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Washington's increasing economic embargo led Cuba to seek new markets in a hurry to avert economic disaster. Cuba and the Soviet Union signed their first trade deal in 1960, in which Cuba traded sugar to the Soviet Union in exchange for fuel. [6]: 2 The deal was to play a part in sustaining the Cuban economy for many years to come.
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 ...
President John F. Kennedy widened the embargo in 1962 to include all Cuban trade, including food and medicine. Kennedy later imposed travel restrictions to Cuba after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963.
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]
Executive power in the Cuban government is exercised by the Council of Ministers. [20]: 38 From February 1959 until February 2008, Cuba was led by revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, who was head of state, head of government, First Secretary of the Communist Party, and commander-in-chief of the Cuban armed forces.
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 ...
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 ...
Cuba remained an atheist state until 1992, when the government amended the constitution and it became secular. Pope John Paul II made history in 1998 as the first pope to ever visit the island.