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Cuba: Fidel Castro
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Under the Castros, Cuba is a highly militarized society. From 1975 until the late 1980s, massive Soviet military assistance enabled Cuba to upgrade its military capabilities and project power abroad. The tonnage of Soviet military deliveries to Cuba throughout most of the 1980s exceeded deliveries in any year since the military build-up during the 1962 missile crisis.
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The capital of the province of the same name, Santiago de Cuba is situated in southeastern Cuba. Nestled in a valley of the Sierra Maestra, it holds a strategic location on the northern Caribbean Sea. Following victory by the revolutionary leader Fidel Castro in 1959, the city experienced a rapid growth of population and services over the next two decades.
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Hays pointed out that 40 years of communist misrule and mismanagement of the Cuban economy has wrecked Cuba's agricultural sector and virtually eradicated the Cuban family farm. He said that as a result, Cuba, an exporter of food for 400 years, is now reduced to international begging. "American farmers will now discover what Europeans and Latin Americans have learned the hard way: Cuba is broke and Castro is a deadbeat," he said.
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The JDC ... provides basic commodities, which are scarce in Cuba, such as food and special shipments of items needed for Jewish holidays. Health services and medication is also provided by the JDC, which are distributed through a special pharmacy in Havana. The Castro regime has never stopped U.S. or Canadian Jewish organizations from delivering wheelchairs, school supplies and kosher food to Cuban Jews. Aside from the JDC, B’nai Brith and other international organizations are also providing relief to Cuba’s Jewish community.
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In 1960, President Dwight Eisenhower responded to Fidel Castro's nationalization of the property of U.S. companies by imposing an embargo on Cuba that is still in place. In 1958, Eisenhower banned travel to Cuba. After the Supreme Court ruled that this ban was unconstitutional, Eisenhower banned Americans from spending money in Cuba. That ban, like the embargo, remains in place.
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The economic situation in Cuba became grave. Inflation spiraled as the Cuban peso lost ground against foreign currency. The even distribution of wealth, so fundamental to the revolution’s ideology, was dismantled when Castro allowed Cubans to possess and spend dollars in 1993. People employed in the tourism industry and those who received money from relatives living abroad greatly increased their buying power compared with those with Cuban pesos.
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