I seem to remember that Fidel appealed to the US - you know, that bastion of democracy and freedom - for help to overthrow the dictator Batista and mob rule in Cuba but was rejected - predictably.
I cannot find documentation for that though…actual memory or dream?.
The CIA and US Monroe Doctrine of hegemony and corporate domination (read United Fruit) in Latin America won the day. US coups deposing democratically-elected leaders, support for brutal dictators, arming and training death squads at the “School of the Americas”, and numerous military actions to repress national liberation movements was the policy.
I must give Obama some credit for opening Cuba, re-establishing relations, although his true motives are shrouded and suspect (as with the 6-nation Iran deal) given his other actions and policy decisions. The US embargo of Cuba remains, and the return of Guantanamo Bay to Cuba also…