Changes for the traditions and for Protestantism were effected in the decade of 1984 to 1994 as the socialist government initiated official sanction for believers participation in state affairs. President Fidel Ruiz Castro attendance at a 1984 Havana worship honoring Martin Luther King Jr. was the ...
They had been able to control the Cuban government by controlling the successive presidents, since the Spanish-American War early in the 20th Century. The rise of Castro was undertaken with a distinct anti-American flavor to it. Castro was able to expand his popularity by fusing the anti-...
During Cuba’s struggles for independence from Spain in the 19th century, injured soldiers would ask the virgin to be healed and would sew her image on their uniforms. Article content In the early 20th century, war veterans petitioned the Vatican to name her Cuba’s ...
They had been able to control the Cuban government by controlling the successive presidents, since the Spanish-American War early in the 20th Century. The rise of Castro was undertaken with a distinct anti-American flavor to it. Castro was able to expand his popularity by fusing the anti-...
have been burned. One can only to stick to the plan of looting every last man and the last dime, while Cubans, like men in Plato's cave, observe shadows on stones and believe that this is reality, that to live in chains is to live, and that without chains there is no life ...
The Cuban parakeet is yet another endemic species to the island of Cuba. It is a species of parrot, and though it could be found on the Isla de la Juventud, south of Cuba, it was extirpated from it at the beginning of the 20th century. ...
Cuba transgresses the boundaries of time, spanning six decades simultaneously. In Old Havana take in the mid-century ambiance of the UNESCO World Heritage Site combined with its Spanish colonial architecture. Hail a classic American car, and whisk along the Malecón with hair flowing in the wind...
Cuban music is the source of much Latin music in the 20th century. Salsa, the all-encompassing Latin music that came out of New York in the 1970s, and soon spread across Colombia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere, owes all of its success to the Cuban music ...
The Beginnings Nineteenth Century Developments Cacao Production Chocolate and Chocolate Making in Travelers' Accounts Cacao and Chocolate During the Mid-19th Century Consequences of the Independence Wars and the First Cuban Republic The 20th Century Chocolate in Cuba After 1959 Conclusion Acknowledgments Endn...
In the early 20th century, war veterans petitioned the Vatican to name her Cuba's patron saint. Pope Benedict XV granted the request. Over the centuries, Cubans of many faiths — including the Afro-Cuban Santeria religion — have prayed to the virgin, drawn to the ...