AHC: Cuban Collapse

With a POD any time after 1970, make Cuba's communist regime collapse at the behest of an internal revolution.

Bonus points if you can get this done around 1989.
 
In 1991 Castro's regime almost collapsed in the wake of the Soviet Collapse. Say the August 5th protest is dealt with more harshly we could have a anti-Castro revolution on our hands.
 
Have other countries, not just America join in on the Cuban embargo, so that there would be a worse "Special Period" that could lead to the downfall of the Cuban regime. A major factor why the embargo doesn't work in undermining Castro is that no one else cares...in fact other countries have explicitly taken measures to prevent the US from punishing their companies for doing business with Cuba, and have been willing to keep relations with them even under pro-US governments! This is especially the case with Helms-Burton, where the EU threatened to challenge the US at the WTO, and Canada passed the satirical "Godfrey-Milken" bill in retaliation.

Additionally, having other countries join in would make it harder for Cuba to switch their economy from selling sugar to fellow communist states to tourism (especially from Canada and Argentina), which is OTL their major basis for their economy like with other Caribbean states (In fact, Cuba isn't that bad-off by Caribbean country standards in terms of living standards, but from my experience is reminiscent of post-Mao, but pre-reform China, so still fairly poor...).
 
And while in leadership, Fidel was a relatively honest revolutionary. Yes, some dissidents did go to prison, but not near as many as in many revolutions.

So, I could see something developing internally. Maybe something about the same time as perestroika under Gorbachev?
 
Have other countries, not just America join in on the Cuban embargo, so that there would be a worse "Special Period" that could lead to the downfall of the Cuban regime. \

Or...
Have the US have a sane Cuba policy. The rhetoric and embargo PROPPED UP the Castro regime, as they provided a convenient foreign enemy and a convenient excuse for the failure of the communist economic system.
 
Perhaps have Nixon in charge during the missile crisis and have him strangle their economy harder afterward? Get some other countries involved as a poster above said and you can have another revolution once soviet aid disappears
 
If the US started targeting foreign businesses that operate in Cuba like they are with the current sanctions with Iran, Cuba would be in very dire straits. Rather odd that the embargo wasn't setup that way from the start.
 
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