Topic: Cuba
A key US congressional panel has indefinitely postponed voting on legislation to end what amounts to a ban on US nationals traveling to Cuba, the committee's chairman said Tuesday.House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman said he was putting off the vote, ...
Venezuelans voted Sunday in a key test for leftist President Hugo Chavez, with the main opposition poised for a strong return to the National Assembly after boycotting the last elections.Military trumpets blasted out at 6:00 am (1030 GMT) in a traditional voter ...
Platt Amendment, an enactment of the U.S. Congress in 1901 defining relations with Cuba, then under United States occupation following the Spanish-American War. Under pressure by the United States, the Cubans incorporated the amendment's provisions in their constitution of 1901.
The year 1997 began on a positive note, with the economy showing significant gains, real gross domestic product growing 7.8% in 1996 despite the damage caused by Hurricane Lili in October 1996. Despite worldwide condemnation of the Helms-Burton legislation enacted in 1996, ...
President Raul Castro and Communist Party leaders have joined Elian Gonzalez in celebrating the 10-year anniversary of his dramatic return to Cuba after a political tug-of-war with the United States.Gonzalez, now 16 and a Communist Party member, sat alongside his father Juan ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday denounced recent human rights developments in Cuba as "deeply disturbing."Obama, in a written statement, cited the death last month of jailed Cuban dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo and "intensified harassment" of political opponents, and reiterated ...
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2010. On Jan. 5, 1925, Nellie T. Ross became governor of Wyoming; she was the first female governor in U.S. history. (She succeeded Frank E. Lucas, who had served as acting governor following ...
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that congressional efforts to end the US ban on travel to Cuba would take a back seat to overhauling US health care and fostering job creation. "I've always been a supporter of lifting the travel ...
Aspects of the topic Convention of Zanj n are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Assorted References significance in history of Cuba (in Cuba: to be freed, or disagreed with his call for U.S. annexation of Cuba.
US Senator Mel Martinez of Florida, the chamber's only Hispanic Republican and a tough critic of Cuba's communist government, announced Friday he was stepping down before his terms ends. "Today I am announcing my decision to step down from public office, effective ...
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Cuba-Michigan Cigar Shop
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Cuba Predictions
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Old Men Of Versailles
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People & Power - Cuba: The times are ...
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Cuba: Open for American tourists
Cuba is becoming the latest tourist attraction for Americans as ...2011-10-11
