The Cuban Revolution (1959-2009) : Relations with Spain, the European Union, and the United States

according to the timely circumstances. At the personal level, as is customary, but this time most sincerely, I must recognize the infinite paciencia of my wife and children for not reacting to my absences of mind and attention by starting a Spanish-American War II and a parallel Miami Revolution. Fifty years after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution and the establishment of a Marxist-Leninist regime in Cuba, the two fundamental dimensions of this historical phenomenon are the survival of the system created by Fidel Castro and the policy of the United States to terminate it. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Spain and Cuba....Pages 1-33 Washington, Havana, Brussels....Pages 35-58 Brussels and Havana....Pages 59-90 Post-Franco Spain and Cuba....Pages 91-128 Waiting for Fidel and Raúl....Pages 129-164 Conclusion....Pages 165-173 Back Matter....Pages 175-220