Hello everyone. In 1929, Julio Antonio Mella, a Cuban communist already leaning towards Trotskyism was killed in Mexico City. He was planning a revolt in Cuba against US backed dictator Gerardo Machado and had already made contacts with Cuban (Stalinist) communists, Veterans from the Independence Wars, and other revolutionaries. A couple of years later, Machado was so impopular and Cuba in such as state of chaos that the American Ambassador, Benjamin Summer Welles, started talks with representatives of every political current oposing the President, except, of course, the Commies. That lead to Machado leaving the country in september 1933 and, after a little Coup to his appointed succesor, a coalition provisional government ruling the island for a hundred days, that saw a lot of social progress...until it was interrumpted by another Coup d'État. My PoD will be Mella surviving the assasination, starting his planned revolution in Cuba, eventually winning by 1933 and starting a coaliton progressive government that will evolve into a Trotskyist-Communist state during during the rest of the Decade. How would that go? Would it be tolerated by both the US and the Soviets? Would it benefit from the New Deal, the Lazaro Cárdenas Presidency in Mexico and the tensions between the US and the Soviets? What would be the consequences? I have my own ideas about that, but I would like to know what are your thoughts on this. Thanks!