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In February Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan visited Havana which resulted in a major Cuban-Soviet trade agreement which gave Cuba Soviet oil in exchange for sugar. [79] Cuba-United States relations were heavily strained after the explosion of a French vessel, the La Coubre, in Havana harbor in March 1960. The ship carried weapons ...
NET's film, Three Faces of Cuba was decried as a pro-communist and anti-American work of art that willfully misled the public to the realities of the Cuban experience. They published a 104-page analysis of the film called An Exposé of the Insidious Film "Three Faces of Cuba". The implication of the phrasing of "expose" was that the film was ...
The 26th of July Movement later reformed along Marxist–Leninist lines, becoming the Communist Party of Cuba in October 1965. [ 8 ] The Cuban Revolution had significant domestic and international repercussions, particularly with regard to Cuba–United States relations , which were severely damaged and remain strained despite attempts at ...
[1] [2] [3] The present Constitution of Cuba, which was passed in a 2019 referendum, [4] [5] also describes the role of the Communist Party of Cuba to be the "leading force of society and of the state" and as having the capability of setting national policy, and First Secretary of the Communist Party is the most powerful position in Cuba.
The two main spokespeople in the debate were Che Guevara who argued for an independent Cuban model to communism, and Carlos Rafael Rodríguez of the Popular Socialist Party who advocated for more of a "soviet" model towards communism which meant a development of capitalism before socialism and later communism. [1] [13]
The move appears to be part of a broader and unusual high level shake-up at a time when Cuba's communist-run government is facing a near unprecedented social and economic crisis, including severe ...
In 2000 the Clinton Administration opened cash and carry trade with Cuba but without credits being available, with the passage of Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 (TSRA ...
Cuba’s boasting of its free healthcare system is comical. Back in the 1990s, it enjoyed generous subsidies from the Soviet Union, and the island’s healthcare services became the banner to ...