Cuba Re: Moral Equivalence RE: American Attitudes L3

[John D. Giorgis]

At 12:50 PM 6/1/01 +0200 Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
>I'm not aware of the reason why, or the way how the Russians got into Cuba
but
>the Cubans at the time seemed rather happy with the Partisans (aided by the
>Russians) rumbling in and throwing the Americans out.

Interestingly enough, the very first nation to recognize the government of
Fidel Castro was..... the United States.   In fact, my comparative
constitutionalism professor was dancing in the streets of Havanna the day
Castro came to power.
Castro had made an awful lot of promises, particularly regarding upholding
the Constitution of 1948.   Of course, they all turned out to be lies - but
we did not know that then.

JDG

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