Fidel Alejandro CastroFebruary 1959
US refineries in Cuba refuse to process Cuban oil, they are expropriated, & the US breaks off diplomatic relations with the Castro Government. Cuba signs an agreement to buy oil from the USSR
Cuba · Government / Communist Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
US refineries in Cuba refuse to process Cuban oil, they are expropriated, & the US breaks off diplomatic relations with the Castro Government. Cuba signs an agreement to buy oil from the USSR
A variety of pacts were signed between Castro & Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, allowing Cuba to receive large amounts of economic & military aid
Eisenhower reduces Cuba's sugar import quota by 7,000,000 tons, & in response, Cuba nationalizes $850 million worth of US property & businesses.
The nationalization of private property and businesses to the tune of $25 billion and, particularly, US owned companies (to an excess of 1960 value of US $1. 0 billions arouses immediate hostility within the Eisenhower administration.
US refineries in Cuba refuse to process Cuban oil, they are expropriated, & the US breaks off diplomatic relations with the Castro Government. Cuba signs an agreement to buy oil from the USSR.
Over one million Cubans migrate to the US, forming a vocal anti-Castro community in Miami, Florida
Eisenhower breaks off diplomatic relations with Cuba
In response to the Cuban alignment with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy extended measures by Executive Order, widening the scope of the trade restrictions
The US imposes an embargo against Cuba
After the collapse of the Soviet Union Cuba is left bankrupt & isolated by the disintegration of the Soviet bloc
A new policy by the USA would let millions more dollars flow to Cubans and allow more direct flights, mail service, and trade
Cubans snapped up DVD players, motorbikes and pressure cookers for the first time as Raul Castros new Government loosens controls on consumer goods and invites private farmers to plant tobacco, coffee and other crops on unused state land
New regulations allow thousands of Cubans to get title to state-owned homes, a step that might lay the groundwork for broader housing reform
Lines stretch for blocks outside phone centres as the Government allows ordinary Cubans to sign up for cellular phone service for the first time
A Government spokesman says that South Africa has waived Cuban debt totaling more than 100 million dollars
Cuba announces a major shake-up of its troubled farm sector on May Day, shifting control of the islands farms from officials at the Agriculture Ministry to more than 150 local councils
Computers go on sale to the general public
The EU agrees to lift its 2003 diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, but imposes tough conditions on the communist island to maintain sanction-free relations
President Raul Castro warns Cubans to prepare for a "realistic" brand of communism that is economically viable and does away with excessive state subsidies designed to promote equality on the island
Communist officials decree that private farmers and cooperatives can use up to 100 acres (40 hectares) of idle Government land, as President Raul Castro works to revive the floundering agricultural sector
It is reported that Cuba had notified at least 2 foreign Governments that it could not meet debt payments
Cuba politely declined a US offer to send a disaster assessment team to the island after Hurricane Gustav, saying it would rather Washington suspend restrictions on travel and the sale of food and other materials it needs to recover
Deadly Hurricane Ike roared across Cuba, blowing buildings to rubble and sending waves surging over homes, 900,000 Cubans evacuated from its path, which forecasters said could take it to Louisiana or Texas
Hurricane Ike roared south of Havana, Cuba, after tearing across the island nation, ravaging homes, killing at least four people and forcing 1.2 million to evacuate
President Barack Obama extended the embargo through September 14, 2011, determining that the embargo "is in the national interest of the United States
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