21 résultats pour "cuban"

• Cuban Revolution.

  Confederation of Labor, threw its support behind Batista. In the same month, the U.S. government cut off weapons sales to Batista’s government. U.S. envoys andpolitical moderates in Cuba tried to convince Batista to leave power peacefully, but Batista refused. Meanwhile, revolutionaries from Castro’s movement and from otherorganizations escalated violent resistance. During the second half of 1958, guerrillas seized ground in the countryside from the army. In the cities, several of Batista’sleadi...

• Cuban Missile Crisis.

  inspect ships to determine whether they were carrying weapons. Kennedy warned that if Khrushchev fired missiles from Cuba, the result would be “a full retaliatoryresponse upon the Soviet Union.” Because international law defines a blockade as an act of war, Kennedy and his advisers decided to refer to the blockade as a quarantine. The United States wassupported by other members of the Organization of American States, an organization of nations in the western hemisphere that seek to cooperate on...

• Cuban Missile Crisis - U.

  inspect ships to determine whether they were carrying weapons. Kennedy warned that if Khrushchev fired missiles from Cuba, the result would be “a full retaliatoryresponse upon the Soviet Union.” Because international law defines a blockade as an act of war, Kennedy and his advisers decided to refer to the blockade as a quarantine. The United States wassupported by other members of the Organization of American States, an organization of nations in the western hemisphere that seek to cooperate on...

• Revolución Cubana - historia.

  Desembarco de bahía de CochinosCortesía de NBC News Archives/The WPA Film Library. Reservados todos los derechos. En 1961, fracasó el desembarco de bahía de Cochinos, un intento de invasión de la isla organizado por la agencia estadounidense CIA, y Cuba pasó a convertirseprogresivamente en un Estado socialista cada vez más vinculado con la otra superpotencia: la Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas (URSS). En 1962, los soviéticosinstalaron rampas de misiles en la isla, las cuales, ante el...

• Cuba - country.

  Only two land mammals, the hutia, or cane rat, and the solenodon, a rare insectivore that resembles a rat, are known to be indigenous. The island has numerous batsand nearly 300 kinds of birds, including vultures, wild turkeys, quail, finches, gulls, macaws, parakeets, and hummingbirds. The bee hummingbird of Cuba is thesmallest bird in the world. Among the few reptiles are tortoises, caimans, the Cuban crocodile, and a species of boa that can attain a length of 3.7 m (12 ft). More than700 speci...

• Miami (Florida) - geography.

  VI EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS Colleges and universities in the area include the University of Miami, Florida International University, Barry University, St. Thomas University, and Florida MemorialCollege. Miami-Dade Community College, one of the nation’s largest two-year colleges, has six campuses in the region. Leading museums include the Historical Museumof Southern Florida, the Miami Museum of Science, the Miami Art Museum, the Lowe Art Museum on the campus of the University of M...

• Fidel Castro.

  result, Castro formed a radical branch of the Ortodoxo Party called the Radical Action Orthodox wing. This organization supported Chibás in the 1948 election. PrioSocarrás won the election, despite Castro’s efforts. After Chibás committed suicide in 1951, Castro believed he should become the leader of the Ortodoxo Party and ran for a seat in the Cuban House of Representatives inthe 1952 election. Before that election could occur, however, General Fulgencio Batista staged a bloodless coup d’etat...

• Bill Clinton.

  When Arkansas governor David Pryor ran for the U.S. Senate in 1978, Clinton ran for governor. He promised to improve the state’s schools and highways and toimprove economic conditions so that more jobs would be created. At that time, the average income of people in Arkansas ranked 49th among the 50 states. Clinton woneasily, receiving 60 percent of the vote against four opponents in the Democratic primary election and 63 percent against the Republican candidate, Lynn Lowe, in thegeneral election...

• Bill Clinton - USA History.

  When Arkansas governor David Pryor ran for the U.S. Senate in 1978, Clinton ran for governor. He promised to improve the state’s schools and highways and toimprove economic conditions so that more jobs would be created. At that time, the average income of people in Arkansas ranked 49th among the 50 states. Clinton woneasily, receiving 60 percent of the vote against four opponents in the Democratic primary election and 63 percent against the Republican candidate, Lynn Lowe, in thegeneral election...

• Fidel Castro - historia.

  apoyo de buena parte del campesinado y comenzó una guerra contra el gobierno de Fulgencio Batista que duró dos años. El 8 deenero de 1959, Castro entró en La Habana, de donde ya había huido el dictador Batista. La Revolución Cubana había triunfado.Hulton Deutsch/Corbis Condenado por los hechos referidos anteriormente a 15 años de prisión, su reclusión se prolongó finalmente durante algo menos de dos, ya que fue amnistiado en 1955. Seexilió sucesivamente a Estados Unidos y México, y, en este últi...

• Cuba - geografía.

