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Events relating to cuba
Buena Vista Social Club, a nostalgic documentary by Wim Wenders, triggers a cult for Cuban music
The US holds suspected al-Qaeda terrorists indefinitely, and without legal rights, in Guantanamo Bay, an American enclave in Cuba
After 49 years as president of Cuba, Fidel Castro resigns for reasons of ill health
The National Assembly elects Fidel Castro's brother Raúl to succeed him as president of Cuba
One of President Obama's first acts in office is to sign an order that the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is to be closed within a year (a promise that fails to be fulfilled)
Cuba becomes the first country in the world to eradicate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis
Barack Obama visits Cuba, the first time a sitting US president has visited the island nation since president Calvin Coolidge in 1928
