Cuba
/ˈkjuːbə
/
A Caribbean country, the largest and furthest west of the islands of the West Indies, situated at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico; population 11,451,700 (est. 2009); official language, Spanish; capital, Havana.
A Spanish colony, Cuba became nominally independent after the Spanish-American War of 1898 and achieved full autonomy in 1934. Fidel Castro led a communist revolution in 1959, and held the presidency until replaced by his brother Raúl Castro in 2008. The country suffered under a U.S. trade embargo and, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc, lost much of its trade.
Rhymes
- get through
- getting on for
- get to
- get together
- get to sleep
- get to the bottom of
- get-tough
- Getty, Jean Paul
- Gettysburg Address
- Gettysburg, Battle of
- get under someone's skin
- get untracked
- get up
- get-up-and-go
- get up (or pick up) steam
- get up someone's nose
- get up to
- get weaving
- get-well card
- get-well-soon card
- get wind of
- get with the program
- get your ass in (or into) gear
- Getz, Stan
- geum