Fentoine Lum
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Hell we still are.
In 1959 Socialist Hero Fidel Castro promised Free Elections within a year
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Hell we still are.
Old Trapper
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Those who suffer from paranoia, and cowardice, are like that. Look at how they fear No. Korea.
Its asinine...In fact, most of the Cold War was.. self inflicted fear mongering. Trump knows the value of having a terrible enemy .. so did Hitler and the Ayatollahs and Bibi Netanyahu.. Its either us or THEM.
Fear is a way of manipulating people.. Don't you just hate it?
Why would I be afraid, you moron? What I don't do is support rogue Marxist regimes that imprison and murder their people. Why do you?
You must hate the Democratic Party of the Jackass then; that's all they have left. They are out of ideas and operate on fear mongering.
Absurdity; the last refuge for ignorance and morons.
I can't imagine a more ignorant or brain dead comments. How old are you; four? STFU, seriously.
Tell that to the thousands who died trying to escape from East Germany to the West fucking moron.
Another painfully moronic commentary.
I can't imagine a more ignorant or brain dead comments. How old are you; four? STFU, seriously.
Tell that to the thousands who died trying to escape from East Germany to the West fucking moron.
Another painfully moronic commentary.
East Germany was NOT a threat to the US, nor was communism. You just like histronics.
Cancel 2019.1
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History 101
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That's my point,we backed Castro to get Batista and the Mafia,out of Cuba,then he double crossed us
That is a bullshit claim; you seem to be quite full of it.
Fentoine Lum
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No, he kicked out US corporations who were extracting Cuba's wealth, that's all.
Fentoine Lum
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Surely you have an empty slogan and a GIF for that.
History of Cuba......
By mid-19th century Cuba provided about a third of the world's sugar, and U.S. investors began to make moves on the island. Soon the sugar industry was under their control.
"From the beginning," wrote Guerra y Sánchez, "the sugar mills were extended protection against foreclosure for debt, an extremely important privilege that was considered an indispensable aid to this new industry.
For the planting of cane, the Havana Cabildo itself ceded lands, within a radius of eight leagues, that had been reserved for growing food crops. Thus, the first sugar mills were set up very close to the municipal limits and were owned by the wealthiest and most influential colonists."
http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/havana/Sugar1.htm
By mid-19th century Cuba provided about a third of the world's sugar, and U.S. investors began to make moves on the island. Soon the sugar industry was under their control.
"From the beginning," wrote Guerra y Sánchez, "the sugar mills were extended protection against foreclosure for debt, an extremely important privilege that was considered an indispensable aid to this new industry.
For the planting of cane, the Havana Cabildo itself ceded lands, within a radius of eight leagues, that had been reserved for growing food crops. Thus, the first sugar mills were set up very close to the municipal limits and were owned by the wealthiest and most influential colonists."
http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/havana/Sugar1.htm
In the United Nations, Cuba began to stand with Communist nations against the U.S.; in Cuba, the ruling regime encouraged anti-U.S. sentiments; in early 1960, the U.S.S.R. instituted a trade-and-aid deal with Cuba; U.S. sugar producers pushed for the nation to stop buying sugar from Cuba; Castro accused the U.S. of sabotaging a ship that blew up in Havana’s harbor.
The details of changes in Cuba and the U.S. reaction to those developments are complicated and often conflicting, but suffice it to say that TIME called that period a “rapidly deteriorating situation that sees Cuban-American relations reach a new low each day.”
Eventually, in late October of 1960, the U.S. imposed a strict embargo barring two-thirds of American imports from Cuba, which before then had been buying a whopping 70% of its imports from the United States.
As the two nations sparred over economics, Ambassador Bonsal was recalled from Cuba, after which point both embassies — Cuba’s in D.C. and America’s in Havana — were left to be headed by chargés, which meant, TIME pointed out, that “diplomacy between the two nations will become as difficult as commerce.”
http://time.com/3637822/cuba-history/
The details of changes in Cuba and the U.S. reaction to those developments are complicated and often conflicting, but suffice it to say that TIME called that period a “rapidly deteriorating situation that sees Cuban-American relations reach a new low each day.”
Eventually, in late October of 1960, the U.S. imposed a strict embargo barring two-thirds of American imports from Cuba, which before then had been buying a whopping 70% of its imports from the United States.
As the two nations sparred over economics, Ambassador Bonsal was recalled from Cuba, after which point both embassies — Cuba’s in D.C. and America’s in Havana — were left to be headed by chargés, which meant, TIME pointed out, that “diplomacy between the two nations will become as difficult as commerce.”
http://time.com/3637822/cuba-history/
We didn't back Castro.......
But without the totalitarian oppressive government of Cuba.
That is why many Cubans, including the father of Ted Cruz, left Cuba. They believed Castro betrayed the revolution by executing perceived enemies, cracking down on any civil liberties, nationalization....
The US backed Batista.
Batista was just one of the many US right wing sponsored dictators throughout Latin America and the rest of the world. The reason for this is that the US needed someone in power in those countries that would prevent any communist takeover, and to effectively neutralize any communist or socialist movement in said countries.
Cuba was America's playground.