The Cuban Worker’s Confederation called for massive marches island wide on May 1st to celebrate International Workers Day and ...

Weakened by internal divisions within the independence movement ... need to prevent “the annexation of Cuba to the United States”. The following day, May 19, Martí was killed in action ...

The third-largest Caribbean nation by population, Cuba celebrates its independence annually on October 10. On that day in 1868, Cuban revolutionary Carlos Manuel de Céspedes freed his family’s ...

He died fighting in Cuba’s Second War of Independence that began in 1895 ... Beginning on that day a new stage of struggle was being organized. It had to be symbolic, with powerful arguments ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.--With Gov. Magoon in charge of affairs in Cuba there is going to be a halcyon state of affairs when that free and independent nation undertakes to do business as such with the ...

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Cespedes proclaimed independence and formed the Republic of Cuba on October 10, 1868. By 1869, Cespedes had written a constitution that abolished slavery and annexed the country to the United States.

H.E. President Miguel Diaz Canel Bermudez, president of the Republic of Cuba, has congratulated The Gambia on the nation's Diamond Jubilee independence ... 500 reports a day from more than 110 ...