HIST 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: United Fruit Company, Cuban Missile Crisis, Sandinista National Liberation Front
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Cuba: the united states used to have a large influence over the occurrings within cuba, the usa supported the dictator batista though his methods of control were questionable. Castro led a movement with raoul castro and guevara. He became the communist dictator of cuba and this soured relations between usa and cuba. Cuban missile crisis + bay of pigs invasion. Guatemala: the united fruit company had been a us company that had control and was able to make a lot of money by exploiting the resources of guatemala. Once a socialist leader came to power, the cia had gone into guatemala to train soldiers to overthrow this government. Mexico: vincente fox has become president of this country. There is oil, drug trafficking, and border control issues. Nicaragua: the samoza family had owned 1/3 of the land within nicaragua and ruled the country. The sandanistas wanted to overthrow their rule, and did and then gained power within the government.
