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The European Union is Cuba's largest trading partner, and the United States is the fifth-largest exporter to Cuba. [140] In 2012, the embargo limited U.S. imports to Cuba at 6.6%. [ 140 ] The Cuban government is required pay cash for all food imports from the U.S., as credit is not allowed. [ 141 ]
The government blames the U.S. embargo, which it refers to as a "blockade", imposed since the arrival of the Communist Party to power but intensified in 2021 with Cuba's addition to the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. Cuba accused the U.S. of stirring up unrest, an accusation the United States has denied. [6] [7]
Universal Newsreel about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy ...
In Cuba, all eyes are on the U.S. presidential election. Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican contender Donald Trump have said little about the Caribbean island nation, a longtime U.S ...
Cuba’s main concerns are that it remains on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism and the Biden administration’s continuation of Washington’s Cold War-era economic embargo against the ...
Cuba is mired in its worst economic crisis in decades, and a half million Cubans have left over the past two years, contributing to a surge of undocumented immigrants entering the United States.
The name was derived from then Cuban President Fidel Castro by spelling his surname backwards.. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, upon discovery of SS-4 missiles being assembled in Cuba, the U.S. Government considered several options including a blockade (an act of war under international law, so it was called a "quarantine"), an airstrike, or a military strike against the Cuban missile positions.
Cuba accused the United States late on Wednesday of a half-hearted investigation into a 2023 attack on the Communist-run nation's embassy in Washington, D.C., further souring already-bitter ...