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    The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy...
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    1994 Cuban rafter crisis which is also known as the 1994 Cuban raft exodus or the Balsero crisis was the emigration of more than 35,069 Cubans to the...
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  • The 2021–2023 Cuban migration crisis refers to an ongoing event characterized by a significant surge of Cuban nationals leaving the country, mostly to...
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    Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and 4,195 islands, islets...
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    in the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis to 1968. After 1968, the USSR provided substantial direct economic aid to Cuba. At times, the relationship...
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    bring down the Cuban government. The terrorist attacks killed significant numbers of civilians. In October 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred between...
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    attention focused on the crisis and the consensus was that regardless of who set the bomb, Spain had lost control over Cuba. McKinley insisted that a...
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    been more severe than DEFCON 3. The DEFCON 2 levels in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and 1991 Gulf War applied only to the U.S. Strategic Air Command...
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    (Período especial en tiempos de paz), was an extended period of economic crisis in Cuba that began in 1991 primarily due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union...
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    Havana (redirect from Havana, Cuba)
    (/həˈvænə/; Spanish: La Habana [la aˈβana] ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and...
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    Cuban exodus is the mass emigration of Cubans from the island of Cuba after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Throughout the exodus, millions of Cubans from...
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  • daughter of Cuban exiles María Elvira Salazar (R-FL27) stated in an interview with The Hill, "I hope this crisis and the protests in Santiago de Cuba expose...
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    against Cuba prevents US businesses, and businesses organized under US law or majority-owned by US citizens, from conducting trade with Cuban interests...
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    placing missiles in Cuba before most of them were operational. It also gave US President John F. Kennedy, during the Cuban Missile Crisis that followed, valuable...
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    Rudolf Anderson (category Cuban Missile Crisis)
    fatality by enemy fire during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Anderson died when his U-2 reconnaissance aircraft was shot down over Cuba. He had previously served in...
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    The Communist Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) is the sole ruling party of Cuba. It was founded on 3 October 1965 as the successor...
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    region. It also pushed Cuba closer to the Soviet Union, setting the stage for the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Since 1492, Cuba had been part of the Spanish...
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    mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Following a failed narcotics deal with a Cuban drug cartel that Rosenberg stole from, DeMeo killed Rosenberg as restitution...
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    Vasily Arkhipov (category Cuban Missile Crisis)
    against ships of the United States Navy at a crucial moment in the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. The course of events that would have followed such...
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    being station chief in Miami, during the period of the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as the Cuban Project (also known as Operation Mongoose), which he directed...
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    Operation Mongoose. Operation Mongoose: The Cuba Project, Cuban History Archive, 20 Feb 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, The National Security Archive....
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  • Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath, also known as The Day After: Fight for Promised Land and known in Russia as Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский...
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    The economy of Cuba is a planned economy dominated by state-run enterprises. In the 1990s, the ruling Communist Party of Cuba encouraged the formation...
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  • Evers".) Two talking blues jabbed sarcastically at Vietnam and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Even a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Bells", was set to music. "The...
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    Soviet submarine B-59 (category Cuban Missile Crisis)
    submarine of the Soviet Navy. B-59 was stationed near Cuba during the 13-day Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 and was pursued and harassed by US Navy...
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    nuclear weapons in Cuba in 1962, an act which triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. The aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis saw international...
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    Wikiquote has quotations related to Crisis. A crisis (pl.: crises; ADJ: critical) is any event or period that will lead to an unstable and dangerous situation...
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  • crisis boost to health of Cubans". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 4 May 2010. The impact of the economic crisis and the US embargo on health in Cuba...
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    Cubans (Spanish: Cubanos) are the citizens and nationals of Cuba. The Cuban people have varied origins with the most spoken language being Spanish. The...
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  • The Cuban economy was mostly supported by Soviet subsidies. With the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 Cuba was plunged into a severe economic crisis known...
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