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Cuba-Notes CountryReports-http://www.countryreports.org/ > Wikipedia-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba Fact monsters- http://www.factmonster.com/
 * Cuba is an island in the Caribbean
 * Havana is the capital of Cuba and its largest city
 * President is Rual Castro
 * Cuba is the last remianing communist state
 * The word Cuba comes from the Tiano language.
 * Ofiicial language is Spanish
 * Cubans speak in a more formal way as a sign of respect
 * Eye contact is important to Cubans
 * Very little homes have been built in Cuba and now people are trying to rebuild them
 * Cuba was the last Spanish speaking country to gain independence
 * Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean
 * Cuba has over 11 million people
 * Christopher Columbus was first to find these people(The Tianos)
 * Cuba had the second-highest number for imprisioned people in 2008(Chin had the highest)
 * Cuba's climate-21 °C (69.8 °F) in January and 27 °C (80.6 °F) in July
 * Cubans also speak Yoruba a West Africian language
 * Some Cubans eat black beans, yellow rice, plantians, fried yuca, steak, pork, spices, leaves, etc.
 * Some sports Cubans play are football, basketball, volleyball, baseball, and cricket
 * All law enforcement agencies are maintained under Cuba's Ministry of the Interior which is supervised by the Revolutionary Armed Forces.

Pew research center-http://www.people-press.org/2015/01/16/most-support-stronger-u-s-ties-with-cuba/
 * Cuba is a multiracial society with a population of mainly Spanish and African origins. The largest organized religion is the Roman Catholic Church, but evangelical protestant denominations continue to grow rapidly. Afro-Cuban religions, a blend of native African religions and Roman Catholicism, are widely practiced in Cuba. Officially, Cuba has been an atheist state for most of the Castro era. In 1962, the government of Fidel Castro seized and shut down more than 400 Catholic schools, charging that they spread dangerous beliefs among the people. In 1991, however, the Communist Party lifted its prohibition against religious believers seeking membership, and a year later the constitution was amended to characterize the state secular instead of atheist.
 * While the Cuban constitution recognizes the right of citizens to freedom of religion, the government de facto restricts that freedom. Twenty-two denominations, including Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and Methodists, are members of the Cuban Council of Churches (CCC). Most CCC members are officially recognized by the State, though several, including the Evangelical Lutheran Church, are not registered and are recognized only through their membership in the CCC. Another 31 officially recognized denominations, including Jehovah's Witnesses and the small Jewish community, do not belong to the CCC. The government does not favor any one particular religion or church; however, the government appears to be most tolerant of those churches that maintain close relations to the State through the CCC. Unregistered religious groups experience various degrees of official interference, harassment, and repression. The Ministry of Interior engages in active efforts to control and monitor the country's religious institutions, including through surveillance, infiltration and harassment of religious professionals and practitioners. The most independent religious organizations--including the Catholic Church, the largest independent institution in Cuba today--continue to operate under significant restrictions and pressure imposed on them by the Cuban regime. The Cuban Government continues to refuse to allow the church to have independent printing press capabilities full access to the media to train enough priests for its needs or allow adequate numbers of foreign priests to work in the country; or to establish socially useful institutions, including schools and universities, hospitals and clinics, and nursing home. All registered denominations must report to the Ministry of Interior's Office of Religious Affairs.
 * Fully 63% of Americans approve of the Obama administration’s decision last month to re-establish diplomatic ties with Cuba after more than 50 years. And there is equally broad support for going further and ending the decades-long U.S. trade embargo against Cuba (66% favor this).Yet there is broad public skepticism that a thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations will lead to greater democracy in Cuba. Only about a third (32%) say they think Cuba will become more democratic over the next several years, while 60% say it will be about the same as it is now.

Thesis Statement So, why do we need to keep our spanish heritage alive? We need to keep it alive because spanish culture is important we need to keep its cultural iceberg alive so we can learn from it.