Castro and Cuba

Author: Angluo Trenanto
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: The people of Cuba are heroic people, and the Republic of Cuba is a great nation. For decades, the 11 million people of Cuba, under the leadership of President Castro and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, have united as one, standing firm against oppression and fearless of any difficulties, engaging in heroic and tenacious struggles to defend national independence, sovereignty, and national dignity, as well as to uphold and improve socialism; they have made unremitting efforts to maintain world peace and stability and to consolidate and develop the friendship between Cuba and China; in the noble cause of revitalizing Cuba, they have been independent, self-reliant, hardworking, and resilient, using their wisdom and labor to achieve remarkable accomplishments that have attracted worldwide attention. A concise history of Cuba records important events since its independence: Castro's choice of socialism; the 1962 missile crisis; Che Guevara's internationalism; Havana's distinctive foreign policy; the adoption of the Soviet model and its impact on Cuban social and economic life; the types of people's committees; Cuba after the fall of the Berlin Wall and its break with Moscow; the long-standing economic embargo and the difficulties caused by the United States' long-standing hostility toward Cuba.