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  Lists of office-holders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heads of government of the Republic of the Congo
Colonial heads of São João Baptista de Ajudá
Colonial Heads of Port Cresson and Bassa Cove
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 Welcome to msavvy.com
The result of all of this is that Cuba is an inordinately expensive place to visit and travel, by almost any standards and especially those of most of Central and Latin America.
Now that Cuba officially sanctions, indeed seeks the U.S. dollar, money has poured in and is slowly but surely eroding the egalitarianism that, even if only in theory, has defined Cuba in the eyes of not only the world, but Cubans themselves.
Mid-morning on my third day in Cuba Jorge came to meet me at my hotel, in the lobby of course since he would not be allowed in the rooms or anywhere else in the hotel as a Cuban national.
staff.washington.edu /~msavvy/writing/cuba2003.htm   (13835 words)

  
 Background Notes: Cuba
Cuba is a multi-racial society with a population of mainly Spanish and African origins.
Cuba is a totalitarian state dominated by Fidel Castro, who is president of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers, first secretary of the Communist Party and commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces.
Cuba has been a member of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CEMA) since 1972, but the emerging democratic governments in Eastern Europe have been increasingly less inclined to support Cuba's old-line communist policies at their expense.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/wha/cuba9010.html   (4801 words)

  
 cuba
Cuba's location makes it a convenient stopping place for explorers on their way to the New World.
Cuba proves to be the ideal place to cultivate tobacco and as the demand for it increases, tobacco farming becomes an important industry.
Fulgencio Batista heads the army in a competition with the students ("The Generation of 1930") for ruling power.
www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~snapcook/latin/cuba.html   (1481 words)

  
 CASTRO AND TERRORISM
Cuba continued its military and political support for FATAH after the Syrians broke with the latter, and Cuban military, political and intelligence support was granted to other Palestinian organizations.
Cuba joined in, first with a group of officers headed by General Arnaldo Ochoa, a move that was followed later on by the deployment of large Cuban forces against the Somali invasion.
Cuba condemned Iraq for its invasion and annexation of Kuwait, supporting the latter's sovereignty; it also condemned U.S. military operations in the Gulf and abstained at the U.N. from supporting the bulk of the sanctions imposed on Baghdad.
www.nocastro.com /Terrorism/castro_terrorist3.htm   (5291 words)

  
 Seattle Bicycle Club - Cuba Trip Report
He said in Cuba 85 % of the people own their home and you can see a movie or concert for 1 or 2 pesos.
Cuba is truly a melting pot of people.
I was talking to a lady taxi driver at Sorora falls and she said in Cuba we do not discuss poli- tics in public.
www.seattlebicycle.com /clubhouse/trip_reports/cuba1998.html   (3228 words)

  
 CIA: CUBA ACCUSES
After my return to Cuba, we made a careful study of the building where these offices were located and of the surrounding buildings, including a description of height and existing equipment in the neighborhood that might interfere with the microtransmitter broadcast.
The existence of a political situation that was not controlled by the colonial powers led the CIA into one of its biggest, dirtiest and costliest operations against the free will of any people according to the no less extensive accumulation of confessions and revelations formulated by some of the instigators and executors of the so-called.
The former head of the Task Force for Angola says that some time before the invasion by the South African Army, the head of the CIA Africa Division, Potts was in favor of South Africa's participation.
cuban-exile.com /doc_001-025/doc0010.html   (19192 words)

  
 The Colonial Era   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The head of Aponte is placed in an iron cage and displayed in front of the house where he lived, and his hand is displayed in another street.
The decision is based on the belief that in due time Cuba would come to be part of the U.S. The census shows a population of 704,000, of whom 311,000 are white, 286,000 slaves, and 106,000 free Negroes or mixed bloods.
Céspedes signs a decree declaring Cuba incompatible with slavery, but adding that slavery will end "when it had full use of its powers under free suffrage so that it could agree on the best means of carrying the proposal to and end that would be advantageous to the old as well as the new citizen."
www.antillania.com /Cuba_Colonial_Era.htm   (2922 words)

