The Cuban Cultural Awareness In The Caribbean

Cuba Cultural Awareness In the Caribbean, Cuba is the largest island ranking as the seventeen largest in the world. It has low hills and fertile valleys that cover half of the country. Its mountains divide the country in western, central, and eastern regions with Pico Turquino as the highest mountain peak (1,974m). The humid and tropical climate of Cuba facilitates the production of agriculture; sugar cane is the most vital crop in the country, which happens to be its largest export. Other crops in production on the island are Tobacco as the second largest export, oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, rice, plantains, bananas, potatoes, sweet potatoes and others. As of June 1959, by an agrarian reform law, the Cuban government becomes the

Cubans have a mixed heritage composing of 27 Percent of the population with 64 percent white Spanish and a 9 percent of African ancestry. The Cuban society is unique with the use of expressions and words that other Spanish-speaking countries do not use. Cubans are very friendly in nature; it is uncommon to meet any outgoing citizen without their communicative, enthusiastic and hospitable values despites their troubled country. In addition, they have a very strong patriotic value and they respect their national dignity. Even though Cuba is a relatively poor country, but thanks to the government’s strong emphasis on education, the literacy remains high. The English language is a mandatory course in schools and it has been very popular among people in the tourism industry. With the installment of the Socialist Government after the Cuban Revolution in 1959, most of the middle class population left the island migrating to the United States settling largely in Miami, Florida and other U.S

Cuba’s armed forces have an annual defense spending of $1.3 billion dollars. The military is composed of the army with 49,000 active duty personnel and 39,000 reservists, the navy with 550 naval infantry members and an air force of 8,000 personnel. In addition, it has a Paramilitary Security force with 20,000 State security troops, 50,000 Civil Defense members, a territorial Militia with over a million members and 70,000 Youth Labor Army. On the beginning of the 1960 to 1993, the former U.S.S.R (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) now Russia remained as the main supporter and military ally of Cuba. In 1993 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Cuban Armed Forces had to find another source of funding, which had a major significant impact on logistic and equipment affecting their operational readiness and capabilities; meanwhile the Revolutionary Armed Forces still very professional and well trained. In southeastern-Cuba under a leasing treaty sign in 1934, the United States has maintained a naval Base at Guantanamo bay with about 2000 military personnel despite the Castro regime’s request to