The Latin American country that remained diplomatically isolated from the United States from the end of the Cold War to the early 2000s was Cuba. The two countries had a strained relationship since the 1960s when Fidel Castro's communist government took power and established a socialist state. The United States imposed a trade embargo on Cuba in 1960, which remains in place to this day, and has also attempted to isolate the country diplomatically. Despite some limited diplomatic efforts in the 1990s, relations between the two countries remained frosty until the Obama administration announced a policy of engagement with Cuba in 2014.