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unusual facts about Cuban Government



Edward Weidenfeld

In 1999, Weidenfeld helped facilitate the return of Major League Baseball to Cuba for the first time in 40 years, participating in months of discussions with the United States Department of State, the Cuban Government, the MLB Commissioner’s office, the Baltimore Orioles and the MLB Players Association.

Garcia-Mir v. Meese

10,000 Cubans attempted to gain asylum at the Peruvian Embassy in Havana, leading Fidel Castro and the Cuban government to allow anyone who wished so to leave the country via the Port of Mariel.


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Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino

The plaintiff, the National Bank of Cuba (acting on behalf of the Cuban government) filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against the defendant, Sabbatino, to recover the money paid for the sugar.

Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza

He represented the Cuban Government at the wedding of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and was conferred the Order of Isabella the Catholic.

Huber Matos

While visiting Germany as guest of the Berlin International Literature Festival in 2003, in the wake of the Cuban government's crackdown on dissidents (the so-called Black Spring), 84-year-old Matos appealed on the European Union states to impose economic sanctions on Cuba.

Lucas Awards

The Lucas Awards are given out by the Cuban Institute for Radio and Television, an institute of the Cuban government and so - in U.S. terms - can be compared to a mix between MTV’s programming and broadcasting influence on the one hand, with the cultural credentials and government recognition of the National Endowment for the Arts on the other.

Lucia Newman

However, after Newman's first news broadcast, Ninoska Pérez Castellón criticized her for not? interviewing people who were against the Cuban government.

Roberto Valera

Valera was granted a scholarship from the Cuban government in 1965 to study in Poland with renowned composers Witold Rudzinski and Andrzej Dobrowolski.

Zoé Valdés

She has been married three times: with Cuban writer Manuel Pereira Quintero, with Cuban government official José Antonio González and Cuban independent filmmaker Ricardo Vega, whom she divorced in 2013.