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Fototeca de Cuba is Cuba's national archive dedicated to photography and visual culture in the country. It was created in 1986 as a division of the Cuban State Cultural Heritage Fund and is located in Havana. [1] [2] [3] Fototeca de Cuba is one of the largest and most important photography archives in the Caribbean region.
Restaurant roof in Little Havana reading "donde la Cuba de Ayer se vive hoy!", which means in English: " where the Cuba of yesterday is lived today". The idea of the Cuba de ayer ( lit. ' Cuba of yesterday ' ) is a mythologized idyllic view of Cuba before the overthrow of the Batista government in the Cuban Revolution .
The first governor of Cuba, the Spanish conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar leads a group of settlers in Baracoa. 1512: Indigenous Cuban resistance leader Hatuey is burned at the stake. 1519: Havana founded as San Cristóbal de la Habana (north coast) 1523: Emperor Charles V authorizes 4,000 gold pesos for the construction of cotton mills ...
Taíno genocide Viceroyalty of New Spain (1535–1821) Siege of Havana (1762) Captaincy General of Cuba (1607–1898) Lopez Expedition (1850–1851) Ten Years' War (1868–1878) Little War (1879–1880) Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898) Treaty of Paris (1898) US Military Government (1898–1902) Platt Amendment (1901) Republic of Cuba (1902–1959) Cuban Pacification (1906–1909) Negro ...
The Republic of Cuba, covering the historical period in Cuban history between 1902 and 1959, was an island country which comprised the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud (since 1925) and several minor archipelagos.
Havana was the sixth town founded by the Spanish on the island, called San Cristóbal de la Habana by Pánfilo de Narváez: the name combines San Cristóbal, patron saint of Havana, and Habana, of obscure origin, possibly derived from Habaguanex, a Native American chief who controlled that area, as mentioned by Diego Velasquez in his report to ...
Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 10 million ...
Consequently, Cuba is also the oldest country in the Americas in terms of median age, [6] due to a high amount of emigration by younger Cubans to the U.S. [7] In the last few years before the end of the wet feet, dry feet policy on January 12, 2017, the number of Cubans moving to the United States significantly outnumbered the natural increase ...