The 2006–2008 Cuban transfer of presidential duties was the handover of the title of president and presidential duties from longtime Cuban leader Fidel...
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including that of the Bush presidency, the natural disaster incurred by Hurricane Katrina and the 2006–2008 Cuban transfer of presidential duties from Fidel...
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Raúl Castro (category Cuban people of Canarian descent)
2021, and President of Cuba between 2008 and 2018, succeeding his brother Fidel Castro. One of the military leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Castro served...
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of the Council of State assumes presidential duties upon the illness or death of the President. On July 31, 2006, during the 2006 Cuban transfer of duties...
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a Cuban drift towards China, with which the Soviets had an increasingly fractious relationship. In response to these factors the Soviet and Cuban governments...
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This is a timeline of Cuban history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Cuba and its predecessor states. To read...
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Fidel Castro (redirect from Public image of Fidel Castro)
November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976...
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paper written for the Cuba Transition Project at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami, wrote of the previous 1992...
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Fulgencio Batista (category Cuban people of Spanish descent)
16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and as a military...
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Spanish–American War (redirect from Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War)
the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence....
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The political career of Fidel Castro saw Cuba undergo significant economic, political, and social changes. In the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and an...
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countries in Cuba Chinese Embassy in Havana Embassy of India in Havana The Canadian Embassy in Cuba Cuban representations to other countries Cuban embassies...
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record of 69.5 million votes from 2008. Biden received more than 81 million votes, the most votes ever cast for a candidate in a U.S. presidential election...
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Guantanamo Bay detention camp (redirect from Gulag of our times)
naval bases on land leased or purchased from the Cuban government. The Cuban–American Treaty of Relations of 1903 reaffirmed these provisions, and that same...
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a half years of subsequent US military rule, Cuba gained formal independence in 1902. In the years following its independence, the Cuban republic saw...
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Hugo Chávez (redirect from Personal life of Hugo Chávez)
2012. Due to the death of Chávez, Vice President Nicolás Maduro took over the presidential powers and duties for the remainder of Chávez's abbreviated term...
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Meyer Lansky (category Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from October 2017)
meters in Havana as an extra bonus. Import duties were waived on materials for hotel construction, and Cuban contractors with the right "in" made windfalls...
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George W. Bush (redirect from 43rd President of the United States of America)
helped make Texas the country's leading producer of wind-generated electricity. In the 2000 presidential election, he won over Democratic incumbent Vice...
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presidency and took the presidential oath of office, setting an important precedent for an orderly transfer of presidential power when a president leaves...
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Lyndon B. Johnson (redirect from Lyndon B. Johnson 1960 presidential campaign)
surgery, there was no transfer of presidential power to Vice President Humphrey. In March 1970, Johnson suffered an attack of angina and was taken to...
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Ronald Reagan (redirect from 40th President of the United States of America)
Choosing" speech during the 1964 presidential campaign elevated him as a new conservative figure. He was elected governor of California in 1966. During his...
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (redirect from Dwight D. Eisenhower 1956 presidential campaign)
CIA began preparations for an invasion of Cuba by Cuban expatriates, ultimately resulting in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion after Eisenhower left office...
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Zimbabwe (redirect from Republic of Zimbabwe)
their claims. On 29 March 2008, Zimbabwe held a presidential election along with a parliamentary election. The results of this election were withheld...
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Hispanic and Latino Americans (redirect from List of U.S. state, district, and territorial Hispanic and Latino American population)
Florida. The relative growth of non-Cuban vs Cuban Hispanics also contributed to his carrying Florida's Hispanics with 57% of the vote. While employment and...
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Robert F. Kennedy (category 1964 United States vice-presidential candidates)
Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba, which included covert operations that targeted Cuban civilians. He also helped develop the strategy during the Cuban Missile...
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Carl Brashear (category 2006 deaths)
half and sunk. On his first tour of shore duty in Quonset Point, Rhode Island, his duties included the salvaging of airplanes (including one Blue Angel)...
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MPLA (redirect from Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola - Party of Labour)
ordered the killing of suspected followers and sympathisers of "orthodox communism" inside and outside the party. During the coup, Cuban forces stationed...
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Bill Richardson (redirect from Political positions of Bill Richardson)
violations. A former member of Richardson's campaign claimed that during Richardson's 2008 presidential campaign, Richardson and members of his campaign paid an...
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Che Guevara (redirect from Butcher of La Cabana)
imports of Cuban sugar (Cuba's main cash crop), which led Guevara on 10 July 1960 to address over 100,000 workers in front of the Presidential Palace at...
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Paul Kansas City Chicago The 2008 Democratic National Convention was a quadrennial presidential nominating convention of the Democratic Party where it...
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