Americans in Cuba

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Estadounidenses en Cuba

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}}Americans in Cuba ({{langx|es|Estadounidenses en Cuba}}) consist of expatriates and immigrants from the United States as well as Cubans of American descent. As of September 1998, there are about 2,000 to 3,000 Americans living in Cuba."[http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y98/sep98/10e4.htm Why Some Americans Choose a Life in Fidel Castro's Cuba] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140115045035/http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y98/sep98/10e4.htm |date=January 15, 2014 }}", Cubanet, 10 September 1998

Migration history

Following the Cuban Revolution, small numbers of Americans, mostly communists, began migrating to Cuba. In the 1980s, there was an organized group of Americans who called themselves the Union of North American Residents. They consist of nearly 30 expatriates, some members of the US Communist Party while others are leftist writers or English teachers.

Many American fugitives have taken refuge in Cuba."[https://abcnews.go.com/US/surrender-hijacker-luis-soltren-american-fugitives-cuba/story?id=8811480 Dozens of American Fugitives on the Lam in Cuba]", ABC News, 13 October 2009 Some of them remain on the FBI's Most Wanted List, and most were members of radical leftist organizations, Puerto Rican separatist groups and Black nationalist organizations (most notably the Black Panther Party) who fled to the country to escape U.S. authorities in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1968, more than 30 planes were hijacked or attempted to be hijacked to Cuba.

Notable people

See also

References

{{Wikivoyage|Americans in Cuba}}

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Category:Cuba–United States relations