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During the Cold War, Cuba and the US were on opposite sides of the conflict. The US also directly threatened Cuba on several occasions. It supported the failed Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban dissidents, and it blockaded Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Castro felt threatened by the US due to their attempts to undermine his leadership and socialist regime in Cuba. The Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 heightened tensions between the two countries, leading Castro to see the US as a threat to his government's survival.

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Castro had allowed the Russians to place medium level missiles in Cuba in 1962.

Once the US found out about this via spy plane photographs it has distrustedCastro ever since. Castro made it clear that he was supporting the Russian viewof the world and taking their side and support to help Cuba exist.

Also there are many theories about how President Kennedy was assassinated andwho was behind it. Some of these theories blame Cuba and Castro for the assassination.

Although there is little hard evidence, this also puts Castro in the 'Persona non grata"list for the United States.

If Castro was not oinly 90miles from the US border these issues perehaps would not have become so important, but they have due to Cuba's location.

Also Castro and Che Guevara (1929-1967) were attempting to export the model ofthe Cuban Revolution to other Latin American and African nations. This made theUnited States nervous and furthered the reasons why the US disliked and distrustedCastro and Cuba.

Unfortunately the Cuban people have suffered all these years as the US has an embargo (law forbidding) trade with Cuba. Cuba has been impoverished in many ways due to this law. Some give Castro great credid for succeeding in keeping Cuba fed and clothed in spite of this embargo. Others claim that Castro is to blame for this, and if he were gone the embargo could (would?) end, depending on the next leader of Cuba.

Currently he has turned over the reins of power to his younger brother Raul, so the US has not changed its embargo policy.

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Cuba is in our back yard. For missile firing, it is "point blank range."

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