ABSTRACT
This chapter provides some reasonable short-range projections regarding Cuba's foreign policy. A perennial difficulty for Cuban foreign policy has been the narrow parameters imposed upon it—deliberately or otherwise—by the world's two superpowers. An extremely important aspect of Fidel Castro's foreign policy has been its revolutionary dimension, which has involved extending various kinds of aid to help radical leftists seize or consolidate power in developing nations. To create a dramatic impact, one could portray Cuba's foreign policy as standing today at some sort of "crossroads," with the implication that major modifications may be forthcoming. Cuba's economic growth rate has been remarkably positive during the 1980s. Nicaragua has emerged as the key element in Cuba's efforts to insure a more militant Soviet stance in the maelstrom of Third World politics. The Sandinistas' triumph was, of course, a major factor in Moscow's decision to endorse and embrace the Fidelistas' theory of Latin American revolution.
