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Satellite image of the island. Isla de la Juventud [4] (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈisla ðe la xuβenˈtuð]; English: Isle of Youth) is the second-largest Cuban island (after Cuba's mainland) and the seventh-largest island in the West Indies (after mainland Cuba itself, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and Andros Island).
The Presidio Modelo was a "model prison" with panopticon design, built on the Isla de Pinos ("Isle of Pines"), now the Isla de la Juventud ("Isle of Youth"), in Cuba. It is located in the suburban quarter of Chacón, Nueva Gerona .
A committee of Americans who owned land in Isle of Pines visited President Calvin Coolidge and told him that ceding the island to Cuba would constitute "a blot on American history". [15] Cuban legislators argued that the original negotiations had recognized that the sovereignty of the Isle of Pines was part and parcel of the granting of the ...
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That Cuba consent that the United States may intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, to protect life, property, and individual liberty, and to discharging the obligations imposed by the treaty of Paris. That the Cuban claim to the Isle of Pines (now called Isla de la Juventud) was not acknowledged and to be determined by treaty.
Isle of Pines may refer to : Isle of Pines, the former name for the Isla de la Juventud, Cuba; Isle of Pines (New Caledonia), an island of New Caledonia; The Isle of Pines (1668), a book by Henry Neville; The Island House in Elk Rapids, Michigan (sometimes referred to as the "Isle of Pines")
The Hay-Quesada Treaty between Cuba and the United States was ratified by the U.S. Senate, recognizing that the Isla de Pinos (now Isla de la Juventud), owned primarily by U.S. companies and citizens, was the territory of Cuba. [63] [64] In Halle, Germany, six Communists were killed and 30 wounded when police broke up a communist demonstration ...