"“We do not want U.S. dollars to prop up a military monopoly that exploits and abuses the citizens of Cuba,” ...
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How ironic.
That is exactly what the US did.
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The CIA extended military support to Fulgencio Batista after he had overthrown democratic government in Cuba.
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Fidel Castro was one of the defeated candidates who was thus unable to make any further challenge to the Batista government through the electoral process.  That is why the Cuban revolution occurred.
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... because the CIA supported a military monopoly that exploited and abused the citizens of Cuba, and made it impossible to remove that military monopoly by democratic means.
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That is one of the many deeds for which John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles should have been tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The Americans have elected a complete ignoramus.
But I guess we already knew that.