Have you ever been to PLACE Key West or anywhere else in the southern part of Florida in addition to beautiful beaches and VERB ENDING IN ING ocean waters you will also find plenty of delicious food lively music and eye-catching art that reflects the influence of a nearby country COUNTRY The largest island in the PLACE Cuba was claimed for spain in 1492 by Christopher Coulumbus its NOUN goes back much father then that thogh before Coulumbus arrival cuba VERB been home to a variety of indigenous peoples spain controlled cuba until 1898 when cuban and American NOUN won the spainish American war after independence cuba continued to be VERB Heavly by the nearby united NOUN That changed on Januwary 1st YEAR When fidel castros revoluthinary forces VERB The government of dictator Fulgencio PERSONS NAME As Castros communist government grew ADJECTIVE and closer to the soviet NOUN Its relanthinship with the U.S VERB Severly strained in the midst of the cold war between the COUNTRY And the soviet union cuba VERB Politically and economically isolated from its neighbor to the north many of its people however fled cuba and settled in southern Florida bringing with them a rich culture that ADVERB Trives today although many people VERB Think cuba is just a ADJECTIVE Island the country as a NOUN Consist of an archipelago of ADVERB 1600 islands located at the NOUN Of the Atlantic ocean gulf of Mexico and caribeian sea its ADJECTIVE Point is only about 100 PLURAL LENGTH Or so south of Florida across the strait of Florida many PLURAL NOUN Cuba is just 90 PLURAL LENGTH south of key west floridas ADJECTIVE Point in fact a popular NOUN Spot in key west called the southernmost point buoy has the PLURAL NOUN 90 miles to cuba painted on it the 90 mile measurement VERB A underwater mesuarment in statue PLURAL LENGTH only used by large ships at sea in reality the shortest NOUN between points in cuba and the U.S VERB about 103 miles with such a short distance across the strait of Florida seprating the 2 countries
