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About Cuba
Fidel CASTRO led a rebel army to victory in 1959; his iron rule has held the country together since. Cuba's Communist revolution, with Soviet support, was exported throughout Latin America and Africa during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. The country is now slowly recovering from a severe economic recession in 1990, following the withdrawal of former Soviet subsidies, worth $4 billion to $6 billion annually. Havana portrays its difficulties as the result of the US embargo in place since 1961. Illicit migration to the US - using homemade rafts, alien smugglers, or falsified visas - is a continuing problem. Some 3,000 Cubans attempted the crossing of the Straits of Florida in 2001; the US Coast Guard interdicted only about 25% of these.
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Parliament speaker invited to visit Cuba - AngolaPress 1 hour 16 min agoStep-by-step guide to dance: Ballet Nacional de Cuba - The Guardian 2 hours 51 min agoCuba to close 100 farms, importing 80% of food now - Havana Journal 3 hours 14 min agoCuba dissidents start "Black Spring" protests - Independent Online 8 hours 37 min agoUS air charter companies fight Cuba judgment - MiamiHerald.com 8 hours 41 min agoMore News | Feed source: Google News