Cuban Embargo

108. 9/2/1960

“SEP 2, 1960: At a demonstration in the Plaza Civica to respond to the OAS [Organization of American States] vote, Fidel Castro declares: ‘If they continue the economic aggression against our country, we will continue nationalizing U.S. businesses’”

“The Bay of Pigs Invasion/Playa Giron: A Chronology of Events,” The National Security Archive, NSArchive2.gwu.edu

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