Raúl Castro

In The Time of The Butterflies The novel, “In the Time of the Butterflies,” by Julia Alvarez shows a persistent amount of courage with the main characters. The background of In the Time of the Butterflies is mid-20th century Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and the story of the Mirabal Sisters. The Dominican Republic is ruled by a fascist dictator named Rafael Leonidas Trujillo or El Jefe, who runs and ruins everybody life who do not listen. The Mirabal…

History Will Absolve Me: Fidel Castro Jessie O. Santana Modern Latin America May 6, 2016 The Cuban Revolution of the late 1950s started the political turmoil that would eventually spread throughout Latin America. Cuba served as one of the wealthiest, most prominent, and most educated societies of Latin America. The close proximity of the United States, its huge investments in the Cuba, and the most powerful dictator of the Caribbean in control, Cuba appeared to be an unlikely country…

toppled by a guerrilla army lead by Fidel Castro and the Movimiento 26 de Julio–the 26th of July Movement–became reality in Cuba. The subsequent government that replaced the Batista regime was lead exclusively by the leaders of this revolution and everything that the government embodied–everything from its policies, its politicians, and all the way down to those on the ground–would be known simply as La Revolución. However, on the 2nd of December in 1961, Fidel Castro officially came out and…

I recently wrote an Essay on historical figure Juan Bosch. I felt more than inspired by his work. He was a political and literary figure. This was a man who found a devotion to writing at young age and who ran for presidency more than five times only to be defeated time and time again. He never gave up. He was forced to leave his country because of a dictator in Dominican Republic. He used this opportunity to travel to Spain, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Costa Rica to educate people on what…

The first prehispanic migration to Cuba happened in 8000 BC hunters from North America and Latin America discovered the island then. But in 4500 BC Latin and South America came to occupy it and control the south coast of Cuba. The Third migration in 500 BC was from North America. On October the 28th in 1492 Christopher Columbus found the island of Cuba and claimed it for Spain but before he got there. There were a bunch of Indians living there. The long and enduring voyage took the…

reasons for why the USSR chose to place their nuclear weapons in Cuba whether it be to protect them or us them. The Cubans happily accepted the soviet military onto their island even when it drew them deeper into a war with the US. Both the Cuban leader Castro and Khrushchev said different things as to why they had missiles in Cuba. They main reason as to why the soviets placed was to bargain with USA. They believed that Kennedy was a weak and novice leader. Khrushchev believe that due he could…

marginalization, excommunication, prison. The content of both the revolutionary propaganda and the conceptual art of the 90’s is essentially identical: pictorial symbols of national identity such as the flag, it’s colors, the shape of the island, the faces of Castro, Che, Camilo, among other revolutionary figures, along with popular communist mottos. Words such as luchar (fight/strive) and vencer (triumph) appear in both settings, but its connotative meaning depends on where the artist’s loyalty…

big, some small; some good and others bad. Great leaders leave behind the greatest legacies. Fidel Castro, the former president of Cuba, left behind a legacy controversial to many. In spite of the fact that many Americans view Fidel Castro with a reprobative attitude, once he came into power he made many laws that gave his people great benefits and opportunities that still continue today. Fidel Castro, a Havana lawyer, ran for the Cuban congress, but it got canceled after Fulgencio Batista…

put a naval blockade around Cuba. He also made it clear to put U.S. military forces if necessary. He successfully led the United States out of the Cuban missile Crisis. The next impact John F Kennedy made was the bay of pigs invasion. He made Fidel Castro leave the island and gave it back to Fulgencio Batista. President John F Kennedy said Batista was part of our ally to us companies. Kennedy impacted us by helping ally get through the Bay Of Pigs invasion. “That helped Batista a lot because…

Cubans finally get to the USA following an exhausting journey across miles Randy Cuevas crossed over to the southwestern border of the United States following a trek that was not only physically demanding, but was pregnant with risks, which were more than enough to end his life in a whimper. This was a journey of his lifetime, which was in no way merry, but something wherein he had negotiate the smugglers and corrupt police forces, not to mention the natural hazards that are associated with a…