This Day in History:
Forty-seven years ago, President Kennedy initiated his famed air and sea blockade of Fidel Castro's Cuba. The United States had failed, by that point, to assassinate the communist leader of the island, had failed to effectively back a CIA led military coup to over throw him and reestablish a regime more favorable to mob led casinos, prostitution, gambling, and illicit drug sales.
In the meantime, Castro was pandering to his people by establish free education and universal health care. And wrecking his economy by providing the free world with an excuse to buy its sugar elsewhere.
Kennedy's actions begat negotiations with Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev for a quid pro quo reduction of nuclear missals. They would pull theirs out of Cuba and the U. S. would take its out of Turkey. Meanwhile Kennedy could look heroic to conservative forces in the U. S. who had been preaching Democratic party leniency on socialists. (Remember the McCarthy witch hunts?)
Forty-seven years ago, President Kennedy initiated his famed air and sea blockade of Fidel Castro's Cuba. The United States had failed, by that point, to assassinate the communist leader of the island, had failed to effectively back a CIA led military coup to over throw him and reestablish a regime more favorable to mob led casinos, prostitution, gambling, and illicit drug sales.
In the meantime, Castro was pandering to his people by establish free education and universal health care. And wrecking his economy by providing the free world with an excuse to buy its sugar elsewhere.
Kennedy's actions begat negotiations with Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev for a quid pro quo reduction of nuclear missals. They would pull theirs out of Cuba and the U. S. would take its out of Turkey. Meanwhile Kennedy could look heroic to conservative forces in the U. S. who had been preaching Democratic party leniency on socialists. (Remember the McCarthy witch hunts?)
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