Perceptions of Cuba – Canadian and American Policies in Comparative Perspective

Perceptions of CubaCanadian and American Policies in Comparative Perspective\nAuthor(s): Lana Wylie\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442610071, 978-1442610071\nSynopsis\nIn 1976, with the US trade embargo against Cuba underway, Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau visited the island nation, befriended his counterpart, and exclaimed publicly \""Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!\"" During the past half-century of communist rule in Cuba, Canada's policy of engagement with the country has contrasted sharply with the United States' policy of isolation. Based on a series of interviews conducted in Havana, Washington, and Ottawa, Perceptions of Cuba moves beyond traditional economic and political analyses to show that national identities distinct to each country contributed to the formation of their dissimilar foreign policies.\n\n Lana Wylie argues that Canadians and Americans perceive Cuba t.