Dezi Arnaz Biography

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Dezi Arnaz, who is best known as Ricky Ricardo on the television show, I love Lucy is a native of Cuba. He as an actor, musician, and husband to Lucille Ball. In 1933, the Arnaz family home in Santiago was destroyed. Arnaz and his mother managed to escape to safety, his father, a congressman, was put in prison. Arnaz father was advised by the new chief of state, Fulgencio Batista, that he would be freed if he left the country. Arnaz father moved to Miami. He promises later to send for his family later. Earnest Hemingway was an author, journalist a writer of short stories. A Nobel Prize winner. He is known for writing The Sun Also Rises a Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea, which won the 1953 Pulitzer. He committed suicide in1961. Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba for 22 years.
Assata Shakur a legendary member of the America Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army lives in Cuba. The Black Panther practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community-based programs. Assata Shakur is on the FBI's Most Wanted terrorist list. The Federal Bureau of Investigation says, Shakur, killed two people in cold blood during a traffic stop and then tried to flee the scene. She was eventually convicted of murder in
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Cuba political parties was a high of nine had been formed, but Batista staged a coup without waiting for an election. In 1954 Cuba continued in a state of insurgency with anti-Batista elements. Many degrees of opposition were taken, but Batista was again re-elected. Fidel Castro was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1953 for the attacking Moncada military barracks in Santiago de Cuba. He and His brother Raul was released in 1955 as part of a general amnesty for political prisoners. Fidel Castro a beard, long speeches, cigar smoking, conquered

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