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Cuba is an unincorporated community in western Washington Township, Clinton County, Ohio, United States. [1] It has a post office with the ZIP code 45114. [2] It lies at the intersection of U.S. Route 68 with State Route 350. In addition to the post office, the community is home to the Cuba Friends Meeting, a part of the Wilmington Yearly ...
In 1900 Cuba had a literacy rate of 36.1% [6] [7] - which was quite high for Latin America at the time. [8] By the early 1900s Cuba had a strong education system, but only half of the country's children participated. Schools remained inaccessible to the poorest Cubans and this resulted in a low literacy-rate for rural areas compared to the cities.
In 1961 the government of Fidel Castro (himself a graduate of Belen) confiscated all private and religious schools in Cuba. Castro expelled the Jesuits and declared the government of Cuba an atheist government. [7] Castro's government nationalized businesses and banks, confiscating more than $1 billion in American-owned property.
Cuba’s private sector now employs over 1.6 million people, more than the state, according to an analysis by Juan Triana, an economist with the Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy, based at ...
The American portion of Operation Peter Pan ended when all air traffic between the United States and Cuba ceased in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. [8] Cuban immigrants were instead re-routed to Spain and other countries following the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Cuban immigrants would have to travel via Spain or Mexico ...
"The presence of Cuba on the list of state sponsors of terrorism will probably prevent the measures announced today from becoming a reality for the (private) sector that the United States ...
HAVANA/HOUSTON (Reuters) -Cuba's national electrical grid shut down on Friday after one of the island's major power plants failed, Cuba's energy ministry said, plunging the entire country into a ...
The first dental school in the United States was founded in the early 19th century in Bainbridge. The Ohio School for the Blind became the first of its kind in the country, located in Columbus. After 2000, Ohio State government began experimentally exerting more control over schools, as they attempted to help the state's education system evolve ...