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How to overthrow Castro 101

Context: This meme is about the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. The CIA trained about 1,500 Cuban exiles to invade Cuba. They were pretty confident that once they landed, the Cuban people would rise up against Castro. Spoiler: they didn't. The invasion failed in about three days, and Castro stayed in power for decades. The joke is that the CIA made a huge assumption without checking with the locals first.

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"But Communism bad! Dictator bad! Everyone agrees that these are always bad and never good!" -CIA Agents who don't know what life outside the US is like

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This is missing the part where Fidel ransomed the Brigade 2506 back for $53 million in medicine and food.

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