80 Cubans: Was Castro A Good Leader?

Now the question must be raised: to what extent was the CIA and American government were aware of the falsity of their propagated message about Castro and the Cuba situation in general. For this I will turn to one of my most important primary documents, an intelligence report on Castro’s first year running Cuba. This report reveals that they were fully aware of his immense popularity prior to their attacks, and equally aware of his capabilities to be a good leader. Essentially, this document states that one of the main reasons for justification to overthrow Castro was in fact his strong leadership qualities, the positive outcomes of his doctrine, and the absolute power given to him willingly by the people(despite contradicting themselves later implying Castro driving force was his hunger for power, which is also in opposition to its other earlier statement which claimed that he had the desire of the betterment of Cuba), which they feared most because of the autonomy which he could, …show more content…
The newspaper article “80 Cubans on a ship” outlines this nicely. Firstly, buzz words are used extensively in order to stir up emotions and create a connections in the minds of the people between these words and Castro so that, for a time, they become synonymous. Words such as “regime,” “refugee,” “escape,” and “pleas,.” Secondly, the inconsistencies within the story, to an extent, discredit the story as a whole, as it cannot be determined how far the misinformation may go. Why would they lie about it if they had truthful evidence which would be equally as damning? Lastly, the inability to find any other reference or proof of the majority of people mentioned in the article invalidates the implications of the article as a whole. All of the Cubans, and even the ship they claimed to have been on, could not be substantiated even using todays