Its been more than half a century since we broke off relations, and lets at least be honest about what happened: a bunch of big American companies got pissed off when a brutal leftist dictator displaced the brutal right-wing dictator they favored. President Eisenhower made an uncharacteristic mistake in response, and the rest is history. Not an especially attractive chapter of history, but history nonetheless. —Kevin Drum
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 23:49:25 +0000
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