"Cuban Missile Crisis Passes Quietly, 50 Years Later" By Sydney Magnall

In the small quiet town of Bejuca you would never of guessed there to be nuclear weapons there, "But a military bunker here was the biggest storage depot on the island for the Soviet nuclear weapons 50 years ago." The soviet leader secretly stored them here. JFK was informed about this and the following 13 days were very close to having a nuclear war break out.U.S. spy planes were flying around in cuba. "They flew low and close to the ground," said Torres, a local farmer who stopped on his bicycle to share a few war stories. "We pointed our guns at the planes but our Commander Fidel [Castro] hadn't given the order to shoot." Cuba then talked about invading the U.S."Carlos Alzugaray, a university student and defense analyst at the Cuba's Foreign Ministry in 1962, remembers coming back to the ministry late at night exhausted after spending the day digging trenches, and getting questions from his colleagues about the U.S. Army nuclear warfare manual he'd been reading. They wanted to know what happened would happen if there was a nuclear war. He was 19." Eventually Castor held a meeting with Kennedys advisors and they talked about it. 

 It has been 50 years since this event and they are having a small commemoration about it. "I think we lost a great opportunity in the crisis," Morales says. "The only great opportunity we've ever had in our conflict with the United States. Because what we've learned over the years about the United States is that you have to have something to negotiate with. You have to have something to give."

I found this article very interesting. I didn't know about and I am glad that learned about it.

http://www.npr.org/2012/10/16/162956358/cuban-missile-crisis-passes-quietly-50-years-later