| “I believe that there is no
country in the world including any and all the countries under colonial
domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation
were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country’s policies during
the Batista regime. I approved the proclamation which Fidel Castro made
in the Sierra Maestra, when he justifiably called for justice and
especially yearned to rid Cuba of corruption. I will even go further:
to some extent it is as though Batista was the incarnation of a number
of sins on the part of the United States. Now we shall have to pay for
those sins. In the matter of the Batista regime, I am in agreement with
the first Cuban revolutionaries. That is perfectly clear.” – U.S. President John F. Kennedy, interview with Jean Daniel, October 24
1963
One
month later JFK, on November 22, was assassinated!
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