Cuba and the United States: A Personal Reflection on Thirty-five Years of Conflict

Abstract

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites it was widely assumed that Cuba would soon go the same way; that Fidel Castro's downfall and Cuba's "return" to the "free world" was simply a matter of time, and in all likelihood the time would be sooner rather than later. But, six years after the fall of the Berlin wall and despite the severance of all aid from its former Eastern Bloc allies and the tightening of the punitive U.S. trade embargo, the Cuban regime stubbornly refuses to collapse.

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