Cuba US troops against Castro

Mrstrategy

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Why did the US no send troops to Cuba to fight Castro since they were sending troops to Vietnam and Korea and there was more danger in Cuba to the US
 
In the cases of South Vietnam and South Korea, the US was sending troops to support existing governments--perfectly legal under international law. In 1961, in Cuba the US was trying to *overthrow* an existing government. In view of the widespread Latin American distaste for US intervention, it wanted to pretend it was an entirely anti-Castro-Cuban job, not a US invasion. The pretence was hollow, of course...
 

Yun-shuno

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I wonder if the US had launched a ground invasion on whatever pretext against Castro's Cuba? Would that have led to basically every American embassy in Latin America getting firebombed?
 
What about sending troops before Castro became leader of Cuba to prevent it

Batista was discredited, and while there was some fear of Fidel Castro, it was generally thought that he himself was not a Communist ("maybe Raul and Che are Communists, but probably not Fidel" was a widespread belief).
 
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