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Maria Robles
Maria Elena Batista Robles(born August 4, 1963) is a American artist better known for her Neo Abstract paintings and drawing style.

Early life
Robles was born native CubaHolguín, Cuba, She began her career in her studies of fine arts at the Union College in New Jersey, and in 2002 was awarded a Special County Prize for Painting. In 1999 she began the NEO abstract way in the small section of a town Varios de Italiano or also know as Peter's Town in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Robles as a child was fortunate to leave communist Cuba with her mother, father and two younger siblings in the 1970's while the country.

Relations with the United States
The Cuban Revolution was a crucial turning point in U.S.-Cuban relations. Although the United States government was initially willing to recognize Castro's new government, it soon came to fear that Communist insurgencies would spread through the nations of Latin America, as they had in Southeast Asia. Meanwhile, Castro's government resented the Americans for providing aid to Batista's government during the revolution. After the revolutionary government nationalized all U.S. property in Cuba in August 1960, the American Eisenhower administration froze all Cuban assets on American soil, severed diplomatic ties and tightened its embargo of Cuba. The Key West–Havana ferry shut down. In 1961, the U.S. government launched the Bay of Pigs Invasion, in which Brigade 2506 (a CIA-trained force of 1,500 soldiers, mostly Cuban exiles) landed on a mission to oust Castro; the attempt to overthrow Castro failed, with the invasion being repulsed by the Cuban military. The U.S. embargo against Cuba is still in force as of 2020, although it underwent a partial loosening during the Obama Administration, only to be strengthened in 2017 under Trump. The U.S. began efforts to normalize relations with Cuba in the mid-2010s, and formally reopened its embassy in Havana after over half a century in August 2015. The Trump administration reversed much of the Cuban Thaw by severely restricting travel by US citizens to Cuba and tightening the US government's embargo against the country.