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America's Cuban Obsession: A Case Study in Diplomacy and Psycho-History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Edward Cuddy
Edward Cuddy*
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Daemen College, Amherst, New York
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No more Cubas!” For a quarter of a century, that slogan has propelled American intervention into Latin America. President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress was designed to head off more Castro-type revolutions in the region. In 1965, President Johnson crushed a revolution in the Dominican Republic, declaring that “another Cuba in this hemisphere would be unacceptable.” And the Nixon plan for subverting the Chilean government in the early 1970s was motivated, in Henry Kissinger's words, by fear of Allende's “patent intention to create another Cuba.”

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Research Article
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The Americas , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , October 1986 , pp. 183 - 196
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1986

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