When was cuba founded

Triumph of the revolution. Image source, Getty Images. A group of exiled counter-revolutionaries are held under arrest after their failed, US-backed invasion at the Bay of Pigs in Interventions in Africa. A military parade in Havana in marks the anniversary of the revolution. Surviving without the USSR. Spotlight on Guantanamo. Dissidents jailed.

Castro hospitalised. Fidel steps down. European Union restores ties. Ties with Russia revitalised. Crisis measures. Reforms gather pace. Raul's second term. Rapprochement with USA. Fidel Castro's death. Under the fallacious impression that Cuba was saturated in gold deposits, Sebastian de Ocampo explored the island and its surrounding waters in Diego Velazquez furthered this initial venture in when he established the first Spanish settlement near Baracoa.

As the first governor, he also instituted the encomiendas system, in which indigenous peoples were lawfully tied to Spaniards as laborers and Christian conversion was mandated. Due to trade and further Spanish exploration of the New World throughout the s, Havana and its port quickly became an essential transition site for Spanish conquistadors venturing into the New World and their returning cargo. On a broader scale, the Caribbean became a site of contention for competing empires, particularly England, France, and the Netherlands.

By the s, Europeans had created their own buccaneers who served as mercenaries to attack other settlements. An English buccaneer, Henry Morgan , terrorized colonists on the eastern portion of the island, in an effort to gain another foothold in the Caribbean. By this point, Cuba had developed a dependence on their sugar plantations as well as slaves imported from Africa. The United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba on January 3, , citing unwarranted action by the Government of Cuba that placed crippling limitations on the ability of the United States Mission to carry on its normal diplomatic and consular functions.

Interests Section was established in Havana under the protection of the Swiss Government on September 1, The United States and Cuba resumed diplomatic relations on July 20, , when both countries elevated their respective Interests Sections to Embassy status. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro agreed to the date for these actions in an exchange of letters dated June 30, Menu Menu.

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