Cuba, a small Caribbean country, caused one of the most important and dangerous episodes throughout the Cold War, and broke the correlation of forces so far by questioning U.S. dominance in their own continent. The Castro movement was born with a nationalist ideology, before the full economic, cultural and political dependence of the country compared to the United States. It was, in principle, totally alien to international tensions between power and bloc politics, which finally ended entering. Once nationalized its economic resources, Cuba began to suffer strong hostility from the Americans, who declared an economic boycott will stop buying their sugar, the main product exports. Similarly, the United States began supporting Cuban political
