HAVANA, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Cuban President Raul Castro on Saturday commemorated the 123rd anniversary of Cuba's War of Independence fromSpain, and decorated three of the most senior leaders of the 1959 Revolution. At a ceremony held in Havana's Capitol building, home of the National Assemb...
The eight-meter-tall pillar was originally erected in 1931 in tribute to the soldiers who bravely fought in Cuba's two wars for independence from Spain, in 1868-1878 and 1895-1898. A bronze plaque on the base bears the famous words reportedly spoken by independence leader Gonzalo de Quesada ...
An island country in the Caribbean Sea south of Florida. Originally settled by Arawak Indians, it was claimed for Spain by Columbus in 1492 and was colonized beginning in 1511. Spain relinquished its control of Cuba in 1898 as a result of the Spanish-American War, and following a three-yea...
The Cubans who fought the War of Independence against Spain at the end of the 19th century found sympathetic supporters in New York. Cuban independence hero Jose Marti lived in New York when he was in exile and there he garnered much support for his cause of Cuban independence. Marti returne...
independence and the establishment of the republic — a fact that the prerevolutionary white racist culture and institutions had erased. Moreover, he claimed that the black Cuban experience was at the heart of the Cuban Revolution’s radicalism — accordingly, the struggle against racism strengthened...
Like the flag raised by Máximo Gómez in Cuba’s struggle for independence but sewn by Victoria Pedraza, her grandaunt,Sylvia Pedraza(Sociology, University of Michigan) intends her book to be a contribution to Cuban history.Political Disaffection in Cuba’s Revolution and Exodus, Pedraza’smagnum...
The Cuban Republic and Jose Marti 作者:Font, Mauricio; Font, Mauricio; Quiroz, Alfonso 出版年:2005-12 页数:274 定价:$ 99.44 ISBN:9780739112243 豆瓣评分 目前无人评价 评价: 写笔记 写书评 加入购书单 分享到
Was it in 1895 when the Cuban people rose up for independence and nearly succeeded, or was it in 1933 with the failed revolution that brought about incremental reform in the form of the 1940 Constitution, or was it in 1953 when Fidel Castro and reformers fought against an illegal government...
Which two revolutions inspired Latin American countries to declare their independence from Spain? What did the Russian Revolution accomplish? What were the political causes of the Russian Revolution? What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? What were the two stages of the Russian Revolution? What was ...
At the end of the Nineteenth Century, Martí called on all the factions and groups that supported Cuban independence to unite under the banner of the Cuban Revolutionary Party to more effectively combat Spanish colonialism. When Martí made this call for unity for the independence cause, he was ...