Cuban-American
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- In Hispanic Americans: Cubans
In January 1959 revolutionary Fidel Castro overthrew the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Relations between Cuba and the United States soon began to deteriorate. Castro confiscated property belonging to American companies and announced his intention of stirring up a communist revolution throughout Latin America. He…
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Hispanic Americans
- In Hispanic Americans: Portrait of ethnic diversity
…largest groups of Hispanic Americans—Cubans and Salvadorans—each have populations of more than two million. People of Cuban ancestry have long formed a major group of Hispanic Americans. Many people fled to the United States from Cuba after Fidel Castro’s communist revolution of 1959. While Cuban Americans include people from…
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