Fidel Castro

Reinaldo Arenas, author of Before Night Falls, portrays the political, social, and intellectual struggles he had to endure both in Cuba and in the United States. As a teenager in Holguín, Arenas experienced how the current political activity in Fidel Castro’s attempt to overthrow Fulgencio Batista affected their Christmas. Arenas declares although he loved to hear his grandfather mention the topic of Christmas, in 1957, he did not mention it. Arenas discusses that, “[i]t was only the ‘the Bloody…

The Cuban Revolution is one of them. Civil war took place in Cuban between Dec. 2, 1956 and Jan. 2, 1959. This revolution happened because of the brutal suppression and poverty that was occurring the rule of Fulgencio Batista (a dictator). Fidel Castro fought against the government’s army under Batista. The Cuban people supported Castro’s promised. He used guerilla tactics, ambushes, raids and hit…

He thought he could bring what he had learned while in power with the Castros and bring it to other parts of the Americas. He traveled to Bolivia where the people were suffering under a cruel dictator, in a situation similar to Cuba's. Che tried to lead the people through guerilla warfare, but his attempts were unsuccessful…

concocting a secret plan to take down Fidel Castro. They called their plan Operation Mongoose. Members of the government had been secretly debating the plan since 1961. When Castro came into power in 1959, after overthrowing Cuba’s previous dictator, Fulgencio Batista, he immediately changed things on the island, morphing the island into a “totalitarian communist bastion.” President Eisenhower was aghast by Cuba’s new state, so he started making plans to take down Castro, and he believed…

Over the last several weeks, the death of the controversial figure of Fidel Castro have quite a few concerned and curious. Many, whether they are Cuban or not, are left questioning the current state of Cuba, and especially its future. As a country that played a large role in bringing two superpowers to the brink of World War III, Cuba has evolved from being a vacation hotspot for United States citizens, to a prominent symbol of a leftist, socialist government within the Western Hemisphere.…

Soviets. However, Kennedy did not respond to this in the way that Castro wanted. Kennedy’s next move was incredibly risky, but due to his new aggressive policy towards the Cubans and Russians, he decided to go through with it. By placing a blockade around Cuba, which denied Russia access to them, Kennedy isolated Castro and forced him to decide whether to attack or give in to Kennedy’s demands. This move was risky due to the fact that Castro could have just simply decided to launch the missiles…

because of his charisma but also because of the brutality and corruption within Batista’s government. In January of 1959, Castro successfully overthrew Batista. Castro and many Cubans believed that the root cause of Cuba’s problems was America’s domination over Cuba. Therefore, Castro decided he must reduce American influence on Cuba. The Americans felt that they must overthrow Castro because of his communist influence on the West and because he wouldn’t allow their businesses to continue in…

an end to fighting, and a young Cuban lawyer emerged victorious. (NSA, Bay of Pigs C hronology) Though relatively unknown prior to the Cuban Revolution, both world superpowers of the cold war soon took notice of this young lawyer by the name of Fidel Castro. A young senator from Massachusetts soon began talking about Castro’s removal and how it could be done. (John Simk in, Bay of Pigs, Spartacus Educational) This young senator was our…

embargo between the U.S and the revival of their relationship that they had lost in the last 50 years. With this change, there are more opportunities for American and Cuban People. He talks about the many issues that Cuba and America has had since Fidel Castro took over the Cuban government. Our countries bumped heads because of the many differences in government and politics. One of the biggest issues is that the country is a communist country, which is a government that is looked down on by…

prevalent argument in Julia Sweig’s Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground is the importance that the llano played in the insurgency. The book also attempts to debunk the myth’s surrounding Che, Castro, and the sierra-llano conflict. Through her never before seen evidence, we get a new look into the essential role that these revolutionary women played in the leadership of the Sierra Maestra alongside Castro, as well as in the urban underground. (Add more info from…