Image 7A 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 24Capablanca playing chess with his father José María Capablanca in 1892 (from Culture of Cuba)
Image 25Rebel 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)
... that José Ramón Balaguer fought as a soldier-medic for Fidel Castro's rebel army before becoming Cuba's minister of public health?
... 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 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 Brooklyn Nine-Nine actress Melissa Fumero is the daughter of Cubans who fled to the U.S. as teenagers?
Silvano Shueg Hechevarría (January 6, 1900 – April 1974), better known as Chori or Choricera, was a famous
Cuban percussionist. He rose to prominence in the 1930s due to his extravagant shows at many nightclubs in
Havana where he played
timbales,
drums,
cowbells and objects such as bottles and metal pans. He composed the popular
sones "La choricera" and "Ayaca de maíz", and appeared in several films in the 1950s. (Full article...)
...that competitions for the design of José Martí Memorial(pictured) in
Havana,
Cuba started in 1939, but the design that was finally constructed in 1953 was a variation on a design that had come in third in the fourth competition?
... that the Cuban convertible peso was introduced as one of two official currencies in Cuba to replace the
US dollar, which was removed from circulation in 2004?
...that Eastern Cuban cuisine forms the basis of criollo cooking, which shares a great deal of recipes with other Caribbean cuisines, but has the distinctive difference of making almost no use of
peppers?
At dawn on October 9 we were hiding very close to the small schoolhouse at La Higuera. We saw the soldiers, observed the helicopters, but never imagined they were holding Che there. In the morning we heard the first news of his capture but reports were very confused, saying he was wounded, then saying he was not and that it was one of his officers. Finally they began to give details about his clothing and personal effects, and we knew it was true.
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