British Occupation
Spain sided with France against the United Kingdom in the Seven Years’ War. Britain declared war on Spain on January 4, 1762, and launched an Anglo-American expedition to capture Havana, […]
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LA VIA DOLOROSA DE JOSE MARTI
*Por Néstor Carbonell Cortina (Resumen de la conferencia pronunciada en el Congreso Martiano celebrado en Nueva York, el 24 de mayo del 2003, bajo los auspicios del Centro Cultural Cubano que
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ABOLITION OF SLAVERY
The international abolition movement originated in England in the late 1700s for a mixture of humanitarian concerns and economic reasons (such as the increasing British trade with Africa), and resentment
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Amistad
Steven Spielberg-directed film of 1997, named for the schooner of that name, which, on June 28, 1839, had left Havana to take 54 newly arrived slaves to Puerto Principe. Four
ASIENTO DE NEGROS
A royal license to participate in the African Slave Trade, given to any individual or group of any nationality, in the form of a contract to import a specified number
La violencia y los cambios políticos en Cuba
*Por: Vicente Morín Aguado El 10 de octubre de 1868 Carlos Manuel de Céspedes se alzó en armas contra el poder de España, leyendo una proclama ante un centenar de
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IS PUTIN PLANNING A NUCLEAR CRISIS IN THE CARIBBEAN?
By Paulina Zelitsky, P. Eng. * Despite an aggressive blackmail campaign by the Kremlin with threats to repeat the Caribbean crisis and start a nuclear war with the West, unless
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Arms of the Republic (Escudo de la Palma Real)
Charles V granted a rather baroque coat of arms to the new colony early in his reign. Cuba’s present arms date from the Ten Years’ War and they first occur
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Fernando Ortiz y Fernández (1881-1969)
Lawyer, anthropologist, historian, sociologist, outstanding ethnographer, author, publisher, and intellectual. Born in Havana of a Spanish father and Cuban mother, Ortiz grew up on Minorca, Spain, returning to Cuba in
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Eusebio Mujal (1915-1985)
Labor leader. Son of a Catalan bank employee from Guantánamo, he joined the Unión Revolucionaria Comunista in 1930, but later severed his communist affiliation to become secretary general of Joven Cuba in 1934. In
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