Cuban Embargo Begins: U.S. Isolates Castro
The United States slams a total embargo on all Cuban trade, instantly severing decades of commercial ties between the two neighbors. This decisive move hardens the Cold War front in the Caribbean, driving Cuba deeper into Soviet economic dependence while isolating Washington from its own hemisphere's largest sugar supplier.
February 7, 1962
64 years ago
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