Raúl Castro

The Motorcycle Diaries is a journey in both senses of the word. It is about Che Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado’s trip from Argentina, South America, and eventually Miami. He originally planned a day-trip that stretched out to a month’s stay with only a dollar bill and the plane that he flew. While finishing medical school, he spent many of his holidays traveling in Latin America, and observing the great poverty that lead to the great conclusion that being violent was the only revolution.…

the U.S. has on Cuban society. Pérez accomplishes this by studying the period between the mid-nineteenth centuries through the years of the Castro Revolution of 1959. Pérez’s central thesis is straightforward, as he recognizes that the Cuban nationalist sentiment rejected U.S. influences after the revolution of 1959, but that in the years preceding the Castro Revolution, Cuban national identity was identical with American values and influence. His study is extensive and covers a wide range of…

daily basis. Who’s only form of rest or sense or no struggle was when they went to the tomb. Such speeches by Fidel Castro started the revolution movement across Cuba against the Batista regime2, but it was these initial movements by reformers who wanted change that started revolutionary movements across Latin America. These movements were aimed to…

Fidel Castro is revered as one of the most prominent communist leaders of the last century. On August 13, 1926 Fidel Castro was born in Birán, Cuba to his parents Angel Castro y Agrgiz and Lina Ruz Gonzalez. Fidel had six siblings consisting of four sisters and two brothers. His brothers were Raul and Ramon Castro, and his sisters went by the names of Juanita, Angelita, Enma, and Augustina Castro. His dad was a Spanish immigrant who made a fortune constructing railroad systems with the means of…

Cuba found out, captured and killed the exiles, and Russia wasn’t happy. This all occurred over the span of two days(April 17, 1961- April 19,1961) and mostly took place along the southern coast of Cuba. The reasoning behind the Bay of Pigs was Fidel Castro got trigger happy about his military and decided to take over Cuba and America was angry. Cuba was dangerously close to the U.S and that's when the CIA sent the exiles mainly to avoid conflict with Russia who was Cuba’s…

Many of those who write about the Cuban Revolution have credited him as being the soul of the revolution (Valdés 27). His rhetoric in History Will Absolve Me is partly a testament to that sentiment. As stated, the speech largely outline the goals Castro hoped the revolution would accomplish and his reasoning for trying to seize Moncada. Still, the language that he employs in this speech is similar to rhetoric that he used decades forward. This speech did not gain instant attention, but its…

Che arrived in Guatemala and met a Peruvian woman named Hilda Galea. They started to live together and sleep together. He was then introduced to Fidel Castro. According to Che’s friend in Guatemala, che had read “a whole Marxist library”, and was possessed. Some claim that Che’s arrived at Marxism through Cuban Revolution experience. Che experienced the revolution in Cuba, he even took part in the Cuban revolution. He was a leading figure of the Cuban revolution, but he was already a Marxist…

Due to the geographic proximity to the US, strengthening ties with Cuba is militarily significant because there is less of a threat of enemy fire coming from the country. Cuba’s military is not a substantial threat, but the communist ties with the Soviet Union cause concern that the possible use of Cuba by other nations to launch attacks on the US. The military force of Cuba does not offer much by way of an alliance with the US but it is the fact that the military is large enough to help mold…

The articles in question Enver M. Casimir’s “Contours of Transnational Contact: Kid Chocolate, Cuba, and the United States in the 1920’s and 1930’s”, Louis Peréz jr., “Approaching Change and Changelessness in the Historiography of Cuba”, and Lars Schoultz’s “Benevolent Domination: The Ideology of U.S. Policy toward Cuba’, all share and discuss a long complicated history of Cuban relations and, images of U.S. perceptions of Cubans and how those images and relationships translate into Cuban…

island country in the Caribbean located 485 miles south of Florida. It has been governed by an authoritarian socialist regime since 1959 when Fidel Castro overthrew United States-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista and chose to align with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Castro transferred power to his brother Raul Castro in 2008 and the Castro regime has endured to this day, despite U.S. attempts to overthrow the regime. Moreover, Cuba’s economy has suffered from not only from the trade…