Raúl Castro

Vietnam and elsewhere, providing federal support for the growing Civil Rights Movement, and winning the Space Race. During Kennedy’s Presidency, the Cold War between Russia and the United States was at it’s peak. The first dilemma occurred when Fidel Castro overthrew the Cuban Empire and established ties with the Soviet Union. At the time, President Eisenhower was in office and he authorized the…

Introduction Since October 19th 1960, our United States government has had an economic embargo (trade blockade) against Cuba. This embargo significantly impacted trade corporations in Cuba because it restricted exports from the United States. Then on February 7th 1962, the embargo was extended to include the restriction of almost all imports from Cuba to the United States. This extension of the embargo caused notable harm to the Cuban economy and consequently, the wellbeing of citizens residing…

This information was released in 5 volumes of which I found the 3rd volume, Evolution of CIA’s Anti-Castro Policies, 1959- January 1961 the most useful in this research. This source is a firsthand account from the CIA which worked with the federal government in plans with regards to Cuba at this time, giving the reader evidence of the events that led to…

Well everything political and economic has an impact on other nations, like the Cold War the U.S. was facing the possibility that Russia was putting nuclear weapons on the island nation of Cuba and because of that our economic trade with Cuba was not allowed Americans weren't allowed to buy anything from Cuba or visit Cuba through U.S. airports and this effected Cuba because they got economic value through the U.S. because of tourism, trade, and exports to the U.S.. That affected the U.S.…

On January 1, 1959, Fidel Castro assumes power of Cuba after leading the Communist revolution with Che Guevara and the rebel army overthrows President Fulgencio Batista. Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their Communist policies, and a Communist State was set up with Russian backing. Fidel Castro allowed the USSR to deploy nuclear missiles on the island, which caused the U.S. to terminate diplomatic relations with Cuba in January of 1961. By April of the same year, a group of…

JJ Buffington Ms. Thorne Spanish II 11/10/16 Pt I :History of Cuba The history of Cuba started when Christopher Columbus came to the island in 1492. After he landed the Spaniards began their conquest on the island. Some groups like the Ciboney and the Taino lived on the island but they were either killed by the Spaniards or died from the disease they brought. So their effect on the Cuban culture was small, and the Spanish culture, language, and religion lasted. The basis of the economy was…

When a group of Kent State University architecture students visited Cuba, incidentally around the same time as President Barack Obama, a Wooster man played a role in the trip. Chris Cupples, a Wooster High School graduate and former aide to Gov. Ted Strickland, has moved from politics to business, joining a friend from his Strickland-for-governor campaigning days (attorney Nick York) and a former “global ambassador” for the Cleveland Foundation (Jorge Delgado) in expanding the reach of To Cuba…

(U) The National Liberation Army or ELN (Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional) is a group that is based in Columbia, starting in the 1960s during the time when Columbia was going through a short area known as la Violencia, a ten year civil war. All of which had the influence of from the Cuban revolution. The ELN would possess a threat to United States based on their theological ideology and actions that took place in their home of operations. The group is notorious for kidnapping, extortion, and oil…

Thesis: Angel Castro y Argiz was a migrant to Cuba from Spain where he started growing sugar cane and became very wealthy of his work. After his first marriage failed Angel took his household servant, Lina Ruz Gonzalez as his first mistress and soon to be second wife. Together they had seven children and amongst three girls and three boys Castro is the third oldest. Introduction; Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926 near Biran, in the eastern Orient Province of Cuba. He was the third child…

In researching the business culture of another foreign country for the use of an informational memo. I am letting my classmates, know what country has been chosen to research and share some of it's interesting facts on the country of Cuba. How is that country's culture similar to or different from U.S. culture? Despite the fact, of some of the ways Cuban culture can be similar to U.S. culture may be through the average family of the U.S. having 3.19 members, where the Cuban family average has…