History of Cuba

'Ajiaco' is a metaphor used by cuban ethnologist Oritz, describing Cuba as a melting pot. Ajiaco is a popular dish of Caribbean, where the ingredients are put in an earthen pot and simmered in heat for a long time. New ingredients are put in the stew next day and it eventually amalgamates with the older constituents, the process is repeated over time and it ultimately form Ajiaco, a popular dish originated and developed in Cuba by their native inhabitants. This dish is metaphorically used to…

raised questions in 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…

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, known as just Fidel Castro, was born on August 13, 1926 in Biran, Cuba. He was part of a massive family while he was growing up. His immigrant father, Ángel Castro, raised him along with his five brothers and his seven sisters. Growing up in Biran, Cuba, he studied in Jesuit schools in the towns of Havana and Oriente. He would then go on to graduate from high school in 1945, and attend the University of Havana…

prominent factor in putting all of the dictators into power. When it comes to the Cuban, Iranian and Nicaraguan revolutions the cause is very similar across the board – as with most revolutions in history. People were tired of the dictatorships, poverty and suppression. This brutal dictator for Cuba was Batista – taken out and replaced by Fidel Castro and his army or revolutionaries including Che Guerrera, who the people loved and believe to this day he was a true champion of the Cuban people…

On December 31st, 1958, the small island nation of Cuba was ablaze with battling between the U.S installed government forces of Fulgencio Batista and the revolutionary forces of the July 26th movement, their namesake coming from a previous attack against the Batista regime that had failed. The very next day saw 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…

been thought about in the first place. It was just lost of $13 million and lives that shouldn’t have been in the invasion. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) just gave the Frente Revolucionario Democratico (FRD) guns and told them run back into Cuba and give it the best you got. Also, shows that we get ahead of ourselves and that we get worked up over the littlest things. When we do we do not think about, have the time to prepare, and going into it then thinking on what to do and by that…

This is a small biography of one of the most important people in Cuban History. This man’s name was Fidel Castro. Fidel was not the nicest man but he was one of the most brilliant minds the human race has ever known. Here is a biography showing you why. Castro’s Early Life Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was born near Birán, Cuba on August 13, 1926. Castro was the third of six children with two brothers, Raul and Ramon and three sisters Angelita, Emma, and Augustina. His father Angel, was a wealthy…

The Rumba and The Merengue There are many folk dances that are performed around the world but two of the most popular are the Rumba which originated in Cuba, and the Merengue which originated in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica) The rumba is a dance that rivets its image on the mind. With so much history, rumba has been and is a dance of conflicts: love versus hate, aggression and harmony, sexuality and prudence. Musically, it taps into the realms of…

Cuba, on the other hand, is a communist dictatorship. The Castro brothers took power in 1959, and implemented a communist regime. Throughout the beginning of the regime, Cuba was supported economically by the Soviet union, which enabled them to prosper (Prieto). Since Fidel Castro’s death on November 25th, many people have been both celebrating his death while examining the brutality of the regime and reflecting on the good that it has done for social programs. Dom Phillips and Joshua Partlow of…

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…