The White House and its Machinations in Latin & South Americ

es has had sanctions on Cuba for over forty years, and they still continue. Castro never had outstandingly popular support while he was contending with Batista for rule of Cuba, but once he was securely in office, support for him amongst the Cuban public was substantial. Fidel Castro never really wanted to proclaim himself or his party socialist, and in fact when he first began his movements he and his followers were frequently called "bourgeois." However, Batista eventually saw that Castro's movement had the potential to win, and only then did he begin to attempt to control his opponent.
             Castro needed support from a major power of the world. At the time, the late 1950's, the two most prominent powers in the world were the United States and the United Soviet Socialist Republics. The U. S. would never support Cuban leader, so Castro had to turn to the Soviet Union for support. Unfortunately, at the height of the Cold War the U. S. S. R. needed to resort to placing long-range missiles at strategic locations in Cuba. The Soviet Union only did this because the United States had the Soviet nations completely surrounded with nuclear weaponry. The Soviets' use of Cuba in this manner did nothing to help relations between the nation and the U. S.
             The reasons the U. S. gives for the sanctions on Cuba are usually based on the accusation of Castro's human rights violations. His administrations did not commit any outrageous atrocities against innocent civilians. They would execute and jail, as it is a necessity for any revolutionary movement, after all, revolutionaries jailed those whose loyalties laid with the King abroad during the American Revolutionary War. Castro's officers executed or imprisoned those that were deserving of it; social predators: police officers who would rape and beat prisoners, pimps, drug dealers, corrupt Batista army officials, so on and so forth. However, these executions and arrest...

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