Cubans
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Members of the "Cubans" in GTA Vice City.
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| Games: | GTA Vice City GTA Vice City Stories |
| Locations: | Little Havana, Vice City |
| Leader: | Umberto Robina |
| Type: | Street gang |
| Enemies: | Haitians; Cholos; Sharks |
| Affiliations: | Victor Vance and Vance Crime Family (formerly) Tommy Vercetti and Vercetti Gang |
| Colors: | Red |
| Vehicles: | Cuban Hermes |
| Weapons: | Pistol, Katana, Uzi, Ruger |
| Businesses: | Cocaine trade |
| Fronts: | Café Robina |
| Members: | Alberto Robina, Rico, Pepe, Hilberto, Carlos, Fernandez, Juan, Ronaldo and Joaquin Noff |
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The Cubans, also known as Los Cabrones, are a Cuban street gang in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. In both games they are led by Umberto Robina and are based in the Little Havana district of Vice City. Cubans are considered the prominent gang in the southern end of the mainland, considering that they defeated the Cholos and most likely the Haitians.
1984
In 1984 the Cubans are known as the Los Cabrones and are in conflict with a Mexican street gang named the Cholos, over control of Little Havana and Little Haiti. Umberto Robina employs Victor Vance to aid him in his fight against the Cholos. Umberto Robina asked Victor to prove his worth to his gang by picking up a package from Downtown in a race with Hilberto, Carlos, Fernandez, Ronaldo and other Cuban gang members.
Victor Vance then begins to work with the Cubans, which includes killing various Cholos gang members who are causing havoc in Little Havana, and picking up Alberto Robina from the Hyman Memorial Stadium to avoid a possible abduction and/or murder. The Cubans eventually win the war with the Cholos after stealing their weapons supply and destroying the warehouse they had been stored in.
1986
By 1986, the Cubans found themselves in a war with the Haitians. Umberto Robina contacts and employs Tommy Vercetti to aid him in the war with the Haitians. After completing a boat challenge with Rico, Tommy begins to help Cubans against the Haitians. Following this, Tommy Vercetti helps steal a van full of drugs, killing various Haitians for two briefcases and blowing up a factory owned by the Haitians.
Tommy Vercetti is, however, also working for Auntie Poulet, the leader of the Haitians. Auntie Poulet drugs Tommy with her Juju Juice and has him collect three briefcases before the authorities, blow up boats and Cuban gang members using a remote controlled plane and killing various Cuban gang members in a fight between the Cubans and Haitians. Auntie Poulet eventually turns on Tommy, telling him that she no longer needs his services.
Tommy eventually returns to working for Cubans, and helps them destroy a Haitian drugs factory in Little Haiti. The final result of the war between Cubans and the Haitians is unknown, although the Cubans appear to have the upper hand. Umberto Robina and Cuban gang members also treat Tommy Vercetti as an equal, with Umberto once saying: "Tommy, to us, you Cuban". The Cubans most likely beat the Haitians in the gang war causing the Haitians to lose power.
Cuban gang members are either seen wearing white sleeveless shirts, red bandanas and jeans, or a fedora hat, light yellow shirts and black pants. They are armed with 9mm pistols.
Behaviour
The Cubans congregate and move in groups. They usually do not patrol the streets separately, unless they are running away from an enemy gang or the player when all of their buddies have been killed. The Cubans are not usually hostile to Tommy, and will only ever attack in self-defense, unless under the influence of the "Pedestrians Hate You" cheat.
The Cubans may attack or be attacked by the Haitians and Patrol Invest Group if they are seen by Haitian gangsters or Patrol Invest Group security guards in Little Havana, Little Haiti or Starfish Island. Likewise, Vercetti Gang mobsters will shoot and kill Cubans members seen near their Little Haiti and Little Havana assets or inside Starfish Island. The Cubans are frequently in conflict with the Haitians gang and the Vercetti Gang over turf and control of their assets; police act against both parties when gun battles occur. In addition, policemen will pursue and kill Cubans in the same manner as they do with gang members and street criminals, allowing the player to attain "Good Citizen Bonuses" worth $50 each for each punch/kick/attack delivered to a fleeing Cuban. The Player must be careful though, as the Cuban, or any nearby Cubans will attack the player with a pistol, also, accidentally hitting the cop will give the player a one star wanted level, killing the cop will give the player two.
Cuban-American discrimination controversy
The third version of GTA Vice City had all references to the Cuban and Haitian people removed, (along with a number of other trademarks), in response to Cuban and Haitian groups in the United States, who threatened to use action against Rockstar Games, on the basis that they were being discriminated against. This is why in GTA Vice City Stories the gang is referred to as Los Cabrones as opposed to simply "The Cubans," as they were in GTA Vice City. Los Cabrones literally means "The Bastards" in Spanish.