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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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Statue of Agüeybaná II, "El Bravo"
in Ponce, Puerto Rico

The Taíno were a historic Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, whose culture has been continued today by Taíno descendant communities and Taíno revivalist communities. At the time of European contact in the late 15th century, they were the principal inhabitants of most of what is now Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and the northern Lesser Antilles. The Lucayan branch of the Taíno were the first New World peoples encountered by Christopher Columbus, in the Bahama Archipelago on October 12, 1492. The Taíno spoke a dialect of the Arawakan language group. They lived in agricultural societies ruled by caciques with fixed settlements and a matrilineal system of kinship and inheritance. Taíno religion centered on the worship of zemis.

Some anthropologists and historians have argued that the Taíno were no longer extant centuries ago, or they gradually merged into a common identity with African and Hispanic cultures. However, many people today identify as Taíno or claim Taíno descent, most notably in subsections of the Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican nationalities. Many Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Dominicans have Taíno mitochondrial DNA, showing that they are descendants through the direct female line. While some communities claim an unbroken cultural heritage passed down from the old Taíno peoples, others are revivalist communities who seek to incorporate Taíno culture into their lives. (Full article...)

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Image 1The Bay of Pigs Memorial in Miami, Florida (from History of Cuba)
Image 219th century view of Havana (from History of Cuba)
Image 3Soldiers of FAR (from History of Cuba)
Image 4The city walls of Havana, 1848 (from History of Cuba)
Image 5A 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 6Spanish General Arsenio Martínez Campos in Havana, Colonial Cuba, 1878 (from History of Cuba)
Image 7A monument to the Taíno chieftain Hatuey in Baracoa, Cuba (from History of Cuba)
Image 8Depiction of an engagement between Cuban rebels and Spanish Royalists during the Ten Years' War (1868–78) (from History of Cuba)
Image 9Tobacco fields in Cuba, 1859 (from History of Cuba)
Image 10Public transportation in Cuba during the "Special Period" (from History of Cuba)
Image 11The British Fleet Entering Havana, 21 August 1762, a 1775 painting by Dominic Serres (from History of Cuba)
Image 12The wreckage of the USS Maine, photographed in 1898 (from History of Cuba)
Image 13Defense of a train attacked by Cuban insurgents (from History of Cuba)
Image 14President Carlos Prío Socarrás (left), with US president Harry S. Truman in Washington, D.C. in 1948 (from History of Cuba)
Image 15The fortress of El Morro in Havana, built in 1589 (from History of Cuba)
Image 16Fidel Castro's July 26 Movement rebels mounted on horses in 1959 (from History of Cuba)
Image 17Banrarra Afro-Cuban dance troupe (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 18Rebel 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 19Cuban PT-76 tank crew on routine security duties in Angola (from History of Cuba)
Image 20A watercolor painting of Havana Bay, c. 1639 (from History of Cuba)
Image 21Three generations of women (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 22Taíno women preparing cassava bread (from History of Cuba)
Image 23States proposed in the Spanish Draft Federal Constitution of 1873, among which Cuba was included. (from History of Cuba)
Image 24Camilo Cienfuegos, Fidel Castro, Huber Matos, entering Havana on 8 January 1959 (from History of Cuba)
Image 25The Casino Español, Matanzas (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 26Russian T-34 tank at Museo Giron, Cuba (from History of Cuba)
Image 27Capablanca playing chess with his father José María Capablanca in 1892 (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 28Cuban victims of Spanish reconcentration policies (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 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 before his Major League Baseball career, Leo Posada represented Cuba internationally in cycling?
... 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 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?

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Romero in November 2017.

John Raymond Rivera (born October 28, 1982), better known by his ring name Rocky Romero (ロッキー・ロメロ, Rokkī Romero), is a Cuban-American professional wrestler currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where is a Vice President in both promotions. He is a member of Chaos. He also makes appearances for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), and Major League Wrestling. Also known by his nickname "Azúcar (sugar in Spanish)", he is best known for his accomplishments as a tag team wrestler. He was member of tag teams like The Havana Pitbulls/Los Cubanitos, Forever Hooligans, and Roppongi Vice. His tenure as the fourth incarnation of Black Tiger was also met with praise and recognition.

Rivera made his in-ring debut on September 13, 1997, and, over the years, he portrayed several different characters including masked luchadores and has wrestled extensively in Mexico for both Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and Lucha Libre AAA World Wide. In the United States, he is known for his work with Ring of Honor as a member of No Remorse Corps, and was one of the featured wrestlers for Lucha Libre USA. (Full article...)

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Tomasa Ana Núñez Abreu (17 April 1951 – 30 December 1981) was a Cuban track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. She was Cuba's first gold medallist in the javelin at the Pan American Games, gaining that title in 1971. Her personal best of 54.64 m (179 ft 3 in) is a former Panamerican record. She won four titles at regional level at the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1970 and 1974, as well as being the 1971 and 1973 champion at the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics. (Full article...)

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View of a street in Trinidad, Cuba, part of the UNESCO World Heritage.

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...that Hernán Cortés (pictured), the Spanish conquistador, spent several years in Cuba raising funds to conquer the South American mainland?

...that JMWAVE was the codename for a United States covert operations and intelligence gathering station in Miami, Florida created in 1961 to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro?

...that the oldest known son is "Son de la Má Teodora", a traditional Cuban musical piece which has been traced back to the 1570s?

...that the first Cuban National Series of baseball took place in 1961-2 and was played between just four teams?

...that Palo is a religion in Cuba derived from Bantu practices in Africa?

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“

El cariño que te tengo

No te lo puedo negar
Se me sale la babita
Yo no lo puedo evitar.

The love I have for you
is something I cannot deny
My mouth waters
There is nothing I can do.

”

From Chan Chan by Compay Segundo

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