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Caribbean Countries . Fidel Castro Has ruled Cuba since 1959. . Cuban missile crisis October 1962. Cuba has a command economy. .
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Fidel Castro Has ruled Cuba since 1959. Cuban missile crisis October 1962.
The United States Embargo against Cuba (described in Cuba as el bloqueo, Spanish for "the blockade") is a commercial, economic, and financial embargo partially imposed on Cuba in October 1960. It was enacted after Cuba expropriated the properties of United States citizens and corporations and it was strengthened to a near-total embargo in February 1962.
There is a large African influence in Culture in the Caribbean.
Migrants have been founds on rafts or small boats made out of refrigerators, bathtubs, surfboards and inner tubes.
The custody and immigration status of a young Cuban boy, EliánGonzález (born December 6, 1993), was at the center of a heated controversy in 2000 involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, his father, his Miami and Cuban relatives, and the Cuban-American community of Miami. However, a district court's ruling that the Miami relative could not petition for asylum on the boy's behalf was upheld by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, and after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case, EliánGonzález returned to Cuba with his father, Juan Miguel González Quintana, on June 28, 2000.
Haiti The most underdeveloped country in the Western Hemisphere.
Calypso music combines musical elements from Africa & Spain . Calypso songs are accompanied by steel drums and guitars. Reggae developed in Jamaica in the 1960s. Many reggae songs deal with social problems.
Just over 60 percent of Guatemala's population are of mixed Amerindian-Spanish descent. The remaining 40 percent belong to one of 23 Mayan ethnic groups, making Guatemala one of the countries with the largest indigenous populations in Latin America.
MS-13 gangs in El SalvadorMara Salvatrucha Gang in San Salvador MS is known as being very violent