Cuba y la unión soviética en el movimiento de países no alineados

This paper investigates a particular moment in Cuban-Soviet relations: Cuba’s participation in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). It demonstrates empirically, that is, with documents from the Cuban Ministry of Exterior Relations, that both states coordinated closely along each ones national interests to obtain mutual benefits from their engaging the Movement (NAM). The research shows the way Cuba assumed Soviet positions and ideas, as well as the recommendations and directives it received from Moscow. It is hoped to contribute to the discussion on the degree of autonomy of Havana’s foreign policy in relation to the Soviet hegemony.