What was it like after the cuban revolution?

Answer 1

Mafia was running away like Jackals from the Hyenas,Casinos got emptied in no time,prostitutes had finally a holiday.Pimps became gentlemen in an instant I don't know what happened to Batista.

Answer 2

Really scary. At first, everyone thought that Fidel Castro was a force for good, and compared to the Mafia-controlled Fulgencio Battista (sp) he probably was. But then--and the whole truth about why this happened hasn't come out yet--Castro decided to throw in his lot with the Soviet Union instead of the US. I suspect that it was we who dropped the ball; President Eisenhower and his Secretary of State Mr Dulles weren't very sophisticated in matters of international diplomacy, and I suspect that we were also ill-served by our CIA. (If this sounds familiar, well, welcome to history.)

In any event, it soon became clear that we were in trouble, because refugees started to arrive by the boatload, and there were executions all over Cuba, or at least it seemed that way from press reports. Castro became thoroughly reviled in the US, President Eisenhower declared a US trade embargo on Cuba within a year, and things haven't improved since.

Neither Castro nor we have done a very good job of figuring this all out. At this point, I'd put most of the blame on Castro, who sacrificed his country for personal power. It's pretty clear that the Soviets forced the guided missiles on him in 1962 (that was scary) but he made no attempt to recover from that after the crisis was passed. The airplane hijackings didn't help matters, either.