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Cuba's foreign policy has been fluid throughout history depending on world events and other variables, including relations with the United States.Without massive Soviet subsidies and its primary trading partner, Cuba became increasingly isolated in the late 1980s and early 1990s after the fall of the USSR and the end of the Cold War, but Cuba opened up more with the rest of the world again ...
Sebastián de Ocampo circumnavigates Cuba, confirming that it is an island. 1510: Spanish set out from Hispaniola. The conquest of Cuba begins. 1511: The first governor of Cuba, the Spanish conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar leads a group of settlers in Baracoa. 1512: Indigenous Cuban resistance leader Hatuey is burned at the stake. 1519
Cuba's foreign relations also became deeply tied to sugar. Castro visited the Soviet Union to secure a sugar deal, while Che Guevara traveled to China to secure a sugar deal. After Castro's return from the Soviet Union, the Ministry of Sugar was established in Cuba, and developed a plan to produce 47 million tons of sugar between 1965 and 1970 ...
Pages in category "Foreign relations of Cuba" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Foreign relations. Ministry of Foreign Affairs ... This article lists the heads of government of Cuba from 1940 until the present day. ... 1 year, 310 days: Popular ...
Representatives of 14 western creditor nations, grouped in the Paris Club, were in Cuba this week to salvage a debt agreement with the import dependent country which is expected to default on ...
After the opening of the island to world trade in 1818, trade agreements began to replace Spanish commercial connections. In 1820 Thomas Jefferson thought Cuba is "the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States" and told Secretary of War John C. Calhoun that the United States "ought, at the first possible opportunity, to take Cuba."
Political prisoners are main obstacle to better relations with Cuba, U.S. diplomat says. ... You saw 320,000 people left the island just last year, and happy people don’t emigrate irregularly ...