X-Nico

41 unusual facts about Cuba


1887 Atlantic hurricane season

Although the hurricane passed far to the south of Cuba, it caused several vessels to sink at Batabanó and brought heavy rain and flooding to the islands interior.

1906 Atlantic hurricane season

This first hurricane of the season's effects were first noted in Santa Clara, Cuba, where rainy and windy conditions were observed on the afternoon of June

Alfredo Rostgaard

Alfredo Rostgaard (1943 – December 27, 2004) was a Cuban graphic designer and artist.

Antonio Núñez Jiménez

Antonio Núñez Jiménez (April 20, 1923 – September 13, 1998) was a Cuban revolutionary and academic.

Basilica Menor de San Francisco de Asis

The basilica and the monastery of San Francisco de Asis (Saint Francis of Assisi) were built in Havana, Cuba at the end of sixteenth century (1580–91) as the home of the Franciscan community, and were altered in the baroque style in 1730.

Caimito

Caimito, Cuba, a town in Artemisa Province (before 2011 in Havana Province)

Carlos Mendieta

Carlos Mendieta y Montefur (November 4, 1873 – 27 September 1960) was a Cuban politician and Provisional President of Cuba.

Centro de hoja

Centro de hoja or Center of the sheet is a kind of Cuban postage stamps where there are intersecting gutters between four panes of stamps.

Cuba Township, Becker County, Minnesota

It was named for Cuba, New York, the former hometown of the early settler Charles W. Smith.

Cuba, an African Odyssey

From Che Guevara's tragicomic epic in the Congo up to the triumph of the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale in Angola, this film tells the story of the internationalists whose saga is at the basis of today's word: they won all the battles, but end up losing the war.

African revolutionaries like Patrice Lumumba, Amílcar Cabral and Agostinho Neto call on Cuban guerrillas to help them in their struggle.

CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism

The two film makers visited Cuba by joining a solidarity brigade organised by Rock Around the Blockade.

CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism is a documentary film produced by Rock Around the Blockade in 2010.

John Kirk, professor of Latin American Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada (Kirk has published several books about Cuban international relations, history and culture. His most recent publication, co-authored with Professor Michael Erisman, 'Cuba's Medical Internationalism: Origins, Evolution and Goals', was published in 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan).

Economy of the Caribbean

The greatest concentrations of minerals most valuable on the international market are found in: Cuba, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.

ELAM 10 Rafael Ferro Macias

ELAM 10: Rafael Ferro Macias is a faculty of the Escuela Latinamericana de Medicina (known as the Latin American School of Medicine) located in Sandino, in the province of Pinar del Río, Cuba.

ELAM 5 Combate Ceja del Negro

ELAM 5: Combate Ceja del Negro is a Policlinic and Faculty of Medical Sciences located in the municipality of Sandino, Pinar del Río, Cuba.

Felipe Pazos

Felipe Pazos (September 27, 1912 – February 26, 2001) was a Cuban economist who initially supported the Cuban Revolution of Fidel Castro, but became disillusioned with the increasingly radical nature of the revolutionary government.

Batista's rule came under increasing assault during the 1950s, and he and the Cuban military soon found themselves fighting against a young Castro and the forces of his 26th of July Movement.

Florida State Road 989

By the late 1960s, the State Road was realigned to Moody Drive to provide increased access to the base's two northern entrance gates as the increasing intensity of the Cold War and the rise to power of Fidel Castro in nearby Cuba amplified the importance of Homestead Air Force Base to the national security of the United States.

Garcia-Mir v. Meese

10,000 Cubans attempted to gain asylum at the Peruvian Embassy in Havana, leading Fidel Castro and the Cuban government to allow anyone who wished so to leave the country via the Port of Mariel.

Guáimaro Constitution

The Guáimaro Constitution was an agreement between groups in Spanish colonial Cuba supporting independence from Spain, in effect from 1869 to 1878.

Guama

Guamá, Cuba, a municipality in Santiago de Cuba Province, Cuba

History of Havana

Later, they emigrated towards Miramar, and today, evermore to the west, they have settled in Siboney.

Isla de Cuba

Isla de Cuba, a Spanish second-class protected cruiser in service from 1887 to 1898 that fought in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.

Joaquín de Agüero

Despite the common public outcry to abolish slavery, Agüero's action was declared as a serious breach of law, and to escape the inquiry of the authorities, he had to leave Cuba with his family for the United States.

