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It was once Cuba was one of the best teams in the Americas. In 1930s, the island came first games I Central American and Caribbean. They beat Costa Rica and Honduras. Thereafter, between July 4 and July 19, 1938, national soccer team has become Cuba's best team in the Caribbean in the history of football in the seventh to the third championship World Cup in Paris, the French capital. During this event, Cuba defeated Romania. But the island is not new in the World Cup.

Country profile: Cuba

This is Spanish-speaking nation in the Caribbean Sea. It covers 42,800 square miles, the largest Island in the various Latin American countries. There are at least 12 million people. Havana is the capital of country. Politically, Cuba is a dictatorship.

Since 1959 Cuba, a former colony of Spain, became a Marxist dictatorship. In practice, the island is governed by the Castro family. Now the dictator the country, Fidel Castro Ruz was elected as the first pro-Soviet leader in the Western Hemisphere. From the 1960s to 1980, the USSR (now Russia), where the heavy military and economic aid.

Unfortunately, it is one of the worst abuses brutal human rights in the Third World States since 1950. For this reason, the Cuban tyranny an international pariah on the world stage, with Iran, Zimbabwe, Burma and the People Republic of Korea (aka North Korea). According to Reporters Without Borders, Cuba is one of the enemy "15 Internet worldwide. "For political and economic, over 250 athletes, including Olympic champions, have left the country since 1990, the highest in the developing world. In economic terms, has become highly dependent on Venezuelan aid since the 2000s.

Cut World Cup

the Cuban national team was not qualified for the FIFA World Cup since 1938. In recent decades, many Caribbean and Central American countries of El Salvador and Honduras in Haiti and Trinidad and Tobago Cuba have been overcome. In early 1970, the team of El Salvador won men's soccer CONCACAF tournament and was one of 16 teams in the league FIFA Mexico. Currently, twelve years later, El Salvador with Honduras, men have participated in their second World Cup in Barcelona (Spain). For the first time in 44 years, Haiti, a virtual unknown before 1974, earned his place in football history when he participated in the Cup X-World in Munich, West Germany. Since 1990, Costa Rica has participated twice in this global event. In 2002, FIFA tournament, the plant has completed 19 (out of 32 teams).

Unlike neighboring Cuba, Jamaica qualified for the World Cup in late 1990. Team Jamaica on the 22nd place in the FIFA championship, before Scotland, Saudi Arabia and Japan. Subsequently, Trinidad and Tobago, a cricket lover, Isla, participated the 2006 World Cup. Meanwhile, Honduras has qualified for South Africa 2010. Honduras, one of the poorest countries of the hemisphere West made his debut in the World Cup in early 1980.

From 1962 until the end of 1980, Cuba had suffered sports a sudden change when the USSR and other Marxist states sent 300 buses to the island. Also during this period, the Spanish-speaking nation received more money per capita for the promotion of sport as any other nation on earth, including South Korea, China and Greece. At the same time, the number of football coaches comes to Cuba, the Hungarians to the Soviets. Meanwhile, the Marxist government has sent a large number of national teams from Eastern Europe, North Korea and the Soviet Union. Havana has also hosted many prestigious tournaments. But despite all this, the team Cuban soccer failed to qualify for the FIFA World Cup. But this was only the beginning of the tragedy.

Nightmare

From the 1990s until 2000, only a handful of football players Cuba has not escaped. In the 1990s, Fernando Griñán, one of the most popular players on the island, have sought political asylum abroad. But it was only GRIÑÁN. In 1998, Eduardo Sebrango fled from Cuba to Canada. Shortly after, Alberto Delgado and Rey Angel Martinez Perez and abandoned his national team at the Gold Cup U.S. 20o2. Three years later, Maykel Galindo escaped from the island. In addition, between 2007 and 2008, Osvaldo Alonso and Lester Moré, Pedro FAIFE and Reinier Alcantara left Havana. In March 2008, seven players have requested political asylum in the United States: Manuel Miranda, Erly Garcia, Yeni Bermudez, Yordany Alvarez Duarte Loanny, Yendri Diaz and Eder Roldan. Consequently, Cuba did not qualify for South Africa 2010.

Alejandro Guevara Onofre: Freelance writer. Alejandro is author of a host of articles/essays about over 220 countries and dependencies (and American States as well), from ecology, history, tourism and national heroes to Olympic sports, foreign relations, and wildlife. In addition, he has published some books on women’s rights, among them “History of the Women in America” and “Famous Americans.”

Why Canada needs a military?

In 1940 Costa Rica abolished its army to decide to use the money Educational, health and the environment, etc. When their neighbors to the South and Central America have been the prey of the military junta and dictatorships of the 80s, Costa Rica, has been spared. Canada's military, mostly a force keeping the peace, made the war to support Britain in the Second World War, and the United States in Afghanistan, where yet. Could Canada and Costa Rica?

Canada needs an army a multitude of reasons, mainly to defend Canada's sovereignty in case of disaster, which is to meet commitments to NATO and NORAD, and through its allies in case of war or natural (see Haiti). Canada has no reason to get rid of the Spanish armed forces because they are extremely useful. Less than 24 hours after the earthquake in Haiti, the DART, the FC is preparing for deployment to help. The CF has also participated actively in the war in Afghanistan. Finally, the military said Canada is essentially a force of peacekeepers is complete bull. General Retired Rick Hillier said: "We're not the Public Service of Canada, you're just another department. We are the Canadian Forces and our job is to be able to kill people. "We are soldiers, peacekeeping is only part of what we do.

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