Cuba

Until Castro's 1959 victory, what's now the Museum of the Revolution served as this man's presidential palace

Batista

This Pulitzer & Nobel prize-winning novelist's home in pre-Castro Cuba was called "Finca Vigia"

Ernest Hemingway

The U.S. still maintains a naval base on this Cuban bay

Guantanamo Bay

In the news in 1961, this bay in the Cuban province of Las Villas is also called Bahia de los Cochinos

Bay of Pigs

This "majestic" species of the genus Roystonea is the national tree

the royal palm

North America 34

enslaved people (2) Santería (2) Jerry Maguire (1) James Bond (1) the Tuskegee Airmen (1) the Communist Party (1) The United States (1) baseball (or women's volleyball) (1) sugar (1) slavery (1)

Other 10

Fulgencio Batista (2) the Maine (1) the Organization of American States (1) Guantanamo Bay (1) the royal palm (1) cigars (1) Ernest Hemingway (1) San Juan Hill (1) Bay of Pigs (1)

Europe 4

Batista (1) Florida (1) Havana (1) Spain (1)

Africa 2

Coming to America (1) Ernest Hemingway (1)

Asia 1

(Christopher) Columbus (1)

South America 1

The Old Man and the Sea (1)