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The Academia Cubana de la Lengua (Spanish for Cuban Academy of Language) is an association of academics and experts on the use of the Spanish language in Cuba. It was founded in Havana, on May 19, 1926. It is a member of the Association of Spanish Language Academies
CAL was created in this environment of increased interest in language issues by Dr. Charles A. Ferguson, a pioneer in the field of applied linguistics. Through a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Modern Language Association , CAL was established in 1959 to serve as a liaison between the academic world of linguistics, and the practical world ...
Hortensia Amaro is a Cuban-American educator, and formerly Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University [1] and Associate Vice Provost of Community Research and Dean's Professor of Social Work and Preventative Medicine at the University of Southern California. [2] Amaro was born in Cuba and moved to Los Angeles, California as a child. [3]
A major development in late-20th-century American literature was the proliferation of writing by and about Latinos. [1] The literary mixing of US and Spanish American culture, history, and social concerns is intensified by the inception of Latino literature written in English in the second half of the 20th century, in which authors such as Cristina García, Julia Álvarez, Gloria Anzaldúa ...
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 ...
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Federico Fernández Cavada, colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War and later Commander-in-Chief of all the Cuban forces during Cuba's Ten Year War Mercedes O. Cubria , lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army; first Cuban-born female officer in the US Army [ 102 ]
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 ...