Exactly what I taught. If the people taste freedom then they will maybe realize the change their country needs.
A guy at work always says that the US handled wrong during the 50s 60s with Cuba. He said that Cubans love baseball and had the US sent the Yankees then, to raise the spirits of the Cubans then the Castro regime could have been prevented, sort of Pingpong politics they did with China.
Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon all fucked up with Cuba. It was a part of the virulent anti-Communist culture that ran high in the U.S. at the time. The Cold War was at its height in the sixties and it was not policy of the U.S. Government or the CIA to tolerate communism in their own backyard. A hostile nation 90 miles away from you would put anyone on alert. But I agree with the guy you talked to at work. The situation got too nasty and fucked up to deal with effectively.
