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[14] [15] In November 2020, Otero Alcántara took part in a hunger strike as part of the San Isidro Movement. He and other protesters were twice detained by police during the protest. [16] [17] [18] On December 3, he was released from prison, but arrested again the same day when he joined another protest. He was released to house arrest the ...
Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 10 million ...
The San Isidro Movement protested Solís' arrest by locking themselves inside a house in San Isidro. [1] [12] [13] After ten days of protest, Cuban police forcibly entered the house, detained and then released the protesters. [12] The police stated that the raid was carried out for reasons related to COVID-19. [14]
Casablanca (Spanish pronunciation: [kasaˈβlaŋka]) is a ward (consejo popular) of the city of Havana, the capital of Cuba, belonging to the municipal borough of Regla. It is situated to the east of the entrance to Havana Harbor.
Casa del Habano (between Calles 14 and 16) (also in the Melia Habana near the Miramar Trade Center and Club Habana) Teatro Miramar at Calle 94 Parque de los Ahorcados ( Park of the Hanged ), between Calles 24 and 26, "shaded by massive jagüey trees, seemingly supported by their aerial roots dangling like cascades of water"
First Lady of Cuba Term Began Term Ended President of Cuba Notes Genoveva Guardiola Arbizú: May 20, 1902 September 28, 1906 Tomás Estrada Palma: Born in Honduras, Veva Guardiola was the inaugural First Lady of Cuba. [1] América Arias: January 28, 1909 May 20, 1913 José Miguel Gómez: Mariana Seva de Menocal: May 20, 1913 May 20, 1921 Mario ...
The first church dedicated to San Isidoro (St. Isidore), was designed by architect D. Diego de Ávila y de la Torre and was blessed on April 3, 1720 when Cuba was still under the rule of the Spanish Empire. The present cathedral of San Isidoro, inaugurated as parish church between 1818 and 1820, is a construction structure with a "T".
Alberto Yarini y Ponce de León (5 February 1882 – 21 November 1910) was a Cuban racketeer and pimp during the period of the Cuban War of Independence against Spain. Yarini was well known in his time, is Cuba's most famous pimp, and came to symbolize the concept of Cubanidad, the Cuban national identity, to many Cubans, long after his death.