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Iguala Student Protests and Socialism in Mexico Kanon Hewitt POLI100-228 Introduction to Politics Chris Erickson Miaofeng Zhang  The student protest of discriminatory hiring practices in the Mexican education system was inspired by revolutionist socialist ideology seen during the Cuban Revolution. The subsequent massacre of the protesting students serves as a chilling reminder that socialism has not yet succeeded in the state. The corruption of the local government as well as recent Mexican…

Originally I was going to write my Narrative Biography about a special friend of my family, but I decided to interview a person I met in Cuba. This past spring break I went to Cuba with my friends for vacation, where we stayed at my friend’s grandmother house in a town called Nueva Vedado. In this trip I met Hilda Rodríguez, one of the most strong woman I have ever met. Hilda was born on September 19, 1945 in Varadero, Cuba. Hilda was the third child of Pepe and Carmen. Hilda also has a twin…

In The Time of The Butterflies The novel, “In the Time of the Butterflies,” by Julia Alvarez shows a persistent amount of courage with the main characters. The background of In the Time of the Butterflies is mid-20th century Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and the story of the Mirabal Sisters. The Dominican Republic is ruled by a fascist dictator named Rafael Leonidas Trujillo or El Jefe, who runs and ruins everybody life who do not listen. The Mirabal…

Introduction Since October 19th 1960, our United States government has had an economic embargo (trade blockade) against Cuba. This embargo significantly impacted trade corporations in Cuba because it restricted exports from the United States. Then on February 7th 1962, the embargo was extended to include the restriction of almost all imports from Cuba to the United States. This extension of the embargo caused notable harm to the Cuban economy and consequently, the wellbeing of citizens residing…

In researching the business culture of another foreign country for the use of an informational memo. I am letting my classmates, know what country has been chosen to research and share some of it's interesting facts on the country of Cuba. How is that country's culture similar to or different from U.S. culture? Despite the fact, of some of the ways Cuban culture can be similar to U.S. culture may be through the average family of the U.S. having 3.19 members, where the Cuban family average has…

Ayllon Lucas Vazquez De In this report I will be telling you about an explorer named Ayllon Lucas Vazquez De. I have never read or even heard about him before so we will be learning together about this explorer. I will be writing about this explorer and where he went. What he did on his journey and about his life. So here we go. Ayllon was born in 1475 in Toledo, Spain. He was the son of a judge, Judge Juan Ayllon. Ayllon’s father was the head of a noble and wealthy family of Toledo. Which…

Cuba was an independent country since 1902 but was still under the American influence until the Cuban Revolution. This was because the United States were allowed to have a naval base at Guantanamo and had great capital investments in different businesses and industries such as the sugar industry. During this time Fulgencio Batista was the Cuban dictator but was corrupt and oppressive and therefore disliked by the Cuban citizens. America supported Batista because he was helpful for the American…

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…

Fidel Castro Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926 near Cuba's eastern Province. Fidel Castro was the third of six children, including his two brothers, Raul and Ramon; and three sisters, Angelia, Emma and Augustine. His father, Angel, was a wealthy sugar plantation owner originally from Spain. Lina GonzalezHis mother, , had been a maid to Angel's first wife, Maria Argot, at the time of Fidel's birth. Fidel Castro helped the fight against the gruella warfare and went over there to aid me…

When the average person is asked to identify a single fact they know about the country Cuba, the most common reply is Communism. Communism existed constantly in Cuba for over fifty years and became associated with Cuba’s identity. The role of Communism negatively impacted Cuba both economically and politically over the past fifty years. Recent events in Cuba, including the November 25, 2016, death of Fidel Castro, began to reverse the negativity of Cuba’s communism, as well as the…