*dies laughing*

The United States have had their interest in discrediting Cuba over the last 60 years, as well as lying to their own people and presenting Castro's regime as a "national threat" and infiltrating CIA Intelligence into the country. (The conflict between the US and the USSR in Cuba is where we've been closest to a nuclear war - the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, when a soviet general had received orders to open nuclear fire. It was HIS refusal to do so that made this blog entry possible)

The truth is  Cuba never posted a real threat to the US. As said, their reasons for the lie were different and they won't be further discussed now.

...But here's Noam Chomsky reminiscing something on Cuba:

The national security pretext [for the US] lost whatever shreds of credibility it might have had after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, though it was not until 1998 that US intelligence officially informed the country that Cuba no longer posed a threat to US national security. The Clinton administration, however, insisted that the military threat posed by Cuba be reduced to "negligible," but not completely removed. Even with this qualification, the intelligence assessment eliminated a danger that had been identified by the Mexican ambassador in 1961, when he rejected JFK's attempt to organize collective action against Cuba on the grounds that "if we publicly declare that Cuba is a threat to our security, forty million Mexicans will die laughing."

By the way, did anyone know that when it comes to foreign aid - medication and doctors - to be sent to conflict zones, Cuba is always among the first to provide such things? Not the US or EU, who usually either have some other interest in that conflict or will set up a committee to determine whether they should send anything. No. Cuba and other South American states are the best humanitarians.