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Luis Echegoyen, famous Cuban-born chemist; Isabel Pérez Farfante, carcinologist [103] Carlos Juan Finlay (1833–1915), Cuban physician and scientist recognized as a pioneer in yellow fever research; Maria Oliva-Hemker, Cuban-born American paediatrician
Gustavo Arcos, Cuban Revolutionary later became an imprisoned dissident; Huber Matos, Cuban Revolutionary; Ignacio Agramonte, 19th century Cuban revolutionary; Jorge Mas Canosa, founder of the Cuban American National Foundation; José Miró Cardona, President of Cuba in 1959; José Martí, poet, philosopher, politician, writer, revolutionary
Cuban authorities allow up to 125,000 people to depart Cuba by boat from Mariel harbor for the U.S. The Cuban and U.S. governments agree to halt the exodus in October. 7 June: U.S. President Jimmy Carter orders the U.S. Justice Department to expel any Cubans who committed "serious crimes" in Cuba. [20] 1983: 25 October
Cuban Americans (Spanish: cubanoestadounidenses [4] or cubanoamericanos [5]) are Americans who immigrated from or are descended from immigrants from Cuba.As of 2023, Cuban Americans were the fourth largest Hispanic and Latino American group in the United States after Mexican Americans, Stateside Puerto Ricans and Salvadoran Americans.
Cuban immigration to the United States, for the most part, occurred in two periods: the first series of immigration of wealthy Cuban Americans to the United States resulted from Cubans establishing cigar factories in Tampa and from attempts to overthrow Spanish colonial rule by the movement led by José Martí, the second to escape from Communist rule under Fidel Castro following the Cuban ...
The most famous spy for Cuba, ex-Cuban Air Force Major Juan Pablo Roque, boasted that he was “Richard Gere’s Cuban double.” He married a Republican Cuban American and infiltrated Brothers to ...
Taíno genocide Viceroyalty of New Spain (1535–1821) Siege of Havana (1762) Captaincy General of Cuba (1607–1898) Lopez Expedition (1850–1851) Ten Years' War (1868–1878) Little War (1879–1880) Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898) Treaty of Paris (1898) US Military Government (1898–1902) Platt Amendment (1901) Republic of Cuba (1902–1959) Cuban Pacification (1906–1909) Negro ...
Spanish-language social media and so-called influencers on YouTube and other platforms are rapidly becoming the chief source of news and information about Cuba among Cubans and Cuban Americans in ...