It was December 10, 2013; the margins of the official tribute to Nelson Mandela in Soweto, Obama shook hands with his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro. The last handshake between the leaders of the two countries dated back to 2000: Bill Clinton and Fidel Castro were greeted at the Millennium Summit in New York. He then was a first since the coming to power of the Cuban revolutionary in 1959.
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1959 : The dictator Batista, in power since 1952, fled from the rebels led by Fidel Castro. Havana grave. Castro became prime minister and nationalizes American possessions
1960 . USA break diplomatic relations and cease to export to Cuba, which turned to the USSR. The following year, the attempted landing of anti-Castro Bay of Pigs failed
1962 . Washington banned imports from Cuba. This was also the year of the “missile crisis” that the Russians are trying to install Cuba. The tension is at its peak to decline in late October, which the USSR agreed to remove its missiles
1976 : Fidel Castro becomes President
. 1980 Castro authorizes 125,000 Cubans to reach the United States. A new wave of emigration will take place in 1994, large anti-government protests to hit Cuba since the coming to power of Fidel Castro
1992 . Washington toughens sanctions against . Cuba that the implosion of the USSR economically strangle
1993 : the dollar is legal (it will be withdrawn from circulation in 2004) and the regime introduced some liberal economic reforms .
1996 . the US Congress passed a law punishing foreign companies that invest in Cuba
1999 a year after the visit of Pope John Paul II (Pope Benedict XVI will travel to Cuba in 2012), the new President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez decides to supply Cuba with oil. Dissent intensifies; Punishment also
2000 . Washington partially lifts the embargo on food and pharmaceuticals
2003 . l EU freezes diplomatic relations with Cuba after opponents of arrests. In January 2005, they are restored
2006 Castro, sick, transferred his powers to his brother. two years later, Raul Castro became president. He immediately launches a liberal agenda, eliminating the wage egalitarianism and redistribution of land. A year later, Washington eases some sanctions
2010 . Raul Castro, battered by opponents that it continues to repress, admits that “the Cuban model does not work” .dropoff window It announces new liberal measures
2013 . Barack Obama announced in November that he wants to “revise” the relationship with Cuba. While criticizing abuses of human rights
2014 . In May, the president of the US Chamber of Commerce went to Havana and wishes “opening a new chapter. ”
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