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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 ...
With effect from 10 October 2019, Miguel Díaz-Canel is the president and Manuel Marrero is the Prime Minister of Cuba. The previous president of the State Council was Raúl Castro, brother of former leader Fidel Castro; Raúl Castro remained First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba , and Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Armed ...
[179] The constitution describes the Communist Party of Cuba as the "leading force of society and of the state". [179] The political system in Cuba reflects the Marxist–Leninist concept of democratic centralism. [180]: 38 The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba is the most senior position in the one-party state. [181]
HAVANA — The Catholic Church in communist-run Cuba, which has been instrumental to resolving political tensions in the past, is proposing a national dialogue to help resolve the economic crisis ...
Cuba Decides has outlined a four step plan to implement democracy, the first is to recognize and guarantee the protection of human rights for all Cubans, the second is a "a binding plebiscite implementing electoral and transparency guarantees" to end the one party state, the third is to "initiate a transition process that establishes democratic ...
Cuba–European Union relations are the international relations between the Republic of Cuba and the common foreign policy and trade relations of the European Union (EU). Relations have been strained in recent years, due to Cuba's poor human rights record and the European Union's numerous accusations of Cuba's human rights abuses .
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After Castro's Cuba was formed, it established formal relations with East Germany, another communist state while having no formal relations with West Germany. [ citation needed ] In 1972, General Secretary Erich Honecker visited Cuba and in honor of the state visit, Fidel Castro renamed an island to Ernst Thälmann Island in honor of Ernst ...