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[[File:Bay_of_Pigs_07.jpg|left|250px|thumbnail|Bay of Pigs, Playa Giron]]
A left-wing revolution in Cuba had ended in 1959 with the ouster of President Fulgencia Batista and the establishment of a new government under Premier Fidel Castro. The Castro regime quickly severed the country’s formerly strong ties with the United States by expropriating U.S. economic assets in Cuba and developing close links with the Soviet Union.
