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*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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Holguín (Spanish pronunciation: [olˈgin]) is a municipality-city in Cuba. After Havana, Santiago de Cuba, and Camagüey, it is the fourth largest city in Cuba. (Full article...)

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Image 1Taíno women preparing cassava bread (from History of Cuba)
Image 2States proposed in the Spanish Draft Federal Constitution of 1873, among which Cuba was included. (from History of Cuba)
Image 3Banrarra Afro-Cuban dance troupe (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 4Soldiers of FAR (from History of Cuba)
Image 5Public transportation in Cuba during the "Special Period" (from History of Cuba)
Image 6The wreckage of the USS Maine, photographed in 1898 (from History of Cuba)
Image 7Fidel Castro's July 26 Movement rebels mounted on horses in 1959 (from History of Cuba)
Image 8Cuban PT-76 tank crew on routine security duties in Angola (from History of Cuba)
Image 9A 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 10Cuban victims of Spanish reconcentration policies (from History of Cuba)
Image 11President Carlos Prío Socarrás (left), with US president Harry S. Truman in Washington, D.C. in 1948 (from History of Cuba)
Image 12Spanish General Arsenio Martínez Campos in Havana, Colonial Cuba, 1878 (from History of Cuba)
Image 13The fortress of El Morro in Havana, built in 1589 (from History of Cuba)
Image 14Russian T-34 tank at Museo Giron, Cuba (from History of Cuba)
Image 15The Bay of Pigs Memorial in Miami, Florida (from History of Cuba)
Image 16Depiction of an engagement between Cuban rebels and Spanish Royalists during the Ten Years' War (1868–78) (from History of Cuba)
Image 17Capablanca playing chess with his father José María Capablanca in 1892 (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 18The Casino Español, Matanzas (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 19A watercolor painting of Havana Bay, c. 1639 (from History of Cuba)
Image 20A monument to the Taíno chieftain Hatuey in Baracoa, Cuba (from History of Cuba)
Image 21Three generations of women (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 22Rebel 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 23Defense of a train attacked by Cuban insurgents (from History of Cuba)
Image 24The British Fleet Entering Havana, 21 August 1762, a 1775 painting by Dominic Serres (from History of Cuba)
Image 25Camilo Cienfuegos, Fidel Castro, Huber Matos, entering Havana on 8 January 1959 (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 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 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 Rudi Kappel, co-founder of the first airline of Suriname, was arrested both on entering and leaving Santiago de 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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Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Spanish: [ˈtʃe ɣeˈβaɾa]; 14 June 1928 – 9 October 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.

As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Árbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow at the behest of the United Fruit Company solidified Guevara's political ideology. Later in Mexico City, Guevara met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second-in-command, and played a pivotal role in the two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime. (Full article...)

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Portuondo in 2015

Omara Portuondo Peláez (born 29 October 1930) is a Cuban singer and dancer. A founding member of the popular vocal group Cuarteto d'Aida, Portuondo has collaborated with many important Cuban musicians during her long career, including Julio Gutiérrez, Juanito Márquez and Chucho Valdés. Although primarily known for her rendition of boleros, she has recorded in a wide range of styles from jazz to son cubano. Since 1996, she has been part of the Buena Vista Social Club project, touring extensively and recording several albums with the ensemble. She won a Latin Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Tropical Album in 2009, a Latin Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Album in 2023, a Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019, and she received three Grammy Award nominations in 2019 and a nomination in 2024. (Full article...)

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A state hotel in Cienfuegos, Cuba

A state hotel in Cienfuegos

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... that Baracoa in eastern Cuba (pictured) is located on the spot where Christopher Columbus landed in Cuba on his first voyage, and is not only the oldest Spanish settlement in Cuba but also its first capital?

...that in 1869 the Spanish colonial authorities banned Baseball in Cuba because Cubans began to prefer baseball to viewing bullfights, the Spaniards' national sport?

... that Kid Chocolate became Cuba's first world boxing champion in 1931. On his retirement in 1938, he had a record of 135 wins, 9 losses and 6 draws? And that he was later recognized by the International Boxing Hall Of Fame?

...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 José Raúl Capablanca was a Cuban world-class chess player in the early to mid-twentieth century. He held the title of world chess champion from 1921 to 1927.

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We are satisfied that each and every one of us has fulfilled our duty to our nation.

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Economist Marta Beatriz Roque after organizing the Assembly for the Promotion of Civil Society in Cuba, a rally calling for political change on the island.

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