In 1980s Nicaragua, scene of an undeclared dirty war between the Contra rebels illegally backed by the Reagan administration and the Sandinista Front led by Daniel Ortega, and likewise in El Salvador and Panama, Castro helped provide a counterweight to American efforts, both direct and indirect, to prop up or install conservative, pro-Washington regimes.
The buildings were crumbling, the colors were fading and the rooms were mostly filled with emptiness, but — human nature abhorring a vacuum — the emptiness was alive with spicy dances, raucous songs, dirty and seditious jokes, impossible rumors Castro was being airlifted to Washington by his secret friends in the C.
Canada became one of the first allies openly to trade with Cuba.
Castro's government was characterized by the use of psychological , subjecting prisoners to solitary confinement, rough treatment, and threatening behavior.
Proposing a five-point plan, Castro demanded that the U.
Castro also faced other difficulties as the President of Cuba, for instance the economic crisis that occurred during the.