History of Cuba

of hope; he promised general elections, free land, free speech and improvements to their quality of life. He promised to free them from the oppression under the regime of President Batista. His Marxist views resonated with the poor and uneducated in Cuba and the life he sought for them and the vision he conveyed allowed him to build followership and elevate his power and status. “It is true that it (the revolution) follows its leader, basically Fidel Castro, without hesitation. But the degree…

The evening of July 20, 2015 was an historic moment to put in the books. Citizens of the U.S. and Cuba watched as Cuba’s blue, red and white-starred flag was raised Monday at the country’s embassy in Washington. Bruno Rodriguez who is the Cuban Foreign Minister was in charge of the flag-raising ceremony that was taking place because full diplomatic relations with Cuba and the United States were restored thanks to the agreement of U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro. There…

the sovereign states. The relationship with Cuba, a country about one hundred miles south of Florida, has been fragile for as long as most can recall. When Fidel Castro came into power in 1959 and soon nationalized over one billion dollar of American assets, the United States began to put sanctions on Cuba. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy put the trade embargo on Cuba which most Americans are familiar with today. Until recently relations with Cuba have been minimal or nonexistent.…

dictatorships that opposed socialist and communist values. The US was afraid of a Latin American communist state emerging so close to US borders (McConnell). Fidel Castro’s regime in Cuba is the quintessential example of US’s fears on Latin American communism. After Fulgencio Batista’s pro-American dictatorship was disposed by Castro, Cuba was declared a communist state upon strengthening economic relations with the USSR when the US imposed an embargo on Cuban trade (McConnell; Pieper). Due to…

start of the early 20th century, but became more driven on idealism at the end of the time period. Starting with William McKinley, America’s foreign policy began with the benefits for American commerce and imperialism, at the expense of nations like Cuba, Hawaii, and the Philippines. Theodore Roosevelt continued much of this scheme of self-interest with the Panama Canal and the Roosevelt Corollary, but started a few more idealistic trends in foreign relations with handling Japan and Russia.…

According to the terms of the embargo, “Cuba must legalize all political activity, release all political prisoners, commit to free and fair elections in the transition to representative democracy, grant freedom to the press, respect internationally recognized human rights, and allow labor unions” (“ProCon.org”). If such fails to occur in Cuba, then supporters of the embargo argue that the embargo should not be lifted because the abolition…

Since 1898, Cuba has been subject to the imperialistic exploitations of the colossus of the north, where the animosity towards the formerly harsh and tyrannical, Batista rule was inextricably allied with a repulsion for the degree to which US investment subjugated Cuban economy. It is evident, that the Cubans had experienced an epoch of repression and despotism, however, after the swift topple of Batista’s regime in 1959, Cuban leader Fidel Castro, altered Cuba into a successful state-orientated…

Cuba was one of the few communist countries on the western side of the world, and it was very close to the United States, and that worried the US tremendously. America made a few attempts to impede Cuba from their communist ways. The Cuban nation wasn’t having it. Che Guevara said in a speech addressed to the UN ”And Cuba reaffirms once again the right to maintain on its territory the weapons it deems appropriate…

Kaifa Roland further describes the methods of race and color through the experience of jineteros and luchadores in Cuba. Jineteros and luchadores are translated as ‘hustlers’ and ‘those who struggle’ (Roland, p. 53). Due to the Cuban government’s belief in maintaining socialist values through the separation of Cubans and tourists, jineteros and luchadores often find…

Union West Berlin as part of a deal on the partitioning of Germany through the Warsaw Pact. The United States refused to turn over West Berlin to the Soviet’s, which caused Khrushchev to form a new strategy involving the movement of nuclear missiles to Cuba to create a bargaining chip to force the Americans to give over West…