The joy of Havana students in December after the announcement of the historic diplomatic rapprochement between their country and the United States. Chanting "Fidel with you, forever," the young marching, hoping for a future that their parents did not know.
In 1959, Castro's revolutionary Fidel Castro at the head, hunt Fulgencio Batista and seized power in Cuba. Tilting in communism, relationships tend immediately to the United States when Fidel Castro launched expropriations of US companies.
Gradually, Washington tenses, and finally decides to overthrow Castro. In 1961, the disastrous episode of the Bay of Pigs. This April 17, 1500 Cuban exiles, opponents of the regime landed on the island. Eisenhower decided by an operation orchestrated by the CIA convinced that there, they will be helped by opponents. But Castro got wind of the operation, and within hours, the matter is settled. 118 dead, 1200 prisoners.
Therefore, Cuba and the United States become enemies.
In February 1962, Kennedy imposed the embargo, still in force today. And in October, is the missile crisis that broke out and lead the world to the brink of nuclear war. The United States discovered the existence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. The Soviet Union agrees to withdraw in exchange for Washington's pledge not to attack Cuba, all under very high voltage.
Divorce is consumed and Havana closer than ever to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
When the USSR collapsed, Cuba, deprived of his protector, must rebuild commercially and diplomatically, but the economic crisis is deep, the standard of living is collapsing.
The rafters, these people trying to cross to risk their lives to the Florida coast multiply. Additional diplomatic thorn between the two countries, the case of Elian Gonzalez, between 1999 and 2000, will be emblematic of this phenomenon.
Relaxation signs had emerged in recent years, until this historic handshake between Obama and Raul Castro in December 2013 in Soweto, at the funeral of Nelson Mandela ... Symbol announced a new era.
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