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Cuba- 1959
Fidel Castro successfully managed to overthrow the Batista's corrupt Cuban government in 1959, replacing the sordid dictatorship with a new left-wing democracy. The Marxist leanings of Castro's government, coupled with the nationalising of American business in Cuba, naturally angered President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who resolved to cripple Castro's revolutionary regime. Eisenhower's first action was to ban Cuban sugar from American markets; however, the Soviet Union bought the sugar instead. The second plan was a tad more crafty, to train anti-Communist Cuban exiles by the CIA for a future invasion. This policy was still in effect when Kennedy replaced Eisenhower in the Oval Office, and the ambitious young democrat continued to support the Cuban ex-patriots in their coming adventure. However, the plan turned out to be an utter disaster: the landing at the Bay of Pigs was disorganised and ill-planned, allowing Castro's forces to easily obliterate the attacking exiles. What's more, most of the Cuban population preferred a government friendly to the Soviets than a return of Batista and his cronies.
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