Cubans

This was the first step of the Cuban Revolution; one of the most important events in Cuba’s history. The Cuban Revolution which started as an uprising in order to overthrow a dictator, ultimately just brought another dictator to power. It affected Cuba’s economy, politics and culture. The Cuban Revolution tried to develop an equal society where every citizen had the same rights and privileges. It also tried to establish Cuba as an economically independent country. While we usually define freedom as the “power or right to speak, or think as we want”, the leaders of the Cuban Revolution had a different concept of what it means to be free. The real starting…

“Cuba Libre!” screamed the Cuban-Americans that gathered in the streets of Hialeah the night the man who altered the course of many lives, including mine, died. My grandmother, a Cuban widow, who’d live over 50 years in American and speaks close to no English, experienced the pain of Castro’s regime first-hand. That night, at a fatigue-filled 85 years old, she would take out the Guiro, a Cuban instrument used usually for celebrations like fiestas and Noche Buena, and frantically strum while…

The Cuban Revolution took place between the years 1953-1959. The revolution, technically, started in 1952 when Fulgencio Batista took power in Cuba, again. Batista had previously been an army sergeant in Cuba from 1921-1940 and president from 1940-1944; however, with these new elections in 1952, Batista was certain that he was going to lose, so he then decided to take power. Fidel Castro would’ve most likely won a seat in their “Congress” if the elections would’ve been done, but since they…

afternoon. The topic of this speech is on the United States should or should not lift the Cuban embargo. This is a very short backstory behind the embargo placed on Cuba. The U.S. placed an trade embargo on Cuba in 1962 and added travel restrictions in 1963. The economic embargo was placed because Cuba had taken oil-refineries which were American owned as their own and Cuba did not give compensation to the U.S. Since then, the U.S. disliked Cuba and mostly Cuba’s leader Fidel Castro who wanted…

no interaction with Cuba were long and caused political tensions between the two countries. The United States and Cuba did not go about solving their problems and doing what was necessary to get what they wanted and what was best for their respective nations in the right way. The uprise of Fidel Castro, a Cuban revolutionary, in 1959 is the main root of the various problems and feuds that they two nations have with each other. Castro and a group of revolutionaries seized Havana and overthrew…

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…

and tyranny, however the Cuban courts due to the power of Batista. The Cuban courts rejected Castro’s constitutional arguments as Batista security to silence any political opposition was to great to overpower. In late 1940’s and 1950’s…

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 1959 after years of revolution Fidel Castro had overthrown dictator Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba and an American- backed ally. Batista was a corrupt leader and had very pro-American stance in policy making. These allowed U.S companies to completely dominate the Cuban sugar business. At the time U.S companies and wealthy individuals not only controlled the sugar business but also various cattle ranches,mines and other fields of the Cuban economy. Batista was very anti-communist.…

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 and he was anti-communism. During this time…