The Hotel Ambos Mundos (Spanish pronunciation:[oˈtelˈambosˈmundos], Both Worlds Hotel) is a hotel in Havana, Cuba. Built with a square form with five floors, it has an eclectic set of characteristics of 20th-century style architecture. It was built in 1924 on a site that previously had been occupied by an old family house on the corner of Calle Obispo and Mercaderes (Bishop and Merchants Streets) in
Old Havana. It is a frequent tourist destination because it was home to the popular writer
Ernest Hemingway for seven years in the 1930s. (Full article...)
Image 12Rebel 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 19A 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)
... 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"?
In the 1990s, Orioles' owner
Peter Angelos lobbied the
United States federal government to gain permission to hold this series for three years. Various politicians, including members of the
United States House of Representatives, opposed the idea and attempted to block the series. Eventually, Angelos secured the approval in 1999, after a change in United States foreign policy to Cuba under
PresidentBill Clinton, which eased travel restrictions and increased cultural exchange. (Full article...)
González (second from right) with his father, stepmother and half-brother in a photo taken a few hours after their reunion at
Andrews Air Force Base in 2000
Elián González Brotons (born December 6, 1993) is a Cuban industrial engineer and politician who, as a young child, became embroiled in an international custody and immigration controversy in 2000 involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, his father Juan Miguel González Quintana, his other relatives in Cuba and in Miami, and Miami's Cuban community.
González's mother Elizabeth Brotons Rodríguez drowned in November 1999 while attempting to leave Cuba with González and her boyfriend to get to the United States. Elián Gonzalez was five years old when found nestled in an inner tube floating at sea three miles (5 km) from Florida's Fort Lauderdale coast. Two fishermen found Elián and reluctantly handed him over to the
U.S. Coast Guard, as they feared he would be sent back to Cuba under the
wet feet, dry feet policy since he had not yet reached land. The Coast Guard assured them that Elián would be taken "ashore for medical reasons", deeming him eligible to stay. Elián was immediately taken to a hospital and treated for dehydration and minor cuts on his body. It was later found that Elián's mother, Elisabeth Brotons Rodríguez, and Lázaro Munero García, her common-law husband, had left Cárdenas, Cuba, as part of a group with 14 refugees on a 17 ft (5.2 m) boat. However, the others died in a storm, while a young couple escaped to the shore, and Elián was found individually. (Full article...)
...that at twelve years old, Fidel Castro wrote a letter (pictured) to U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt expressing his admiration and asking for a $10 bill?
...that Arsenio Rodríguez, a Cuban musician and top
band leader who developed the
son montuno in the 1920s, was
blind for most of his life having been kicked by a horse as a child?
...that Gaia is an arts centre in
Havana, set up as a not-for-profit collaboration between Cuban and international artists?
I sympathise with the rebellion, but not with the rebels. It may be that as the pages of history are turned, brighter futures and better times will come to Cuba. It may be that future years will see the island as it would be now, had England never lost it – a Cuba free and prosperous under just laws and a patriotic administration, throwing her ports open to the world
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