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I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.

Today's episode is episode 138, and it continues the story that we began in episode 137.

That is that the Batista government was now fallen, and Castro and the revolutionaries were now assuming the power vacuum and were taking control of Cuba, as they planned. And the events that occurred rapidly in 1959,

almost from the very beginning, would put Fidel Castro in this new revolutionary government

on a collision course with the United States. The assumption of government

by Castro would also ferret out, once and for all, the true colors of Fidel Castro. He was not

for democracy. In his actions, his almost immediate actions made it very clear how public and how deep his previous lives had been

to the world. And it was for a single purpose. To hold the United States in abeyance long enough

for the rebels to get firm control of the country so that they could then eradicate every form of

U.S. involvement in Cuba's internal affairs

and eliminate imperialism as they saw it. And the related government corruption at all levels

that Cuba had experienced throughout most of the 20th century since it had been wrestled away

from Spain. There is a spirited debate among historians about

whether Castro was a closet communist from the very beginning, or whether the United States

inevitably pushed him into the ideological camp of his most trusted comrades, Raul Castro and Che Guevara.

But regardless of what the true answer was, actions speak louder than words.

And everything he did clearly reinforced the idea that he was simply a wolf in German

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