Cuba by Isabella Marengo

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Cuba

Cuba Today

Cuban people want to be able to return in freedom.

Cuban exiles hope for better relationships between Cuba and the U.S.

Fidel Castro has allowed people to travel and private ownership of some businesses in Cuba.

Before Communism

Rebel groups wanted to remove the corrupt dictators.

Sugar planters and hotel owners made a lot of money but farm and factory workers earned low wages.

Cuba was one of the richest countries in the Caribbean.

The Exiles

Some formed in Miami the Cuban neighborhood called Little Havana.

Many were tired of the limits on freedom and lack of opportunity.

Cubans left their country and family behind.

Cuba and the Soviet Union

This relationship started the Cold War between Cuba and the U.S..

The Soviets sent supplies because they wanted to spread communism around the world.

Cuba became an ally of the Sovet Union.

As a communist country

Fidel Castro has been Cuba´s only communist president since 1959.

Anyone who disagreed with the government´s policies was put in jail.

All Cuban businesses belonged to the government.

Location

Cuba is only 90 miles south from the coast of Florida.

It is located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

Cuba, the largest island in the Caribbean, is part of Latin America.