Cuba Relations and the United States: Cuban isolation
The relations between the United States and Cubto overcome the colonial era. At the time in which the United States becomes an independent nation with the signing of the Treaty of Paris or Treaty of Versailles on September 3, 1783 between Great Britain and the United States that ended the United States War of Independence (thisGuerra had been the result of the desires for representation in the British Parliament by the American colonies.
Given the passivity of the English government, the declaration of independence is signed on July 4, 1776 which was led to put events such as Boston Tea Mutiny. The revolution broke out at war in 1775) and while the Spanish domain over Cuba was maintained, the United States opposed the existence of an independent tub and even intervened in the war of independence of 1898 with the aim of preventing CubaIndependence and established certain control systems that in many places in Cuba remained until 1959. In this context, Cuba produces the triumph of a revolution that meant the installation of a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship. Until this historical moment, there had never been a cooperation relationship between these countries which has generated numerous situations of tension and distancing.
Now that we see that the tensions between Cuba and the United States are not the result of one night and that they even have their origin in another century we do not talk about a breakdown of relations until the period of the cold war. It will be then when the hostile acts of which we talked before, including the following: on April 17, 1961, the president of the United States Kennedy tries to invade the island with the aim of defeating the revolutionary government despite this attempt wasFrustrated by Cuba at 72 hours which meant a great defeat for the United States since the Cuban government imprisoned more than 1200 combatants of the opposite side;In January of 62 the United States suspends Cuba’s participation in the OAS isolating it from the continent and will not be until 2009 when the US is forced to accept the reversal of this act in the General Assembly of the OAS;This same year (in 62), also apart from the implementation of economic sanctions against Cuba promoted by Kennedy, the "missile crisis" or the "October crisis" will take place.
The isolation of Cuba made his government seek support outside the continent and found it in the USSR. This support caused the arrival of ships from the USSR to the Cuban coasts, when EE. UU. He realized thanks to spy flights decided to establish a naval block against Cuba. This absence of diplomatic relations would harm both countries forcing, for example,. UU. To negotiate through third parties a migratory agreement in 1965 and in 1971 President Nixon was also obliged to sign through third parties an anti -crushing acurus of air ships.
With the arrival of Gerald Ford in 1974. UU. It will come to vote together with the rest of the OAS countries the elimination of not only economic sanctions but also diplomatic that had been imposed on Cuba, however, this attempt to normalize will be frustrated by the military intervention of Cuba in Central America andAfrica. With the victory of President Jimmy Carter in 1977 he will propose that sections or offices of interest in the capitals of both countries are established, that is, in Washington and Havana. At this time (the solution to concrete problems between countries will be sought such as delimiting the border between the exclusive economic zones of both states after the approval of the convent.
The creation of the sections of interest was the greatest moment of splendor of relations between these countries throughout the twentieth century, however, the aforementioned military intervention of Cuba and other events such as the discovery of the existence of a brigadeIsland was the return to the tension relationship between the two countries. It was so that when Ronald Reagan Lega to the White House in 1981 raised a naval block to Cuba and a possible occupation of the same nevertheless, he ended up only imposing new sanctions on the island for apology for violence in countrieswhere he intervened militarily and incorporated Cuba into a list of states that sponsored terrorism.
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