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  2. Cuba - Wikipedia

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    After the Spanish–American War, Spain and the United States signed the Treaty of Paris (1898), by which Spain ceded Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam to the United States for the sum of US$20 million [71] and Cuba became a protectorate of the United States. Cuba gained formal independence from the U.S. on 20 May 1902, as the Republic of ...

  3. History of Cuba - Wikipedia

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    The Organization of American States, under pressure from the United States, suspended Cuba's membership on 22 January 1962, and the U.S. government banned all U.S.–Cuban trade on 7 February. The Kennedy administration extended this ban on 8 February 1963, forbidding U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba or to conduct financial or commercial ...

  4. Cuba–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    After the opening of the island to world trade in 1818, trade agreements began to replace Spanish commercial connections. In 1820 Thomas Jefferson thought Cuba is "the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States" and told Secretary of War John C. Calhoun that the United States "ought, at the first possible opportunity, to take Cuba."

  5. Cuba admits to massive emigration wave: a million people left ...

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    This is the largest migration wave in Cuban history. A stunning 10% of Cubas population — more than a million people — left the island between 2022 and 2023, the head of the country’s ...

  6. The Cuban Revolution turns 65. It broke Cuba, but not its ...

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    Now, most everyone is poor, all the buildings are decrepit and few have plenty. International figures show 88% of Cubans live at the poverty level, a jump of 13% from the previous figures.

  7. List of countries formerly ruled by the United States

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    Name of territory Dates Status Comments The Philippines: 1898–1946 Unincorporated territory First under military administration, later under an insular government in preparation for independence [1] Cuba: 1898–1902 Provisional military government Under military administration after Spain ceded Cuba to the United States [2] Puerto Rico: 1898 ...

  8. US removes Cuba from list of countries not cooperating fully ...

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    U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday removed Cuba from a short list of countries the United States alleges are "not cooperating fully" in its fight against terrorism, a State ...

  9. Cubans - Wikipedia

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    The United States has the largest number of Cubans outside Cuba. As of 2023, the United States Census Bureau's American Community Survey showed a total population of 1,450,808 Cuban immigrants. [39] As of 2015, 68% of Cuban-born residents of the United States have naturalized [40] automatically losing their Cuban citizenship. [41]