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Brief History. Fidel Castro led a rebel army to victory in 1959; his iron rule has held the country together since. Cuba's Communist revolution, with Soviet support, was exported throughout Latin America and Africa during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. The country is now slowly recovering from a severe economic recession in 1990, following the withdrawal of former Soviet subsidies, worth $4 billion to $6 billion annually. Havana portrays its difficulties as the result of the US embargo in place since 1961. Illicit migration to the US - using homemade rafts, alien smugglers, or falsified visas - is a continuing problem. Some 3,000 Cubans attempted the crossing of the Straits of Florida in 2001; the US Coast Guard interdicted only about 25% of these.

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Country Information

Local name: Cuba

Capital: Havana

Population: 11,382,820

Government: Communist state

Currency: Cuban peso (CUP) and Convertible peso (CUC)

Land size: 110,860 sq km

Topography: mostly flat to rolling plains, with rugged hills and mountains in the southeast

Typical foods:

Major exports: sugar, nickel, tobacco, fish, medical products, citrus, coffee

Information on the People

Official language: Spanish

Other languages spoken:

Religions: nominally 85% Roman Catholic prior to CASTRO assuming power; Protestants, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, and Santeria are also represented

Literacy rate: 97%

Male/Female Ratio: 0.99 male(s) to every 1 female

Life expectancy: 77.41 years

Ethnic groups: mulatto 51%, white 37%, black 11%, Chinese 1%

Internet users: 150,000

Famous people: Fidel Castro, Daisy Fuentes

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