Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Matsayin rayuwa a cikin shekarun 1970 ya kasance "mai tsananin damuwa" kuma rashin jin daɗi ya kasance. Fidel Castro ya yarda da gazawar manufofin tattalin arziki a cikin jawabin 1970. A cikin 1975, OAS ta ɗaga takunkumin da ta sanya wa Cuba, tare da amincewar ƙasashe membobinta 16, gami da Amurka. Amurka, duk da haka, ta ci gaba da takunkumin nata. A shekarar 1979, Amurka ta yi adawa da kasancewar sojojin Soviet a tsibirin. Sojojin Amurka sun mamaye tsibirin Grenada na Caribbean a shekarar 1983, inda suka kashe kusan ma'aikatan gine-ginen Cuba kusan ashirin da biyu kuma suka kori ragowar sojojin agaji na Cuba daga tsibirin. A lokacin shekarun 1980, Castro ya goyi bayan 'yan tawayen Marxist a Guatemala, El Salvador
da kuma Nicaragua. Cuba a hankali ta janye dakarunta daga Angola a cikin 1989-1991.