>>How would life be for Cuba, if it owned all the worlds oil? :)
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>It would be the 51st state. Bay of Pigs was just for sugar companies and the Mafia. For oil we'd have taken it more seriously :-)

How true!

I was stationed at Orlando, Air Force Base, Florida, April 1960 to October 1961. While I was there the local newspaper had advertisements for B-26 pilots. For months before the invasion there was talk of what was going to happen amongst the civilian population downtown. When it occurred there was no great surprise except at the result.

The loss of Cuba as a playground for Americans helped to build Las Vegas, and Atlantic City.