 Ramba uchiverenga ndima iyi - Sezvo kutengeserana kwakanaka neEastern Bloc kwakanga kwapera, Castro akazivisa pachena kuti Cuba yakanga ichipinda muNguva Inokosha muNguva Yorugare. Zvokudya zvepeturu zvakaderedzwa zvikuru, mabhasikoro echiChina akatengwa kuti atsive motokari, uye mafekitari aiita mabasa asiri anokosha akavharwa. Nzombe dzakatanga kutsiva matarakita, huni dzakatanga kushandiswa pakubika uye magetsi akavharwa kwemaawa 16 pazuva. Castro akabvuma kuti Cuba yakatarisana nemamiriro ezvinhu akaipisisa kunze kwehondo yakazaruka, uye kuti nyika ingatofanira kushandisa kurima kwekurarama. Pakazosvika 1992, upfumi hweCuba hwakanga hwaderera nezvikamu zvinopfuura 40 mumakore asingasviki maviri, nokushomeka kukuru kwezvokudya, kushaya zvokudya zvinovaka muviri kwakapararira uye kushayikwa kwezvinhu zvinokosha. Castro aitarisira kudzorerwa kweMarxism-Leninism muUSSR, asi akaramba kutsigira kudengenyeka kwe1991 munyika iyoyo. Apo Gorbachev akadzorera kudzora, ukama hweCuba neSoviet hwakakanganisikazve uye mauto eSoviet akabviswa muna September 1991. Muna December, Soviet Union yakaparara zviri pamutemo sezvo Boris Yeltsin akabvisa Communist Party yeSoviet Union ndokuunza hurumende yezvematongerwe enyika ine mapato akawanda. Yeltsin akazvidza Castro ndokuumba ukama neCuban American National Foundation yaiva muMiami. Castro akaedza kuvandudza ukama nemarudzi anodzvinyirira. Akagamuchira vezvematongerwe enyika vokumadokero nevatengesi kuCuba, akaita ushamwari naManuel Fraga uye akafarira zvikuru mitemo yaMargaret Thatcher muUK, achitenda kuti socialism yeCuba inogona kudzidza kubva pakusimbisa kwake mutero wakaderera uye kutanga kwega. Akarega kutsigira varwi vokunze, akarega kurumbidza FARC pakushanya kwake kuColombia muna 1994 uye akadaidzira kuti pave nekugadziriswa kwekutaurirana pakati peZapatistas nehurumende yeMexico muna 1995. Pachena, akazvizivisa amene somunhu ane mwero munhandare yenyika. 