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Pamela Munro (born May 23, 1947 [1]) is an American linguist who specializes in Native American languages.She is a distinguished research professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she has held a position since 1974.
Ronald Reagan is particularly popular in the Cuban-American community for standing up to Soviet communism and Fidel Castro's so-called "exportation of revolution" to Central America and Africa (there is a street in Miami named for Reagan), [67] [68] [69] and George W. Bush received 75 and 78 percent (in 2000 and 2004 respectively) of the Cuban ...
Maria Oliva-Hemker, Cuban-born American paediatrician; Tony Silva, Cuban-born American aviculturist and ornithologist who has written many books and articles about parrots. Albert Siu, internist and geriatrician at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City
Cubonics is a popular term for Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami. [11] [12] The term is a play on words of the term Ebonics which refers to African American Vernacular English. [13] The term for the dialect is rather new but the dialect itself has existed ever since the first Cuban exile to Miami in the 1950s.
Jorge Lincoln Mas Canosa (21 September 1939 – 24 November 1997) was a Cuban-American businessman who founded the Cuban American National Foundation and MasTec, a publicly traded company. Regarded within the United States as a powerful lobbyist on Cuban and anti- Castro political positions, [ 1 ] he was labeled a "counterrevolutionary" by the ...
Continental Bank was the first Cuban-American-owned bank in the United States, founded in 1974 by Carlos Dascal, who fled Fidel Castro’s revolution in 1961.
In "Los Frikis," set in early 1990s Cuba, hundreds of young, disenfranchised Cubans inject themselves with HIV during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, hoping to escape political repression by ...
Peter C. Bjarkman (May 19, 1941 – October 1, 2018 [1]) was an American historian, freelance author, and commentator on the baseball played in Cuba after the 1959 Communist revolution. [2]