Editing François Duvalier (section)

====Cuba====
After Fulgencio Batista (a friend of Duvalier)<ref name="Abbott 1988"/>{{rp|92}} was overthrown in the [[Cuban Revolution]], Duvalier worried that new Cuban leader [[Fidel Castro]] would provide a safe haven for Haitian dissidents.

Duvalier enraged Castro by voting against the country in an [[Organization of American States]]&nbsp;(OAS) meeting and subsequently at the [[United Nations]], where a trade embargo was imposed on Cuba. Cuba answered by breaking off diplomatic relations and Duvalier subsequently instituted a campaign to rid Haiti of communists.<ref name="Štraus">{{citation |mode=cs1 |title=Biographies: François Duvalier (1907–1971) |last=Štraus |first=Stane |website=PolymerNotes.org |url=http://www.polymernotes.org/biographies/HTI_bio_duvalier.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711133408/http://www.polymernotes.org/biographies/HTI_bio_duvalier.htm |archive-date=11 July 2015 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> This move severed [[Cuba-Haiti relations|Haitian relations with Cuba]] for 38 years until the two countries re-established relations in 1997.