Examples from literature

• After Cuba freed itself from Spain in 1898, it came under the political and economic influence of the USA. 
• After the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the USA placed a strict trade embargo on Cuba, causing serious food shortages. 
• Cuba has shown us a lot can be done with very little. 
• Cuba’s success shows that it’s possible for a whole country to feed itself without help and even improve production, using small local gardens and no chemicals. 
• For most of the twentieth century Cuba was famous for two things: cigars and rum. 
• From this point on, Cuba produced sugar for the Soviet Union and imported much of its food and agricultural technology from there in return. 
• However, with the sudden fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Cuba lost its main trading partner. 
• In Cuba, for example, you’re an adult at 16, but in Egypt, you don’t become an adult in all ways until you’re 21. 
• The US trade embargo was still in place, and Cuba found itself without enough food to feed its people. 
• This made Cuba depend economically on the USA for its basic needs. 
• Cuba suffered from its geographic aloofness. 
• It took the war to make her realise that, with the exception of the United States, Cuba and Hawaii, all the sugar-cane areas of the world are within the imperial confines. 
• The Captain-General of Cuba about May last issued a proclamation authorizing search to be made of vessels on the high seas. 
• The Indians of Jamaica and Cuba employed this fish as falconers do hawks. 
• The affairs of Cuba are still occupying a very important place in the eyes of the world.