Cuba y la Unión Europea : una perspectiva histórica

Abstract

The article reviews Cuba’s relationships with the main countries of Western Europe after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution and up to the fall of the soviet block. It also explores the Cuban Revolutionary Regime’s relationships with the European Union during the periodo especial, the constant disagreements between the Island and the EU (especially afterthe European block ?s adoption of the “Common Position”), and the repression of dissentby the Castro regime during the so called “black spring”. The paper recounts the currentimpasse in the bilateral relationship, and its prospects for the short and medium term.