Factbox - U.S.-Cuba ties: From revolution and Bay of Pigs to rapprochement


  • World
  • Thursday, 18 Dec 2014

Cuban-American Cassandra Gonzalez (C) poses during the Cuba Nostalgia Festival in Miami, Florida May 16, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

(Reuters) - The United States and Cuba plan to restore diplomatic relations and end more than five decades of fierce animosity that at one point took the world to the edge of nuclear conflict.

Here is a summary of U.S.-Cuba relations since Fidel Castro seized power in a 1959 revolution:

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