... shores of Cuba, which he called "Juana,"" thinking that he had found Asia's mainland. On October 9th, 1492 Columbus landed in Cuba and claimed the island for Spain. Three months later, Columbus set sail back to Spain to bring word of his discovery to the King, leaving a number of his men ... , leaving in September, but this time he brought 17 ships and 1500 men with him including missionaries, soldiers and laborers, as well as cattle and seeds. Even with all these ships, the Spaniards did not realize that Cuba was an island until 1508 when Sebastian de Ocampo circumnavigated Cuba, proving...

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... its defenses. They had signed an agreement with Cuba, followed by a secret arms build up. From 1960 to 1962, secret arms deliveries on Russian ships arrived in Cuba. These deliveries would be carried out with the utmost care. The deliveries were usually done at night, and all the goods would be ... covered with black tarps or coverings. People were kept away from the ports when these ships would arrive and the soldiers working the docks were told to keep quiet about what was being delivered. As well as arms being sent to ... Cuba, there were also Russian officers training Cuban soldiers...

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... . In March 1960 the US led a group of trained and armed Cuban exiles in what was planned to be a simple invasion. The emigres were expected to draw support from the island, and Fidel Castro and his inefficient, unstable government would collapse almost instantly. The Americans thought this would work because a similar plan was executed in Guatemala that was a terrific success. However ... missiles be removed, and then put America on alert for nuclear war. America was ready for war. On October 23, US ships took up positions along the quarantine line, they were given clearance so use any m...

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... of sugar, and its security importance because of its close proximity to the United States. With the political inferno that was raging on the island, the United States had a number of reasons to intervene, both diplomatically and militarily. The first, most prominent, issue was the humanitarian aspect ... fighting in Cuba. This instruction caused Spain to remove a greatly disliked Governor-General, and to allow a degree of autonomy and reforms to the island. However, since the rebels demanded nothing short of full independence, the fighting continued, as did the inhumane conditions. News o...

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... U.S. weapons, landed at the Bahí de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the south coast of Cuba. Hoping to find support from the local population, they intended to cross the island to Havana, but were quickly stopped by Castro's army. By the time the fighting ended on April 19, about 100 had been killed and the rest taken prisoner. The Cuban ... reef that ripped the landing crafts in half. American destroyers hovered near the Cuban coast, as crewmen painted over the vessels name, so the Cubans wouldn't recognize them. But the ships were too close to land and Cubans, with binoculars, could identi...

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... action of hostility and that Soviet vessels going to Cuba would be commanded to advance. Nonetheless, all through October 24 and 25, numerous ships left the line. All of the other ships were halted by U.S. naval services. However, the ships did not enclose any offensive weapons and were permitted to carry on. In the meantime, U.S. scouting flights overhead Cuba determined the Soviet missile ... approached by a Soviet agent suggesting that an agreement could be reached in which the Soviets would remove their missiles from Cuba if the United States promised not to invade the island" (The ...

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... 't get rid of the missiles but would prevent them from coming in. This quarantine was put into affect and America crossed their fingers as Soviet ships slowly reached our radar. Tensions mounted as we watched the ships slow down and eventually turn around (The Cuban Missile Crisis). There was a sigh of relief on the American side although this crisis was far from ... conversations along with detailed documents of the Cuban Missile Crisis. After President Kennedy was assassinated, his brother Robert used this information to produce a book entitled, "Thirteen Days", which was basically a j...

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CUBA'S ECONOMIC POLICY FROM 1945 TO 2002 ASSESING ITS STRENGHTS AND WEAKNESSES Cuba is the largest Caribbean island and the most westerly of the greater Antillrd group. Cuba is one of the few remaining countries committed to the socialist mode of production. The ruling communist Party of Cuba ... the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act of 1996 (Helms Burton). The 1992 act penalized other countries if their ships stopped in Cuba. All of this forced Cuba to rely on more distant suppliers and markets in Europe and Asia. Since ships engaged in Cuban trade were unable to enter US ports, C...

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... Americans, as they had a range of two thousand miles with a flight time of just seventeen minutes. Whilst this was being said, US intelligence was picking up messages of twenty Russian ships, heading for Cuba with crates on board which obviously contained more missiles. The US intelligence was right as, the missiles were carried on deck, in full pledged view of US ... missiles in their in the first place! The last option that lay to Kennedy was the option he took. Kennedy could pave a naval blockade around the island, quarantine it, and not allow any more Russian ships to enter Cuba. Th...

