taíno chieftain Hatuey in Baracoa, Cuba (from History of Cuba)
Image 24Rebel 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 25Capablanca playing chess with his father José María Capablanca in 1892 (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 26States proposed in the Spanish Draft Federal Constitution of 1873, among which Cuba was included. (from History of Cuba)
Image 27The British Fleet Entering Havana, 21 August 1762, a 1775 painting by Dominic Serres (from History of Cuba)
Image 28Depiction of an engagement between Cuban rebels and Spanish Royalists during the Ten Years' War (1868–78) (from History of Cuba)
Image 29Public transportation in Cuba during the "Special Period" (from History of Cuba)
Image 30Taíno women preparing cassava bread (from History of Cuba)
Image 31Banrarra Afro-Cuban dance troupe (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 32Refugees on a Freedom Flight in 1971. (from History of Cuba)
Image 33Raul Castro (far right), with Hugo Chavez (middle left), in 2010 (from History of Cuba)

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... that Rudi Kappel, co-founder of the first airline of Suriname, was arrested both on entering and leaving Santiago de Cuba?
... that before his Major League Baseball career, Leo Posada represented Cuba internationally in cycling?
... that the 1919 foxtrot song "I'll See You in C-U-B-A" was an example of Cuba being perceived as "America's playground"?
... 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 after his release from a hospital for the criminally insane, Richard Dixon burgled $16 from a credit union and hijacked a jet to Cuba?

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Anarchism as a social movement in Cuba held great influence with the working classes during the 19th and early 20th century. The movement was particularly strong following the abolition of slavery in 1886, until it was repressed first in 1925 by President Gerardo Machado, and more thoroughly by Fidel Castro's Marxist–Leninist government following the Cuban Revolution in the late 1950s. Cuban anarchism mainly took the form of anarcho-collectivism based on the works of Mikhail Bakunin and, later, anarcho-syndicalism. The Latin American labor movement, and by extension the Cuban labor movement, was at first more influenced by anarchism than Marxism. (Full article...)

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Manuel Urrutia in 1959

Manuel Urrutia Lleó (December 8, 1901 – 5 July 1981) was a liberal Cuban lawyer and politician. He campaigned against the Gerardo Machado government and the dictatorial second presidency of Fulgencio Batista during the 1950s, before serving as president in the revolutionary government of 1959. Urrutia resigned his position after only seven months, owing to a series of disputes with revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, and emigrated to the United States shortly afterward. (Full article...)

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View of Havana from hotel Sevilla.

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...that Castillo de los Tres Reyes Magos del Morro (pictured), a fortress which guards the entrance to Havana bay in Havana, was named after the biblical Magi?

...that El Benny is a Cuban film released in 2006, based on the life of the famous Cuban musician Benny Moré and featuring new versions of his songs performed by musicians including Chucho Valdes, Juan Formell, Haila and Orishas?

...that Perucho Figueredo was a Cuban poet, musician, and freedom fighter who wrote the Cuban national anthem, La Bayamesa, in 1867?

...that Gerardo Machado, who was President of Cuba 1925-1933, was a butcher by trade and had only three fingers on his left hand?

...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 am Cuba. My sugar was carried away in ships but my tears were left behind.

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Narrator Raquel Revuelta in the 1964 film I am Cuba.

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