
Perceptions of Cuba
In 1976, with the US trade embargo against Cuba underway, Canada''s Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau visited the island nation, befriended his counterpart, and exclaimed publicly "Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!" During the past half-century of communist rule in Cuba, Canada''s policy of engagement with the country has contrasted sharply with the United States'' policy of isolation. Ba...
In 1976, with the US trade embargo against Cuba underway, Canada''s Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau visited the island nation, befriended his counterpart, and exclaimed publicly "Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!" During the past half-century of communist rule in Cuba, Canada''s policy of engagement with the country has contrasted sharply with the United States'' policy of isolation. Ba...