Country Profile: Cuba‚ September 2006 COUNTRY PROFILE: CUBA September 2006 COUNTRY Formal Name: Republic of Cuba (República de Cuba). Short Form: Cuba. Term for Citizen(s): Cuban(s). Click to Enlarge Image Capital: La Habana (Havana). Term for residents: Habaneros (males)‚ Habaneras (females). Major Cities: Cuba’s six largest cities (more than 200‚000 inhabitants) in order of population (2005 estimates‚ not including urban agglomerations) are Havana (2‚201‚610)‚ Santiago de Cuba (423‚392)‚ Camagüey
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Cuba. This island is known everywhere in the world. Everybody knows such names as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Also Cuba is associated with Caribbean crisis‚ which had frightened both the U.S.A. and USSR. That’s all that common person knows about this land and nation famous for specific culture and interesting history (especially of the 20th century). Cuba has always been a region of American interests in the Caribbean Sea and its 45-year resistance against capitalism (in fact – American politics)
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COUNTRY: CUBA Timeline of Cuba’s Foreign Exchange Rate Regime Cuba’s Exchange rate regime Among the dimensions of the impossible trinity‚ Cuba only has the autonomy of an independent monetary policy. Cuba has dual exchange rates‚ which mainly consist of two official currencies‚ Cuban Peso (CUP) and Cuban convertible peso (CUC) Majority of Cubans receive wages in the form of CUP‚ while nearly all consumer goods are priced in CUC. Problems of dual currency Inequality
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Sugar is Not Sugar: The Dangers of High Fructose Corn Syrup Rhonda Sullivan DeVry University Sugar is Not Sugar: The Dangers of High Fructose Corn Syrup Every one has seen the infamous TV commercial with the young couple sitting in a park on a blanket‚ innocently sharing a Popsicle made out of High Fructose Corn Syrup. The female offers her male cohort a portion of the frozen treat‚ responding to his hesitance with the disreputable claim hosted by the corn industry
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The Status of Restrictions on the Right to Travel from the U.S. to Cuba Atty. Arthur Heitzer‚ 633 W. Wisconsin Ave.‚ Suite 1410‚ Milwaukee‚ WI 53203 USA‚ (414) 273-1040 ext. 12‚ aheitzer@igc.org. Despite the multiple guarantees of individual rights contained in the U.S. constitution‚ the right of U.S. nationals to travel abroad to countries of their choosing‚ and to learn from and associate with people of other nations‚ has repeatedly been restricted. The longest such restrictions have
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History of Cuba Midterm Essay November 14‚ 2012 You are the Cuban Revolution’s New Man or Woman. Explain to Fidel and Raul what it means in terms of your principles in the work place? What does it mean in terms of gender relations? What type of society do you want to bring about and what influences are dangerous to the utopia you wish to create? What threat does the United States pose to this new order? Be Specific here. Fidel does not like generalities. He wants to make sure you know the material
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↦How successful were the USA’s attempts to contain Communism in Cuba‚ 1959-1961? Until 1959 Cuba was an American ally‚ ruled by Fulgencio Batista. Although he was a dictator‚ he was heavily backed up by Americans which was important as most of the businesses were owned by Americans. However‚ in January of 1959‚ Batista was overthrown by Castro‚ the leader of guerrilla‚ in a revolution. He was strongly socialist‚ and started reforms on Cuba by distributing land between peasants‚ called the Agrarian reform
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the making of the modern world. London: Vintage. Ball‚ S.J. (1997) The Cold War: An International History‚ 1947-1991. London: A Hodder Arnold Publication. Mason‚ J.W. (1996) The Cold War: 1945-1991. New York: Routledge. Brenner‚ P. (1990‚ October) Cuba and the Missile Crisis. Journal of Latin American Studies‚ 22‚ 125-152.
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The First Time I went off the High Dive I remember day after day going to swimming lessons in the summer of 2002 at the Mount Vernon pool. Almost every day I walked by the ladder that seemed to go on forever. I used to sit on the pools edge and watch the older kids do flips and other cool tricks off of the high dive. Many times I had gotten half way up the ladder but couldn’t bring myself to go all the way up. For a seven year old going off the high dive was like a right of passage and a way to
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the 16th century precisely‚ 90 percent of Cuba was covered with forests. Agriculture Ministry officials in Cuba revealed that the Castro government‚ in the last for decades‚ had sown 1.24 million acres of trees‚ of which were mainly derived from the mountainous zones of the Sierra Maestra‚ Escambray‚ and Sierra de los Organos. This reduced Cuba’s forest cover to 53 percent and by 1960 it was down by 13.5 percent. Ultimately‚ mining‚ farming‚ sugar planting‚ supplying timber and setting up cattle
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