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- Cuba intervened into numerous conflicts during the Cold War. They sent medical and military aid into foreign countries on various occasions. The interventionist policies of Cuba during the Cold War were controversial and resulted in isolation. Cuban leader Fidel Castro held power to militarily intervene in other countries that he perceived to be ruled by a tyrant or despot. Castro justified intervention into foreign conflicts stating: "Our Revolution is not a revolution of millionaires. Instead, it is one carried out by the poor, and is one which dreams of ensuring the well-being not only of our own poor, but rather of all the poor in this world. And that is why we talk of internationalism." With Soviet backing, Cuba extended support to indigenous groups fighting for independence in Algeria, and in the then-Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique as well as to the governments of newly independent African countries like Benin, Republic of the Congo (then Congo Brazzaville), Egypt, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and Mali. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and facing the economic difficulties during the Special Period, Cuba's methods of military intervention were severely affected. Cuba has instead adopted other methods of intervening in foreign territories. Cuban medical internationalism was a prominent feature of their interventions alongside military aspects. Medical internationalism consisted of four prevailing approaches: emergency response medical teams sent overseas; establishment abroad of public health systems for providing free health care for local residents; taking in foreign patients to Cuba for free treatment; and providing medical training for foreigners, to Cuba and overseas. (en)
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- Cuba
- Panama
- Dominican Republic
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- 1959-04-23 (xsd:date)
- 1959-06-14 (xsd:date)
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- Cuban expedition failed.
- Cuban invasion failed.
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- Cuba (en)
- Dominican Republic (en)
- Panama (en)
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- Fidel Castro (en)
- Rafael Trujillo (en)
- Ernesto de la Guardia (en)
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- 1959-04-23 (xsd:date)
- 1959-06-14 (xsd:date)
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- Cuban expedition failed. (en)
- Cuban invasion failed. (en)
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- unknown (en)
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- Cuba intervened into numerous conflicts during the Cold War. They sent medical and military aid into foreign countries on various occasions. The interventionist policies of Cuba during the Cold War were controversial and resulted in isolation. Cuban leader Fidel Castro held power to militarily intervene in other countries that he perceived to be ruled by a tyrant or despot. Castro justified intervention into foreign conflicts stating: "Our Revolution is not a revolution of millionaires. Instead, it is one carried out by the poor, and is one which dreams of ensuring the well-being not only of our own poor, but rather of all the poor in this world. And that is why we talk of internationalism." (en)
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- Foreign interventions by Cuba (en)
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- 1959 Domincan Republic invasion attempt (en)
- 1959 Panama invasion attempt (en)
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