Castro

Cuba, as a Caribbean island nation, is a totalitarian (a government system which gives people very little or nil authority) communist state with the political belief of “One state, One party” since 1959. Lead by General Raul Castro who heads the Cuban Communist Party, which is the only authorized party in the country. Cuba has seen a volatile political scenario with changing and rejection of constitutions, official lies and unofficial truths about political status quos, lack of diplomatic…

Fidel Castro Fidel Castro is one of the most powerful men that ever lived. He is a man that is full of knowledge and perseverance. His strong will for the ownership of power took over his life. On the contrary he was very intelligent willing to give everything in order to have that power. His stability and work ethic allowed him to become a powerful dictator. To better understand Fidel Castro a person should examine his rise of power, his victories, and his leadership. First of all,…

revolution Fidel Castro had overthrown dictator Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba and an American- backed ally. Batista was a corrupt leader and had very pro-American stance in policy making. These allowed U.S companies to completely dominate the Cuban sugar business. At the time U.S companies and wealthy individuals not only controlled the sugar business but also various cattle ranches,mines and other fields of the Cuban economy. Batista was very anti-communist. Unlike Fidel Castro who…

Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez sets the story of a murder in a small town in Bolivia. The novel takes place in the 1950s, with parallels of political characters such as Santiago to the Cuban regime under Batista and the Vicario bothers to Fidel Castro, Marquez creates an allegory for the rise and fall of left wing Latino governments. Left wing governments, in this context, aim to create equality through regulations while right wing governments govern with the ideology of every man for himself…

Fidel Castro was an influential and highly publicized leader as he took a socialist stand on many of his views, if not all of them. As the communist leader of Cuba for nearly half a century, he oversaw his socialist regime and was the pariah of the socialist movement in Cuba. Before Castro took charge of Cuba in 1959 he led a guerilla warfare style attack against the countries then leader Batista. With full control of Cuba, Castro implemented a communist regime in order to hopefully rid the…

After the 1950s, Fidel Castro was arguably the most prominent figure in Cuban politics, as he was the instigator of the Cuban Revolution, of which we still see the long-lasting outcomes in Cuba today. Along with Che Guevara and his brother, Raúl Castro, Fidel Castro went on to become a principal contender in the armed uprising against the US-backed authoritarian government run by Fulgencio Batista. As a revolutionary leader, Castro’s competence as a liberator, and the future of Cuba has been…

History Will Absolve Me: Fidel Castro Jessie O. Santana Modern Latin America May 6, 2016 The Cuban Revolution of the late 1950s started the political turmoil that would eventually spread throughout Latin America. Cuba served as one of the wealthiest, most prominent, and most educated societies of Latin America. The close proximity of the United States, its huge investments in the Cuba, and the most powerful dictator of the Caribbean in control, Cuba appeared to be an unlikely country…

United States and Cuba coincided with one another mainly because Cuba wanted to introduce the idea of democracy to Latin America; soon discontinued when Fidel Castro, Cuba’s Prime Minister, came into power and followed the Communist Party’s ideas” (Wikipedia). These turn of events caused “the United States government was not pleased […] [that] Castro had lined up [with the] Third World [Nationalist…

of hope for all Cubans. This symbol of hope status continued on after his death and has become both a pop culture and counterculture icon. The involvement that Guevara had in the Cuban Revolution was enormous, leading the revolution alongside Fidel Castro. Guevara is often referred to as the most…

Soviets. However, Kennedy did not respond to this in the way that Castro wanted. Kennedy’s next move was incredibly risky, but due to his new aggressive policy towards the Cubans and Russians, he decided to go through with it. By placing a blockade around Cuba, which denied Russia access to them, Kennedy isolated Castro and forced him to decide whether to attack or give in to Kennedy’s demands. This move was risky due to the fact that Castro could have just simply decided to launch the missiles…