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Know Cuba
Republica de Cuba, independent republic located in the Caribbean Sea, the most westerly of the Greater Antilles group, some 145 km (south of Florida (U.S.A), comprising Cuba and Isla de la Juventud, (formerly Isle of Pines), and more than 1600 small coral cays and islets.
It's the largest and the lest commercialised island in the Caribbean and one of the world's last bastions of commu-nism.
Cuba is surrounded by: the Straits of  Florida and the Yucatán Channel and Hispaniola (Haiti and Republica Domini-cana), Jamaica, the Bahama Islands and Mexico. Say "Cuba", and think of 'Fidel Castro', 'Havana' or 'cigars' but everybody's image of Cuba is different.
For some the allure is of a tropical paradise and others remember its past decadence: stories of Hemingway, cheap rum, gambling, wild dances and cigars.
Then there are the revolutionaries: José Martí, Castro and Che Guevara.
This is perhaps the most powerful image of them all: Cuba freeing itself from its colonial past and then daring to stand up to the most powerful country in the world. Despite (or because of) the US embargo and the state of the Cuban economy in the 1990s,
Cuba remains determined to survive and will not be bullied. A tourism revolution is transforming this once isolated country with an ever-increasing range of flights and hotels opening up previously inaccessible corners.
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