ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the profound impact the Cuban Revolution had on Uruguay's political and social processes, as well as on Uruguay's international relations, from the revolutionary victory of 1959 until 1964, when its government finally decided to sever relations with the Caribbean island, complying with both the obligations of the inter-American system and, above all, the pressures of its closest neighbors, especially Brazil, whose coup that year hastened Uruguay's rupture with Cuba. Although this study is part of a broader multi-archival investigation that incorporates documentation from several Latin American countries, the chapter mainly presents a set of primary sources consulted in the archive of Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a dimension that has thus far not been covered in the Uruguayan historiography concerning the history of international relations during the Latin American Cold War.
