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Why did the US fail to prevent the spread of communism to Cuba?

There is the argument that the US did prevent the spread of communism to Cuba, but through American policy and paranoia they pushed a nationalist leader, with no intention of communism or even socialism into the opening arms of a Communist government.
In 1889, the USA first became involved in Cuba; by helping to overthrow their ‘old world colonial masters’, Spain. Cuba then became all but an American colony, even with an amendment in its constitution stating that the US government had the right to intervene in Cuban affairs; this was though to be repealed in 1934. Batista came to direct power in 1933, yet he was a puppet of his American masters, his regime got more and more despised within Cuba. Castro was to first raise the revolutionary standard in Havana on January 8 1959, a week after Batista had fled the country.
1960 saw the visit of Premier Mikoyan to Cuba, Castro signed a trade agreement with him in order that he could start to improve the economy, to do this ...

Posted by: Asare Mabel

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