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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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Live Coverage: Clinton as Secretary of State - WNYC 1 hour 43 min agoPortugal Communists in Solidarity with Cuba - Ahora.cu 3 hours 2 min agoPainting exhibition marks Vietnam-Cuba diplomatic relations - VietNamNet Bridge 4 hours 11 min agoOBAMA BITS: Clinton announcement expecte... - Eurweb.com 9 hours 34 min agoA father's plea: Cuba Road carnage should bring halt to horseplay - Chicago Daily Herald 11 hours 22 min agoMore News | Feed source: Google News