On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

the ham-fisted bid to obtain Cuba before the Civil War. But the country hit a wall when it attempted to take Cuba from Spain in 1854. Pro-slavery expansionists had long set their sights on the ...

A Spanish colony since the 15th century, following Christopher Columbus’s conquest of America, Cuba has always aspired to gain independence and take control of its destiny. In the early 19th century, ...

Havana, Cuba - January 15, 2025 The Cuban government ... Camera: FELIPE BORREGO. [Restrictions: Spain, Latin America, or the U.S. Hispanic market] The Best Movies of All Time World’s largest ...

What the President’s confrontations with Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Colombia suggest about his expansionist vision.

Havana Club International - a joint venture between state-owned Cuba Ron and France's Pernod Ricard - says it exports rum to 125 countries. However, a U.S. Cold War-era trade embargo and related ...

Havana Club International - a joint venture between state-owned Cuba Ron and France's Pernod Ricard - says it exports rum to 125 countries. However, a U.S. Cold War-era trade embargo ... include ...

He fought a “splendid little war” against Spain and subsequently turned the Philippines into a U.S. colony, took possession of Guam and Puerto Rico, annexed Hawaii, and made Cuba into a ...

In 1763, Britain took control of Florida from Spain (in exchange for Spain regaining Cuba and the Philippines ... the United States declared war on Mexico, sparking a conflict that lasted ...

In the last days before U.S. President Joe Biden departed the White House, he was somehow persuaded to take a second look at the U.S.-Cuba relationship ... president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and ...