How Did Castro Come To Power

Following the years of severely strained relations between the United States and Cuba, Cuban leader Fidel Castro openly declared that he is a Marxist-Leninist. Castro came to power in 1959 after leading a successful revolution against the dictatorial regime of Fulgencio Batista. Almost from the start, the United States worried that “Castro was too leftist in his politics”. He implemented agrarian reform, expropriated foreign oil company holdings, and eventually seized all foreign-owned property in Cuba. He also established close diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and the Russians were soon providing economic and military aid. By January 1961, the United States had severed diplomatic relations with Cuba. In April, the Bay of Pigs invasion took place, wherein hundreds of rebels, armed and trained by the …show more content…
He was the reason for the moral that was empowering the revolutionaries into action. He was the reason for the nationalism that flamed inside everyone in the revolution in order to achieve a more united country. Castro firmly believed that the Cuban government under the control of Batista was morally wrong. Castro himself described his impression of the government that was in place by saying, “Batista came to power by force, through a coup d'etat. He looted the country. All his acts were illegal.” His first and foremost task was to rescue the Cuban people from this repressive and detrimental government that was already in place. He thought the only way to get rid of Batista and his corrupt rule was to bring a revolution to the country by the people. So he “decided to launch a revolutionary programme and organize a popular uprising.” This revolutionary programme was designed to bring about a new government that would treat its people equally and not discriminate against any minorities in the