Raúl Castro

According to Foreign Policy, recent efforts have been made to “save the system”. The government, who previously controlled the entire resident population, claims to be making recent changes to benefit the free market. Raul Castro, the current leader in Cuba, claims that the country “is changing”. Cuba is “expanding free market reforms” and freeing “2,900 [people] in sweeping amnesty”. This includes those who have been sent to prison unjustly for political offenses. Based on…

battle, although a few escaped including Raul and Fidel Castro. The although the Castro brothers were later captured brutal treatment of the youth by the military further fueled public discontent and turned Fidel Castro into a national hero(Williamson). After his release from prison in 1955 Castro left for Mexico to receive military training for their plan the overthrow of the Batista government (Williamson). After returning from Mexico in 1956 Castro and a group of 82 men began their plan to…

Over the course of this semester, my fellow classmates and I learned about the unique history of Cuba; mostly surrounding its revolution and the active cultural presence it had. However, the weeks throughout the semester proved to be more than just passing time and attendance in class, but, indeed, a change in history. After the study abroad portion of the class and, shortly thereafter, changes to current U.S.-Cuban relations, I began to wonder what would happen to Cuba in the future. As I…

extreme political, economic and cultural change since 1953 and is an extraordinary anomaly of communist rule, surviving in a capitalistic world. The Cuban Revolution of 1959, led by Fidel Castro and his 26th of July movement, saw the overthrow of the then Cuban President, Fulgenico Batista. Since the revolt, Castro governed a communist-socialist state and the country has experienced many political, societal and economic difficulties despite having one of the best education and health systems in…

tourist and business destination for Americans. The U.S. had a strong trade relationship with Cuba, especially regarding the importing of sugar, which was their dominant crop, and the exporting of U.S. goods to Cuba (Alvarez, 2004). Then in 1959, Fidel Castro took control of the country and forced the prior leadership into exile (National Security Archive). In the beginning of…

Hearing Fidel Castro piece together a conversation with a reporter in English after visit to United Nations in the US on Youtube is quite a treat. He struggles to brave hostile questions with a limited English vocabulary and a thick Cuban accent. He is asked if he is a communist and tells the reporter to wait for the history, “the history will tell what we are.” (Fidel Castro after Visit to United Nations in the U.S., 1960) This memo will be an analysis of Castro’s contradictory interactions…

Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926, in Birán, Cuba. Castro’s’ father was a wealthy Spanish sugarcane farmer who first came to Cuba during the Cuban War of Independence and his mother was a servant for his father’s family. After attending a couple of Jesuit schools where he excelled at baseball, Castro enrolled as a law student at the University of Havana. While there, he became interested in politics, joining the anti-corruption Orthodox Party. From 1940 to 1944, Fulgencio Batista served…

The break up between Castro and US was already expected by the US invasion "Bay of Pigs" of Cuba in 1961, where US supported Cuban counter-reactionaries to overthrow Castro. Castro formed alliance with the USSR, since the invasion failed because he feared further invasions where the US would overthrow him. Ironically Castro’s fears did come true when US activities were spotted by the Cuban Intelligence, this lead to the ‘Operation Mongoose’ in 1962 to overthrow Castro by the US. However, as a…

people. This became the first cause of the Cuban revolution by some figures. Revolutions committed by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. This revolution made Cuba become a sosialism. Socialism is a notion related to the…

decisions Fidel Castro made, the government of the revolution legitimized itself and became truly recognized as the standing government of Cuba. Castro declared the year 1961 the Year of Education but much more occurred; in 1961 Castro was able to fight off the United States at Playa Girón and then solidified international alliances with the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, and other socialist nations. While Cuba benefitted from its relations with the Soviet Union and China, Castro…