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... crew members hung on to the hull of the wrecked boat until morning. They swam three and a half miles to the nearest island. John swam with an injured man on his back the whole way. When they got to the island they met two islanders with a canoe. John gave them a coconut with a message on it and sent them to Rendova Harbor. A few ... attack the bases in Cuba. Kennedy said no because then it will force the Soviet Union to launch the missiles. Instead he decided to blockade Cuba and not let any ships into it. This will make Soviet leaders consider their course of action. Finally, the Sovie...

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... launch a full-scale attack against Cuba 2. He could launch a nuclear air strike attack again the missile sites 3. Blockade the seas around Cuba to stop more soviet missiles from reaching the island. On October 22, 1962 president Kennedy declared that Cuba was currently under quarantine. This was the only choice the president had to avoid war with the Soviets. Kennedy also announced ... that the US forces would confiscate "offensive weapons" entering the quarantined zone around Cuba. So naturally most of the Soviet ships bound for Cuba stayed well away from the quarantined zone. On the 2...

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... just once. According to a few famous historians, they have gone from one ruthless dictator to another almost all Cuba's Government was corrupt, criminals were making lots or money on the island, and almost all Cubans were poor. Because of Cuba's unstable government and its relationship to the United States, Americans took it upon themselves to help the Cubans while hoping to ... situation between Cuba and the United States was not going in the right direction after the Bay of Pigs incident. The United States was now in a serious situation with an island less than a hundred miles of the ...

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... diseases, and the misunderstanding tragically caused by the Aztec religion. Cortés set out in 1519 when he was 34 years old. , the governor of Cuba equipped him with 11 ships, 100 sailors, as many as 508 swordsmen, 32 crossbowmen, and 13 musketeers. He was also given 14 cannons and 16 horses. The expedition landed on an ... island known as Cozumel Island off the coast of the Yucatan. They then traveled north alongside the coast, fighting a battle in Tobasco. A result of this battle was the capture of a nineteen year old slave girl ... ...

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... worlds. He grew up close to a metropolitan center in a suburban or semi-rural community that was also sheltered by distance from the violent and vice of Chicago itself. More over, Dr. Hemingway owned a cabin in Northern Michigan where his oldest son spent his summers developing a life-long passion for hunting and fishing apart from middle-class society. Acting as a counterweight, Hemingway ... . But Hemingway proved them wrong. Upon his return to Cuba, he plotted out a multi-part sea novel. Although drafts portions of this opus would be published after Hemingway's death as Island in the ...

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... by this time a decaying, weak empire, and no match for a vigorous, muscular American military kept in shape by killing American Indians. On May 1, U.S. ships under Commodore Dewey, sent from Hong Kong to the Philippines, won the Battle of Manila Bay. Before dawn on May 1, 1898, Commodore George Dewey's flagship ... Bay. By 8 AM that morning Dewey's squadron had located and destroyed virtually the entire Spanish naval forces in the Philippines. Damage to the American ships was very little, and their crews suffered no fatalities and few injuries. The Battle of Manila Bay was a singular demo...

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... Soviet Union spawning the threat of Communist counterparts just 90 miles away from US southwest shores. Beginning in 1960, and continuing till 1961, US intelligence was compiling information that Soviet ships carrying unidentified contents were traveling between Cuba and the Soviet Union. Backing what US intelligence assumed, later information proved that Cuba was amidst a secret arms buildup. The Cuban agreement with ... that the US had nothing to fear. Despite these unreliable promises, US intelligence in October of 1962, produced detailed photo intelligence identifying Soviet nuclear...

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... no medical care were given inadequate food and were not allowed to learn to read or write. Some slaves ran away to remote parts of the island. They kept alive by keeping African ways and looking out for one another. They raided plantations for food and developed a defense system to stop ... the slaves. This was a huge gamble as there was no assurance that the slaves would fight for France. On Sept 19, 1793 England invaded the island of San-Domingue and were welcomed by the white planters. In exchange for their cooperation the San-Domingue would become a British colony. They would reinsta...

