• The 20062008 Cuban transfer of presidential duties was the transfer of the title of president and presidential duties from longtime Cuban leader Fidel...
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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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    including that of the Bush presidency, the natural disaster incurred by Hurricane Katrina and the 20062008 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    CIA assassination attempts on Fidel Castro (category Cuba–United States relations)
    numerous unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. There were also attempts by Cuban exiles, sometimes in cooperation with the CIA...
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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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    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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  • in Mariel Harbor. Cuban officials also packed refugees into Cuban fishing vessels. Around 1,700 boats brought thousands of Cubans from Mariel to Florida...
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    United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The Democratic ticket of former vice...
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    Fulgencio Batista (category Cuban people of Spanish descent)
    6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who was the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and military dictator of the country from...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    helped make Texas the leading producer of wind-generated electricity in the United States. In the 2000 presidential election, he won over Democratic incumbent...
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    of Kennedy during the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion and 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. On taking office in 1969, he stepped up covert operations against Cuba...
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    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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    2nd Marine Regiment (category Regiments of the United States Marine Corps)
    intended for duty in Mexico as part of an expeditionary brigade. Instead, it was sent to Guantanamo Bay and held in readiness for emergency duties, while undergoing...
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    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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    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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    spoke before the Cuban American National Foundation. The foundation invited Trump after he wrote a Miami Herald article denouncing Cuban President Fidel...
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    basis be loosened. In the Senate, Kaine has supported the normalization of U.S.–Cuban relations and the international nuclear agreement with Iran. Kaine expressed...
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  • operations within the federal government itself. Presidential memoranda are closely related, and have the force of law on the Executive Branch, but are generally...
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