  
 ASU Art Museum | Cuba
Barroso places a map of Cuba at the end of a room with two lines of rocking horses that are cantering over the terrain toward the map.
It is the moment of Cuba’s great leap forward into wealth, with Spain distracted from supervision of activities in the colony, and after the exclusivity of the English dominance in the slave trade has ended.
It brought to Cuba some of the ideas of the European avant-garde, but more important, it upheld the notion of a “national art in the context of the utmost creative freedom.” The Estudio, which was regarded as radical at the time, was financed initially by the Ministry of Education.
asuartmuseum.asu.edu /cuba/essay.htm   (13560 words)

  
 Cuba - Blau Colonial Cayo Coco - Debbie's Caribbean Travel & Resort Reviews
A friend and I stayed at the Blau Colonial from April 16-23 and we were literally in tears to have to leave.
I had chosen Blau Colonial for several reasons, not the least of which, there was no single supplement and I was traveling alone.
Cuba is of course huge and geographically speaking the Cayo’s are slightly nearer to many of the Bahamian islands and Florida than to Havana.
www.debbiescaribbeanresortreviews.com /cuba/blau.html   (20643 words)

  
 History
The intensive cultivation of sugar that began at the turn of the nineteenth century transformed Cuba into a plantation society, and the demand for African "slaves", who had been introduced into Cuba from Spain at the beginning of the 16th century, increased dramatically.
Many Yoruba were taken to Cuba very late in the slave trade, especially during the years 1820-1840, when they formed a majority of [Africans] sent across the Atlantic from the ports of the Bight of Benin.
In Cuba the Arará were always a minority overshadowed by the Lucumí, and their distinctive cultural identity is now in danger of disappearing.
www.cwo.com /~lucumi/history.htm   (2242 words)

  
 EWTNews Cuba
Also a representative for the youth of Cuba welcomed Pope John Paul II calling him the "Pope of the Youth." Indeed this Pope could be considered a "Pope for the Youth," as his pastoral concern for young people goes back to his days as a priest teaching college students.
It is the highest honor given by the Government of Cuba for achievements in the cultural sphere.
According the Bishop Fernanco Prego Casal, Bishop of Santa Clara, Cuba is plagued by a high rate of divorce and abortion and today’s Mass reinforced the sacrament of marriage and the importance of the family life.
www.ewtn.com /cuba/cubnews.htm   (2288 words)

  
 TIME.com: Global Business, August 2001
La Habana Vieja, an architectural treasury of crumbling Spanish colonial mansions and palaces, is all anyone needs to fill half a day and requires only comfortable shoes and a wad of George Washingtons.
A good mojito is essential to any trip to Cuba, and one of the best places to find this rum-and-mint concoction is at Hemingway's favorite watering hole in Old Havana, La Bodeguita del Medio (Empedrado 207).
Thus fortified, you may as well stifle shame's last breath and head for the Tropicana, especially if your flight is manana, a word whose uses you will surely be discovering by now.
www.time.com /time/global/august/travel.html   (1274 words)

  
 Cuba News Summary
Planning on Cuba urgently needed, U.S. told 1/21/04 Miami Herald: "''There is growing urgency for this kind of planning,'' Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega said.
Cuba Calls U.S. Charges Against Envoy A 'Gross Lie' 1/20/04 Washington Post: "The Cuban foreign minister has strongly denied allegations by U.S. officials that a Cuban envoy in Washington associated with criminal elements and was involved in narcotics trafficking.
Cuba Says U.S. Trying to Scuttle Migration Accords 1/7/04 Reuters: "The Cuban Foreign Ministry said the Bush Administration has become more aggressive with Cuba in recent months to please a small group of Cuban exiles who want to "wreck" the migration accords and step up hostility against Cuba.
www.uscsca.org /news/cubanews.htm   (3075 words)

