Pedemonte, Rafael <br/><br/>
Castro’s position on the “Chilean path to socialism” and Cuban-Soviet Relations 

 -  2015.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> During the sixties, relations between Cuba and the USSR visibly deteriorated. Fidel Castro supported a revolutionary project that contravened the Principles of Peaceful Coexistence proposed by Moscow. However, from 1967, growing difficulties compelled the Cubans to accept a reevaluation of their foreign policy. In the course of this process, the “institutional path” of popular unity became a major theoretical challenge that reflected new Cuban dispositions. But Fidel Castro’s stay in Chile, in 1971, then Allende’s overthrowing, brought deep disillusionments and encouraged Cubans to make revolutionary commitments beyond Latin America.