Impending Showdown With Communist Cuba Is Decades in the Making
Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock
Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock

Impending Showdown With Communist Cuba Is Decades in the Making

What the long timeline of U.S.–Cuba relations reveals about current dynamics, as tensions ramp up amid daily blackouts, U.S. pressure, and ongoing negotiations.
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In the more than 125 years since the United States helped liberate Cuba from Spanish rule, the relationship between the two countries has shifted from close economic and military ties to ideological hostility, economic sanctions, and isolation.

As Cuba faces one of its most severe crises in decades, questions about the island’s future and the possibility of a U.S.-backed regime change have once again come to the spotlight.