The Failure Of The Cuban Revolution

The Cuban revolution was the spark that ignited the flame of Communism in Cuba. The young nation gained independence only as recently as 1898, and was already filled with an atmosphere of distrust and resentment towards the United States. In the July of 1953, a revolution began in Cuba between the United States backed President Batista and Fidel Castro. Fidel and his brother Raul Castro lead a series of guerilla warfare battles against the forces of President Batista. In the January of 1959, Fidel Castro became the President of Cuba. With the reign of Fidel Castro, Cuba would fall to communism.
“Victory has a thousand fathers while defeat is an orphan”, JFK. The Bay of Pigs invasion code named operation Zapata began in the March of 1960 one
Within the plans for the Central Intelligence Agency's invasion of the Bay of Pigs, Cuba there many mistakes that later contributed to the Bay of Pigs failure. One of these mistakes was the belief that Cuban nationals shared the animosity of Fidel Castro that Cuban exiles did. If the Central Intelligence Agentcy had chose to look at all sides of the Cuban argument instead of only see the opinions of the Miami Cuban exiles then the design of the invasion strike would have been changed. The Cuban exiles were angry with Fidel Castro and the downfall of President Bastia and wanted democracy. However, the Cuban population living in Cuba were very happy with Fidel Castro’s plan of isolation. The CIA did not consider that the Cuban citizens would want to keep Fidel Castro as president. “Castro had a sixty to seventy percent approval rating in Cuba” CIA western hemisphere division chief J.C.
The main plan of the invasion was to train and arm one thousand and five hundred Cuban exiles in Guatemala. Before the troops would arrive in Cuba however, the CIA had a plan to train roughly eighty men to conduct an air strike on Cuba with the hope of taking out Castro’s naval and air powers. Then the next part of the plan was to deliver shock and awe tactics in hopes of thoughing off Castro’s superior military forces. Using the shock and awe tatek the ground troops on Cuba then had plans to travel across Cuba to the city of Havana and overthrow Castro.
Along the way to Cuba the exiles were to convert members of Castro’s military, political circle and the citizens of Cuba to gain enough manpower to conduct a full scale invasion of Havana and establish a democracy in Cuba. The high stakes proved to be too great, as most of the aviators were poorly trained and as a result, most of Castro’s planes and naval weaponry were able to continue operating after the airstrike. When the invasion was underway the U-2 spotter planes as misidentified coral reefs as seaweed, this error cost the Cuban exiles there naval