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The King of Havana (Spanish: El rey de La Habana) is a 2015 Spanish-Dominican drama film directed by Agustí Villaronga which adapts Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's dirty realist novel El rey de La Habana. [1] It stars Maykol David Tortolo, Yordanka Ariosa and Héctor Medina. It is set in the Cuban capital during the Special Period.
The Siege of Havana was a successful British siege against Spanish-ruled Havana that lasted from March to August 1762, as part of the Seven Years' War.After Spain abandoned its former policy of neutrality by signing the family compact with France, resulting in a British declaration of war on Spain in January 1762, the British government decided to mount an attack on the important Spanish ...
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez. Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (born 27 January 1950, in Matanzas, Cuba) [1] is a Cuban novelist . He grew up in Pinar del Río and began to work selling ice cream and newspapers when he was 11 years old. He was a soldier, swimming and kayak instructor, agricultural worker, technician in construction, technical designer, radio ...
Havana. / 23.13667°N 82.35889°W / 23.13667; -82.35889. Havana ( / həˈvænə /; Spanish: La Habana [la aˈβana] ⓘ) [ 5] is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center. [ 6] It is the most populous city, the largest by area, and the second ...
Havana was first visited by Spaniards during Sebastián de Ocampo 's circumnavigation of the island in 1508. [2] In 1510, the first Spanish colonists arrived from the island of Hispaniola and began the conquest of Cuba. Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founded San Cristóbal de la Habana in 1514, on the southern coast of the island, near the ...
Julio Lobo y Olavarria (30 October 1898 – 30 January 1983) was a powerful Cuban sugar trader and financier. From the late 1930s to 1960, when he left Cuba to go into exile, Lobo was considered the single most powerful sugar broker in the world. At the time of the success of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Lobo's fortune was estimated at close ...
Cuéllar, Segovia, Crown of Castile. Died. c. June 12, 1524 (aged 58–59) Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, New Spain. Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar[ note 1] (1465 – c. June 12, 1524) was a Spanish conquistador and the first governor of Cuba. In 1511 he led the successful conquest and colonization of Cuba. As the first governor of the island, he ...
The office in its current form was established under the Constitution of 2019. The President is the second-highest office in Cuba and the highest state office. Miguel Díaz-Canel became President of the Council of State on 19 April 2018, taking over from Raúl Castro, and has been President of Cuba since 10 October 2019.