Narváez expedition

Narváez put Cabeza de Vaca and a captain named Pantoja in charge of two ships sent to Trinidad, while he took the other four ships to the Gulf of Guacanayabo.

Nely Galán

Nely Galán (born 1963 in Santa Clara, Cuba) is an independent producer and a former President of Entertainment for Telemundo.

Nito Alves

While Cuban soldiers actively helped Neto put down the coup, Alves claimed that the Soviet Union supported the coup.

Raúl Chibás

Raúl Chibás Rivas (April 25, 1916 – August 25, 2002) was a Cuban politician and military officer who initially supported Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution but later defected to the United States.

He was a Major of the Cuban Army in 1960 when he decided to defect to the United States via a motor boat to Miami.

Río Cauto

Río Cauto, Cuba, a municipality and City in Granma Province, Cuba

Saturnino and Mariano Lora

The War of Independence of Cuba started on 24 February 1895, under the intellectual leadership of the writer and philosopher José Martí, often called Father of the Country in Cuba.

Spanish reconquest attempts of Mexico

Thus began patrols of the Mexican squadron in Spanish waters, which culminated in the unsuccessful Battle of Mariel on February 10, 1828, in which Porter commanded the brig Guerrero, mounting 22 guns, and one of the finest vessels in the small Mexican Navy.

Timeline of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season

EDT (0000 UTC September 5) – A tropical depression forms northeast of Santa Clara, Cuba.

Timeline of the Cuban Revolution

1957 July 30 Cuban revolutionary Frank País is killed in the streets of Santiago de Cuba by police while campaigning for the overthrow of Batista government

It began with the assault on the Moncada Barracks on July 26, 1953, and ended on January 1, 1959, when Batista was driven from the country and the cities Santa Clara and Santiago de Cuba were seized by rebels, led by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro's surrogates Raúl Castro and Huber Matos, respectively .

Trocha from Júcaro to Morón

The Trocha from Júcaro to Morón was a fortified military line built between 1869 and 1872 in Cuba by slave work force and Chinese immigrants to impede the pass of insurrectionist forces to the western part of the island during the 1st War of Independence (1868–1878) and was 68 km long between Júcaro and Morón.

Union blockade

The blockade runners were based in the British islands of Bermuda and the Bahamas, or Havana, in Spanish Cuba.

Valerio De Los Benidos

Valerio De Los Benidos (1905–1975) was a Cuban activist who was involved in preaching to his local community.

Year of the Lash

Year of the Lash (in Spanish, Año del Cuero) is a term used in Cuba in reference to 1844.


1909 Grand Isle hurricane

On September 16, it attained the equivalent of a modern-day Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale and further strengthened to attain winds of 100 mph (155 km/h) before making landfall in Pinar del Río Province, Cuba on September 18.

1960 Caribbean Series

The XII edition of the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) was a baseball tournament held from February 10 through February 15, 1960 featuring the champion teams from Cuba (Cienfuegos), Panama (Marlboro), Puerto Rico (Caguas) and Venezuela (Rapiños).

1974 Huntsville Prison Siege

Carrasco claimed that they were planning to flee to Cuba and appeal to Fidel Castro.

A. glauca

Abarema glauca, the glaucous abarema, a tree species found only in Cuba

Bonnie Bramlett

In 1979, Bonnie Bramlett travelled to Havana, Cuba, to participate in the historic Havana Jam festival that took place between 2–4 March, alongside Stephen Stills, the CBS Jazz All-Stars, the Trio of Doom, Fania All-Stars, Billy Swan, Weather Report, Mike Finnegan, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge and Billy Joel, plus an array of Cuban artists such as Irakere, Pacho Alonso, Tata Güines and Orquesta Aragón.

Captaincy General of Cuba

The transfer of the Spanish part of Santo Domingo to France in 1795 in the Treaty of Basel, made Cuba the main Spanish possession in the Caribbean.

Cine Pobre Film Festival

The Cine Pobre Film Festival, based in the coastal city of Gibara in the eastern province of Holguín (Cuba) is one of the most popular events of the alternative film circuit.

Cordelia Botkin

He reconciled with his wife before leaving for Cuba, where he helped save survivors of the Spanish battleships that were sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba on 2 July 1898.

Cucurucho

Cucurucho is a local delicacy of the city of Baracoa in eastern Cuba.

