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It acknowledge that both the military and the Catholic Church could play a progressive role in the struggle for national assertion and reform in Latin America
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US Supported Cuban exiles invaded Cuba and were ill-prepared and Castro beat them.
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US and USSR almost went to nuclear war because of Soviet missiles placed in Cuba
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The government allowed 300,00 people to be boatlifted to Florida
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US offered automatic asylum to all Cubans under this act.
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Cuba and USSR's renewed alliance continued Cuba's trading with the Eastern bloc and opened many diplomatic doors for them.
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Castro's popularity was renewed after this crisis due to his display fo world statesmanship.
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Castro's first visit abroad in several years and it was a diplomatic triumph.
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Castro supported the call for a strategic alliance between Christians and Marxists.
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They joined regional development organizations.
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Third World oil-producing nations pushed up the price of oil and provoked the first major crisis in Western capitalism since the Second World War.
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This agreement began the thaw in US-Cuban relations and was signed between Castro and the Ford administration and continued with secret talks.
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Castro was main spokesperson of the idea that the USSR was an ally of Third World States trying to fight back against US imperialism.
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The coup in Portugal led to end of of European colonies in Africa and the rise of three new nations.
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When the US was defeated in Vietnam, it was a major psychological boost to Third World nationalists.
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SELA was set up by 25 countries including Cuba in an effort to coordinate economic policy and reduce dependency on the US.
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This committee was established in Havana after state visits between Castro and the Prime Ministers of Jamaica, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago.
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OAS voted to lift sanctions against Cuba.
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MPLA appealed to Cuba for military aid and Cuba said yes immediately.
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The agreement called for a provisional tripartite government and the holding of elections and many worried that the MPLA, supported by Castro, would win the majority of the votes.
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With USSR's blessing, Castro visited Ethiopian and Somali leaders to make peace. Cuban troops helped push the Somali army out of the Ogaden.
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Castro warns delegates of the double standards of the United States.
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Cuba was chosen as the host country for the Sixth Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement, with Castro as chairman
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Cuba's official support for the Soviet Intervention wrecked Castro's claim to moral leadership in the Third World. Afghanistan was a founding member of the NAM so Castro's support for the resolution made no sense, but they couldn't ignore the USSR.
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A small group of Cubanc crashed a truck through the gate of the Peruvian Assembly in Havana and a Cuban policeman was killed and the Peruvians offered them asylum and refused to give them up.
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Exodus of 125,000 Cubans to Florida
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The Regan administration brought a new low in US-Cuban relations because Regan tightened the trade embargo on Cuba.
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Cuba tried to help in El Salvador but failed to remove the US backed government army.
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This revived an old anti-colonial spirit. Castro sent support to the junta in Argentina and offered them military aid.
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In 1982, Mexico announced it could no longer maintain his interest payments to Cuba.
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US Marines invaded Granada.
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Regan administration reached an accord with Cuba. The US would offer 20,000 visas a year to would-be Cuban emigrants as long as Cuba received to take back those who the US refused to accept.
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He brought an offer for Regan to lift the embargo and approve a new sugar quota as long as Cuba stopped promoting the Revolution, but things went wrong.
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Peru made a stand against debt repayments and refused to pay back more than 10% of its annual exports.
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By this point, Cuba restored diplomatic relations with most of the continent and and trade and economy was booming.
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This was when the world's stock market crashed.