The worst prisoners are sent to Guantanamo bay to work there usually decade long sentences
the Mariel boatlift
Fidel Castro gained power in 1952 and over the course of his entire leadership the U.S. tried and failed to assassinate him
America exports goods to cuba for the first time in 40 years
The Spanish–American War was an armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence
cuban missile crisis
More than 125,000 Cubans move legally to the U.S most of which were doctors and eduacted people which angered Castro
for the first time in 4 decades, America exports goods to Cuba to help them cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Michelle
The soviet union puts secret missile sites all over Cuba. The U.S. urges the Soviet Union to dismantle them