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Cuba: Hatuey (- 1512), the Taino chief who fought against the Spanish becoming one of the first anti-colonialists in the New World, Baracoa, Guantanamo Province

Cuba: Hatuey (- 1512), the Taino chief who fought against the Spanish becoming one of the first anti-colonialists in the New World, Baracoa, Guantanamo Province

Hatüey (- died February 2, 1512), was a Taíno chief from the island of Hispaniola. He fled to Cuba during the Spanish conquest where he attained legendary status for leading a group of natives in a fight against the invading Spaniards.






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David Henley

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Pictures From Asia

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