Raúl Castro

The movie, Allende en Su Labertino (Allende and His Maze), was written by the Chilean film director and writer, Miguel Littin. Littin was born in the 1940s, was a supporter of Salvador Allende’s regime, and was exiled soon after the assassination of Allende during the rise in power of dictator Augusto Pinochet in Chile during his military coup of the country. Littin is also known for his other films, such as one relevant to this same historical subject is Dawson Isla 10 from 2009 which was a…

sick and he spend a few month in there. When he was “cured”, the government sended him to work in an airline. In this new job, my great uncle start building up relationships outside of Cuba and saving money. When my Uncle gather enough money, he fled with his wife and two sons to Spain, where he lived peacefully until the cuban goverment found him and try to kill him and his family. He had to fled again, so he moved to Venezuela. After living there for three years the cuban government found him…

Cuba had been far from allies leading up to the crisis. Even before Kennedy took office, Eisenhower had attempted to assassinate Cuba’s leader, Fidel Castro, by training Cuban exiles for an invasion of their own country. Kennedy inherited the conflict which soon led to the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, attempting to overthrow Castro’s regime. Castro was now turning to the Soviets for protection against the aggression coming from America at the…

would bring positive changes that can come from regime change. Nonetheless, Castro has shown us that he is at least socialist by nature, if not communist. In fact, his Revolutionary Forces have…

3296.04 USD from 1970 until 2013, reaching an all-time high of 5351.30 USD in 2013 and a record low of 1938.30 USD in 1970. GDP per capita in Cuba is reported by the World Bank.” (Trading Economics) Growth In recent light to the death of Fidel Castro, regardless that he has not been in power, Cubans are hopeful for the future. To fully embrace the possible growth in Cuba, one has to understand the following; “The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Cuba expanded 4.30 percent in 2015 from the…

peace through war, not when nations fight against each other, and not when a nation fights amongst itself. The rise of Fidel Castro and other Guerilla militants prove that war brings war, not peace. From the…

The shape of modern day Cuban society is undoubtedly and irreversibly built on the goal of withstanding imperialistic advances from the United States. Since the end of the 19th century, the United States has attempted to shape Cuba into an expendable asset that helps drive the economical wagon of the most powerful nation on earth. In this paper I will discuss the imperialistic endeavours America subjected Cuba to prior to the Cuban Revolution, how biased and misinformed reporting on Cuba has…

The reading from this class have helped me put those two assessments of the life of the Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, into perspective by allowing me understand how certain events that happened around the world. They help me see the impacted that Castro had on the life of Cubans. I had been exposed to The Cold War and some of the events related to Cuba like the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis but, that was a while back. So, if I tried to put these two assessments into perspective before…

“Deception can be a tool, used by leaders, for good.” Deception, by definition is quite literally the act of misleading. Synonyms include misrepresentation and fraud. So one may ask, how can deception be a “good” thing, especially in leadership? We see examples of deception with former President, John F. Kennedy. In 1961,while actively making plans to invade Cuba, President Kennedy stated that the United States had no plans of military intervention in Cuba. Is this considered good deception?…

Revolutions are often thought to bring about radical changes that result in the upheaval of the previous social order and replace it with a new, bold political, economic, and social apparatus prepared to move that society towards progress. However, does revolution truly mean progress? How does one define progress? How does one assess the success or failure of a revolution? The Mexican Revolution of 1910 and the Cuban Revolution demonstrate how intricate and fluid the tentacles of revolution move…