The History of Cuban Internationalism in the 1960s

The 1960 trip is an important part in the evolution of that wider story of kind of black internationalism and the kind of anti-imperialism of the 1960s. Jesse Castro, he was very smart. By March of 1961 Howard Hunt had been taken off the job of wrangling the frente with D-Day approaching. The CIA's ultimatum was if you don't fall in line right now and do this thing with us,. it's all off, it's done, and you won't get to go back to Cuba and have your little country again.