Tag: Cuba

Military occupation 1899–1902 Main article: First US military occupation of Cuba Military occupation, legitimated by the Treaty of Paris of the October to December of 1898, constituted the experimental framework for the implementation of the policy towards Cuba. For the United States, this was a period of strong internal and external tensions, tempered by internal pressures and negotiations around government decision-making….

Ten Years War The movement broke out October of October of 1868, to the rise in arms Bayamo lawyer Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, one of the main conspirators, who in his ingenuity The Demajagua proclaimed independence and gave freedom to his slaves. [5]The uprising, seconded shortly after by the Camagüey and Las Villas conspirators, managed to assert itself, despite the ruthless Hispanic reaction. The Cuban Liberation Army,…

The city is host to several international cultural events such as the Havana Ballet Festival, the Havana Film Festival, the Jazz Plaza Festival and the International Book Fair. Hometown of the National Hero José Martí, and known as the key to the New World and the West Indies for its strategic location, it serves as one of…

During the seventeenth century the city was magnified with monumental civil and religious buildings. The convent of San Agustín was erected, the El Morro castle was completed, and the hermitage of Humilladero, the Dorotea de la Luna fountain in La Chorrera, the church of Santo Angel Custodio, the hospital of San Lázaro, the monastery of…

In the Plaza de Armas, which in colonial times was the center of official and public life in Havana, stands a monument called El Templete. On its commemorative column there is an inscription in Latin, which means the following: Stop the step, traveler, decorate this site with a tree, a lush ceiba, rather a memorable sign of…

Havana – formerly called Havana City – is the current capital city of the Republic of Cuba and at the same time one of the fifteen Cuban provinces. Havana is the most populated city in Cuba and in the entire insular Caribbean, with a population of over two million people. [2] The territory of the capital occupies the sixteenth place in extension among the…

Its name arises from the fusion of the name of the saint chosen as patron (San Cristóbal) and the name by which he was known in his first settlements: Havana. Although there are several hypotheses of the origin of this name, the most accepted derives it from the name of a Taíno chief called Habaguanex [abaguanéks], who controlled the…

Yearbook 2017 Cuba. On June 16, US President Donald Trump’s long-anticipated first speech on the new administration’s policy towards Cuba came. As expected, he criticized both the Cuban system and its predecessor Barack Obama’s diplomacy, which included re-established diplomatic relations in December 2014 and a US president’s first visit to Cuba since 1928. Despite expected…