The Cuban Crisis

In the end of the 1980s, 85% Of Cuba’s total foreign trades have been accounted by the Soviet Union and Eastern European bloc. About 70% of this was meant for the Soviet Union. The year of 1989 was very important for the Cubans; it was the year of the collapse of the Soviet Union. This year was very important, because it was an end to the economic subsidies and trade agreements between Cuba and the Soviet Union. Without the Soviet Union present in the Cuban economy, many state enterprises were closed.
In 1990 the government imposed a program called ‘Special period in time of peace’. In this period, the imports dropped 75% and the deficit rose to 33%. In order to earn foreign exchange, the Cuban government started a plan of establishing partnerships
In this period, in order to gain hard currency, the state made a plan of dividing the hotels for tourists separated from the ones for Cubans. To further isolate international tourism from Cuban society, tourism was to be promoted in areas where, as much as possible, tourists would be separated from Cuban society. The growing dichotomy was not lost on the average Cuban citizen, and the government tourism policy soon began to be referred to as ‘tourism apartheid.’ But the official policy did not succeed in immunizing society from the ‘evils’ of international tourism. On 12th of July 1992, an hour-long speech to the National Assembly of the People's Government, Castro spent much of his time trying to explain the superficially incompatible need for one of the world's last forceful Marxist regimes to explain the importance and need for the foreign currency. With this speech, he asked the nation to accept the lack of access to tourist centers, which he said was not a short-term measure. "We have to maintain this for as long as the country has a need for foreign currency and does not have other means of acquiring it," Fidel Castro said. "We are not committing any indignity, any injustice, and any discrimination. We should not let the lies of our enemies; the campaigns of our enemies
I experienced this with one of my contacts, who was supposed to meet me in the lobby of the hotel, but was stopped by the security with the question why was he entering the hotel. I noticed that something was going on, so after my confirmation that this person was with me, he