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![Welcome From Castro A sign on the Miami waterfront invites Americans to visit Cuba in 1960.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cuba-us-relations-photos-01.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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![Cuba May Day Celebration Cubans watch the May Day parade at the Plaza de la Revolucion in Havana on May 1, 1960.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cuba-us-relations-photos-02.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Cuba Land Redistribution Cuban President Fidel Castro, right, delivers the property title of a land to a peasant following agrarian reform in Cuba in 1960.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cuba-us-relations-photos-11.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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