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Cuba

Island country in the Caribbean.

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Also known as
Republic of Cuba
In Cuba
Over time
  1. headed by Fidel Castro (Prime Minister) 16 Feb 1959 – 2 Dec 1976

Cuba lies about 90 miles south of Florida. In 1962 Soviet missiles deployed on the island set off the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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  • Fidel Castro 16 Feb 1959 – 2 Dec 1976 Prime Minister Primary record 1

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Timeline 1 date
  1. 16 Feb 1959 – 2 Dec 1976 Fidel Castro head of Cuba
Proof 4 sources
  1. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume XI: list of persons, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    Castro Ruz, Fidel, Prime Minister of Cuba
  2. The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962 (Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
  3. Speech given by Fidel Castro Ruz at the Plenary Session of the 105th Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Havana, April 5, 2001, Government of the Republic of Cuba, 5 Apr 2001. Primary record Archived copy
    In addition to this, we have endured ten years of a special period, after the collapse of the socialist camp and disintegration of the Soviet Union left us devoid of markets and sources of supplies.
  4. Soviet Deception in the Cuban Missile Crisis, Central Intelligence Agency, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2002. Scholarship & press
    Moscow's surreptitious dispatch of nuclear-capable SS-4 and SS-5 surface-to-surface missiles to Cuba in 1962 upset the strategic balance in an alarming way.
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