Raúl Castro

The United States gives migrants from Cuba special treatment that no other group of refugees or immigrants receives. It begins with the so-called “wet-foot, dry-foot policy” that puts Cubans who reach U.S. soil on a fast track to permanent residency. The government initiated the policy in 1995 as an amendment to the1966 Cuban Adjustment Act that Congress passed when Cold War tensions ran high between the U.S. and the island nation. Under the amendment, when a Cuban migrant is apprehended in…

Prompt 1: Political System How Political System Shapes a Person? Edwidge Danticat, the author of Krik?Krak?, was born in Haiti in 1969, and Haiti’s political climate in that time period was unstable because of its oppressive dictator. Since Haiti declared its independence in 1804, it has experienced a lot of political instability. In 1957, Dr.Francois Duvalier, also known as “Papa Doc”, was elected president of Haiti. He transformed Haiti’s institutions in order to support his personal…

The US embargo of Cuba began in 1960, a year after Fidel Castro turned this island toward communism. It was extended to food and medicines in 1962, the same year as the showdown with Russia over the installation of missiles there. The embargo has prevented American companies from doing business with Cuba, and discouraged tourism to Cuba. The American government also tried with quite limited success to prevent other countries from trading with Cuba. In general economic embargoes are undesirable…

pain of Castro’s regime first-hand. That night, at a fatigue-filled 85 years old, she would take out the Guiro, a Cuban instrument used usually for celebrations like fiestas and Noche Buena, and frantically strum while yelling “¡Fidel está muerto!” Castro became Prime Minster of Cuba in 1959, the year after my father’s birth in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. My father’s family, a farming and tobacco manufacture, beginning from nothing in the early 1900s, grew into a…

Cubans fight in Ten Years War, a war between Cuba and Spain, but the Spanish emerged victorious. Then in 1895 violence erupted again, and the Cuban War of independence began. Meanwhile the United States was he great power in the Western Hemisphere and wished to expand their influence for decades. Americans wanted to take over Cuba; on various occasions the United States attempted to buy the island and there was also discussion in Congress about taking islands militarily. Back in Cuba, the…

In addition to, on November, 9 during my visit to Chicago occurs my last electronic contact with the directors of the National Archive. After that the not contact or silence between me and the National Archivo I became suspect that when I get back to Habana, Cuba the government incarcerated me because of the ideas exposed during the conferences. Also, I would like to mention that an official agent of the Cuban government when to my friend’s house Ismael Hernandez and interrogated him about my…

The US government and Castro regime have undeniably been waging economic war against one another since the Cuban Embargo was enacted in 1962. This embargo commenced under President John. F Kennedy during the height of the Cold War Era. Cuba became a threat to US democratic ideals when the Castro brothers led a revolt against the dictator Fulgencio Batista overthrowing his government. After Castro came to power in 1959, his government established diplomatic ties with the communist Soviet Union…

Felix Moreta Mr. Saleeba English 4 October 13, 2017 Rafael Trujillo Rafael Trujillo may be a bad man, but that does not take away the fact that what got him there made him a great leader. To some he will always be remembered as a horrible person. To me he will always be remembered as a guy who got to where he wanted to be by putting effort some people would not dare to put in. Rafael Trujillo was born on October 24, 1891 in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic. His name was Rafael Leonidas…

Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba with a revolution in January 1959. The United States was becoming increasingly critical of Fidel Castro's government. CIA Director Allen Dulles warned, “Cuba was drifting towards Communism.” Castro had close ties to the Soviet Union who provided Cuba with air and military assistance. The U.S. planned to overthrow Castro's administration, a task taken on by the CIA. The U.S. also hoped that the invasion would stimulate an uprising against the Castro regime…

dictatorial president Fulgencio Batista. Fidel Castro became dictator in 1959.Castro had been a concern in the U.S. since he siezed power in cuba with a revolution. There was a new order about 100 miles away from the United States made American officials nervous.Castro disapproved of their approach that the Americans took to cuba.…