Essay Archive - Cuba, Castro, and the United States
Cuba, Castro, and the United States
How One Man With A Cigar
Dominated American Foreign Policy
In 1959, a rebel, Fidel Castro, overthrew the reign of Fulgencia Batista in Cuba; a small island 90 miles off the Florida coast. There have been many coups and changes of government in the world since then. Few if any have had the effect on Americans and American foreign policy as this one.
In 1952, Sergeant Fulgencia Batista staged a successful bloodless coup in Cuba .
Batista never really had any cooperation and rarely garnered much support. His reign....
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