Marxism–Leninism Cuban Revolution, led by Fidel Castro and Ché Guevara, overthrew the régime (1925–1959) of Fulgencio Batista to establish the Republic of Cuba, a Communist state recognised by the Soviet Union. In response, the United States attempted a coup d'état against the Castro government, such as the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion (April 1961), by anti-communist Cuban exiles, sponsored by the CIA. The next year, there occurred the Cuban missile crisis (October 1962), a diplomatic dispute between the United States and the Soviet Union over the presence of medium-range, Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. The Soviet Union resolved the nuclear-missile crisis
Workers' Central Union of Cuba Workers' Central Union of Cuba The Workers Central Union of Cuba (CTC) is the trade union federation in Cuba. It originated as the "Confederación de Trabajadores de Cuba" (Confederation of Cuban Workers) in 1939 and changed its name to the Central Union of Cuban Workers in 1961. The CTC unites 19 sectoral unions, organised in more than 81,000 workplaces, with elected municipal, provincial and national committees for each union, with all Cuban workers belonging to this trade union federation. The CTC also has a weekly newspaper, "Trabajadores". In the 1930s, the Cuban labor movement declined after an unsuccessful general strike