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América Latina Olé [2] was a concert tour by The Rolling Stones, which began on 3 February 2016 in Santiago and made stops in La Plata, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Porto Alegre, Lima, Bogotá, Mexico City and ended in Havana with a free show on 25 March 2016. [3] The tour was chronicled on two video releases: The Rolling Stones ...
Cuba has long been a popular attraction for tourists.Between 1915 and 1930, Havana hosted more tourists than any other location in the Caribbean. [8] The influx was due in large part to Cuba's proximity to the United States, where restrictive prohibition on alcohol and other pastimes stood in stark contrast to the island's traditionally relaxed attitude to drinking and other pastimes.
Completed in 1953, Temple Beth Shalom is the main synagogue serving Havana's Jewish community of 1,500 people. The congregation was founded in 1904 and it has been an epicenter of Jewish life in Cuba. The synagogue welcomes thousands of visitors each year for both Shabbat and tours of Jewish Cuba. [2]
The sinking of the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898 was the immediate cause of the Spanish–American War. [2] Map of Havana Harbor, 1888 Havana Harbor - 1898. In January 1898 the USS Maine, the largest vessel to come out of an American shipyard, was dispatched to Cuba to protect US interests there. At the time more than 8,000 US ...
Cubavisión International (Spanish: Cubavisión Internacional) is a Cuban free-to-air television channel run by Cuba's national broadcaster, Cuban Institute of Radio and Television. It serves as the worldwide arm of the domestic Cubavisión network.
HAVANA (Reuters) -A residential building collapse in the Cuban capital of Havana on Tuesday night has killed at least three people, state media said on Wednesday. The partial collapse of the three ...
Havana Maestros – AmeriCuba is a collaborative album by Havana Maestros, which fuses a cast of Cuban musicians including Barbarito Torres and Amadito Valdes of the Buena Vista Social Club, with tracks from American artists such as Missy Elliott, Janelle Monáe, Jason Derulo, Ben E. King, Fun., Otis Redding, Chic, Dionne Warwick, B.o.B. and others.
Victor Manuel Gerena - allegedly hiding in Cuba after stealing $7,000,000 in Hartford, Connecticut; remains at-large on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List; Ernest Hemingway - famous American author who purchased a home outside of Havana in 1940 and lived there with his wife for 20 years; William Alexander Morgan - US citizen who fought in the Cuban ...