In chapter 8 of Born in Blood and
Fire by John Charles Chasteen, we learned that there was a backlash reaction to
the Cuban Revolution. People who fought for what they believed in where made to
choose and deal with the consequences. As the 26th of July Movement which
the revolutionaries wanted to be called would rise and claim the power of Cuba;
people were shocked throughout the region. However, out of all the countries,
the one that probably most surprised that Batista lost would be the United
States; I believe and we can see what happened when the people were forced out
of the country by the revolutionaries in the movie Dirty Dancing: Havana
Nights. Since, Batista had the backing of the states, I believe that the US did
not take in consideration the will and power of the angry Cuban population. In
the process of Batista removal, the United States really did not want Castro to
rise, so with approval of the executive branch of our government; the US would
invade Cuba to stop Castro and this would know as the Bay of Pigs.
As Castro claimed the presidency
many things happened. First and foremost, Castro blamed the United States for
everything that happened in Cuba when Batista was in charge. To further
humiliation Castro would travel to the states to explain his revolution but was
turned away and this fueled an already intense situation. So as the United
States started to cut-ties with Cuba, Castro would have to look elsewhere for
support.
When finding support for his country
to survive, Castro was able to ally with an enemy of the United States. With
the development of the Organization of American States (OAS) would severely
limit the economy of the country due to the US embargo trade. As the Soviet
Union traded with Cuba over time, the two countries would work together against
a common enemy which is the United States. So in 1961, Cuba would agree to the
placement of Soviet nuclear missiles to aim toward the United States. This
would anger the neighbors, and President John F Kennedy would send the navy to
stop the arrival of such weaponry and this could become known to the American
people as the Cuban Missile
Crisis.
Before Kennedy sent the US Navy to the island of Cuba, he would have extensive correspondents
with military leaders and here is a hyperlink of such conservation. 
Since
our government did not know the directional that the Soviet Union would
take, the navy would surround Cuba to block all entry aspects and ships were
sent to block any Soviet ships that were leaving the Panama Canal; my uncle was
on the first ship that arrived. Although the navy was sent to intercept foreign
imports, President Kennedy was not taking any chances and he started to deploy
the army to the south. American citizens how that if the army was sent to a
place and they made landfall, this would not have been a crisis but a war.
The
Cuban Missile Crisis was one of the last major coos that Cuba and the Soviet
Union would perform together. Over the years, the activity in Cuba was monitored
excessively and the biggest issue that is faced is the domestic portion of the
island, which is the people that flee to have a better life in the United
States. In my previous blog, I touched base on how the borders of Cuba have
opened up— this is ironic though. As the Cuban borders open for safe travel,
the borders on the United States are currently being considered as closed off
to immigrates.
© Mary Costley, February 28, 2015
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