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2020 In Cuba
Events in the year 2020 in Cuba. Incumbents * First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba: Raúl Castro ** Second Secretary: José Ramón Machado Ventura * President of the Council of State: Miguel Díaz-Canel ** First Vice President: Salvador Valdés Mesa Events * 11 March – The first three cases of COVID-19 in Cuba were confirmed, all of whom were Italian tourists. * 16 March – The cruise ship MS ''Braemar'', with over 1,000 passengers and crew on board, is given permission to berth in Cuba after being rejected by The Bahamas. At least five passengers tested positive for COVID-19. British citizens were able to take flights home after both governments reached an agreement on their repatriation. *30 July – The government announces economic reforms giving more freedom to private businesses. *27 August – The governor of Havana announces a curfew and travel ban to curb the spread of COVID-19. *1 September **Cuba establishes a curfew and other strict measures to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet. Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both the American state of Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola ( Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of both Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital; other major cities include Santiago de Cuba and Camagüey. The official area of the Republic of Cuba is (without the territorial waters) but a total of 350,730 km² (135,418 sq mi) including the exclusive economic zone. Cuba is the second-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti, with over 11 million inhabitants. The territory that is now Cuba was inhabited by the Ciboney people from the 4th millennium BC with the Gua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marriott Hotels & Resorts
Marriott Hotels & Resorts is Marriott International's brand of full-service hotels and resorts based in Bethesda, Maryland. As of June 30, 2020, there were 582 hotels and resorts with 205,053 rooms operating under the brand, in addition to 160 hotels with 47,765 rooms planned for development. History and current operation The Marriott chain began with two motels in the 1950s. The first opened as a Quality Inn airport motel near Washington, D.C. and another motel nearby, the Twin Bridges, a few years later. With the opening of the second motel, Marriott was born as a brand name. The Twin Bridges property was demolished in 1990, but the Key Bridge property still operates, but as a full-service hotel. In 1967, Marriott opened its first resort hotel, Camelback Inn, in Arizona, United States. Marriott Hotels & Resorts expanded outside of the United States for the first time in 1969 with the opening of the Marriott in Acapulco, Mexico. By 1975, Marriott Hotels & Resorts had expa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Angels
The Los Angeles Angels are an American professional baseball team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Angels compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division. Since 1966, the team has played its home games at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California. The franchise was founded in Los Angeles in 1961 by Gene Autry as one of MLB's first two expansion teams and the first to originate in California. Deriving its name from an earlier Los Angeles Angels franchise that played in the Pacific Coast League (PCL), the team was based in Los Angeles until moving to Anaheim in 1966. Due to the move, the franchise was known as the California Angels from 1965 to 1996 and the Anaheim Angels from 1997 to 2004. "Los Angeles" was added back to the name in 2005, but because of a lease agreement with Anaheim that required the city to also be in the name, the franchise was known as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim until 2015. The current Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of The Washington Senators (1901–1960)
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers. History is not complete and still has debatable mysteries. History is also an academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians often debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians also debate the nature of history as an end in itself, as well as its usefulness to give perspective on the problems of the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julio Bécquer
Julio Bécquer Villegas (December 20, 1931 – November 1, 2020) was an Cuban-born American professional baseball player, a first baseman who played in 488 games over seven seasons (1955; 1957–61; 1963) for the Washington Senators / Minnesota Twins and Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball. A native of Havana, he batted and threw left-handed; Bécquer stood tall and weighed during his active career. Bécquer attended the University of Havana. His pro baseball career began in the Washington organization in 1952 and he made his MLB debut with the Washington Senators in September , getting into ten games, with one start as a first baseman, and collecting three hits in 14 at bats. He spent 1956 with the Triple-A Louisville Colonels, where he belted 15 home runs but posted only a .235 batting average. Bécquer then spent four full seasons with the Senators. Although he appeared in 100 or more games three times (; – 60) only in 1960 was he Washington's regular firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basketball At The 1972 Summer Olympics
Basketball contests at the 1972 Summer Olympics was the eighth appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event. It took place at Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle in Munich, Germany from August 27 to September 9. The Soviet Union controversially won the gold medal game against the United States. This was the first time that the USA did not win a gold medal since the sport's introduction into the Olympics at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. The bronze was won by Cuba, the only Olympic medal they have won in basketball. Another controversy was suspension of Mickey Coll after a positive drug test. Medal summary Qualification Automatic qualifications were granted to the host country and the first four places at the previous tournament. Additional spots were decided by various continental tournaments held by FIBA plus an additional pre-Olympic tournament that granted two extra berths. * Egypt withdrew from the tournament following the events of the Munich massacre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomás Herrera Martínez
