"Blinky the Shark" > ha scritto nel messaggio >> about
the Bay of Pigs. You don't make a big blunder like that and the
>> county you lost to just ignores the base you've established on its
>> homeland.
>
> It may have been unprecedented. It also happened.

I think it useful to recall that in the US one hears only what is published
in US media about Cuba and that the PR crowd on that are Cubans who came for
many different reasons. While life has been hard in Cuba especially after
the breakop of the Soviets, it isn't any worse or perhaps is better than
life for most was under Trujillo.
People from other countries who come and go freely and know lots of Cubans
from there or from meeting them in countries where they study, work, etc,
have a very different view of Cuba to that of USians.