To say who makes Americans gnash their teeth the most, Castro is definitely number one
The United States now thinks every day about going to other countries to stir up trouble, to the backyards of other countries to make some dark winds, and to light a little ghost fire
But in fact, the Americans' own backyard is not strong, and they do not need others to fan the flames, and now Cuba is still a very headache for the United States
Cuba is an island country in the Caribbean Sea, less than 100 nautical miles from the nearest point of the United States, the Americans have been running amok for hundreds of years, Americans all over the world have gone to war, but for this small nail on the doorstep, the Americans have not been able to pull it out
In fact, at the beginning of the 20th century, Cuba still listened to the Americans
Since 1902, the United States has directly attacked Cuba more than three times, and each time, the Cubans have been beaten to death, each time it is a loss of power and humiliation of the country, and in the end, even the economic lifeline of the country has been in the hands of the Americans
Things changed, that was in 1959
That year, the Cuban Revolutionary Party staged a coup d'état, won power throughout the country, and Castro officially entered the stage of Cuban military history
At the beginning, the mentality of the Americans was still stable, and for them, they did not care about the change of power in a small country, as long as the country was still filial to the United States
But then the Americans found out that something was not right, because Castro did not seem to be "filial at all"
Castro was a staunch socialist revolutionary, and his first revolutionary object was his father, who not only organized the workers in his family to go on strike since he was a child, but also directly distributed thousands of hectares of his family's land to the family farmer when he became an adult
Castro's righteousness and boldness earned him universal support among the Cuban people, and in January 1959, Castro led the oppressed Cuban people to defeat the former U.S.-backed puppets of the former government and effectively take power in Cuba
When Catero came to power, he carried forward the ideas of his childhood, and the first thing he did was to carry out land reform in Cuba, in his own words, to distribute fertile land to the poor
Who is the largest landowner in Cuba? Believe it or not, it's not Cubans, it's the United Fruit of the United States
The United States regards Cuba as its own territory, and United Fruit occupies most of the land here, which is used to produce sugar for the United States mainland. Cuban residents are forced to work as permanent labourers
As soon as Castro took office, the Americans felt that something was not right, and sure enough, within a few days, the US government received a solemn protest from the United Fruit Company
Cuba rebelled, and the land of the Great United States of America was taken away by a man surnamed Card
This has greatly hurt the self-esteem of Americans, and you dare to confiscate my property in a small country?
Therefore, the United States decided to immediately sanction Cuba and give Castro a little color
Who would have thought. Castro quickly threw himself into the arms of Khrushchev thousands of miles away, the United States did not give Cuba, Cuba asked the Soviet Union for anything, even nuclear missiles, the Soviet Union was willing to give Cuba, of course, the Americans did not want to do this, and in the end it did not succeed
With the blood transfusion of the Soviets and the US sanctions for more than ten years, Cuba is still alive and well, and the discrimination of the Americans has forced Cuba to become the only socialist country in the United States
When the Americans saw that this trick would not work, they planned to do it directly
In the international community, war must still be fought in a name, and guns cannot be danced and played with sticks at every turn
Americans, in particular, also consider themselves gentlemen, of course, hypocrites are more suitable for them
The post-war order after World War II stipulates that the internal affairs of a sovereign country do not allow other countries to be infringed upon; this is a policy formulated by the Americans themselves, and they cannot be slapped in the face
But how many thieves Americans are, and the countermeasures are all thought up by people
The general model adopted by Americans to intervene in other countries is to support a group of opponents in the country being interfered with, and when the opposition fights the government army, it is generally impossible to win, so they can participate in the civil war in that country at the request of the opposition
It just so happened that Castro's reforms led to the exile of a large number of Cuba's original bourgeoisie, and the Americans gathered these Cubans and wanted to use them as the main force of the opposition
In 1960, the CIA secretly organized Castro's opponents and formed a Cuban brigade
I originally wanted to carry out a surprise attack, but within a few days, the matter of the Cuban brigade was known to the whole world
The reason is that these Cuban members spend all day in Florida drinking and drinking too much, and they can't keep their mouths, screaming every day that they want to fight back to their hometown in Cuba and capture Castro alive
How can such an army be pulled onto the battlefield?
But the CIA has already taken taxpayers' money, and if it doesn't work, how can it?
So, one night in April 1961, the unit was pulled to Cuba
And then. There is no then
That night, this unit was captured alive by Catero, and none of them shot at all, known as the Bay of Pigs incident
Fortunately, there were no guns, otherwise these people's lives would have been reimbursed
The coup plan did not succeed, some of his own soldiers were captured by the Cubans, and Kennedy died of a headache
Because some members of the Cuban Brigade have families and businesses in the United States, the United States Government has to find a way to retrieve them
How to fish? Take the money for it!
As a result, the Bay of Pigs incident became the first humiliating event in the history of the United States to lose a war and pay reparations
How to say it? It is not very hurtful and extremely insulting
Cuba has thus gained decades of stable international environment, while the United States has been stuck in this bone for decades
A capitalist boss, allowing the red flag of socialism to fly in his back garden, is a diaphragm no matter how he looks at it
Again, it is not very hurtful and extremely insulting
But Cuba now seems to have entered a bottleneck, with corrupt domestic officials, a shrinking economy, those in power increasingly eating the people and university teachers starving
With Castro's death, this trend has become more rampant