Special Period
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title:
Special Period
text:
The Special Period, officially the Special Period in the Time of Peace, was an extended period of economic crisis in Cuba that began in 1991 primarily due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Comecon. The economic depression of the Special Period was at its most severe in the early to mid-1990s. Things improved towards the end of the decade once Hugo Chávez's Venezuela emerged as Cuba's primary trading partner and diplomatic ally, and especially after the year 2000 once Cuba–Russia rel
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encyclopedia
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Economic crisis in Cuba after the fall of the Soviet Union
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Period
date created:
2005-09-04T07:40:29Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T11:48:19Z
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