Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speaking to about 200 people in the Science Center, Matos said American blame for communism in Cuba "is far smaller than many imagine." The economic embargo that the United States enforced after Castro's turn to communism did not create the Cuba crisis, Matos said...
Huber Matos, a dissident Cuban revolutionary leader who spent the last 20 years in Cuban political prisons, said last night that Fidel Castro's "opportunism" prevented the establishment of a democratic government in Cuba...
...Castro chose the path which assured him of eternal control in Cuba. That decision was independent of what the U.S. could have or might have done," Matos said. He added that lifting the economic blockade would have helped Castro by improving Cuban economic conditions and thus strengthening the regime...
...event, economic sanctions have a dismal record of failure. The long U.S. trade embargo against Cuba has hurt the island economy, but Castro has managed to acquire most basics from the Soviet Union and other suppliers. In the mid-1960s, certain Latin American governments turned to Europe for the military weapons the Americans refused to sell them. There is very little that the U.S. sells to Iran that other countries could not supply...
Pierce was neither strong nor vigorous, but he decided to sound that way for the sake of his image. He sent a warship to Nicaragua when a U.S. citizen was assaulted, then was shocked when the ship's captain leveled a village under British protection. Turning to Cuba next, Pierce inspired the Ostend Manifesto, which suggested that if Spain refused to sell the island, the U.S. would be justified in wresting it from Spain "if we possess the power." Spain refused to sell, and Pierce was left with only words. He did nothing...