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See What Cuba Looked Like When U.S. Agriculture Officials Last Visited

A sign on the Miami waterfront invites Americans to visit Cuba in 1960.
A sign on the Miami waterfront invites Americans to visit Cuba in 1960.Graf/Getty Images
Baseball players in action during the first baseball championship in Havana in 1960.
Baseball players in action during the first baseball championship in Havana in 1960. Liborio Noval/Prensa Latina/AP
Cubans watch the May Day parade at the Plaza de la Revolucion in Havana on May 1, 1960.
Cubans watch the May Day parade at the Plaza de la Revolucion in Havana on May 1, 1960. Prensa Latina—AP
Cuban President Fidel Castro, right, delivers the property title of a land to a peasant following agrarian reform in Cuba in 1960.
Cuban President Fidel Castro, right, delivers the property title of a land to a peasant following agrarian reform in Cuba in 1960. Prensa Latina/AP
Cuba People
Women work at the Mariana Grajales brigade in Sierra Maestra, Cuba on July 26, 1960. Prensa Latina/AP
Cuba Education
A boy teaches a man to write during a literacy campaign in Cuba in 1961.Prensa Latina/AP
Cuba May Day Celebration
Young Cubans perform a dance during the International Workers' Day celebrations in the Plaza de la Revolucion in Havana on May 1, 1961. Prensa Latina/AP
Cuba People
People attend a meeting at the National Institute for Agrarian Reform in Havana in January 1961.Freddy Morales—Prensa Latina/AP
Cuba US Embassy
Cubans queue outside the U.S. embassy in hopes of obtaining visas after President Fidel Castro ordered the embassy to reduce its staff in Havana on Jan. 3, 1961. After the diplomatic break in 1961, Washington was without a presence in Cuba until 1977.AP
Tanks pass in a military parade on the second anniversary of the Cuban Revolution at Plaza Marti in Havana on Jan. 1961.
Tanks pass in a military parade on the second anniversary of the Cuban Revolution at Plaza Marti in Havana in January 1961. Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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