Frontline

Season 3, Episode 12

Episode Title: Crisis in Central America 2: Castro's Challenge

Air Date: 1985-04-10

Overview:

The Cuban revolution of the 1950's was the first successful challenge to US preeminence in the Western hemisphere. Part 2 looks at the roots of the revolution, Fidel Castro's rise to power, the establishment of the first Communist state in the Americas, the support for his revolution abroad, and Cuba's troubled history with the United States.