  3.1 Características de la población, religión y lengua La población cubana está conformada principalmente por los siguientes grupos: un 51% es mulata, un 37% es básicamente descendiente de españoles, un 11% es negra yun 1% es de origen chino. No existe población inmigrante considerable, pues casi la totalidad de sus habitantes ha nacido en el país. Un 76% de la población se clasificacomo urbana. La esperanza de vida es de 75 años para los hombres y de 79,6 para las mujeres. Cuba es el país con...

• Miami (Florida) - geography.

  Port of MiamiThe Dante B. Fascell Port of Miami-Dade, known simply as the Port of Miami, is one of the world’s leading passenger ports. Tourism isan important part of Miami’s economy, and many tourists board cruise ships at the Port of Miami.F. Stuart Westmorland/Photo Researchers, Inc. Miami’s economy, until recently dominated by tourism, is increasingly diversified. Tourism still plays a significant role, with more than 10 million visitors staying overnightin Miami-Dade County each year. A siz...

• Guerras de Cuba - historia.

  El fin de la primera guerra independentista cubana se produjo después de que a principios de 1875 tuviera lugar el regreso de la Casa de Borbón al trono español en lapersona de Alfonso XII. En 1876, tras liquidar los últimos brotes de resistencia carlista en el norte de España, el general Arsenio Martínez Campos fue nombrado general enjefe de las fuerzas españolas en Cuba. Al frente de un ejército de 20.000 hombres, Martínez Campos venció a los insurrectos en Oriente y Las Villas y negoció con l...

• Spanish-American War.

  A Blockade of Cuba The Navy’s basic job was to blockade the island of Cuba. If the Spanish army could be cut off from seaborne supplies from Spain, it could not maintain itself for longagainst the Cuban insurgents, let alone prepare to fight the U.S. forces. To maintain a successful blockade, the U.S. Navy would have to control the sea approaches toCuba. To accomplish this, the United States determined that the Spanish navy had to be destroyed wherever it was found. Thus the U.S. war objectives...

• Blacks in Latin America.

  Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean the slave population declined at the astonishing rate of 2 to 4 percent a year; thus, by the time slavery was abolished, theoverall slave population in many places was far less than the total number of slaves imported. The British colony of Jamaica, for example, imported more than 600,000slaves during the 18th century; yet, in 1838, the slave population numbered little more than 300,000. The French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti)imported mo...

• 1996 Summer Olympics.

  jump, the first African woman ever to win an Olympic field event. In the first Olympic women's soccer competition, the United States returned to world prominence with a 2-1 gold medal victory over China before more than 76,000spectators—believed to be the largest crowd in history for a women's sporting event. The U.S. team won the first women's World Cup in 1991, defeating Norway inthe final match, but had failed to defend the title in 1995 when they lost to the Norwegians in the semifinals...

• The echoes of Hiroshima mon Amour in Memories of Underdevelopment

  First, the similarities are found in the fragmented narrative: in Hiroshima mon amour , the narrative perspective moves throughout the movie in the sense that the spectator assists to either the couple's story or to the story of Hiroshima that is been told through the voiceover and the images of victims. In Memories of underdevelopment , in one hand, there is the story of Sergio (also narrated by chapters without any chronological order) and on the other hand,...

• Article de presse: Cuba, si !

  confidences. " La loi de réforme agraire, dit-il, n'est pas appliquée. Elle prévoit que nul ne peut posséder plus de 400 hectares. Or on m'atout pris, on ne m'a pas laissé la parcelle de terre que j'ai le droit de conserver. Les services administratifs outrepassent la volontéde Fidel Castro. Je le connais, j'ai financé la révolution, je vais essayer de le voir pour lui expliquer que la loi est violée "... Parmi les premières terres frappées par la réforme agraire figurent celles de Fidel C...

• Grenada - country.

  Grenada is a member of the Organization of American States and the United Nations. From 1958 to 1962, it was a member of the West Indies Federation, and in theearly 1960s it participated in unsuccessful attempts to form a federation linking the Leeward Islands and Windward Islands. Grenada is tied with other Caribbeancountries through membership in the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM). VI HISTORY Grenada was originally inhabited by Arawak Indians, who were killed or driven away...

• Theodore Roosevelt.

  in Oyster Bay, Long Island. The couple had five children, Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel Carow, Archibald Bullock, and Quentin. They also raised Alice, Roosevelt’s daughterfrom his first marriage. Discouraged with politics, Roosevelt enjoyed family life and literary pursuits. He wrote Essays on Practical Politics in 1888. The same year he also wrote an opinionated biography of Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman who helped draft the Constitution of the United States. The book revealed far mo...

• Theodore Roosevelt

  in Oyster Bay, Long Island. The couple had five children, Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel Carow, Archibald Bullock, and Quentin. They also raised Alice, Roosevelt’s daughterfrom his first marriage. Discouraged with politics, Roosevelt enjoyed family life and literary pursuits. He wrote Essays on Practical Politics in 1888. The same year he also wrote an opinionated biography of Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman who helped draft the Constitution of the United States. The book revealed far mo...