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Fear and Loathing of Fidel Castro: Sources of US Policy Toward Cuba

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2002

LOUIS A. PÉREZ
LOUIS A. PÉREZ
Affiliation:
Louis A. Pérez Jr. is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Abstract

The Cuban Revolution shattered some of the most important policy formulations by which the United States had traditionally defined its place and defended its interests in the western hemisphere, for which Fidel Castro has been inalterably held responsible. Much of US policy towards Cuba during the past forty years has been driven by a determination to punish Cuba for the transgressions of Fidel Castro and a determination to resist a modus vivendi with Cuba as long as he remains in power.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , May 2002 , pp. 227 - 254
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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