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The CIA had spent a lot of time and money installing and arming the Batista regime, a murderous, brutal but pliant Mafia-backed kleptocracy in Cuba, and were ab
by grabcocque 11y ago
The CIA had spent a lot of time and money installing and arming the Batista regime, a murderous, brutal but pliant Mafia-backed kleptocracy in Cuba, and were absolutely furious when it was suddenly taken away from them.
The US has basically been sulking ever since.
- flanbiscuit 11y agoAnd to add to that, the Cubans who fled during and right after the revolution started a Cuban-American Lobby that has been able to continually influence the hard stance our government has taken on them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban-American_lobby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban-American_lobby