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Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was the elected President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and dictator from 1952 to 1959, before being overthrown as a result of the Cuban Revolution.
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The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored military group on 17 April 1961.
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Cuba was involved with the Cold War because the Soviet Union was providing Cuba with missiles.
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The missile crisis was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba.
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the Bush administration began to make a concerted effort to isolate Cuba from traditionally sympathetic Latin American countries such as Mexico, but Cuba has continued to have diplomatic and trade relations with Latin America.
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Varela Project called for a referendum on basic civil and political liberties and a new electoral law.
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Che Guevara lead the Cuban Revolution.
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The 1994 balsero crisis constituted the most significant wave of Cuban illegal emigrants since the Mariel Boatlift of 1980, when 125,000 left the island.
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Cuba’s economic freedom score is 28.7, making its economy one of the world’s least free. Cuba's Current president is Raul Castro.
