How Has Cuba Defied the United States for More Than 60 Years?
Cuba sits just 90 miles from Florida.
The United States is one of the most powerful countries on Earth. Cuba is a small island nation that has faced a U.S. economic embargo, diplomatic isolation, covert operations, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, and decades of pressure from Washington.
Yet the Cuban government that emerged from the 1959 revolution survived the Cold War, the collapse of its Soviet sponsor, severe economic crises, and more than six decades of confrontation with the United States.
So how did a country this small withstand pressure from a neighbor this powerful for so long?
This Dragon Tom story looks at the history behind one of the Western Hemisphere’s longest-running geopolitical confrontations—and why the answer is more complicated than simply communism versus capitalism.
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