[skeeter]

Within a year, President Eisenhower was sad to learn that Cuba?s revolution was, indeed, a social revolution and not just the exchange of one crooked regime for another, and relations with the U.S. began to deteriorate.

I'm afraid that here the author is dead wrong. It exactly WAS the exchange of one corrupt regime for another.

[SAMWolf]

Yep, a facist type dictator for a communist one.