History of Cuba

Throughout the years there has been much controversy on what events in history have influenced the world the most. Many scholars have agreed that both the Spanish conquest and colonization of Mexico and the Caribbean and the U.S. acquisition of Mexican and Caribbean territories are important turning points in history that have helped shape the social, economic, political and cultural characteristics of different Latin American countries. In order to comprehend the great importance of the Spanish…

coincidental but purposeful and tied to Mendieta 's knowledge of and admiration for Santeria. By employing water, Mendieta is able to reflect her spiritual longing for fortitude when facing adversity. Mendieta 's forced displacement from her homeland Cuba, greatly influenced her stylistic, formal, and conceptual choices as an artist. By choosing to use water within many of her works, Mendieta makes a clear cry for belonging and for strengthening her relationship with the migrant landscape in an…

For those living in South Florida—the closest point in the US to Cuba—the problem of marine refugees is a reality of everyday life. The largest local newspaper, The Miami Herald, publishes stories about Cuban refugees on a regular basis, the most recent story is dated September 23rd, 2014. The island has a peculiar history with the United States and South Florida, Miami specifically, has the largest population of Cubans living in exile of any place in the world. In order to understand why these…

In the Autobiography of a Slave, Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854), a former mulatto slave, captures the unjust and horrific events of Cuban slavery during the nineteenth century. Cuba needed a large slave population to work on the islands various sugar mills and plantations to maintain its economic status. As a child, Manzano avoided the typical life of a slave labor because of the Marchioness Justiz de Santa Ana. She allowed to lead the life of a young intellectual, which caused him to feel…

have been far too many cases throughout of the contrary. From relatively recent events, to events that took place hundreds of years ago, there have been times throughout history where a lack of good leadership or bad leadership choices led to major world events. This motif has proven itself to be a common one throughout history, with modern events…

Primary Source Document 1 Casas, Bartolomé De Las. “Bartoleme De Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies.” The Cuba Reader, Jan. 2009, pp. 12–14., doi:10.1215/9780822384915-003. Bartolomé de las Casas created this document. He was a 16th century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar. His significance was that he was the first to expose the oppression of indigenous peoples by Europeans in the Americas and to call for the abolition of slavery there. He arrived…

crisis and provided cause for a aggressive buildup; Khrushchev about encouraged “wars of civic liberation,” adjustment the Soviet Union with adeptness movements in the third world; boilerplate was the perceived blackmail afterpiece to home than in Cuba, just…

Throughout the world various rebellions were happening for various reasons and they all were conducted in their own unique way. In “Freedom’s Mirror” Ada Ferrer looks at different points of anti-slavery rebellions that occurred in Cuba and Haiti and how they were linked together. Since Haiti was the first black led country and independent state founded by former slaves it is crucial that all aspects of the rebellions are taken into consideration. Several power imbalances are vividly compared as…

the case of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was well known that Kennedy himself had established rapport with Khrushchev to the point where his first reaction was “He can’t do this to me!” upon hearing the news of the presence of offensive warheads in Cuba. Had the president been someone else with a different established relationship with Khrushchev, the reaction and situation, most definitively, would be different. Allison also demonstrates that there are many forces at play concerning the Cuban…

government. Part one was filmed in several locations in Puerto Rico and Mexico. These locations have some authenticity of the real story as the actual happenings takes mainly place in Cuba. Che and Fidel Castero actually meet in Mexico where Che hears Castro’s plans and decides to…