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Nevertheless, as the cold war between the USA and the Soviet Union dominated the world scene in the late 1940s and the 1950s, there occurred strategic lapses in the Good Neighbour policy:the big stick would be used in Central America and the Caribbean whenever Washington suspected that Soviet agents were trying to use local communists or radicals to install unfriendly regimes. The most notorious example was the overtrow of the reformist government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala by a US-financed proxy army in 1954. A few years later, when Fidel Castro defeated the dictator Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, the USA at first showed caution but later turned extremely hostile after Castro tried to implement a radically nationalist economic policy in Cuba. In 1961, when Castro proclaimed himself a Marxist and an ally of the Soviet Union, the USA's global antagonist, he caused profound alarm in Washington, and an economic blockade was imposed with the intention of strangling the Cuban economy. For the rest of the 1960s the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) did what it could to get rid of Castro, backing the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles and carrying out a number of sometimes farcical attempts to assassinate him (these included a plan to blow him up with a doctored cigar).

big stick/doctored cigar=porrete grande /charuto explosivo

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the big stick would be used in Central America and the Caribbean whenever Washington suspected that Soviet agents were trying to use local communists or radicals to install unfriendly regimes.
For the rest of the 1960s the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) did what it could to get rid of Castro, backing the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles and carrying out a number of sometimes farcical attempts to assassinate him (these included a plan to blow him up with a doctored cigar).

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