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A 3 page paper assessing which side "won" the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. The short answer is that no one did. Certainly the United States did not win and even was roundly embarrassed by its inability to exert any meaningful control over the tiny island nation 90 miles off the coast of Florida. But neither was Cuba a "winner" in the traditional sense of the word. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the Bay of Pigs? The short answer is that no one did. Certainly the United States did not win and even was roundly embarrassed by its inability to
exert any meaningful control over the tiny island nation 90 miles off the coast of Florida. But neither was Cuba a "winner" in the traditional sense of the word.
It was able to prevent the US from exerting undue influence over it and its activities, but in many respects it continues even today to pay the price of
its "victory" in the form of being prevented from sharing in US economic prosperity while that prosperity still existed. Background Cuba possesses all
necessary ingredients for a tropical paradise. Situated in the Caribbean with all the benefits of having a tropical climate and within 100 miles of the US, Cuba today could
have been a vacation mecca on the order of the Virgin Islands and the Bahamas. In order for that to happen, however, its history would have had to be
greatly different than it has been. The Cuban people are hard working and strive to maintain optimism. The fact is, however, they
have suffered centuries of political and economic oppression. Cuba presents perhaps the finest - or worst - example of the consequences of inept government based on unworkable ideology rather
than on the realities of life. Former president Batista seized control of the government in 1952 and suspended the constitution that he had
helped to implement in the 1940s. With the support of the army, Batista dissolved the congress and instituted a provisional military government. Government forces put down a 1953
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