(I'm not logged in for personal reasons) but here's something I found in my research re racism in Cuba-- Cuban racism and racism in Latin American countries is very different to racism in English-speaking countries such as Jamaica. In the 1930s, when Batista was campaigning for the presidency, his enemies (mostly members of the elite) commissioned political cartoons depicting him with exaggerated Black features, intended to create an impression of him as a wild savage.
He was called "El Mulato Lindo" and disliked that nickname because of the racial references-- race was used as a political weapon. Historically, interracial relationships between a White and Black (or whatever ethnicity/race, even between mixed-race people and people from another race) person in Latin America were not approved of. There's still a bit of prejudice against interracial relationships in Cuba now, according to the book Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Relationships in Contemporary Cuba. And of course there's colourism.

Sidenote: In the now 28-page novel I'm working on, colourism is a big part of the plot.