Fidel Castro

The purpose was to overthrow Fidel Castro’s communist rule of Cuba. The whole operation was based on the assumption that the Cubans would welcome an invasion. The CIA completely failed to successfully execute the operation. The failure of Big of pigs had several ripple effects. It put fear in Castro, causing him to take help from U.S.S.R, which planned to establish military bases in Cuba. After the failure of Bay…

his mind as he observed, “Cubans play baseball, Russians play soccer.” The Cuban Missile Crisis was due to a chain of events involving the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union. Those events began with Fulgencio Batista becoming a dictator, Fidel Castro revolting against the…

Following the years of severely strained relations between the United States and Cuba, Cuban leader Fidel Castro openly declared that he is a Marxist-Leninist. Castro came to power in 1959 after leading a successful revolution against the dictatorial regime of Fulgencio Batista. Almost from the start, the United States worried that “Castro was too leftist in his politics”. He implemented agrarian reform, expropriated foreign oil company holdings, and eventually seized all foreign-owned property…

over forty years, and commercial flights between the countries had not been around for fifty years. Relations between the U.S. and Cuba were not toxic until Fidel Castro took power in 1959. In the 1960s relations quickly plummeted before remaining in a constant state of isolation for both countries until 2008 when Raúl Castro replaced Fidel and Obama became President. In the past two years, relations between America and Cuba have increased significantly leading to a larger amount of immigrants…

Che arrived in Guatemala and met a Peruvian woman named Hilda Galea. They started to live together and sleep together. He was then introduced to Fidel Castro. According to Che’s friend in Guatemala, che had read “a whole Marxist library”, and was possessed. Some 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…

instead of eradicating the regime of Fidel Castro, the embargo has oppressed the Cuban people and has disclosed a more substantial communist dominance on Cuba. As evident, the embargo has weakened Cuba's economy and has made Cuban citizens more vulnerable and increased the likelihood to follow and obey Castro, as they see the U.S as the true cause of their problems. An example displayed in the article "How The Embargo Hurts Cubans And Helps Castro" states, “Although Castro clamors for an end to…

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 miles away from the United States made American officials nervous.Castro disapproved of their approach that the Americans took to cuba.…

After watching the “Clouds over Cuba” documentary, I have learned about various facts and concepts that I did not have complete prior knowledge of. The two most important facts I learned were that the United States of America was a divided nation when President John F. Kennedy came into power and Kennedy inherited a plan from President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration. The former fact was discussed in the first chapter of the documentary titled “Context” while the latter was discussed in…

crucial to the city of Havana because Havana is one of the main areas in which different ethnicities initially gathered in Cuba. Aspects of each of these traditions blended together to create a social culture that is diverse. Unfortunately, after Fidel Castro came to power, much of what Havana was once known for became…

Fidel Castro’s famous speech during his court trial in 1953 gave the majority of the working class within Cuba a voice that they would rally behind. Castro’s speech “History will absolve me” contained great elements of revolutionary determination to relieve Cuba of its corrupt government and the passion to address the country’s issues and to ensure the people of Cuba justice and freedom. He called for the people to fight for their justice, “These are the people, the ones who know misfortune and,…