Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. – John F. Kennedy

  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    After.

    And we (the U.S.) continue to attempt and fund many more coups against foreign nations to this day.

    History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done. – Sydney J. Harris[1]

    About Sydney J. Harris:

    Sydney J. Harris was an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and, later, the Chicago Sun-Times. He wrote 11 books and his weekday column, “Strictly Personal”, was syndicated in approximately 200 newspapers throughout the United States and Canada. He also wrote an aperiodic feature called “Things I Learned En Route to Looking Up Other Things.”

    Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. | speech at the White House, 13 March 1962[2]

    Bay of Pigs invasion, (April 17, 1961), abortive invasion of Cuba at the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs), or Playa Girón (Girón Beach) to Cubans, on the southwestern coast by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro. The invasion was financed and directed by the U.S. government.

    Within six months of Castro’s overthrow of Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship in Cuba (January 1959), relations between Castro’s government and the United States began to deteriorate. The new Cuban government confiscated private property (much of it owned by North American interests), sent agents to initiate revolutions in several Latin American countries, and established diplomatic and economic ties with leading socialist powers. Castro himself often and vociferously accused the United States of trying to undermine his government. Several U.S. congressmen and senators, from early 1960, denounced Castro; and by June the Congress had passed legislation enabling President Dwight D. Eisenhower to take retaliatory steps: the United States cut off sugar purchases from Cuba and soon thereafter placed an embargo on all exports to Cuba except food and medicine. In January 1961, Eisenhower, in one of the final acts of his administration, broke diplomatic ties with Cuba.[3]

    1. [1] Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | https://archive.org/details/clearingground00harr_0 ↩︎

    2. [2] Quote number 11 | https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191843730.001.0001/q-oro-ed5-00006245 ↩︎

    3. [3] https://www.britannica.com/event/Bay-of-Pigs-invasion ↩︎