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CUBA: By SimoTheFinlandized - 2021 CE
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Cuba is an island country in the Caribbean Sea. The
country is made up of the big island of Cuba, the Isla
de la Juventud island (Isle of Youth), and many smaller
islands. Havana is the capital of Cuba. It is the largest city.
The second largest city is Santiago de Cuba. In Spanish,
the capital is called "La Habana". Cuba is near the
United States, Mexico, Haiti, Jamaica and the Bahamas.
People from Cuba are called Cubans (cubanos in
Spanish). The official language is Spanish. Cuba is
warm all year. In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed
on the island of Cuba. He claimed it for the Kingdom of
Spain. Cuba became a Spanish colony until the Spanish
–American War of 1898. After the war, it was part of the
United States. It gained independence in 1902.
In 1959, guerrilla fighters led by Fidel Castro and
Che Guevara overthrew Cuba's dictator, Fulgencio
Batista, in what became the Cuban Revolution.
Castro began making relations with the Soviet Union
and tried to close a lot of American businesses in
Cuba; the United States did not like this. In 1961
Castro officially announced that his government was
socialist. The US attempted to invade Cuba to regain
control of it and overthrow it's communist led government
but failed. The Communist Party of Cuba was created in
1965 and has ruled the island ever since. Today, Cuba is
the only communist state outside of Asia, in the Caribbean,
and in the western hemisphere.
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