Cuba and US relations

A detailed Summary of Cuba and US relations

In the early 1900's, Cuba was a stomping ground for many of the rich and famous from the United States. Many famous movies stars and wealthy business entrepreneurs spend their vacations there along with a substantial amount of money. Trade and commerce between the United States and Cuba flowed freely and abundantly. Even with the Dictatorship-like regime of Batista, the countries benefited from the economic trade between them. This was all about to come crashing down as revolts against Batista occurred and Fidel Castro came to power within Cuba.

It was after Castro took power that the United States changed its way in which it dealt with Cuba dramatically. The United States decided it would place major sanctions against Cuba and would try to cut Castro off of dealing with not only the United States, but any other country the US dealt with as well. It was during this time that the Cold War was in its adolescence stage and the United States was doing everything in its power to make sure that smaller, third world countries did not become communist or even associate themselves with the Soviet Union in any way.

One of the reasons sanctions were placed against Cuba was that during the revolution against Batista, research was d

In the Administrative model, it is the bureaucracy that makes the decisions with just the president as the ratifier of what was decided. Ways in which this was done was through the research into Fidel Castro's background when it was show he was a communist sympathizer and when the United States was trying to figure out how to handle the revolution against Batista. Groups within the US government set up shop and did their own independent research into ways to solve the problems that they had to deal with. One way this is shown is by the Bay of Pigs Invasion. A group (Central Intelligence Agency) decided the best way to get rid of Castro was have Cuban exiles do their dirty work. This idea was given to the President and he agreed with it and it was implemented without the knowledge of congress or any other government agency. These models do not have many "inputs" that we have looked at but there were a few groups that tried to influence decision making.

The United States did not just put sanctions on Cuba after Castro came to power but also was trying to exert it's power over the country when Batista was in power. The US wanted Batista to give up his leadership of the country so a new government could take over but the State Department was unsure how to go about accomplishing this since there wasn't enough information to show what group could lead the Cuban people. These decisions that were made follow, albeit loosely, along the line of two decision models we have studied: the Presidential model and the Administrative Model.

The sanctions placed on Cuba are not as stringently guarded as they were when first implemented. In today's society, many US businessmen bypass the sanctions placed on Cuba by traveling to another country first and then into Cuba to entertain business ventures and find quality cigars. It could be said that the goals of the sanctions were met, since Castro's regime is slowly dying, but t

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