  
 Saul Landau: The Cuba Conundrum
What Cuba has yet to do in the two separate causes (arrests and executions) is present the pertinent facts and reasons for arresting and condemning people whose organizations it had penetrated and controlled and explain why it had to execute with lightning speed the boat-jackers.
I dismiss the puerile criticisms of Cuba from US government hacks who have made careers of creating dictators in the third world, and who possess the moral authority of a flea.
Cuba may well be a viable target of the Bush fascists.
www.counterpunch.org /landau05022003.html   (3122 words)

  
 Cuba Boating, All Aboard - WoWCuba
Whether you're a sailing enthusiast, fishing fan, scuba diving or snorkeling buff, top notch equipment and experienced crews are provided for our guests in Cuba.
For those looking for a live-aboard adventure with on-board sleeping quarters Cuba's crystalline waters provide an unforgettable adventure in a year-round tropical paradise.
We've selected the operator on Cuba's south shore which offers the best daily or weekly rates, crew included.
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 Lists of office-holders
lists of people in various offices and positions, including heads of states or of subnational entities (in no particular order).
abdication, assassinated persons, cabinet, chancellor, ex-monarchs (20th century), first names, head of government, head of state, lieutenant governor, mayor, military commanders, minister (and #Ministers by portfolio below), order of precedence, peerage, president, prime minister, Reichstag participants (1792), Secretary of State.
Heads of Government of the British Virgin Islands
www.knowledgefun.com /book/l/li/lists_of_office_holders.html   (707 words)

  
 FEBRUARY 2004 / Cuba News / Prensa Independiente de Cuba / CubaNet News - Noticias de Cuba
In this corner of Cuba's tobacco-growing province, it's no secret that the wife of José Contreras, one of Cuba's star pitchers who defected and signed with the New York Yankees, now also wants out to join her husband.
Hundreds of Cuban students at the school for social workers in Cojímar, east of Havana, were taken out of their school last week to allow the ministry to use the school for a contingent of Venezuelan students.
Cuba has called for the expansion of cooperation with Iran in the fields of press and mass media, said an Iranian official on Monday.
www.cubanet.org /CNews/y04/feb04/february04.htm   (4540 words)

  
 CUBA
The Charter, adopted in San Francisco nearly 60 years ago, enshrined the purpose of “preserving future generations from the scourge of war.” However, we then endured wars of aggression and conquest, colonial wars, border wars and ethnic wars.
First and foremost, the end of the occupation in Iraq, the immediate handover of the real control to the United Nations and the commencement of the recovery process for Iraq’s sovereignty and the establishment of a legitimate government, resulting from the decision of the Iraqi people.
I am not talking about Cuba – which, condemned to die for wanting to be free, has had to fight on its own, not only thinking about itself but also about all the peoples of the world.
www.un.org /webcast/ga/58/statements/cubaeng030926.htm   (1582 words)

  
 Log
Hays, executive vice president of the Cuban American National Foundation, an organization dedicated to fighting for democracy and human rights in Cuba, believes Castro's personal mystique may be blinding the celebrities to the harsh realities of life in Cuba.
"Cuba is the king of all of Latin American countries," Landau said.
Cuba outperforms the United States "when you talk about the right to food, the right to shelter, the right to a job, the right to a retirement," according to Landau.
www.linkworthy.com /log19.shtml   (16990 words)

  
 Social Studies Development Center
Women's Biographies: Distinguished Women of Past and Present This site features biographies of women who contributed to our culture: writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others.
The Ethnography of Lewis and Clark This Web site details items collected by Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery held by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.
Cuban Missile Crisis This site contains basic historical information about the crisis, a map of missile facilities in Cuba at the time of the crisis, and links to other sites on the Cold War.
www.indiana.edu /~ssdc/histlinks.htm   (4548 words)

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