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    Ayllon Lucas Vazquez De

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    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…

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    Cuban American Influence

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    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 economy…

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    Government officials use scare tactics to scare dissidents. Government critics still continue to be imprisoned. Many report that they were beaten during arrest. Cuban representatives of the 53-year Castro family dynasty began their table-banging. Venezuela to shield its horrendous record of abuse and equally problematically, to validate other authoritarian governments such as Syria, Iran and one that sits shamefully…

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    implemented a communist regime in order to hopefully rid the economic power that the United States had gained in the years leading up to his reign. Fidel Castro played pivotal roles in some of the world’s biggest political events. Event’s like the Cuban Missile Crisis, an event that left America afraid that the…

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    He also served as a president for the Cuban government and helped then as a nation. He is involved in one of the most known almost nuclear wars the Cuban missile crisis. President Dwight Eisenhower broke off diplomatic relations with the Cuban government. On April 16, Castro formally declared Cuba a socialist state. The following day, 1,400 Cuban exiles invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow the Castro regime. This leads…

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    Communism In Cuba

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    brutal and dictatorial than ever before started transforming Cuba. Batista “manipulated presidential elections, cracked down on newspapers, outlawed strikes, and embezzled money from the state” (Berlatsky para 2). There became no doubt in the mind of Cuban residents that their ruler began adopting a dictatorial style. In 1959, it would continue. Fidel Castro, followed by his brother ‎Raúl Castro, would run Cuba for the next fifty years under an overwhelming communist…

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    Why did Fidel Castro come to power? Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban Politian and revolutionary who ruled Cuba for almost 5 decades. In 1959 he seized control as dictator due to Fulgencio Batista (the former dictator) being disliked by the people of Cuba because of the lack of a genuine alternative to his regime, economic problems and unemployment. To over throw him Castro led revolts and offered an alternative type of leadership which made him popular with the citizens and ultimately prime…

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    Before the Communist Revolution in 1959, Cuba’s economic system had reached a complete downfall, having a negative impact on the people. Most of the population was living in poverty. Around 75% of people in rural areas lived in huts made out of palm trees, 50% of people didn’t have toilets, 85% of people didn’t have clean, running water, and approximately 90% of people didn’t have electricity. These living conditions exposed people to more illnesses and there was a higher death rate due to the…

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    Communism In Cuba

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    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…

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    case of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was well known that Kennedy himself had established rapport with Khrushchev to the point where his first reaction was “He can’t do this to me!” upon hearing the news of the presence of offensive warheads in Cuba. Had the president been someone else with a different established relationship with Khrushchev, the reaction and situation, most definitively, would be different. Allison also demonstrates that there are many forces at play concerning the Cuban…

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