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  • Montecristo cigars

    Posted on Wednesday December 10th, 2008 at 15:09 in Economy, souvenirs, cigars

    Montecristo is the name of two brands of premium cigar, one produced on the island of Cuba for Habanos SA, the Cuban state-owned tobacco company, and the other produced in La Romana, Dominican Republic for the Franco-Spanish tobacco monopoly Altadis ...

  • Holguín

    Posted on Wednesday December 10th, 2008 at 15:01 in places, geography, cities

    Holguín is a municipality and city, the capital of the Cuban Province Holguín.It was founded as San Isidoro de Holguín in 1545, and it is named after its founder García de Holguín, a Spanish military officer. Prior to 1976, Holguin was located i...

  • Guantánamo

    Posted on Wednesday December 10th, 2008 at 14:56 in people, places, geography, cities

    Guantánamo is a municipality and city in southeast Cuba and capital of Guantánamo Province.Guantanamo is served by the Caimanera port. Producing sugarcane and cotton wool are traditional parts of the economy.The municipality is mountainous in the n...

  • Ropa vieja

    Posted on Tuesday July 29th, 2008 at 13:45

    Ropa vieja, which is Spanish for "Old Clothes," is a popular dish of the Canary Islands, Greater Miami and the Caribbean, especially Cuba.The origin of ropa vieja is from the Canary Islands (Spain), which were the last place ships from Spain would st...

  • Fidel Castro - Political beginnings

    Posted on Tuesday July 29th, 2008 at 13:41 in fidel castro, revolution

    In late 1945, Castro entered law school at the University of Havana. He became immediately embroiled in the political culture at the University, which was a reflection of the volatile politics in Cuba during that era. Since the fall of president Ger...

  • Havana history - the founding of Havana

    Posted on Tuesday July 29th, 2008 at 13:39 in places, history, cities

    The current Havana area and its natural bay were first visited by Europeans during Sebastián de Ocampo's circumnavigation of the island, in 1509. Shortly thereafter, in 1510, the first Spanish colonists arrived from Hispaniola and began the conquest...

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