Fulgencio Batista

Given the Cuban history on the prohibition of not just music but literally everything that comes in the way of the ruling of the two leaders of the country since the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the brothers Fidel and Raul Castro, few scholars got interested in the current situation in Cuba when it comes to the reggaeton. Although scholars are not optimists that Cuba can be the next Puerto Rico when it comes to reggaeton or that reggaeton will ever become part of the Cuban culture as it happened…

Fidel preferred to use (Garcia, 2). The first to make the decision to migrate to Miami were those that had ties to the old political regime of Batista. These had the economics means to arrange a quick and safe departure and had the greatest urgency to do so because they feared that Castro would persecute or arrest them for their political ties to Batista (Levine and Asis, 22). They had been able to store their wealth in foreign banks so their resettlement…

The shape of modern day Cuban society is undoubtedly and irreversibly built on the goal of withstanding imperialistic advances from the United States. Since the end of the 19th century, the United States has attempted to shape Cuba into an expendable asset that helps drive the economical wagon of the most powerful nation on earth. In this paper I will discuss the imperialistic endeavours America subjected Cuba to prior to the Cuban Revolution, how biased and misinformed reporting on Cuba has…

political leadership. Like Mexico’s Díaz, Fulgenico Batista exercised his power over Cuban politics for a twenty-five year period. Within this twenty-five year period, Batista generated a political state that worked through puppet leaders that formed a power stronghold with the elites that “rendered impotent” any of the previous Cuban nationalist movements (Skidmore, Smith, Modern Latin America, 304). In the narrative tale of revolution, Batista represented the oppressive ruler that sacrificed a…

The country of Cuba has a lot of great features. The leader of Cuba is Raúl Castro. The official currency is the Cuban peso. It is divided into 100 centavos. Pesos are divided into 1, 3,5,1,20,50,100. The Cuban Convertible Peso (CUC) was founded by the Cuban financial authorities to take out all foreign currencies from circulation, and offer an alternative that is equal to US dollars. It replaces the dollar as currency where previous dollars were quoted in places such as hotels, restaurants and…

How Ernesto “Che” Guevara contributed to the Establishment of a Communist state in Cuba, 1958 Ernesto Che Guevara played a huge role in Fidel Castro’s radical political movement which overthrew Batista’s dictatorship in the island of Cuba during the latter 1950s. Guevara is best described as courageous, intelligent and a powerful visionary. Born into a wealthy upper class family in Argentina, Ernesto was a qualified doctor. He was strongly influenced by the scenes he had witnessed during his…

Cuba has been banned from trading with the United States for over half a century ago. This economic embargo has devastated Cuba, beginning since the early 1960’s. Several United States presidents have had different takes on the matter, some loosening the embargo whilst some making it more restricting. However, 55 years after, President Barack Obama has released an official statement, noting that, the US will normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba. It is therefore necessary to consider the…

Havana, Cuba is the major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city was burned down by French pirates and mad local slaves, the royal crown responded by building “Castillo de la Fuerza”. In January, Spain was on war because of England, and in June Havana was captured by a British force. They left the Island in less than two years. The next year, the English and Spanish governments traded Florida for Havana. The top 10 things you can do or visit on Havana: Old Havana, Plaza de la…

I pray that this letter finds you and the family in the best of health and spirit. I have traveled to the Americas, to reconnect with our distant family acquaintance and relative Nicolas de Ovando. Nicolas has become the Governor of Hispaniola and I’m proud of him. I have been helping Nicolas with establishing a colony for a large number of years. I enjoy what I do here and it is definitely better than law school. I took part in a very big expedition and we captured many Indians who became…

Now the question must be raised: to what extent was the CIA and American government were aware of the falsity of their propagated message about Castro and the Cuba situation in general. For this I will turn to one of my most important primary documents, an intelligence report on Castro’s first year running Cuba. This report reveals that they were fully aware of his immense popularity prior to their attacks, and equally aware of his capabilities to be a good leader. Essentially, this document…