A Panda and a Bear in the Caribbean

... small island country into a militarily strong power with, perhaps, the best army in Latin America in the early 1990s. Now, after nearly a quarter century, the combat equipment... ... trading with Cuba, is a vivid illustration of this. Against this backdrop, selling arms to Havana openly was very risky. We can only guess how the Cuban authorities skirted... ... in view of the incident with the North Korean vessel in the summer of 2013 and accusations of China sending secret arms shipments to Havana sparked by the rumor that...