Tomás Herrera Martinez (21 December 1950 – 18 October 2020) was a basketball player from Cuba, who won the bronze medal with the men's Cuba national basketball team, national team at the Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics, 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. Career Martinez was born in Santiago de Cuba on 21 December 1950. During the 1979 Pan-Am Games, he broke Kyle Macy's jaw with an intentional elbow; while he was ejected from the game, he was not banned from the games despite having earlier assaulted another player. He was also involved in an incident during the 1973 World University Games vs. the United States National Team. Martinez died on 18 October 2020 at the age of 69. References LinksProfile databaseOlympics.com via archive.org sports-reference.com via archive.org 1950 births 2020 deaths Sportspeople from Santiago de Cuba Cuban men's basketball players 1970 FIBA World Championship players 1974 FIBA World Championship players Baske ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Antonio Arbesú
José Antonio Arbesú Fraga (21 June 1940 – September 26, 2020) was a Cuban diplomat. Arbesu was born in Havana, and served as the chief of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, D.C. ) , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from top left: the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, United States Capitol, Logan Circle, Jefferson Memorial, White House, Adams Morgan, ..., from 1989 to 1992. Juan E. Mendez ''The Case of Elizardo Sanchez'' www.nybooks.com "7 Dec 1989 – After renewing my request several times, I received a letter dated October 13, from José Arbesú, Chief of the Cuban Interests Section in .." References Ambassadors of Cuba to the United States Cuban communists 2020 deaths Cuban diplomats 1940 births Deaths from cancer in Cuba {{Cuba-diplomat-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paco Prats
Paco is a Spanish nickname for Francisco. According to folk etymology, the nickname has its origins in Saint Francis of Assisi, who was the father of the Franciscan order; his name was written in Latin by the order as ''Pater Communitatis'' (father of the community); hence "Paco" was supposedly obtained by taking the first syllable of each word. People with the nickname Paco include * Paco Alcácer (born 1993), Spanish footballer *Paco Arespacochaga (born 1971), Portuguese singer *Paco Cabanes Pastor (1954–2021), Valencian pilota player *Paco Calderón (born 1959), Mexican political cartoonist *Paco Craig (born 1965), American football player *Paco de Lucía (1947–2014), Spanish flamenco guitarist and composer *Paco Decina (born 1955), Italian choreographer *Francisco Estévez (born 1945), Spanish composer * Francisco Gento (born 1933), Spanish footballer *Paco Godia (1921–1990), Spanish racing driver *Paco González (born 1966), Spanish sport journalist *Paco Herrera (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro De Oraá
Pedro de Oraá (1931 – 25 August 2020) was a Cuban contemporary visual artist, best known for his contributions to the Cuban abstract movement of Concretism in the 1950s and his involvement in the group Los Once (the eleven) in 1956 and the co-founding of Los Diez Pintores Concretos (The 10 Concrete Painters) known simply as, Los Diez with fellow artists Loló Soldevilla and Sandú Daríe, in 1957. He was an art critic, poet, designer, translator, and the beneficiary of many awards such as the Distinction for National Culture in 1995, the National Book Design Prize in 2011 and the National Prize for Plastic Arts in 2015. Biography Pedro de Oraá was born in Havana, Cuba in 1931 and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro. He was a painter, editor, poet, writer, and art critic, best known for his co-founding of Los Diez Pintores Concretos, a group of artists working in geometric abstraction in Cuba from 1958 to 1961. Oraá and Loló Soldevilla, another abstract artist, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as ''The Daily Telegraph & Courier''. Considered a newspaper of record over ''The Times'' in the UK in the years up to 1997, ''The Telegraph'' generally has a reputation for high-quality journalism, and has been described as being "one of the world's great titles". The paper's motto, "Was, is, and will be", appears in the editorial pages and has featured in every edition of the newspaper since 19 April 1858. The paper had a circulation of 363,183 in December 2018, descending further until it withdrew from newspaper circulation audits in 2019, having declined almost 80%, from 1.4 million in 1980.United Newspapers PLC and Fleet Holdings PLC', Monopolies and Mergers Commission (1985), pp. 5–16. Its si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dual Exchange Rate
In economics, a dual exchange rate is the occurrence of two different values of a currency for different sets of monetary transactions. One of the most common types consists of a government setting one exchange rate for specific transactions involving foreign exchange and another exchange rate governing other transactions. A dual exchange rate policy can arise for a variety of reasons. In the past, European and Latin American countries have used dual exchange rates to ease the transition from a fixed rate to a floating rate. Dual exchange rates are similar to multiple exchange rates in that they can appear when there is simultaneously both an official and black market rate. History In the gold standard and the Bretton Woods system, the major developed countries mainly implemented fixed exchange rate systems. Due to the devaluation of the pound around the 1970s and the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, many developed countries switched to floating exchange rates. In 1971, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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