After the failed U.S. attempt to overthrow the Castro regime in Cuba with the Bay of Pigs invasion, and while the Kennedy administration planned Operation Mongoose, in July 1962 Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev reached a secret agreement with Cuban premier Fidel Castro to place Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter any future invasion attempt.

After threats from both sides for a long time; The discussion takes a drastic turn when the White House finds out that an agent of the Soviet Union said that an agreement could be reached, where the Soviet Union withdraws the missiles if and only if the USA promised not to invade the island of Cuba. That same night the leaders of both countries spoke about a possible nuclear holocaust and began to negotiate to avoid this catastrophe that would include the entire world.

Guatemala was dominated by communist leader Jacobo Arbenz in the 1950s. Of course, having a Soviet sympathizer in their midst gave the Americans indigestion. Uncle Sam pushed a group of Guatemalan military personnel to organize a coup in order to correct the problem. The military officers ousted Arbenz and took control with the assistance of the United States behind them and monies in their pockets.

Many military officials and others supported communism. Guatemala was thrown into a civil war and violence that lasted nearly 40 years and claimed the lives of 200,000 Guatemalans.

After the FSLN won a general election in november, 1984, Regan administration described as a "Soviet-Style of sham" what would explain how this accusations turned Nicaragua into a proxy battelgroung between powers. As the congress had forbiden the use of American Funds to help the contras directly, this was made indirectly. After a negotiation with iran, 3.5 million dollars was given to the contras. The affair was leaked in 1986, what caused a major scandal. Despite a number of small victories, the contras didnt manage to gain much ground in Nicaragua. After American military was cut off, the contras agreed to a peace deal. After demovilizing, Ortega lost to National opposition party.

During the Somoza dynasty, inequatlity and corruption marked and consumed politics and social term during Nicaragua´s 20th century since the begining. Because of this, a coalition of opposition partys and student groups form the FSLN in the year 1961, as a revolutionary group commited to socialism. After several attacks from the resistance, and the gain of the support from the Nicaraguan population, the goverment enforced a paramilitary law enfrocment organization, that violently cracked down on suspected sandinista collaborators. The american carter administration reacted to this by cutting USaid. Within the FSLN, a small group, lead by Daniel Ortega, became the dominant factor in the 1970. They allied with non comunist groups againt Somoza, asking for social democracy as a transitional solution. After Chamorro´s death by suspected samosa operatives, riots broke in Managua, which gave the FSLN advantage, what gave the sandanistas and Ortega power ahead the country Supported by the USSR implemented a massive economic and agrarian reform, which confiscated large amounts of land from Somozas supporters and redistributing among the peasantry.

This event is considered part of the Cold war because the threat of communism is a common instigator in both these cases. the Cold War is Communism vs. Capitalism and in Guatemala, Communism was the root of this issue.

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