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We sold sugar with the specific conditions established by American buyers, which in turn dominated the internal market and production in Cuba. Now if…

— Che Guevara

“In they went, over the footbridges to mills flourishing on Chisholm land. “To the Rumford Falls Paper Company, which made—?” “Newsprint!” “And the Rumford…

— Monica Wood

“Cuba,” he said in his resounding defense plea, “continues to be a producer of raw materials. We exhort sugar to import candy, we export…

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

I was born in Cuba but was made in the USA.

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small…

— Christopher Columbus

“On August 12, 1933, President Machado fled Cuba with ABC terrorists shooting at his laden airplane as it prepared to take off from the…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

I feel like I got my first real taste of Caribbean and Cuban culture while I was there. I have quite a sizeable Cuban…

— Ayshay

I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.

— Italo Calvino

“There is now a museum near Havana, commemorating the “Campaña Nacional de Alphabetization en Cuba” in La Ciudad Libertad or the “City of Liberty.”…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba

“The Revolution, after discovering that it had confused the knife with the assassin, turned sugar, which had been responsible for underdevelopment, into an instrument…

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“Thinking ahead, Batista had handpicked Carlos Saladrigas Zayas as his replacement. However, this scheme was not to be, when the people defeated Saladrigas Zayas…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba