Sentence examples for of Cuban origin from inspiring English sources

It's said he's of Cuban origin.

As an ailing mother of Cuban origin, abandoned by her husband, she is struggling to rear a son (Julien A. Carrasquillo) in 1987 in Union City, where the boy yearns for the excitement of life in New York.

The 1.4 million people of Cuban origin in the United States send $500 million to $800 million a year to relatives in Cuba, and those dollars enter the Cuban economy.

But, he said, there was no real mixing of the cuisines -- no plantain fried rice, no Shanghai clams in Cuban black bean soup -- and to his knowledge there was no real basis in fact for saying that the Chinese roasting box, of Cuban origin, was of Chinese descent.

With other Latin musicians such as Tito Rodríguez and Pérez Prado, he helped give rise in the 1950s to the golden age of mambo, a dance form of Cuban origin; his infectious energy and dynamic stage presence quickly made him a star.

It is a small country next to a giant neighbor which harbors a million people of Cuban origin who mostly do not want the island to evolve into a more successful version of the current system, but want the party to be swept from power and its system as well as personnel replaced.

While a majority of Florida's Hispanics are of Cuban descent, Nevada's Hispanics are mostly of Mexican origin.

Both are of Cuban descent.

The majority of Florida Hispanics are of Cuban ancestry (31%).

Hispanics, mainly of Mexican and Cuban origin, comprise about one-fourth of the state's residents and are concentrated in the southeast.

In a 2012 Houston Chronicle trend piece on what he saw as a daiquiri renaissance, bartender Alex Gregg repeats the drink's well-known turn-of-the-20th-century Cuban origin story: At first a more traditional cocktail of rum, cane sugar and lime juice, in the 1940s the daiquiri transformed into a blended ice and fruit beverage.