Nikita Khrushchev last week claimed Cuba as his to protect from a hostile U.S. Appearing on only 15 minutes' notice before a convention of schoolteachers in the Kremlin, Khrushchev climbed the ...

Cuba was the last large territory in Latin America to achieve independence from Spain (in 1898), and that freedom was diluted almost immediately, when in 1905 Cuba became a virtual American ...

GOMEZ FOR PROTECTORATE; Will Publicly Proclaim the Time Not Ripe for a Republic. TO ISSUE MANIFESTO AT ONCE It Will Favor a Cessation of the Agitation for the Immediate Withdrawal of United States ...

Under fire even before the conference were several proposals, chief among them the U. S.-sponsored trade-cartel plan, and Cuba’s strong suggestion that a joint Pan-American protectorate be ...

With America’s backing, General Fulgencio Batista rose to power in the 1930s as Cuba’s new dictator, and this kicked-off an era of great cooperation and success between America and Cuba that ...

Cuba has been invented three times as a country–once as a Spanish colony, once as an American protectorate, finally as a member of what might be (generously) styled the Soviet Commonwealth of ...

1898: The US takes control of Cuba after Spain is defeated in the Spanish-American War and cedes all claims to the island. 1902: Although Cuba declares independence it remains a US protectorate.

A Spanish colony since the 15th century, following Christopher Columbus’s conquest of America, Cuba has always aspired to ...

HERSHEY, Cuba — Along the coastal highway 30 miles east of Havana, ... culminating in the 1898 U.S. military intervention that turned the island into an American protectorate. ...

Cuba, America, and Broken Promises. Six years after my last visit, I returned and realized that both nations are much changed. By Xochitl Gonzalez.

HERSHEY, Cuba — Along the coastal highway 30 miles east of Havana, the road signs point to a turnoff for Camilo Cienfuegos City. It doesn't exist. At least not by that name.