ABSTRACT
Each NAME delegation possessed an intimate awareness of the United States' race problem, which enabled them to see that Cuba was more advanced in treating its black citizens more equitably. Racism still exists in Cuba, but the Cuban Revolution served to recognize black people as equals and to abolish discrimination. Despite or because of the Revolution, the United States wants to continue to dominate Cuba as it had throughout the first half of the 20th century. The United States controlled the price and export of sugar, a cash crop for Cuba, keeping the nation, its politicians and people totally dependent on the United States. The Cuban Revolution not only changed that, but it also established Cuba, Fidel Castro and others as enemies of the United States. The U.S. stance was best enforced by the Dulles brothers, John Foster Dulles, whom President Dwight Eisenhower appointed U.S. secretary of state, and Allen Dulles, whom Eisenhower named director of the CIA. In their zealousness, they misread the efforts of developing nations such as Guatemala, Iran, Vietnam and Cuba. Those nations were trying to remove the yoke of imperialism. The Dulles brothers saw strides for freedom in those countries as a threat to multinational business interests. That shortsightedness, however, opened a door for Fidel Castro, Ernesto Che Guevara and Cuba to be the successful vocal proponents for freedom movements throughout the world whether it was Cuba siding with the Black Power and Civil Rights Movements in the United States or against the Vietnam War.
