Blog Post For the Week of March 31

 This week, I found our discussion of the US and the Cuban Revolution to be very interesting. I had heard and read in the past that the US had tried to meddle in the Revolution in order to bring it down, but I never realized the degree it reached. I found the countless assassination attempts by the US or funded and directed by the US to be particularly bad. I feel that whether or not we disagree with a leader of a foreign nation, we have no business trying to assassinate them. How would the US react if a foreign nation tried to assassinate the president? I can pretty much guarantee it wouldn't be good. I think Fidel Castro said it best himself. In "History Will Absolve Me" from last week, he described how if a nation's government has become tyrannical or is no longer working for the country, it is the people's right and responsibility to get rid of that government. So it's the people's job, not the job of an interfering nearby neighbor, to try to get rid of an authoritarian government. Clearly, the US had no right doing what it did in Cuba, and as I've mentioned in other posts, I hope our nation has learned from mistakes like this and will avoid interfering in other nations' business. 

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  1. Professor StarkApril 6, 2022 at 12:12 PM

    Thank you, Joe, for the blog. I agree that the U.S. has no business interfering in the (attempted) overthrow of a country's ruler or disruption of their economy. Sadly, this was the case until 1975 when the U.S. finally enacted legislation that prevented the U.S. govt from engaging in such nefarious actions.

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