Entire books can (and have) been written documenting the deep history between Cuba and the United States. Relations between the island nation, just 90 miles from the southern tip of Florida, and its much larger neighbor to the north have been consistently frosty ever since the 1959 Cuban Revolution and the subsequent rule of Fidel Castro.
The country's close proximity and communist politics led the U.S. to implement a trade embargo on the nation in 1962, which has never been lifted. A brief thaw in relations between 2015 and 2017 under then-U.S. President Barack Obama was later reversed during President Donald Trump's first term.
Nearly a decade later, Trump again targeted Cuba, this time by blocking its access to oil. In the wake of the news, we found eight stories from our archives about the Republic of Cuba, its former leader Fidel Castro and its tortuous relationship with the United States.
