• @PugJesusOPM
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    14 days ago

    That was 1960, this is '59. The US government wasn’t quite as hostile against the Cuban government at this time, and Castro was there in '59 for the purpose of drumming up US public support.

    The failures here in '59, in which the US government refused to consider significant compromises with Castro’s plans of nationalization, are arguably what caused Cuba’s current state - isolating Castro and forcing him to turn towards the only other power of note whose influence which could reach and protect Cuba - the USSR.