I have to say that the lecture from last week in our Introduction to Latin America History (LLS 130) class has been one of the most fascinating and interesting class I have ever take about Latin America history. I even wanted to change my research paper topic to the Cuban Revolution. Also, the reading Colonialism is Doomed by Che Guevara and the film Nobody Listened (Nadie Escuchaba) by Néstor Almendros 1987, were the perfect complements to this lecture.
First of all, let’s talk about why a revolution happened in Cuba. Cuba elected Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar in 1940, but then Batista became a dictator in 1952. Even though this event happened, things were going well in Cuba in the aspect of socioeconomic. The principal problem at that time was Cuba’s autonomic in relation to the United States, it was limited by economic and …show more content…
The way these people in the film describe this time is something awesome, like a new beginning of freedom, where they will find justice and all human rights will be respected. But the revolution took another path and whoever was against Castro’s ideals of revolution end up suffering. In the film, we saw how all these people that were against the government talks about the horror that was happening in Cuba and nobody helped them. The way the majority of these people went to jail was unfair, there was not freedom of expression in Cuba. The way they used to punish these young people were by incarcerating or executing. In jail they were being tortured, they couldn't see their family, they were taken to a kind of dungeon called “Gavetas”, drawers, where the amount of space was very limited and sometimes five people were there for days, let's add to this not sanitation conditions. The idea behind the government doing this kind of horror was to make these people change their ideas about the revolution. Also, many people die, a genocide happened in Cuba, and nobody
First of all, let’s talk about why a revolution happened in Cuba. Cuba elected Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar in 1940, but then Batista became a dictator in 1952. Even though this event happened, things were going well in Cuba in the aspect of socioeconomic. The principal problem at that time was Cuba’s autonomic in relation to the United States, it was limited by economic and …show more content…
The way these people in the film describe this time is something awesome, like a new beginning of freedom, where they will find justice and all human rights will be respected. But the revolution took another path and whoever was against Castro’s ideals of revolution end up suffering. In the film, we saw how all these people that were against the government talks about the horror that was happening in Cuba and nobody helped them. The way the majority of these people went to jail was unfair, there was not freedom of expression in Cuba. The way they used to punish these young people were by incarcerating or executing. In jail they were being tortured, they couldn't see their family, they were taken to a kind of dungeon called “Gavetas”, drawers, where the amount of space was very limited and sometimes five people were there for days, let's add to this not sanitation conditions. The idea behind the government doing this kind of horror was to make these people change their ideas about the revolution. Also, many people die, a genocide happened in Cuba, and nobody