ABSTRACT
The tenets of both countries domestic and foreign policies are remarkably similar. The Cuban and the Libyan systems, and their behavior in the international arena, however, are distinguishable from one an other. Broad commonalities have facilitated cooperation of the two states in global activities in the past decade. Castro and Qaddafi's revolutionary internationalism has lead them to become interested in lands remote from their own shores as well as in their own region. Cuba was one of the first countries to recognize the September Revolution that brought Qaddafi to power. During 1973, Libyan-Cuban relations took a turn for the worse. The possibility of establishing diplomatic representation between Tripoli and Havana seemed further away after the Non-Aligned countries gathered in Algiers in September of that year. The following year, 1977, marked a watershed in Cuban-Libyan relations.
