Cuba country profile. Published. 29 August 2023. Share. close panel. Share page. Copy link. About sharing. This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 29 August 2023.

The country has been hit by a one-two-punch of tighter U.S. sanctions and the Covid-19 pandemic, which eviscerated one of Cuba’s lifelines — the tourism industry.

Cuba's Communist government has survived decades of US sanctions originally intended to topple its first leader Fidel Castro. It also defied predictions that it would not survive the collapse of ...