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Cuba is located in the Northern Caribbean and is in the
Caribbean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean and the gulf of Mexico. It
is off the cost of Florida in the United States. To its West is
Mexico and to its East is the Turks and Calicos Islands and
Haiti. Below it is Jamaica and the Cayman islands.
Cuba is the most popular country in the Caribbean. Its
culture and its customs are drawn from several different
types of people. The culture comes mostly from the
aboriginal Taino and Ciboney people, the Spanish colonialism
and the African slaves. It is prone to hurricanes because it is
close surrounded by the Caribbean Sea.
The recorded history of Cuba began on October
28,1492. Christopher Columbus saw the islands on his first
voyage and claimed it for Spain. It was being lived in by
Amerindian people known as the Taino and the Ciboney who
came from South America several centuries before
Christopher Columbus. Most of the Taino were farmers and
most of the Ciboney were hunters and gatherers.
The Coast of Cuba was fully mapped in 1511 by
Sebastian de Ocampo. That year Diego Velazquez de Cuellar
founded the Spanish settlement Baracoa. The Spanish
enslaved approximately 100,000 people on the island.
Cuba was in the possession of Spain for 388
years. It was ruled by a government in Havana and its
economy was based on plantation and agriculture and the
export of tobacco, coffee and sugar to Europe and later to
North America. It was taken from the Spanish by the British
in 1762, but it was taken back by the Spanish the next year.
In the 1820s, parts of Spains empire in Latin America
rebelled and formed independent states but Cuba remained
loyal. There was some agitation for independence which
was partly because Europe was the main place that Cuba
exported its goods. It was also partly because they were
afraid of the United States coming in more then they
disliked the Spanish colonial rule.
The official spoken language in Cuba is Spanish and its
natural resources are nickel, cobalt, iron, copper, ore, iron,
chromium, ore, salt timber, petroleum and arable land.
Since Cuba is so close to the United States it has been
influenced by them a lot in its history. Throughout the 19th
century there were southern U.S politicians that plotted to
add Cuba to the States to strengthen the pro-slavery forces
in the U.S. There was usually a party in Cuba which
supported that policy as well. In 1848, there was a rebellion
that was for adding Cuba to the United States but was
defeated. After that there were several attempts, by the
Americans that wanted them to join together, to invade the
islands from Florida. The U.S tried many times to buy the
islands from Spain but they refused to give up its last
country in the Americas.
Theodore Roosevelt fought during the Spanish-
American War and had some sympathies with the
independence movement. He became the next President of
the United States in 1901 and got rid of the 20- year