Descemer Bueno

Bueno soon moved back to Cuba and began producing, arranging, and composing music for many young Cuban musicians including Haydée for Haydée Milanés, La Isla Milagrosa for William Vivanco, and Breathe for Yusa.

Edén Pastora

After negotiating a USD $500,000 deal with Somoza and Cardinal Miguel Obando, Pastora, Ortega and other released prisoners left for Cuba, where he claimed to have been a "prisoner" lavished with women and luxury, but not allowed to leave the country until Martín Torrijos, the son of then Panamanian strongman Omar Torrijos and Pastora's personal friend, voiced his concern and went to Cuba to rescue him personally.

Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II

His father, the then Captain Edward Otho Cresap Ord (October 18, 1818 Maryland–July 22, 1883 in Havana, Cuba and buried on July 22, 1898 in Arlington National Cemetery), married Mary Mercer Thompson (January 22, 1831 Virginia–July 15, 1894 San Antonio, Texas) on October 14, 1854.

El Escorial

All of the wood used in El Escorial comes from the ancient forests of Sagua La Grande, on the so-called Golden Coast of Cuba.

Eliane Lima

Lima’s short films have screened in the Liverpool Biennial (UK), SFMOMA (SF), Victoria Theater (SF), Anthology Film Archives (NY), Pacific Film Archive (SF), Brazil, Cuba, Canada, and elsewhere.

Energy security and renewable technology

Physicist Amory Lovins has said that following hundreds of blackouts in 2005, Cuba reorganized its electricity transmission system into networked microgrids and cut the occurrence of blackouts to zero within two years, limiting damage even after two hurricanes.

Erick Baker

He ended the year performing at the official Belk Bowl FanFest in Charlotte, North Carolina, along with McCain and the rock band Daughtry, as well as at a New Year's Eve show for the U.S. troops stationed at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

Field Harris

His first assignment was for a brief period aboard the USS Nevada and subsequently was assigned to the Third Provisional Brigade at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Franklin Martins

Martins lived in Cuba, Chile and France, where he graduated at the École de Sciences Sociales of the University of Paris.

Granma Province

The province takes its name from the yacht Granma, used by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro to land in Cuba with 82 guerrillas on December 2nd, 1956; until 1976 the area formed part of the larger "Oriente Province".

History of antisemitism in the United States

On 4 June 1939, having failed to obtain permission to disembark passengers in Cuba, the St. Louis was also refused permission to unload on orders of President Roosevelt as the ship waited in the Caribbean Sea between Florida and Cuba.

Internet in Cuba

According to Boris Moreno Cordoves, Deputy Minister of Informatics and Communications, the Torricelli Act (part of the United States embargo against Cuba) identified the telecommunications sector as a tool for subversion of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, and the necessary technology has been conditioned by counter-revolutionaries, but is also seen as essential for Cuba’s economic development.

Janelle Shepherd

She defeated Italy's Michela Torrenti, and Germany's Sandra Köppen in the preliminary rounds, before losing out the quarterfinal match to Cuba's Idalys Ortiz, by an ippon (full point) and an okuri eri jime (sliding lapel strangle).

JMWAVE

Under Ted Shackley's leadership from 1962 to 1965, JMWAVE grew to be the largest CIA station in the world outside of the organization's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, with 300 to 400 professional operatives (possibly including about 100 based in Cuba) as well as an estimated 15,000 anti-Castro Cuban exiles on its payroll.

Jorge Giannoni

Shortly thereafter the University of Buenos Aires was pressured by the government of Isabel Perón to close the Institute, and he had to leave the country for Peru, and then Cuba, where he resided until his return to Argentina in 1983.

Justin Merriman

Merriman has photographed and covered many national and international stories, including the events of September 11 and the crash of United Flight 93, the Sago mine disaster in Sago, West Virginia, polio in India, life in Cuba, the 2008 Parliamentary Elections in Pakistan, the war in Afghanistan and stories across the country.

Kelvis Ochoa

They rapidly met with success, with the hit record Havana Abierta on the Spanish label BMG Ariola, sold-out concerts in Spain in the 90s, a triumphant return to Cuba in 2003 for a memorable show at La Tropical and a documentary film directed by Jorge Perugorría and Arturo Soto.

Lahmard Tate

Lahmard J. Tate aka Cuba Jr. (born 1970 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor and is the older brother of actor Larenz Tate.

