The shortest route from Cuba to the U.S. is 90 miles. But that’s across the Florida Straits, and Liset Barrios gets nervous on a boat. So on May 13, she boards Copa Airlines Flight 295 ...

Economically, Cuba was just about managing. Despite the US economic blockade and inept collectivisation by the late Che Guevara, Moscow ensured that its ideological soulmate kept afloat.

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Cuba has been under American sanctions for decades, and during the time of the USSR, which Russia is the legal successor of, military ships were sent to Cuba to deploy nuclear weapons to the island.