To understand the relationship between the exiles and the United States, and to understand the history of opposition Cuban democratic, we must take into account the disparity of resources é sta has taken its fight against Castro's tyranny.
In the Cold War conflict staged in Cuba, the Castro received all imaginable and necessary resources of the USSR to prevail over the other. From the beginning until now, Cubans have received from Democrats U.S. minimal assistance, in most cases controlled or influenced by Washington.
The famous Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, the regime celebrated as a great victory against the "imperialism" was nothing that a project badly planned and poorly executed by the United States government. Almost 1500 Cuban exiles were sent to Cuba and left without adequate air support and without the necessary logistics. Operating the underground anti-Castro organizations in Cuba was not notified in advance of the landing. Under these conditions, the resistance that opposed the expedition was insufficient to avoid military defeat.
The political consequences of the disaster were very serious. The victory consolidated tyranny. Over a hundred thousand Cubans on the island, considered by the political police and opposition activists were arrested within hours. The internal resistance was demoralized. Opposition could never recover from what he interpreted as a betrayal of the United States.
That was not the only action controlled by the United States favoring ending tyranny. After Bay of Pigs failure, the Kennedy administration authorized the CIA to carry out a series of actions in a plan called "Operation Moongoose." One of his projects involved hiring fancy the American mafia to kill Castro. Castro's regime took each of the actions or alleged actions of this plan to make propaganda.
Escambray The anti-Castro guerrillas, who between 1960 and 1966 became the mountainous area in an almost impregnable bastion against the dictatorship, were not helped by the United States government. All were killed.
The missile crisis in 1961 between the USSR and the United States was traded to Washington for the withdrawal of the missiles in Cuba. As part of the agreement, the Russians conditioned the United States ever allow the Cuban armed action against tyranny. Who thought this was part of the mythology of exile have had to reconsider our skepticism such an agreement. [i]
La Voz del CID, a project of political persuasion who achieved unprecedented success during ten years of uninterrupted transmission from a Latin American country, was closed under pressure from the United States government, despite having the backing of more than a Latin American government. Teleco The project, which made successful testing of television broadcasting to Cuba using a technique propagation than that of TV Martí, received from the United States any threats of imprisonment, fines and deportation, despite operating in international waters. (See: The failure of TV Martí )
Radio Marti and TV Marti are projects that directly addressed the U.S. government. An unexplained regulations have is that no exiled leader may have a program in their broadcasts. Most of the little help that Washington engaged in the Cuban issue does not come to Cuba by regulations of one kind or another.
While Hugo Chávez annual subsidies to the Castro regime with billions of petrodollars, Washington has withheld 20 million support for the democratization of Cuba. In just the first few weeks of the fighting in Libya, the U.S. spent several hundred million dollars.
Such behavior has been repeated for half a century. The failures have to pay the moral and democratic political opposition. This has contributed significantly to the pessimism of the Cubans.
Since Cubans have in elections in the United States government policy in Washington is doing enough to neutralize or get those votes, but that action can irritate the Castro regime.
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[i] Commentary U.S. ambassador to the UN Jean Kirkpatrick to the author: "- I'll tell you something that should be between the two: What's Cuba is not easy and you have a way too long before, do not forget. There are documents related Washington with Cuba, I do not let you read, are in a safe. This worries me and upsets me. " http://patriapuebloylibertad.blogspot.com/2009/08/el-fracaso-de-tv-marti-capitulo-final.html
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