Cuban Revolution

Everything those people have is all they have. The Cuban government has a corrupt system. The government continues to censor information and punish public criticism. Since the govenment has a communists system, everyone in Cuba has to follow their rules or else they will get punished. It now relies on long-term…

world of politics, this helped Castro become more involved in the political world (Editiors 4). They had one child, Fidelity. Castros pursues his politcal ambitions and ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Cuban parliment (bio 5, 6). In 1952, General Batista led a military coup overthrew the Cuban government, cancelled elected and set himself up as dictator of Cuba (Gant 13). Fidel Castro had little income and power. His marraige to Mirta was falling and he felt the country heaing in the wrong…

Before the Cuban revolution, under president Fulgencio Batista, Cuba was plagued with unemployment and limited water infrastructure. Less than 50% of children were given education and hygiene was very poor. Furthermore, Batista was far more dictatorial than anyone had expected. He even let American companies dominate the economy and formed links to organized crime. 75% of Cuba’s most fertile and arable land was owned by foreign individuals. All of this contributed to making life worse for Cuban…

Castro formally declared Cuba a socialist state on May of 1961. In his historic 2014 trip to Cuba Obama, to the surprise of many, justified the revolution of 1959 arguing that like the US’s 1776 revolution, it had taken unavoidable measures against terrible injustices. Why the Cuban revolution took a Communist turn has much to do with the island’s cruel history, specifically, the long line of leaders who were ready to sell Cuba to the highest bidder. The island saw much political unrest after…

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 3.18 members. Some of the differences of the U.S. and Cuba cultures are unambiguous. However, the Americans take for granted many luxuries, where as Cubans go without; nevertheless, one of the moral qualities of happiness cannot be built on what…

El Rapto de las Mulatas, made in 1938, is a painting by Cuban avant-garde artist Carlos Enriquez. It translates to “The Abduction of the Mulatas,” where mulatas are mixed race women in Cuba. The painting portrays a scenario that is described very literally in the title: a pair of mulatas being abducted and raped by two men who seem to be guajiros, Cuban countrymen. There are varying theories pertaining to what exactly the painting really represents, but most of these theories are centered around…

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…

The Cuban Revolution was the effect of Fidel Castro overthrowing Batista’s regime and exiling him known as The 26 July Movement (Schepers). It boosted his support through a nationalistic eloquence that would have Cuban citizens jump on board with his reforms. Since Castro was unpredictable he was seen as a radical reformist and leaning to the left (Weeks 119). The Revolution would severe ties of economic dependency that would fulfill their…

Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926, in Birán, Cuba. Castro’s’ father was a wealthy Spanish sugarcane farmer who first came to Cuba during the Cuban War of Independence and his mother was a servant for his father’s family. After attending a couple of Jesuit schools where he excelled at baseball, Castro enrolled as a law student at the University of Havana. While there, he became interested in politics, joining the anti-corruption Orthodox Party. From 1940 to 1944, Fulgencio Batista served…

Policy toward Cuba’, all share and discuss a long complicated history of Cuban relations and, images of U.S. perceptions of Cubans and how those images and relationships translate into Cuban identity. Clearly, all three articles have a visibly different focus however, underneath lie examples of cultural, social, political and economic significance between the U.S. and Cuban relationship while also highlighting a conduit for Cuban frustration…