https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin Made with a lightning strike of genius en-us 2021-03-04 18:52:08 UTC 2026-03-04 15:54:12 UTC hello@padlet.com alvaropolancotapia https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270749700 Castro nationalized all foreign assets in Cuba, increased taxes on U.S. imports, and reached a trade agreement with the Soviet Union. Dwight D. Eisenhower]]> 2021-03-04 18:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270749700 alvaropolancotapia https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270757288 According to the plan formulated and approved by the Eisenhower administration, President Kennedy deployed a squad of 1,400 Cuban exiles funded by the CIA to overthrow Fidel Castro. The Cuban army defeated the aggressor in three days after putting the aggressor at a disadvantage and exposing the intervention of the United States in several misfortunes. Despite the failure of the invasion, the U.S. government continued to conduct covert operations against Cuba in the following decades.]]> 2021-03-04 18:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270757288 alvaropolancotapia https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270767235 The Kennedy administration imposed an embargo on Cuba and banned all trade. According to the estimates of the Cuban government, Cuba’s economy depends to a large extent on trade with the United States. In the next fifty years, Cuba lost approximately $1.126 trillion.]]> 2021-03-04 18:56:27 UTC https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270767235 alvaropolancotapia https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270776904 Cuba allowed the Soviet Union to build a nuclear missile base on the island. Kennedy demanded the removal of Soviet weapons and ordered a naval quarantine of Cuba. Faced with the threat of nuclear war, the United States negotiated with the Soviet Union through rear channels. If the Soviet Union withdraws its missiles from Cuba, it will obtain nuclear missiles from Turkey within a few months. In July of the following year, Kennedy banned American nationals from going to Cuba.]]> 2021-03-04 18:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270776904 alvaropolancotapia https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270809249 In a speech in September 1965, Castro pointed out that Cubans can travel to the United States freely. He said: “Anyone who wants to go does not need to be invisible.” A few days later, President Lyndon Johnson (Lyndon B. Johnson) announced that it will open the U.S. border to all Cubans and sign an immigration bill giving priority to Cuban immigrants who have family connections with U.S. citizens or residents.]]> 2021-03-04 19:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270809249 alvaropolancotapia https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270850497 Cuba is under tremendous pressure from thousands of Cubans who wish to flee the country because its economy has been plagued by soaring oil prices and the continuing embargo by the United States. Castro said that in the 48-hour tragedy, 10,000 Cubans squeezed in front of the Peruvian embassy to seek asylum. Castro said that anyone who wants to leave Cuba and go to Florida can take the next six Depart from Mariel Harbour within the month.]]> 2021-03-04 19:11:55 UTC https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270850497 alvaropolancotapia https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270859487 President Reagan appointed Cuba as the national sponsor of terrorism and condemned the Castro government for providing support to armed communist groups in African and Latin American countries, including Angola, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. According to a report by the US State Department, Cuba insists that "the acts of a legitimate national liberation movement cannot be defined as terrorism."]]> 2021-03-04 19:13:39 UTC https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270859487 alvaropolancotapia https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270875414 The Cuban government condemned the service as a propaganda in the United States, blocking the new TV station’s broadcasts, and called it a “serious insult” to use the name of the independent hero Jose Marti. Castro has suspended an immigration agreement that allows up to 20,000 Cubans to immigrate to the United States each year and provides for the repatriation of approximately 3,000 Cubans with criminal records or mental illnesses.]]> 2021-03-04 19:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270875414 alvaropolancotapia https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270886083 President George H.W. Bush signed the Cuban Democracy Act, which increased the economic sanctions imposed by the United States on Cuba. This move was made after the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. Bush pointed out that Cuba’s "special relationship with the former Soviet Union has almost ended." The law prohibits ships that have exchanged goods with Cuba in the past 180 days from docking at US ports and prohibits foreign countries. People enter Cuba. Subsidiaries of American companies that trade with Cuba. The legislation also limits the amount of dollars traded with Cuba.]]> 2021-03-04 19:18:36 UTC https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270886083 alvaropolancotapia https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270893405 Havana and Washington have implemented two agreements designed to solve the problem of thousands of Cubans who try to enter the United States every year. It outlines the conditions for legal immigration from Cuba to the United States in the future. The second agreement provides that which Cubans intercepted by the US authorities at sea are sent home, while Cubans who land in the United States are allowed to stay and obtain permanent residency a year later. ]]> 2021-03-04 19:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270893405 alvaropolancotapia https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270902656 Clinton signed the Cuban Freedom and Democracy and Solidarity Act (also known as the Helms-Burton Act), which tightened the US embargo and codified it. A few weeks after the Cuban military shot down two U.S. civilian aircraft in the waters near Florida, the law states that only after Fidel Castro and his brother Raul took office and Cuba has turned to free elections and opposition. Sanctions can be lifted. Freedom of the press and release of political prisoners.]]> 2021-03-04 19:21:58 UTC https://padlet.com/alvaropolancotapia/31kuxgjsu8uuhpin/wish/1270902656