Cuba's “Internet” is a thumb drive that moves by bus

Re:Cuba's “Internet” is a thumb drive that moves by bus by vidarh on Monday June 15, 2015 @11:47AM (#9720091)

The nationalisations that caused the first trade embargo followed hostile moves from the Eisenhower administration by e.g. reducing trade quotas and through the refusal of an American owned refinery to sell to the Cuban government. The rest of the nationalisation followed as a retaliation against the that trade embargo.

Basically Eisenhower shot himself in the foot by first rebuffing early advances by Castro that sent Castro head first into the arms of the Soviets, and then it just got worse from that.

It had nothing to do with ideology on either side, but with money and power.

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Re:Cuba's “Internet” is a thumb drive that moves by bus by ArkyBeagle on Monday June 15, 2015 @01:07PM (#9720617)

America was shocked by the nationalizations in Mexico in the decades before, so it's unsurprising that this was considered bad form. Embargo was always the escalation of choice then.

I believe Castro was also pretty Marxist well before 1959. That would have constrained what any politician in the US could have done.

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