Publisher's Synopsis
In the introduction reference is made to the fact that the U.S.A. always considered Cuba an extension of its territory, and the Key to the Gulf of Mexico. The belli, making it still strategically more important. A link is established of how the U.S.A. kept control of the Island including the era of Fidel Castro, even though officially the relations had been terminated.However, it is during that period that Fidel Castro helped the most the cause of the U.S.A. during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Fidel Castro was brought to Power in Cuba during the Eisenhower Administration. By the time that Donald Reagan was on the Presidency the financial damage inflicted by Castro's Cuba on the Soviet Union was such that when he asked the Chief of the CIA what was the weak point of the Soviet Union he was informed that it was the economy.There is were Ronald Reagan pressed harder with Gorbachev commencing the process of disintegration of the Soviet Union which finally took place on December 8, 1991.
