Fidel Castro Reflection

The reading from this class have helped me put those two assessments of the life of the Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, into perspective by allowing me understand how certain events that happened around the world. They help me see the impacted that Castro had on the life of Cubans. I had been exposed to The Cold War and some of the events related to Cuba like the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis but, that was a while back. So, if I tried to put these two assessments into perspective before having taken this class, it probably would’ve been a little bit difficult for me. Since, all the information we learned in this class was fresh, it was easier to make the connection. Also, the fact that it focuses on Global Crises allowed me to make the connections like exile, between the books we read in this class like Nothing to Envy and Persepolis to the Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s death and life. The Cold War reader …show more content…
North Korea is also Communist just like Cuba. So, reading Nothing to Envy allowed me to see how people have this faith and ideology towards their leaders. In Nothing to Envy, people were devastated when their leader Kim Ill Sung passed away, just like some Cubans are devastated because of Castro’s death. In Nothing to Envy, people were afraid to leave, they felt like they were betraying their leader, even though he was already dead. Many didn’t even speak about their plans to leave the country because they feared getting sent to the camps. People didn’t think about leaving North Korea until they realized that their government wasn’t really what they presumed to be. They realized how much better life was outside of North Korea, influencing them to leave the country. That perspective that the North Korean’s had about their government towards the end of Nothing to Envy was similar to the perspective that the Cuban’s had about their government. Cubans found freedom by leaving their as