Breaking Up With Cuba

Author: Daniel F. Solomon

Between April 1956 and April 1961, the warm ties between the United States and Cuba collapsed, and the two allies became fast enemies.

“Breaking Up With Cuba: The Dissolution of Friendly Relations Between Washington and Havana” (ISBN- 978-0-7864-5972-8, price $45.00) recounts how Cuba, though largely “Americanized” at the time, became increasingly nationalistic, defensive and militarized under the provisional government created in 1959.

Under the influence of a burgeoning paranoia, Cuba anticipated a covert invasion from the United States and purged American customs and values from Cuban society. Also examined is the poor insight and reliance on faulty intelligence by the United States which led to profound mistakes in its foreign relations strategy, and ultimately to a complete breakdown of diplomatic relations between the two nations.”

The 336-page book’s author, Daniel F. Solomon, is an administrative law judge with the U.S. Department of Labor. He lives in Silver Spring, Md.

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