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... Columbus they introduced coconut, chick-peas, cilantro, eggplant, onions, and garlic to the islands. During the spice trade European country's also explored the island bringing oranges, limes, mangoes, rice, and coffee to the Caribbean. After the spice trade came the slave trade across the world but the slave ... , and cloves. The main types of meat in the Caribbean are Beef, Poultry, Pork, and Fish that they main Caribbean meals use. The island has a huge diversity of different foods and styles that they use in the cuisine. The main religion in the Caribbean islands is Christianity but t...

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... the Bay of Pigs. The morning before the invasion, April 15, 1961, he ordered a nationwide alert (Goode, Stephen 80). On April 14, 1961, the Liberation Army set sail on six ships from Nicaragua. The Army consisted of about 1,500 troops and they had approximately five tanks, eighteen mortars, fifteen recoilless rifles, four flame-throwers, twelve rocket launchers, twelve landing crafts, and ... these exiles (Goode, Stephen 81). On Monday, April 17, the remaining planes of Castro's air force were able to impose great damage on the ships and their invaders (Bay of Pigs Revisited, The 4). Tw...

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... the Bay of Pigs. The morning before the invasion, April 15, 1961, he ordered a nationwide alert (Goode, Stephen 80). On April 14, 1961, the Liberation Army set sail on six ships from Nicaragua. The Army consisted of about 1,500 troops and they had approximately five tanks, eighteen mortars, fifteen recoilless rifles, four flame-throwers, twelve rocket launchers, twelve landing crafts, and ... these exiles (Goode, Stephen 81). On Monday, April 17, the remaining planes of Castro's air force were able to impose great damage on the ships and their invaders (Bay of Pigs Revisited, The 4). Tw...

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... the Bay of Pigs. The morning before the invasion, April 15, 1961, he ordered a nationwide alert (Goode, Stephen 80). On April 14, 1961, the Liberation Army set sail on six ships from Nicaragua. The Army consisted of about 1,500 troops and they had approximately five tanks, eighteen mortars, fifteen recoilless rifles, four flame-throwers, twelve rocket launchers, twelve landing crafts, and ... these exiles (Goode, Stephen 81). On Monday, April 17, the remaining planes of Castro's air force were able to impose great damage on the ships and their invaders (Bay of Pigs Revisited, The 4). Tw...

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... blockade would be like, "closing the door after the horse had left the barn- [p.12]. The JCOS felt that the quarantine would bring about a confrontation with the Soviets and their ships; they thought we should concentrate on Castro and Cuba. Although it is true that the blockade wouldn't remove the weapons, or the work being done on the missile sites, as ... quarantine started President Kennedy had no control over the course of events [p.49]. On Wednesday October 24th, it was learned that the Russian ships coming toward the blockade were being escorted by submarines. Thankfully many of ...

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... were at their highest state of readiness and Soviet forces in Cuba were prepared to use nuclear weapons deployed on Cuban beaches to defend the island if it was invaded. However, histories opinion of the conflict is more that of praise and commendation because of the "bravery" of two ... wasn't long until he found his answer. Meanwhile, adding to the complications of the Crisis, Fidel Castro was looking for a way to defend his island nation from an attack by the U.S. Ever since the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, Castro felt a second attack was inevitable. Consequently, ... he appro...

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... voyages to the New World, he discovered what he called Juana, now known as Cuba. On October 28, 1492, Columbus and his voyagers sighted the island and the next day, October 29, 1492, the Europeans, for the first time in history, set foot on Cuban soil. Although Columbus discovered Cuba, ... ). The Indians offered little resistance to the Spanish and by the end of the 16th century only small groups remained in the mountainous areas of the island. For the first 200 years of Spanish rule, Cuba was primarily a transit station for the expeditions and fleets between Europe and the New World. ....

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... within the centuries ahead. From conquering the country, to its independence, to the rise of the current totalitarian regime, all these major events have made the island what it is today. Before giving the whole story about the Communists, one must understand how the country was born so here's a little bit of a background history: Spain had conquered ... doesn't believe in being defied as he still has large numbers of individuals incarcerated in prisons for political crimes ranging from speaking against the regime to trying to leave the island. The only difference between Cuba and Ocea...

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