Editing Politics of Cuba (section)

== Foreign relations ==

[[File:Vladimir Putin in Cuba 14-17 December 2000-5.jpg|thumb|left|[[Vladimir Putin]] and [[Fidel Castro]] in 2000.]]

{{Main|Foreign relations of Cuba}}

[[Cuba]]'s foreign policy has been scaled back and redirected as a result of [[economy of Cuba|economic hardship]] after the collapse of the [[Soviet bloc]]. Without massive Soviet subsidies and its primary [[trade|trading]] partner Cuba was comparatively isolated in the 1990s, but has since entered bilateral co-operation with several South American countries, most notably [[Venezuela]] and [[Bolivia]]. Cuba has normal diplomatic and economic relations with every country in the Western hemisphere except the United States.<ref>[http://www.lataminfo.org/post/?php=1218 "US Lawmakers Say Normalize Cuba Relations"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903231300/http://www.lataminfo.org/post/?php=1218 |date=2009-09-03 }}, lataminfo.org, April 2009.</ref>
The [[United States]] continues an embargo "so long as [Cuba] continues to refuse to move toward democratization and greater respect for human rights."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://1997-2001.state.gov/www/regions/wha/cuba/democ_act_1992.html|title=Cuban Democracy Act of 1992|publisher=State Department}}</ref>
The [[European Union]] accuses Cuba of [[Human rights in Cuba|"continuing flagrant violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms"]], but also "Reiterates its condemnation of the US embargo on Cuba, and calls for it to be lifted forthwith, as the UN General Assembly has repeatedly demanded."<ref>{{cite web|work=Official Journal of the European Union|date=4 September 2003|url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2004:076E:0384:0386:EN:PDF|title=EU-Cuba relations}}</ref>

Cuba has developed a growing relationship with the [[People's Republic of China]] and [[Russia]]. In all, Cuba continues to have formal relations with 160 nations, and provided civilian assistance workers – principally medical – in more than 20 nations.<ref>[https://2001-2009.state.gov/outofdate/bgn/c/13238.htm Cuba (09/01)] US Department of State report</ref> More than [[Cuban exiles|two million exiles]] have escaped to foreign countries.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pedraza |first1=Silvia |date=September 2007|title=Political Disaffection in Cuba's Revolution and Exodus |url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/315e/9c08d134f324c22b8c33df60901bc7a381d4.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204085722/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/315e/9c08d134f324c22b8c33df60901bc7a381d4.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2021-02-04 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |s2cid=152534369 |access-date=2021-01-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pedraza |first1=Silvia |date=1998|title=Cuba's Revolution and Exodus |url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jii/4750978.0005.204/--cuba-s-revolution-and-exodus?rgn=main;view=fulltext |journal=The Journal of the International Institute |volume=5 |issue=2|access-date=2021-01-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |date=1983 |title=Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session · Parts 1-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MeFJAQAAIAAJ&dq=cuban+exodus&pg=PA532 |publisher=US Government Printing Office |page=532}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Powell |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VNCX6UsdZYkC&q=%22cubans+are+usually+considered+to+be+the+most+successful%22&pg=PA68|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of North American Immigration|pages=68–71|title=Cuban immigration |publisher=Facts on File |date=2005 |access-date=22 December 2024|isbn=9781438110127 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/castro-cuban-exiles-america/ |website=[[PBS]] |title=Cuban Exiles in America |date=2005}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Vicent |first=Mauricio |date=15 December 2022 |title=The Cuban migration crisis: Biggest exodus in history holds key to Havana-Washington relations |url=https://english.elpais.com/international/2022-12-15/the-cuban-migration-crisis-biggest-exodus-in-history-holds-key-to-havana-washington-relations.html |newspaper=[[El País|El País English]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Duany |first=Jorge |date=3 July 2017 |title=Cuban Migration: A Postrevolution Exodus Ebbs and Flows |url=https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/cuban-migration-postrevolution-exodus-ebbs-and-flows |website=[[Migration Policy Institute]]}}</ref> Cuba's present [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Cuba)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] is [[Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla]].

[[File:Todos a votar manana por la constitucion socialista.jpg|thumb|Poster urging citizens to vote to make the socialist system permanent and irrevocable by amending the constitution]]

[[File:Candidatos Elecciones Cuba SCU 2008.JPG|thumb|Candidates of the 2008 elections of the [[National Assembly of People's Power|national]] and provincial parliaments in [[Santiago de Cuba]]]]