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Title: Cuba


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Cuba
  • A country just 90 miles from the United States,
    (I am shaking too)

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Location
  • 90 miles southwest of Key West, Fl.
  • Entrance to the Gulf of Mexico
  • South coast touches Caribbean Sea
  • North coast touches Atlantic Ocean, and Gulf of
    Mexico
  • The Windward Passage separates Cuba from Haiti

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Government
  • One-Party Communist state
  • Cuban Communist Party is the only political party
  • Governed under the Constitution of 1976
  • Unicameral legislature, national assembly, which
    is elected directly by the people
  • Cuba is divided into 14 sections

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Major Events in History
  • Discovered by Christopher Columbus (1492)
  • Ten-Years War (1868)
  • Monroe Doctrine (1852)
  • Spanish-American War (1898)

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Communestro (Castro) Regime
  • Cuban Embargo
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Helms/Burton Amendment

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Elections
  • National Assembly is elected every 5 years and
    there are 609 members
  • Municipal Assembly is elected every two and a
    half years
  • Must be a member of Communist Party
  • Elian Gonzalez father is on the National Assembly
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