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Abstract

It is said that during the twentieth century more momentous events occurred in the history of mankind than in the previous nineteen centuries; not for nothing did Erick Hobsbawn place so much emphasis on analyzing the transformative processes of what he would call "the short twentieth century"[1]. It is undeniable that it was a short, but at the same time a turbulent period. But if the planet was shaken several times in the 20th century and so far in the 21st century, the island nation of Cuba has felt much more intensely the reverberations of world changes in the last hundred years, which in turn has affected its relationship with itself, as well as its regional and global context. The following lines provide a brief summary of Cuban geopolitics from the period prior to the 1959 Revolution until the resignation of Fidel Castro as president of Cuba in 2008. The purpose is to show how, in spite of the prevailing ideologies at different historical moments and the impact they had on Cuba's relationship with its environment and the world, the island's particular geographic location is the most important factor in the geopolitics of this country since its independence in 1898.

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