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Internet Travel Guide "Getting to Know Cuba"
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Welcome to Cuba
Throughout the centuries, imagination, wishful thinking and the hunger
for power of various potentates and mere dreamers, the hopes and despair
of voluntary and involuntary immigrants were focused on Cuba, the largest
of the Antille Islands.
The Spanish conquistadors already regarded Cuba as a Garden of Eden,
where they amassed great wealth by cultivating sugar and tobacco, while
African slaves had to work hard on their plantations.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, it was Galician emigrants who
left their homeland by the hundreds of thousands in hopes of finding
work and happiness. They believed Cuba would be a land of milk and honey,
but when they arrived, the reality was completely different.
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