Lajos Virág

Virag made his official debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed second in the preliminary pool of the men's 96 kg class, against Cuba's Ernesto Peña and United States' Garrett Lowney.

Laughlin Air Force Base

The film from Major Heyser's mission was developed, analyzed and the photos were shown to the United Nations Security Council on October 22, 1962, proving to the world, that offensive missiles were on the island of Cuba.

Los Llanos de Aridane

In its vicinity are 11 stunning Indian laurels (Ficus microcarpa) which together with royal palm trees were brought from Cuba by migrants in the mid-nineteenth century to beautify the ride of your hometown.

Manny Alvarez

Manny Alvarez is a Cuban-American OB-GYN who serves as a senior medical contributor for the Fox News Channel and managing health editor of FoxNews.com, appearing on America's Newsroom, Fox & Friends, Fox News Live, America's Pulse, The Live Desk and Fox News Weekend.

Mel Chin

Mel Chin has also exhibited in numerous group shows including the Fifth Biennial of Havana, Cuba; Seventh Architectural Biennial in Venice, Italy; Kwangju Biennale, Korea; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art; P.S.1

NAO Dance Technique

Elchak is a passionate mother, dancer, choreographer, and educator, trained with teachers from the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, the Mark Morris Dance Group, the American Ballet Theatre, the New York City Ballet, The International Ballet of Cuba, the Denishawn School, and Isadora Duncan Dance.

Nibras guest house

The Nibras guest house is one of the many al Qaida guest houses, or al Qaida safe houses, or other houses that American intelligence analysts assert are part of the justifications offered for the continued extrajudicial detention of captives held in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.

Nueva trova

In both Cuba and Puerto Rico, the politicized lyrics of nueva trova were very often critical of the United States; Puerto Rican singers were especially critical of Vieques' continued use as a United States Navy training ground.

Palmar de Junco

It is located at Calzada Esteban between Monserrate and San Ignacio streets in the neighborhood of Pueblo Nuevo, Matanzas, Cuba.

Phil Seaman

Although some people suggested that he became a fabulous unicorn seller, particularly intrested in 10x winning universal unicorn racing champion Starshine Sparkle, although some argue he is smoking with 2Pac in Cuba, he is also to have been rumored to be Taher Shah, a Pakistani Singer known for his hit single 'Eye to Eye'.

Rafael Manriquez

It was the time of socialist president Salvador Allende, and performances by foreign artists from like-minded movements such as Cuba’s Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés were commonplace at musical events supported by the Allende regime.

Rubalcaba

Alexis Rubalcaba (born 1972), retired boxer from Cuba, who competed in the Super Heavyweight division

Serafín García Menocal

In 1956, under his leadership, the Scouts of Cuba bought the national training grounds Campo Escuela Nacional Mayabeque at Mayabeque, in the margins of the river of the same name, near Catalina de Güines in Havana Province within 50 km of the capital.

Spanish ship Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad

The model will be displayed in the Naval Museum of La Habana, opened in June 2008 at Castillo de la Real Fuerza, the oldest building in Cuba and the oldest stone fortress in the New World.

Teofilo Ruiz

In 1961, Ruiz left Cuba for Miami with "only three changes of clothing, $45, a box of Cuban cigars to sell and a Spanish translation of Jacob Burckhardt's A History of Greek Civilization."

The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall

Bremmer's J Curve describes the relationship between a country's openness and its stability; focusing on the notion that while many countries are stable because they are open (the United States, France, Japan), others are stable because they are closed (North Korea, Cuba, Iraq under Saddam Hussein).

Thomas Whitcombe

During his career he also painted scenes showing the Cape of Good Hope, Madeira, Cuba and Cape Horn.

Valkiri

Development was completed in 1981, and it was fielded in 1987 and 1988 by the South African Defense Force (SADF) in southern Angola against Cuban supported People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA), specifically during operations Hooper and Moduler.

William R. Royal

He moved to Manatee County, Florida during the Great Depression and operated a passenger airplane service in the Bahamas and Cuba in the late 1930s.

Yordenis Ugás

" Later Ugás beat Russian Khabib Allakhverdiyev and in the final he outfought Romal Amanov from Azerbaidjan. Cubanet.org writes "Yordenis Ugas, a sharp, technically accomplished fighter but with a suspect jaw, won the lightweight gold for Cuba after an explosive toe-to-toe clash with Romal Amanov of Azerbaijan.