Sentences with phrase «cuban exiles»

Dahlia Canes was born in Havana, Cuba and was one of the first Cuban exiles in Miami, FL..

May 13, 2018 • The Havana seven - piece is a passion project of Raul Malo, lead singer of The Mavericks and son of Cuban exiles.

Fidel Castro's key dates 1926: Born in the south - eastern Oriente Province of Cuba 1953: Imprisoned after leading an unsuccessful rising against Batista's regime 1955: Released from prison under an amnesty deal 1956: With Che Guevara, begins a guerrilla war against the government 1959: Defeats Batista, sworn in as prime minister of Cuba 1960: Fights off CIA - sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles 1962: Sparks Cuban missile crisis by agreeing that USSR can deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba 1976: Elected president by Cuba's National Assembly 1992: Reaches an agreement with US over Cuban refugees 2008: Stands down as president of Cuba due to health issues

Plot: The first instalment of the life of Ernesto «Che» Guevara focuses on the events in 1956 when a Che and Castro - led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista in Cuba.

Condor's activities stretched across South America and into Europe and the U.S. Right - wing Cuban exiles and Italian terrorists joined the organization.

Despite his frequent calls for «reconciliation,» Ortega has referred to Cuban exiles as «gusanos» (worms or maggots), the unchristian epithet that the Castro regime has applied to all its opponents for over half a century.

Thanks to a high inflation rate and the commercial genius of Cuban exiles, Miami is now getting the business of the Latin American middle classes.

Thisyear's most - anticipated flicks: Spike Lee's documentary Kobe Doin» Work, abehind - the - scenes look at Kobe Bryant's life, and The Lost Son of Havana, whichfollows Cuban exile Luis Tiant on a trip to his homeland.

She's the child of immigrants, a Cuban exile mother and Greek father, who shaped her ideology.

(from 1977 to 1979), playing the teenage son of a Cuban exile family in Miami.

-- «Before Night Falls» (2000): Painter - turned - filmmaker Julian Schnabel did an extraordinary job of interpreting the memoirs of Cuban exile Reinaldo Arenas for the screen.

The son of a Cuban exile recounts the remarkable and contradictory life of famed sugar baron Julio Lobo, the richest man in prerevolutionary Cuba and the last of the island's haute bourgeoisie.

The price then goes up to two million dollars, and Mac agrees to hear the deal, and meet Carlos» clients — a beautiful Cuban - American woman named Sara Ortega, and a mysterious older Cuban exile, Eduardo Valazquez.

Spend a day away from the beach and head to the high rise financial district or enjoy some time in the Little Havana neighbourhood, the heart of the Cuban exile community where the streets are alive with welcoming people excellent restaurants and cultural festivities.

The CINTAS Fellows Collection, on long - term loan to Miami Dade College Museum of Art & Design at the Historic Freedom Tower, is believed to be the largest gathering of Cuban exile art anywhere..

Her solo exhibition titled «Mi Patria Querida (My Beloved Homeland)» at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT, explored her heritage as the daughter of a Cuban exile through paintings filled with stories of her family's experience during the Cuban Revolution.

The exhibition, comprised of reclaimed ephemera, film, photography, sound, and more, links these early migrations with the movement of more than 80 Asian, Black, and Latinos from America to Cuba between 1968 and 1971 — a time typically associated with Cuban exile into the US.

A prominent member of Miami's Cuban exile community agreed to have his law license revoked after the Florida Bar determined that he misappropriated client funds, the state's supreme court announced Tuesday.

Not exact matches

Synopsis: A richly imagined journey into the life and writings of brilliant Cuban author and exile Reinaldo Arenas.

What are the differences between the Cubans who remained in Cuba and those who live in exile?

Across the water in Miami, an exiled man named Goyo Herrera obsessively plots revenge against El Comandante, whom he blames for ruining his life and destroying his Cuban paradise.

The Cuban Revolution drove the island country's wealthy families into exile, and many left their dogs behind.

This subterranean Sydney bar works a tropical theme inspired by exiled Cuban sugar baron Julio Lobo, with cane lights, lush plants, and more kinds of... Read More

Although he doesn't necessarily want to be identified as «the Cuban» or «the exile,» he noted that an exhibition of his work is being planned for 2017 at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana.

Herrera is another Cuban - born painter who has lived in exile in New York City for years; she received a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art considered long overdue in 2016, reviewed here.

«Luiz Cruz Azaceta: Dictators, Terrorism, War and Exiles,» American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, Miami, FL, 2016

Daniel Serra Badué (b. 1914, Santiago de Cuba - d. 1996, New York): Considered by many the godfather of Cuban art in exile, Serra Badué was one of the first winners of a Cintas fellowship and an early member of the board of the Cintas Foundation.

Grounded in Parlá's personal first - generation Cuban American immigrant family story and an ever - evolving practice that concerns exiled communities and their contribution to America, Roots offers a new visual relationship with its pictorially contemplative environment in order to consider connections between local history and the past, present, and future.

Schnabel's second film, Before Night Falls, based on the life of the late exiled Cuban novelist Reinaldo Arenas, won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Coppa Volpi for best actor, Javier Bardem, at the 2000 Venice Film Festival.

The Cuban flag was adopted in 1902, more than a half century before Fidel Castro's revolution and has been used as a symbol of nationalism by both the Cuban government and anti-Castro exiles.

Meanwhile, the Cuban flag patch on the jacket Emma wore during her Washington appearance was described by Iowa Congressman Steve King as proof of her allegiance to the Castro regime — an absurd notion in South Florida, where anti-Castro exiles proudly display the flag of the old country.