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Brazil also offered Cuba up to $1 billion in credit lines to pay for Brazilian goods and services. [5] During a January 2008 state visit to Cuba by Lula, the Brazilian leader expressed desire for his country to be Cuba's "number one partner". [6] In May 2008 following a meeting of their foreign ministers, it was described as "excellent". [6]
Cuba and Brazil share strong historical and demographic ties. Brazilian soap operas are popular in Cuba, and both have rich musical traditions. ... than 8,000 companies have been launched in Cuba.
About 60% of Cubans today are Catholic. [13] Some Catholic traditions were lost, but the church has imported the Mexican Christmas play trying to reconnect Cubans to Christianity. Cuba is a primarily Catholic country. Another large religion in Cuba is Santería. Santería is a blend of Catholicism and traditional Yoruba religions.
The culture of Africa brought by Africans in the Trans-Atlantic former slave trade has influenced various parts of Latin America. Influences are particularly strong in dance, music, cuisine, and some syncretic religions of Cuba, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Northwest Ecuador, coastal Colombia, and Honduras. [2] [3] [4]
The Cuban, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan dictatorships celebrated the victory of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil’s Oct. 30 elections as a historic win for Latin America’s the ...
Brazil intends to restore trade and political ties with Cuba, a top foreign policy aide to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday after meeting with Cuban President Miguel ...
Indigenous creeds and rituals are still practiced in countries with large percentages of Amerindians, such as Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru.Various Afro-Latin American traditions such as Santería, Candomblé, Umbanda, Macumba, and tribal-voodoo religions are also practiced, mainly in Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti.
If so, the use of such instruments in the rituals of Bantu speakers brought to Brazil might have resulted in the word becoming associated with Afro-Brazilian religious traditions. [1] An alternative argument, put forward by Marcos Aurélio Luz and Georges Lapassade, argued that macumba derived from the term mocamba , which designated a house of ...