主题：也来说说邓小平的功过 -- 达雅

The US recognized the Castro government on 7 January, only six days after Batista fled Cuba. President Eisenhower sent a new ambassador, Philip Bonsal, to replace Earl Smith, who had been close to Batista. The Eisenhower administration, in agreement with the US media and the Congress (Republicans and Democrats alike), did this with the assumption that “Cuba must remain in the US sphere of influence”. If Castro accepted these parameters, he would be allowed to stay in power. Otherwise he would be overthrown.[87]Among the opponents of Batista there were many who wanted to accommodate the US. However, Castro belonged to a faction who, to the astonishment of Eisenhower and many North Americans, was repulsed by US domination and paternalism. Castro did not forgive the US supply of arms to Batista during the revolution. On 5 June 1958, he wrote: “The Americans are going to pay dearly for what they are doing. When the war is over, I’ll start a much longer and bigger war of my own: the war I’m going to fight against them. That will be my true destiny.”[88] (The US had stopped supplies to Batista in March 1958, but left its Military Advisory Group in Cuba[89]). Thus, Castro had no intention to bow to the US. “Even though he did not have a clear blueprint of the Cuba he wanted to create, Castro dreamed of a sweeping revolution that would uproot his country’s oppressive socioeconomic structure and of a Cuba that would be free of the United States”.[90]

By the end of 1960, all opposition newspaper had been closed down and all radio and television stations were in state control.[80]:189 Teachers and professors were purged.[80]:189 The Communist Party strengthened its one-party rule, with Castro as the supreme leader.[80]:189 Moderates were arrested.[80]:189 Fidel's brother Raul Castro became the commander of the army.[80]:189 In September 1960, the neighborhood watch networks known as committees for the defense of the revolution (CDR) were created.[80]:189