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Revolution, secret plots and a nuclear standoff: How Cuba and the US fell out - BBC World Service
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12:31Now PlayingPresident Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested the US could “take” Cuba by force.
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These comments have further strained the US and Cuba’s already tense relationship. Here’s how, over more than 100 years, the two neighbours grew apart.
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