United States Relations – Cuba after the presidency of Barack Obama
The Cuban Revolution of 1953-1959 was a revolution against the government of the dictator Fulgencio Batista, whose totalitarian government supported by the United States as an anti-community prevention after World War II, the Cold War and the emergence of the Soviet UnionLike a world power. The revolution was led by the July 26 Movement, a group of young people and intellectuals with nationalist, anti -imperialist and democratic ideals. After and during the revolution, the party covered communist ideals and political, mainly to obtain military and financial support from the Soviet Union, its only possible ally. This caused the country to alienate the other Latin countries, and returned to Cuba in a target for the United States during the Cold War, which led to events such as the invasion of the Bay of pigs and numerous murder attempts to Fidel Castro, the leader of the revolution.
Being one of the last socialist governments after the Cold War, the United States and Cuba have had tensioning relations, including an economic embargo that has lasted decades;But after Raúl Castro assumed the position of president in 2011, the governments of both countries announced that a process of normalization of relations between the countries was going to begin. In recent years, this process has changed what was a confrontation of almost 60 years.
In April 2009, Barack Obama, who had been recently elected in the 2008 presidential elections, began to implement a less strict policy towards Cuba. Obama declared that he was open to dialogue with Cuba, but that he would only lift the commercial embargo if Cuba suffered a political change. This led to a process of talks between delegated officers of the Cuban and North American governments that were placed in Canada and the Vatican, led by Pope Francis, to begin the process of restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries. In October 1960, after the exile of Fulgencio Batist. United States attentive to justify this embargo, saying that until human rights violations in Cuba cease from the government to its citizens, diplomacy is not restored.
In March 2009, President Obama established a law with approval of Congress that alleviated some economic sanctions to Cuba from the embargo and reduced travel restrictions to Americans who wanted to visit Cuba. Moreover, on the part of new policies implemented by the Obama Administration, the restrictions on American trips to Cuba were significantly relaxed since January 2015, and the limited import of articles such as cigarettes such as cigarettes such as cigarettes such as cigarettes such as cigarettes and rum of Cuban origin to theUSA.
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