Cuba

Christopher Columbus was the first European man to discover the Bahamas and Hispaniola (modern day Haiti and Dominican Republic) when he made landfall in the area in 1492. The Spanish continued to explore this area and inspired other explorers, especially from Portugal, to come to this area as well. Hispaniola is the site of the first European colonies in the New World.

Cuba is technically a developing country as it has a low GDP PPP figure. However many Cubans have access to universal education and healthcare, this combined with the fact that most Cubans adopt a vegetarian and car ownership is low, means that Cuba scores highly in the Human Development Index this is another way to measure if a country is developed or not. HDI looks at life expectancy, education, and a country GDP figure I think Cuba has a HDI figure of 8.7 a figure of over 9 indicates a country is developed. Measured this way Cuba is close to obtaining developed status. Other would argue that Cuba is very far from being developed as a taxi driver in Cuba earns more money then a doctor in Cuba, but Cuba does have a better health care system then the US as most socialist economies put a lot of money into public services like health care and education.

In short is Cuba a developing country or not? the definition of the words developed and developing or open to interpretation, at this present time 2009 Cuba is not developed however using the HDI measurement it could become developed by increasing its HDI figure to over 0.9. When measured by GDP Cuba would have to double the size if its economy to become developed this could take many decades or may never even happen.

No Mexican, Puerto Ricans, Colombians; alot of Nationalitys speak spanish

The U.S. feared of having a Spanish colony so close to the United States.

la capital de Ecuador es Quito?

one Cuba is a dictatorship
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the unempolyment rate of cuba is 53%

A typical Cuban day is synonymous with a journey full of dangers. Not because of the gain or loss of a business, nor the ups or downs of market prices. Instead, because one must resort to illegal activities in order to survive.

The Cuban population tends to instantly consume whatever they get their hands on. For those who tend to be thrifty, one month's salary could last them a week. As for the rest (which is the majority), between contracted debts, electricity, and the purchase of rickety subsidized food quotas, that salary is spent in less than 24 hours.

So then one is forced to live off of "inventions"- a word which in Cuba means "to live from whatever appears". Or from whatever can be found daily, whether it be legal or illegal.

To live "the Cuban style" means to buy and resell absolutely anything, keeping in mind that such an action could be considered a crime of "reception of stolen goods", speculation, or monopolization. It also means to turn to the black market, which always has a better stock than the state market and which always has more affordable prices.

It means to keep your eyes wide open because in each block there are eyes which are constantly watching, even though those eyes (which belong to the members of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution) are very well aware that no one can live off of the earned salaries.

The "watchers" tend to be suspicious of neighbors with higher economic income. They automatically think that such wealth comes from remittances sent by relatives abroad, or because they live off of "inventions", or in other words, illegalities.

For the authorities, such a presumption is valid. The improvement or increase of quality in a citizen's life is a sufficient cause to unleash a confiscation process against them under the pretext of "illicit enrichment". In this case, the charge of the proof is inverted. It is the individual who must prove to the authorities that their assets do not stem from illegality.

Besides, Cubans have the duty of denouncing the events which transgress the law. The failure to fulfill such an obligation is listed in the Penal Code as a crime. It is all designed and arranged very well. In order to facilitate its job against illegalities, the government created a complex network of anonymous denunciations. Such denunciations are usually products of envy, personal grudges, or low levels of ethics.

The prosperity of one neighbor may worry or bother other neighbors who have accumulated years of frustration and find themselves in a stagnant kind of life. And the thing that pushes one to "snitch" could be something like an argument due to music being played very loud, a dispute among children, a disagreement over the limits of an adjacent property, or simply if someone does not like another person because they are rude and does not say hello to anyone.

In other instances, snitching is used to obtain impunity. People who think like that exist in every neighborhood, and their philosophy is something like this: "I engage in illegal business, so that's why I take part in denunciations and snitching on what others do, so that I am allowed to continue my own illegal activities."

It's a very difficult and twisted concept to grasp, especially for foreigners. But it is something that has become normal in Cuba. In a matter of necessity, of survival. It's one of the main sources which inform the authorities and it is known as "operative secret work". For revolutionary justice, a denunciation is proof of irrefutable culpability.

There is one reality: daily life not only forces you to violate the law, but it also offers you some "paths" to take to lighten your own load. It doesn't matter if it's to achieve impunity, but it is a necessity to give out information about the lives of others.

In sum, "my stuff comes first" is the maximum slogan of national survival. It is essential for living "the Cuban way".

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Cuba.

Fidel Castro

There is no such word in Cuba. Perhaps your spelling is off or you are using phonics. In any case, sorry, no luck in the translation.

President Eisenhower signed the official declaration which made Alaska the 49th state.

The US supported the invasion of Cuba because the US did not want a communist country so close to their borders, so that the USSR could not place nuclear warheads so close to the American border not allowing the early warning system time to activate

Cuba is located at approximately 21.5218° N latitude and 77.7812° W longitude.

No they did not.

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz - commonly known as Fidel Castro - ruled Cuba as a dictator- sorry, President- from 1959 until he retired in 2008. He had taken an active part in a revolution which overthrew the previous government led by Fulgencio Batista.

Valeriano Weyler.

The Cuban Trogan. This species of bird is known as Cuba's national bird because it's coloration is the same as the Cuban Flag.

Americans certainly can enter into Cuba. There is no law stating that Americans could not enter into Cuba's small territory.

The CIA was involved in the Bay of Pigs, and JFK had the final word. He OK'd it, so he must have felt the risk was worth it.

freedom wins.

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Cuba Gooding Jr. is a famous Oscar winning actor. He is best known for his role as Rod in the movie Jerry Maguire.