Cuba
Republic of CubaRepública de Cuba
CAPITAL: Havana (La Habana)
FLAG: The flag consists of five alternating blue and white horizontal stripes penetrated from the hoist side by a red triangle...
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In 1898, after three decades of struggle, and ultimately with the assistance of the United States, Cuba gained its independence from Spain. For the following sixty years the Cuban people battled ...
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POPULATION 11,263,000ROMAN CATHOLIC 47 percentPROTESTANT 4 percentSANTERÍA (AFRO-CUBAN RELIGIONS) 2 percentJEWISH 0.01 percentNO STATED RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION 46.99 percent
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Cuba is an island country in the West Indies, about 90 miles south of Florida. Cuba consists of one major island and more than 1600 smaller islands. Cuba is almost as large as the state Pennsylvania. ...
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Area: 110,860 sq km (42,804 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 11,294,000Capital:
Havana
Head of state and government:
Presidents of the Council of State and Presidents of the Council of Ministers
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Remarks by President Bush at the State Department on Wednesday about Cuba, as transcribed by the White House.Thank you very much. Gracias. Buenos dias. I am pleased to be back at the State Departme...
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Freedom: As Cubans flee, Fidel Castro screams "talent theft." But his malevolent treatment of two defecting boxers forced back to Cuba shows that this isn't about talent -- it's about chattel.There...
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Cuba's communist government on Friday blamed the White House for the release of an anti-Castro exile wanted in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner, as outraged Cubans pressed demands that the man ...
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Democracy: Thursday's shootout at Havana International Airport by army conscripts seeking to flee Cuba underlines how badly Cuban youth want out. The mutineers will be executed, but it's the regime...
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The number of cruise ships visiting Cuba has plummeted nearly 90 percent since 2005, after Fidel Castro complained that the industry did little more than flood the country with trash and a U.S. cru...
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The Episcopal Church has named a woman as bishop in Cuba, the first such appointment by the church in the developing world, church officials said Tuesday.The Rev. Nerva Cot Aguilera was named suffr...
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Lawmakers from both parties proposed opening up agriculture exports to Cuba and ending travel restrictions, putting them at odds with a White House adamantly opposed to easing a half-century-old em...
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Repression is increasing in Cuba under the control of Raul Castro, and the domination of the government by his brother, Fidel, is nearing an end, Bush administration officials said Tuesday."In Cuba...
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Media: Cuba's expulsion of three journalists was a minor story, but shouldn't be. Not only does it show Cuba's growing fear of the spotlight, it raises questions about why others are still there.It...
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