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

He financed the Cubans in Tampa in their campaign for Cuba’s independence and later fought in the war for the liberation of Cuba. He was the recipient of many decorations from the Cuban Government.

But the agency has been unable to certify where the firefighters’ uniforms ... which the Cuban government considered an act “against the independence or territorial integrity of the ...

The exile campaign against Cuba’s Fidel Castro pressed on last week—a war of words ... the anti-Castro underground by May 20, Cuba’s Independence Day. On the 16th, Miami monitors picked ...

1886 - Slavery abolished. 1895-98 - Jose Marti leads a second war of independence; US declares war on Spain. 1898 - Cuba is ceded to the US after US victory in the Spanish-American War.

For 10 years the Cubans would wage war for their independence before Spain finally forced the revolutionaries into submission. But Cuba’s Ten Years War, as it became known, lit the spark for ...