In 1526, the "first known shipment of slaves intended for sale in Cuba carries 145 Africans from Cabo Verde to the island.
"Since 1976, over 1,000 Cuban collaborators, mostly physicians and health technicians, have been working in that African nation, and nearly 1,000 Cape Verdean scholarship students have completed pre-university and university studies in Cuba.
"[3] As of 2007, however, there are no estimates for the number of people of Cape Verdean descent living in Cuba.
In 2005, Germano Almeida's Two Brothers was translated into Spanish and included in an Arts and Literature anthology.
[4] In the same year, Fidel Castro presented Pedro Rodrigues Pires with the Jose Marti Order, Cuba's highest decoration.