Left Wing Nationalist Movement Research Paper

The left-wing nationalist movements in many Latin American countries had certain factors that held enormous political and social importance. One of the most significant and common factor of these movements was the issue of equal access of resources by the common people. This issue was also a major reason for high rates of inequality in Latin American countries like Cuba and Chile. Around 1950’s, factors like poverty and lack of basic needs posed some serious challenges to the development of Cuba (Chasteen, 269-270). A Cuban left-wing revolutionary, Fidel Castro believed that the control of resources by the upper class people was a major reason for Cuba’s struggles (Castro, 309). Castro also believed that the U.S. intervention in Cuban matters …show more content…
Castro stated that industrialization, housing, unemployment, education and health were the six major problems that Cuba was facing (Castro, 309). Castro further claimed that thousands of children died every year due to the lack in medical facilities in the country and government officials who steal millions are responsible for it. (Castro, 311). Castro explains how farmers did not have the freedom to plant trees and crops of their choice as the policemen or the sheriff would evict them from their lands (Castro, 306). After mentioning many other problems and struggles of Cuba, Castro asserted that a revolutionary government backed by the people would be a solution to most of the problems (Castro, 312). In the same speech Castro proposed five revolutionary laws. These five laws demanded, return of the power to the common people of Cuba, issuance of nonmortgageable and nontransferable ownership of lands to all farmers and squatters, granting of 30 percent of the profits of all industrial, mercantile and mining enterprises to workers and employees, granting sugar planters with the right to share fifty five percent of the sugar production for all small tenant farmers and finally, the confiscation of all illegal goods earned by fraud during the previous regimes respectively (Castro, 307-308). …show more content…
government. Firstly, the U.S. backed the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista who was continuously defied by Fidel and Raul Castro (Chasteen, 271). Then the U.S. stopped exporting sugar from Cuba. By 1960, U.S. put an end to all trade from Cuba. Moreover, U.S. also made sure that the Cuban trade is cut off with all the U.S. allied countries. Any Cuban goods or materials were not allowed afterward in U.S. harbors. Cuba was also expelled from the OAS despite the opposition of the largest Latin American countries (Chasteen, 273). In 1960, U.S. trained a proxy force that was equipped by CIA to invade Cuba. In 1961, when these anti-Castro Cubans landed at the Bay of Pigs, they were defeated by the Cuban army and their mission failed (Chasteen, 273-274). According to the book, “To change the world” by Margaret Randall, U.S. captured 11 Cuban fishermen and held them as captives. Furthermore, the U.S. planned an operation “mongoose” whose goals were to penetrate, thwart and abolish the Cuban government (Landsdale, 540). According to this operation, the CIA planned to send small teams into the Cuban countryside from boats. These teams were supposed to start a survey of potential recruits for a resistance group against the government. As these recruits join, they were to be trained by the CIA teams. One such team named Pinar Del Rio in western Cuba was very successful in their task. The CIA sent numerous resupply of