Six thousand American troops participated in the British occupation of Havana in 1762-3, but the island was exchanged for Florida at the peace treaty of 1763. The independent United Stated […]
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Indians reached pre-Columbian Cuba in three waves of settlers, followed by the arrival of the Caribs, whose settlement was aborted by the coming of the Spaniards. The initial Spanish population
Apart from the loss of much of its early population to the conquests of Mexico, the Spanish Main, and Florida, and the departure of occasional wealthy Cubans pursuing business opportunities
The battleship sent to Key West in 1898 as a symbol of a strong United States naval force ready to counter any anti-US conspiracies in Havana. With Spanish approval, it
The royal Tribunal del Santo Oficio was established in Spain in 1478, independent of the Papal Inquisition, to preserve the purity of the Church. As the threat from Protestantism grew in Europe,
*Por: Vicente Morín Aguado. El 5 de marzo José Martí nos acecha, con un grillete, arrastrando una pesada bola de hierro, a la salida del tribunal monárquico que le condenó
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*Por Néstor Carbonell Cortina Al rememorar este año el glorioso Grito de Baire del 24 de febrero de 1895, preludio de la independencia de Cuba, deberíamos evocar también el trascendental
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Spanish institution brought to the New World to deal with the Indians, groups of whom would be assigned to an encomendero entrusted with Christianizing them, with the right to their
The custom was brought to all Spain’s New World colonies, but its popularity suffered when Charles IV in 1805 tried to ban it (an act later annulled by his son
As early as 1818, Americans, as well as the British, were buying interests in Cuban sugar and establishing themselves as merchants on the island. The many who owned sugar plantations
