Raúl Castro

The country of Cuba has a lot of great features. The leader of Cuba is Raúl Castro. The official currency is the Cuban peso. It is divided into 100 centavos. Pesos are divided into 1, 3,5,1,20,50,100. The Cuban Convertible Peso (CUC) was founded by the Cuban financial authorities to take out all foreign currencies from circulation, and offer an alternative that is equal to US dollars. It replaces the dollar as currency where previous dollars were quoted in places such as hotels, restaurants and…

when Castro left office and stopped receiving aid from the Soviet Union, his regime would have fallen, and it had yet to collapse. Over the last 20 years, there have been several votes in Congress to eliminate the embargo and majority opposition are from the Republicans. According to Cato’s trade votes database, 61% to 91% of Republicans support the ban on both travel and importation. Human rights in Cuba continue to be a huge concern for advocates in and outside of Cuba pertaining to Castro…

Fidel Castro was a Cuban politician who became Prime Minister of Cuba in 1959 until 1976 when he then became President of Cuba until 2008. Castro was an infamous dictator of Cuba and managed to serve as president for 32 years. Castro has been the influence of many political decisions around the world and he has quite a bit to offer as a leader. Though Fidel Castro’s name alone rings a bell of bad intention, he managed to have a support system that was loyal to him until the end. One question…

During the 1960’s fear and paranoia had reached an all time high. The nations leader President Kennedy managed the issues regarding the idea of communism spreading and the possibility of nuclear warfare. The Cold War and The Cuban Missile Crisis became the center of the political issues that captured America’s fears. The focus of these two ideals became adapted, in two separate films: Three Presidents Go To War, and the satire black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I stopped Worrying and Loved the…

Latin America is synonymous with revolutions and regime change. While, each country experienced a revolution or regime change for their own reasons it cannot be denied it is commonplace. To illustrate, from the years 1943 to 1949 eleven Latin American governments were changed by force (Stokes, 1951, 37). Also, the following is a brief list of revolutions and regime changes that occurred only in the 20th century: Mexico Revolution 1910, Argentinian Coup of 1943, Bolivia, 1952, Guatemalan…

Originally I was going to write my Narrative Biography about a special friend of my family, but I decided to interview a person I met in Cuba. This past spring break I went to Cuba with my friends for vacation, where we stayed at my friend’s grandmother house in a town called Nueva Vedado. In this trip I met Hilda Rodríguez, one of the most strong woman I have ever met. Hilda was born on September 19, 1945 in Varadero, Cuba. Hilda was the third child of Pepe and Carmen. Hilda also has a twin…

ended in isolation. even though this bill has its flaw did spark the idea of the possibility that one day when the time is right a change would be brought upon, Mario Lazo author of American Policy (Dagger in the Heart) acknowledge, that one day Castro 's regime will come to a “swift degeneration and then collapse …. it seem impossible but the truth is that its is inevitable this would bring a shift to an opposite direction and the Cuban government would head towards free institution after year…

United States, Batista became anti-communist and allowed American business to dominate the Cuban economy (Wikipedia.org). Batista’s tyrannical rule motivated Fidel Castro, a revolutionary, to overthrow his dictatorship. As the new Castro government self-proclaimed they were Marxist-Leninists, US relations with Cuba dissolved (History.com). Castro nationalized all American businesses in Cuba and developed very close ties with the Soviet Union. Because of Cuba’s expropriation of American assets,…

Perspective”. Accounting to the struggles of migration while giving a clear emphasis and that not every refugee is treated the same. Lillian gathers her information through the timelines of many great migrations like the rush of Cuban migrants during Castro 's dictatorship and the search of Dominicans and other South American due to the poor living conditions and dangerous lives that they 've lived. The main points LillIan’s chapter with in the book was the huge emphasis on refugees with some…

revolution Fidel Castro had overthrown dictator Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba and an American- backed ally. Batista was a corrupt leader and had very pro-American stance in policy making. These allowed U.S companies to completely dominate the Cuban sugar business. At the time U.S companies and wealthy individuals not only controlled the sugar business but also various cattle ranches,mines and other fields of the Cuban economy. Batista was very anti-communist. Unlike Fidel Castro who…