Cuba embargo: Quick Facts

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Fidel Castro, standing in an open vehicle and waving, is surrounded by fellow revolutionaries in military uniforms as they arrive in Havana, Cuba, greeted by a cheering crowd.

Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev greet each other warmly with smiles and an embrace, surrounded by several men, at the United Nations in New York in 1960.

John F. Kennedy

Mariel boatlift.

Official portrait of President George W. Bush smiling in a suit and tie, with an American flag in the background.

Hillary Clinton

The Bay of Pigs.

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