Cuban cuisine

Obama’s rule change, which came through a Department of Homeland Security regulation, applied to one group of people: Cubans. Obama’s Jan. 12 announcement ended the so-called "wet foot-dry foot" policy that had allowed Cubans without visas who reached U.S. shores (typically Florida) to gain automatic entry to the United States to ask for political asylum. Under the policy, those caught at sea, however, were sent back to Cuba. The policy was started in 1995 under President Bill Clinton in an…

Agreed, the Bay of Pigs operations was based on many dangerous assumptions. The United States assumed that the Cuban people would support the rebel resistance, based on second-hand information. The reality was the majority of the Cuban population supported Fidel Castro and his social policies. Further, President Kennedy had assumed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) trained rebel forces would retreat to the mountainous region of Cuba and continue to fight if the operation began to fall…

decrease significantly after the country established itself as the first communist state. By being an ally of the Soviets and the powerful dictatorship of Fidel Castro, Cuba posed a threat for the United States, from the late 50s to the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis in the year 1962. Though the Missile Crisis had ended, relations between the two countries went for the worst after the United States imposed despotic…

Cubans predominantly get their knowledge in school but being a communist country, information is altered or omitted. Having visited Cuba as a boy, another means of access are a kind of internet café, though popular the time it takes just waiting in line…

middle class. While many Cuban leaders such as Che Guevera wanted the Cuban Revolution to serve as an example to other Latin American countries and create a revolution througjout Latin America, Castro was more concerned with establishing Cuba as independant and able to stand on it’s own. Castro wanted the people to accept three key principals. Accept himself as the leader and sole controler of Cuba and it’s citizens, to have a genuine love and respect for your fellow Cuban citizens and to have a…

Fidel Castro was a man whom people looked up to after he overthrew the government of Batista, but also a man who tore apart the country economically with his idea of a communist government in Cuba. After his death, the future for the Cuban people was unknown with the new leader, Raul Castro (Fidel's Brother), coming into power. Fidel Castro promoted autocracy in Cuba by jailing his political opponent and those who opposed him, taking property and land from private landowners, and forced…

Rafael stepped onto the passenger ship with his luggage in hand. His face was stone-cold and emotionless. He lacked the spring in his step and smile in his eyes that rarely left his kindly face. However, today was different. Imagine you have belief which is so sound that you are willing to fight and die for it. Now imagine that you found out that by fighting for this belief, you had caused someone you loved unimaginable pain. This was all Rafael could think about. Was this all his life…

Why is the U.S. and cuban relationship so difficult to resolve? From 1961 to the present moment the U.S. and Cuba have had rough relationship due to many events. Each of these countries see totally different futures than each other causing them to never be able to come to an agreement with each other. Although their future to have a relationship isn’t impossible all it 's going to take is time and communication. Communication is the key component to this relationship and can be seen that it has…

Fidel Castro has influenced the history of the world and American foreign policy by doing things such as overthrowing the cruel dictator Fulgencio Batista, forming the first communist country in the western hemisphere, and playing a key role in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Fidel was born August 13th, 1926 out of wedlock between Angel Castro, who was a wealthy sugar plantation owner, and Lina Ruz Gonzalez. At the time of Castro’s birth, his father was married to Maria Argota but by the time Castro…

The Cruel and Unusual Reign of Rafael Trujillo In reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz, one can observe the dictator present in the novel is a cruel, Iron-fisted ruler. This Dictator, Rafael Trujillo, was dictator of The Dominican Republic for over 30 years. From 1930 to 1961, the year of his assassination, Trujillo held a threatening presence throughout the country. Because of the many ways he would instill fear into the population, it is identifiable that Trujillo…