Cuban sandwich

extreme food insecurity, the political leadership could not afford to ignore the needs of the population, particularly in a country like Cuba, where food and politics are inextricably intertwined" (Premat 35). This just highlights the importance of the Cuban population and the measure the government are willing to take just to aid the…

The Motorcycle Diaries is a journey in both senses of the word. It is about Che Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado’s trip from Argentina, South America, and eventually Miami. He originally planned a day-trip that stretched out to a month’s stay with only a dollar bill and the plane that he flew. While finishing medical school, he spent many of his holidays traveling in Latin America, and observing the great poverty that lead to the great conclusion that being violent was the only revolution.…

literature currently disseminating within academia and mainstream research regarding American and Cuban encounters. “On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture”, is another Louis A. Pérez production that emphasizes the evolutions and transitions between, above, and below the two countries. The 579-page text is a tedious read, but a thorough history of the cultural significance the U.S. has on Cuban society. Pérez accomplishes this by studying the period between the mid-nineteenth…

Some of these programs that Castro elaborated on and received immense support from the Cuban population were aimed at correcting problems such as managing of land, lack of industrialization and modernization, unemployment, education, and health of the working class4. This idea of fixing these social issue were part of all the populist movements…

Many of those who write about the Cuban Revolution have credited him as being the soul of the revolution (Valdés 27). His rhetoric in History Will Absolve Me is partly a testament to that sentiment. As stated, the speech largely outline the goals Castro hoped the revolution would accomplish and his reasoning for trying to seize Moncada. Still, the language that he employs in this speech is similar to rhetoric that he used decades forward. This speech did not gain instant attention, but its…

claim that Che’s arrived at Marxism through Cuban Revolution experience. Che experienced the revolution in Cuba, he even took part in the Cuban revolution. He was a leading figure of the Cuban revolution, but he was already a Marxist when he was in Guatemala, and he was possessed by reading Communism books. Che was interested in sharing his knowledge about communism. As he met Cuban refugees, he strived to share his knowledge. As he shared it with a Cuban Militant named Dario Lopez. Che Guevara…

so-called “wet-foot, dry-foot policy” that puts Cubans who reach U.S. soil on a fast track to permanent residency. The government initiated the policy in 1995 as an amendment to the1966 Cuban Adjustment Act that Congress passed when Cold War tensions ran high between the U.S. and the island nation. Under the amendment, when a Cuban migrant is apprehended in the water between the two countries, he is considered to have “wet feet” and is sent back home. A Cuban who makes it to the U.S. shore,…

By Lizabel Mónica Visual Artist Nestor Siré has set up an art gallery inside today's most popular Cuban media. El Paquete is a 1 Terabyte size changing database of digital content, mostly pirated, and transferred informally through USB external hard drives. El Paquete is nothing like television, any form of radio, or the Internet. It is a huge media phenomenon run through hand-to-hand distribution and outside of government control. There, Siré has managed to insert an Art Gallery. WHO IS…

January 28th 1961 Kennedy authorized the continuation of the invasion. Kennedy’s committee approved the invasion on February 7th 1960. The plan’s success was contingent on 3,500 Cubans expected to join the force to overthrow Castro, they would assist the 1,500 men they started off with. The CIA later saw that Castro had more support in Cuba than originally anticipated and that the plan should be adjusted accordingly. Kennedy’s committee…

corrupt and repressive dictator, but cosider pro-american and an ally to U.S. companies. American’s wealthy people that almost owned half of cubas sugar plantations, and their cattle ranches, mines, and utilities. He was reliably anticommunist. A lot of Cubans liked Fidel Castro’s overthrow of the dictatorial president Fulgencio Batista. Fidel Castro became dictator in 1959.Castro had been a concern in the U.S. since he siezed power in cuba with a revolution. There was a new order about 100…