Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20161126:10:54:00
Cuba. the bay of pigs invasion failed. now in about the soviets camp, castro in 1962 invited moscow to secretly place nuclear missiles on the island. discovery of the missiles led to a 13 day standoff between the u.s. and soviet union. nuclear war appeared imminent until the soviets agreed to remove the weapons. castro and the u.s. would remain engaged in proxy wars as the cuban leader tried to foment socialist revolutions around the world. for many, the failed soviet style economic policies made life intolerable. communism was the only ideology permitted on the island. critics of the governme...