CIA Beach Party: The Bay of Pigs By: Lee Mcginnis [pic] The United States Central Intelligence Agency spent its first two decades dealing with Communist incursions into western spheres of power in the same way: over throwing foreign governments from within. This response was the US golden standard until the CIA decided to try this against the great white whale of Communism in the western hemisphere: Castro’s Cuba. This doomed to fail from the start plan was executed in a series of errors that led several hundred Cuban exiles to slaughter against Cuba’s Military and bring the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon and signal a falling out of favor of the CIA among American government for the next twenty years until the Soviet
How damaging was the Bay of Pigs for Kennedy’s presidency? First of all one should know what the Bay of Pigs was. The Bay of Pigs was an action the United States took; they invaded Cuba willing to overthrow Cuba’s dictator, Fidel Castro and his government. The attack was made 3 months after Kennedy became President. Cuba defeated the US in 3 days, they knew that the US was going to invade them and they got ready for it.
Then in 1930 Trujillo ran against Horocio Vasquez for presidency, and fraudulently claimed ninety five percent of the votes. Once he was placed in power in 1931, he used The National Guard to terrorize and banished all civilian opponents (persons who were against him). Although the was a dictator, the also made some good changes to the country like, an increases on exports , the abolition of the 1905 treaty which gave the U.S control of the Dominican custom houses, and also, by 1947 the
Q.4. “the Cuban Missile Crisis was never likely to develop into full-scale nuclear war” Do you agree with this statement? In 1959, a rebel of America named Fidel Castro took power in Cuba. The Americans stopped any business with Cuba because of their corrupt and right-wing military dictatorship. Castro was forced to look to the USSR for help.
In “The Transformation of Maria Fernandez” author Anita DiPasquale describes, how a war in Nicaragua between the Sandinistas and the Contras affected Maria Fernandez life. When Anastasio Somoza Garcia had himself elected president of Nicaragua, all three Somozas ran the countries affairs to benefit themselves and against the interest of their citizens. Life for the Nicaraguan citizens was harsh, they suffered from poverty. When the people finally realized that life wasn’t going to get any better, they decided to turn to their only other option, the communist Sandinista government. When the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime in 1979, they became the government of Nicaragua.
The Cuban Embargo The Cuban Embargo began in 1959 by JFK while Cuba became communist. The reign of Castro put Cuba into a downward spiral which made once a beautiful country into a poor power abused piece of land. As Cuba separated itself from America we in the long run lost a good deal of close resources which equals money. I chose each book because they both show how both the embargo came into play and how we I have been effected along with what we've done with Cuba since. The difference between these books and many other is that it will give you more then just one example or point of view for the topic.
Chile 1973 Salvadore Allende was elected President of Chile in 1970 and ran a socialist government. President Nixon fear that Chile could possibly became another Cuba which followed the Soviet example of Communism. The United States cut off most foreign aid to Chile and supported Allende’s opponents during his presidency. Nixon wanted a coupe by any means necessary to overthrow the Marxist government of Allende. Nixon was quoted in de-classified CIA documents as saying “make their economy scream (in Chile to) prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him.” The United States main goal was to get rid of the Marxist government and they had two approaches.
In the bloody Cuban instigated war the Sandinistas demolished the well U.S. trained army of Nicaragua’s Dictator Anastasio Somoza. Somoza’s downtown bunker was the location of the final assault on
Kennedy allowed the CIA to topple the Cuban government. Kennedy authorised an attack on Cuba. The aim was to overthrow Castro’s reign and obtain a more pro-American government. The attack was a disaster and most of the invaders were killed or taken prisoner. When Kennedy realised the failure of the expedition he refused to make air support available to the invaders.
U.S. trained Cuban insurgents were to invade Cuba and instigate an uprising among the Cuban people in hopes of removing Castro from power. On April 17, 1961, Kennedy ordered the previously planned invasion of Cuba to proceed. With support from the CIA, in what is known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1,500 U.S. trained Cuban exiles, called “Brigade 2506,” returned to the island in the hope of deposing Castro. However, Kennedy ordered the invasion to take place without U.S. Air support. By April 19, 1961, the Cuban government had captured or killed the invading exiles, and Kennedy was forced to negotiate for the release of the 1,189 survivors.