A United States embargo has prevented U.S. businesses and citizens from conducting trade or commerce with Cuban interests since 1960. Modern diplomatic relations are cold, stemming from historic confl
The National Capitol of Cuba in Havana was built in 1929 and is said to be modeled on the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., 2004
Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Washington, D.C., 1960
Barack Obama and Raúl Castro at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, 2016
A protest against the Cuban government and in support of the U.S. embargo in Naples, Florida, 2021
Cuban thaw
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The Cuban thaw was a normalization of Cuba–United States relations from July 2015 to June 2017, ending a 54-year stretch of hostility between the nations. In March 2016, Barack Obama became the first
United States embargo against Cuba
…for the Soviet Union during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which resulted in the U.S. fully blockading the island. The embargo was loosened during the Cuban thaw from 2015 to 2017, but was tightened sharply again thereafter. The embargo is enforced mainly through the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, the Foreign…
U.S. President Obama meets with Cuban leader Raúl Castro in Panama, 2015
Alan Gross en route to Andrews Air Force Base in the United States on December 17, 2014, aboard a U.S. government plane; Gross was released by the Cuban government in a prisoner swap.
The Flag of Cuba is raised during the official reopening of the Embassy of Cuba in Washington, D.C., on 20 July 2015.
Delta Air Lines Flight 639, the airline's first flight to Cuba in 55 years, arriving at José Martí International Airport