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See more results » (Definition ofCubafrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)- After Cuba freed itself from Spain in 1898, it came under the political and economic influence of the USA.
- After the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the USA placed a strict trade embargo on Cuba, causing serious food shortages.
- Cuba has shown us a lot can be done with very little.
- Cuba’s success shows that it’s possible for a whole country to feed itself without help and even improve production, using small local gardens and no chemicals.
- For most of the twentieth century Cuba was famous for two things: cigars and rum.
- From this point on, Cuba produced sugar for the Soviet Union and imported much of its food and agricultural technology from there in return.
- However, with the sudden fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Cuba lost its main trading partner.
- In Cuba, for example, you’re an adult at 16, but in Egypt, you don’t become an adult in all ways until you’re 21.
- The US trade embargo was still in place, and Cuba found itself without enough food to feed its people.
- This made Cuba depend economically on the USA for its basic needs.
- Cuba suffered from its geographic aloofness.
- It took the war to make her realise that, with the exception of the United States, Cuba and Hawaii, all the sugar-cane areas of the world are within the imperial confines.
- The Captain-General of Cuba about May last issued a proclamation authorizing search to be made of vessels on the high seas.
- The Indians of Jamaica and Cuba employed this fish as falconers do hawks.
- The affairs of Cuba are still occupying a very important place in the eyes of the world.
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