Cuba was a fragile republic.
 Five years later, an agreement between the United States and Cuba, popularly called the "Cuban thaw", brokered in part by Canada and Pope Francis, began the process of restoring international relations between the two countries
Cuba ( (listen) KEW-b, Spanish: [kua] (listen)), officially the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: Repblica de Cuba [repulika e kua] (listen)), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos

