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Break in Cuba relations marked 40 years later
On January 3, 1961, President Eisenhower severed ties with Cuba after Fidel Castro accused the U.S. embassy of spying and demanded staff cuts. Wayne Smith, then 28, recalls the abrupt move as tensions rose, the Bay of Pigs failure followed, and the two nations drifted for decades toward a reopened but limited channel via an interests section.
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