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Cuban missile crisis
One of the most serious incidents of the Cold War, the Cuban missile crisis, occurs in October when the U.S. learns that the Soviet Union has secretly installed missiles in Cuba. The Soviet Union agrees to U.S. demands that it remove its missiles and dismantle the remaining missile bases. -
Cuba adopts new constition
wiki1976 Cuba adopts a new constitution that establishes the Communist Party as the leading authority in the government and society. -
the Mariel boatlift
1980 More than 125,000 Cubans move legally to the U.S. This event becomes known as the Mariel boat lift because the refugees leave from the Cuban port of Mariel. -
Cuba loses its most important source of aid
wiki1991 The Soviet Union and its Communist government are dissolved. Cuba loses its most important source of aid, and its economy suffers greatly. -
Cuba institutes economic reforms
1993 Cuba institutes economic reforms that allow some workers to start private businesses. -
U.S.-Cuba immigration
Cuban exile 1994 After another large wave of immigration, Cuba and the U.S. reach animmigration agreement. The U.S. will admit at least 20,000 Cuban immigrants annually. In return, Cuba pledges to do more to prevent illegal departures. -
Visit to Cuba by Pope John Paul II
1998 Pope John Paul II visits Cuba, an historic event because Castro's government outlawed religious freedom in the 1960s. -
Eli?n Gonz?lez
wiki1999 Eli?n Gonz?lez, a six-year-old illegal immigrant, is rescued off the coast of Florida. The event sparks controversy about how the U.S. should handle Cuban exiles; Eli?n is returned to his father in Cuba in 2000. -
Venezuela Accord
Venezuela’s government said it resolved a dispute with Gold Reserve Inc., paving the way for $2 billion of investment by the Spokane, Washington-based company in a mining joint venture. -
Cuban 5 found guilty
Five Cubans were convicted today of conspiring to spy on the United States for the government of Fidel Castro, and the leader of the group faces up to life in prison for his role in a Cuban air force attack that killed four Americans. -
Presidential Handover to Raul Castro
wiki With the 2006–2008 Cuban transfer of presidential duties, the Cuban presidency passed from Fidel Castro to the first vice president, his brother Raúl Castro, following Fidel's operation and recovery from an undisclosed digestive illness believed to be diverticulitis.[1][2][3] Although Raúl Castro exercised the duties of president, Fidel Castro retained the title of President of Cuba, formally the President of the Council of State of Cuba, during this period. -
Alan Gross Arrested
fact check Gross was actually doing work as a subcontractor for a pro-democracy program funded by the U.S. government, work for which Gross was being paid about a half million dollars. Reporting by the Associated Press revealed that Gross was covertly bringing in technology known to be illegal in Cuba — equipment such as satellite phones and a chip that allows Internet use without detection -
Cuba lifts exit visa restrictions
. Under the new policy, residents will be allowed to remain abroad for 24 months, and the time limit can be extended."As part of the work under way to update the current migratory policy and adjust it to the conditions of the present and the foreseeable future, the Cuban government, in exercise of its sovereignty, has decided to eliminate the procedure of the exit visa for travel to the exterior," the statement reads, in part. -
Cuba hosts CELAC Summit
The first has to do with who will not be there. Neither the United States nor Canada is a member of CELAC. Neither will be present at the meeting. CELAC represents an effort by Latin America and the Caribbean to find a common voice and to do so independently of the two “giants of the north.” -
US & Cuba move to restore diplomatic ties
he change in the countries' relations, initially marked by a prisoner swap and Havana's release of a jailed U.S. contractor, prompted some experts to point to better prospects for Cuba’s economy and U.S. relations more broadly in Latin America. But the U.S. trade embargo, which requires congressional approval to be rescinded, is unlikely to be lifted any time soon. -
Cuba removed from terrorism list
The Obama administration on Friday removed Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, a crucial step in President Obama’s push to normalize ties between Washington and Havana. -
The US and Cuba reopen Embassies
After more than a half-century of Cold War estrangement, the United States reopened its six-story embassy in Havana on Monday, and Cuba raised a flag outside its own stately embassy in Washington. FROM OUR ADVERTISERS The resumption of diplomatic relations between the two nations — a historic milestone in the official thaw that President Obama set in motion last year — was the culmination of months of negotiations to overcome decades of enmity. -
commercial flights restored
The United States has officially signed an agreement with Cuba to re-establish scheduled air services between the two countries.
