Americans in Cuba ( es, Estadounidenses en Cuba) consist of expatriates and immigrants from the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...

as well as Cubans of American descent. As of September 1998, there are about 2,000 to 3,000 Americans living in

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.Why Some Americans Choose a Life in Fidel Castro's Cuba
", ''Cubanet'', 10 September 1998

Migration history

Following the

Cuban Revolution The Cuban Revolution ( es, Revolución Cubana) was carried out after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état which placed Fulgencio Batista as head of state and the failed mass strike in opposition that followed. After failing to contest Batista in co ...

, 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.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

* Nehanda Abiodun - American, Black revolutionary activist, accused serial robber and accomplice of Assata Shakur *

Philip Agee Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (; January 19, 1935 – January 7, 2008)Will Weissert"Ex-CIA Agent Philip Agee Dead in Cuba" Associated Press (sfgate.com), January 9, 2008. was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer and writer of t ...

- former

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case officer and writer * William Lee Brent - Black Panther Party member, robber, and aircraft hijacker * Lorna Burdsall - American dancer and choreographer and wife of Cuban intelligence official

Manuel Piñeiro Manuel Piñeiro Losada (14 March 1933 - 11 March 1998), also known as Commander Barbarroja (''es: "red beard"'') was a Cuban political and military figure, a leader of the Cuban Revolution, and, between 1961 and 1964, the first head of the Direcc ...

Victor Manuel Gerena The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French shor ...

- allegedly hiding in

after stealing $7,000,000 in Hartford, Connecticut; remains at-large on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List *

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- famous American author who purchased a home outside of Havana in 1940 and lived there with his wife for 20 years *

William Alexander Morgan William Alexander Morgan (April 19, 1928 – March 11, 1961) was a United States citizen who fought in the Cuban Revolution, leading a band of rebels that drove the Cuban army from key positions in the central mountains as part of Second Nationa ...

- US citizen who fought in the Cuban Revolution *

Assata Shakur Assata Olugbala Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah Byron; July 16, 1947; also married name, JoAnne Chesimard) is an American political activist who was a member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA). In 1977, she was convicted in the first-degree murder ...

- Escaped convict who committed first-degree murder of a policeman * Robert F. Williams - Civil Rights activist who fled to avoid prosecution by the FBI. Also established a pro-Civil Rights radio station,

Radio Free Dixie Radio Free Dixie was a radio program broadcast from Cuba by American Civil Rights Leader Robert F. Williams in the early 1960s that advocated for racial equality. It called on black Americans to rise up against what Williams saw as an inherently r ...

Robert Vesco The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

- fugitive United States financier

References

{{Ethnic groups in Cuba

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Cuba–United States relations

Migration history

Notable people

See also

References