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    The French freighter La Coubre (French: [la kubʁ]) exploded in the harbour of Havana, Cuba, on 4 March 1960 while it was unloading 76 tons of grenades...
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  • Fidel Castro to commemorate the workers and soldiers who died in the La Coubre explosion on March 5, 1960 at the harbour in Havana. The motto was originally...
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    1960, in Havana, Cuba, at a memorial service for victims of the La Coubre explosion. By the end of the 1960s, the image, in conjunction with Guevara's...
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  • Fidel Castro used for the first time at a memorial service for the La Coubre explosion; became a motto of the Cuban Revolution Patria y Vida (Spanish for...
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    heightened when, on 4 March 1960, two massive explosions ripped through the French freighter La Coubre, which was carrying Belgian munitions from the...
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    Cuba and the US were further strained following the explosion of a French vessel, the La Coubre, in Havana harbour in March 1960. The ship carried weapons...
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    freighter La Coubre exploded in Havana Harbor killing around 100 people. An American named Jack Lee Evans, who was in Cuba at the time of the explosion with...
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  • photograph depicts Che Guevara at a funeral for the victims of the La Coubre explosion. The portrait is commonly displayed as a symbol of student protest...
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    Retrieved 22 July 2024. CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Fidel Castro and Camilo Cienfuegos aboard a military vehicle as he rides into La Havana escorted by Cuban Naval...
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    Wars Negro Rebellion Sugar Intervention Cuban Revolution Aftermath La Coubre explosion Cuban exodus Cuban exile Golden exile Bay of Pigs Invasion Brigade...
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  • 1956 explosion of seven army ammunition trucks loaded with 1053 boxes of dynamite, which were parked overnight in Cali, Colombia. La Coubre explosion, 1960...
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    Wars Negro Rebellion Sugar Intervention Cuban Revolution Aftermath La Coubre explosion Cuban exodus Cuban exile Golden exile Bay of Pigs Invasion Brigade...
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  • the explosion of the Le Coubre, a French vessel carrying weapons purchased from Belgium, in Havana harbor in March 1960. The cause of the explosion was...
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    Venezuela. From 4 to 5 March 1960, Masetti personally reported on the explosion of La Coubre, a ship docked in Havana Harbor which had exploded at the cost of...
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    Cuba-United States relations were heavily strained after the explosion of a French vessel, the La Coubre, in Havana harbor in March 1960. The ship carried weapons...
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    March 4, 1960, the harbor was the scene of a deadly explosion when the French freighter La Coubre, carrying 76 tons of Belgian munitions, was being unloaded...
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    the Colón Cemetery, Havana, Cuba. "De visita en Miami figura histórica de la revolución cubana". Archived from the original on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2014-01-12...
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    Wars Negro Rebellion Sugar Intervention Cuban Revolution Aftermath La Coubre explosion Cuban exodus Cuban exile Golden exile Bay of Pigs Invasion Brigade...
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  • on April 6, 1960. At the congress, held in the aftermath of the La Coubre explosion, a poster with the slogan Patria o Muerte ('Fatherland or Death')...
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    circles. Estrada Betancourt, José Luis (2014). "Antonio Núñez Jiménez, Padre de la Espeleología Cubana". Juventud Rebelde. González Montoto, Jesús. "Necrología...
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    southern coast of the island of Cuba, which since 1978 has been known as Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Youth). Following the conclusion of hostilities in the Cuban...
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    civil defence against sabotage particularly after the explosion of the French freighter La Coubre while dockworkers unloaded ammunitions from the ship...
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  • October 28. December Raúl Roa becomes the new Chancellor of Cuba. March 6 La Coubre cargo ship carrying ammunition and explosives explodes in Havana Bay,...
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    strained following the explosion and sinking of a French vessel, the La Coubre, in Havana Harbor in March 1960. The cause of the explosion was never determined...
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    petroleum. In March 1960, tensions increased when the French freighter La Coubre exploded in Havana Harbor, killing over 75 people. Fidel Castro blamed...
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  • naufrages dans la Manche". "Peter Mærsk". Uboat. Retrieved 8 March 2012. "Saronikos". Uboat. Retrieved 2 August 2021. Mitchell, WH; Sawyer, LA (1990). The...
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  • Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked at the Pointe de la Coubre, Gironde, France. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to...
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    pages ruling my destiny"), then fell to his knees. The explosion of the French cargo ship La Coubre in Havana Harbor in Cuba killed 76 people, all but six...
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  • 1960 the French ship La Coubre blew up in Havana Harbor as it unloaded munitions, killing dozens. The CIA blamed the explosion on the Cuban government...
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  • November 2011. "Morse (+1940)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 11 November 2011. "La Coubre (+1940)" (in English and French). Wrecksite. Retrieved 10 November 2011...
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