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Regan v. Wald, 468 U.S. 222 (1984), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held by a 5–4 majority that restrictions upon travel to Cuba established as part of the Cuban Assets Control Regulations in 1963 did not violate the freedom to travel protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Mary McCarthy Gomez Cueto (April 27, 1900 – April 3, 2009) was the widow of a wealthy Cuban businessman who died in poverty, unwilling to leave the island and unable to access her funds because of the US embargo on trade with Cuba. [1]
With the passage of the 1901 Cuban Constitution, which denied the right to vote to women, [2] several feminist organizations sprang up. [2] One of these, the Club Femenino de Cuba Spanish : Club Femenino was founded by Pilar Jorge de Tella, Ofelia Domínguez Navarro , Hortensia Lamar , Pilar Morlón de Menéndez [ es ] , Mariblanca Sabas Alomá ...
Cuba is a regional front-runner in women's rights. [91] With respect to reproductive rights, Cuban women have up to two years of maternity leave and free access to abortion. [91] Women head almost 50% of households in Cuba. [91] Sixty percent of Cuban professionals are women. [91]
Cuba’s crisis is the result of the internal blockade enforced by the Cuban government on the Cuban people. Cuban American scholar Dr. Amalia Daché has said that “…lifting the embargo would ...
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said in a speech before the assembly that what is often referred to as the U.S. trade embargo is a “blockade” because the web of laws and regulations ...
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 ...
“This was a way actually to end the embargo.” Manuel Rocha, the former U.S. ambassador arrested in Miami earlier this month accused of being a covert agent for Cuba, had a reputation for being ...