In 1960, Sonia Ponce de Leon fled Cuba and a middle-class life of servants and maids for the United States. Her father, a prominent attorney and law professor, had been mayor of Havana.

In 1521, Ponce de León returned to Florida in a bid to establish a permanent Spanish colony. However, hostile natives attacked his expedition soon after it landed; the party retreated to Cuba ...

During their assault, an arrow struck and wounded Ponce de León. He returned to Cuba where he died in July 1521 at age 46 from the effects of his infected wound. The colonization attempt was ...

he journeyed so far south from Canada that he could see Cuba to the east, according to an account by Cabot's son, Sebastian. "That would put Cabot off the Florida Keys long before Ponce de Leon ...

While Ponce de Leon’s time in Florida was short ... who was wounded by a poisoned arrow and retreated to Cuba, where he later died. The Spanish explorer and soldier is credited with establishing ...