{"id":2180,"date":"2018-04-25T19:29:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T23:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2018-04-26T16:06:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T20:06:20","slug":"why-the-us-government-hates-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/25\/why-the-us-government-hates-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the US government hates Cuba?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2177\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/042518-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2177\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/042518-2-300x299.jpg\" alt=\"Why the US government hates Cuba?\" width=\"300\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/042518-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/042518-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/042518-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why the US government hates Cuba?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is a complicated story that involves more than one overly-large ego. Post-it note version: When Castro came to power, the US government was at the height of anti-communist fever and felt threatened. It enacted an embargo and a failed invasion to topple Castro. Castro didn&#8217;t do any favors by forcing a mix of criminals, pro-democracy political prisoners, and former wealthy elites to the US, where they settled in Florida. Florida then became a swing state necessary to winning presidential elections, which made angering the substantial anti-Castro Cuban population there politically impossible, thus making any opening with Cuba (like with Vietnam and China) a non-starter. Here are 400 items on the topic in BC Libraries:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bclib-us-cuba\">bit.ly\/bclib-us-cuba<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a complicated story that involves more than one overly-large ego. Post-it note version: When Castro came to power, the US government was at the height of anti-communist fever and felt threatened. It enacted an embargo and a failed invasion to topple Castro. Castro didn&#8217;t do any favors by forcing a mix of criminals, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/25\/why-the-us-government-hates-cuba\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why the US government hates Cuba?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[250],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-cuba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}