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  MILITARY AID OR KILLER DEAL: U.S. WEAPONS TRADE AND MILITARY TRAINING IN THE CARIBBEAN, 1790 - 2001

Guest Speaker: Dr. Humberto Garcia Muñiz
 


EXCESS DEFENSE ARTICLES
These are equipment given free. Notice again how Cuba got most of it . Again it finished when Castro came to power. The Dominican Republic is there. Haiti gets only a little. Most of this is surplus from the Second World War and the Korean War or eventually obsolete equipment which is given to the countries. But one has to consider that these are armies and police that cannot absorb high technology equipment. They can not absorb it and the U.S. policy is never to give high technology equipment. For example, as in contrast to Cuba that the Soviet Union gave them high technology equipment because they knew that if Cuba had that technology the U.S. would think it over in terms of invading Cuba because there would be a bloodbath. But in terms of the Caribbean, the U.S. always gives equipment which is really for internal security.


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