HISTORY 166B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cuban Missile Crisis, Che Guevara
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Castro and guevara marched and declared the liberation of havana. The 26th movement what they called themselves. He went to exile in the dominican republican. There was a lot of support for the cuban revolution world wide even the us acknowledged batista no longer served their purpose. He was received by blacks and latinos and they threw him parades and what not. Tensions with the usa then rose over the agrarian reform. Us companies owned half of all land that cultivated sugar. Begins to buy oil from the soviet union came as crude oil therefore they were dependent on us refineries the usa refuses to refine the oil cuba expropriates land and there is a trade embargo. Cia coup fails because of lack of popularity yankee imperialism was not welcomed. Cuba would become completely isolated from the us. Cuba will become more and more dependent on the soviet union.