There have been many dictators in human history but none like the Cuban war hero Fidel Castro. Castro was born in August 13 1926 in Galicia, Northwest Spain and later migrated to Cuba with his family due to his fathers failed marriage and other economic reasons. In his early ages he took an interest in history, geography and other similar subjects but didn’t excel academy in any of them. So in 1945 Fidel attended to the University of Havana where he studied law and during his university years he developed communist ideologies and rebellious thoughts. After he graduated from the University of Havana he had a clear goal of revolutionizing Cuba (Lemass). In 1952 he formed a group called The Movement and started the Cuban Revolution which successfully …show more content…
He was considered one of the most prominent communist leaders of his time (Bunck).To this day Communism is still very much active and holding in Cuba. During his years in power, Fidel Castro changed Cuba in a revolutionary way. While his government made major achievements in improvement of education and Health sector, it failed in improving the overall economy of the country and due the dictatorship the country lacks overall human rights. Since the start of Fidel Castro’s communist regime, importance of education in the country increased and there have been many improvements since then. After Castro came in to power he quickly realized that in order for his revolution to fully succeed a social transformation was needed. He understood that the only way to achieve social transformation in Cuba would require a throughout change and a leap forward in education (Quirk). Thus, Cuba’s change in education first began with the 1961 National Literacy Campaign which impacted the teaching methods and schooling in general for both children and adults. According to the author of Educational Reform and Social Transformation in Cuba, Martin Convoy “Education and …show more content…
His government’s first economic strategy was put in to action by Castro in 1961 and it was called the Instant Industrialization Strategy. This strategy was focused on making materials that could be easily imported such as chemical products, machinery and automobiles. While this strategy improved the production of these materials it completely ignored the country’s main source of income before the strategy, sugar sector. The harvest of sugars dropped form 6.7 million tons to 3.8 tons in just 2 years and because of this Cuba was dependent on sugar more than ever and had to import sugar from other countries. After this fiasco Castro quickly focused on harvesting of sugar. His main goal in this harvest was to obtain 10 million ton of sugar from 1965 to 1970. He even described this goal and justified this action as “Defending the honor, the prestige the safety and self-confidence of the
This Cubans were welcomed and succeeded socially and economically. In the early 1960s and mid 1970s,
The book That Infernal Little Cuban Republic, focuses on the relationship between both Cuba and the United States. A lot of the contention between Cuba and the United States stems from the American view that every country is in need of our assistance. The author details how American officials asserted themselves into Cuba and with their presence in most cases did more harm than good in reference to the Cuban population. The book highlights that the U.S. government supported many policies in Cuba that were undemocratic leading to their citizens suffering politically, economically, and socially. After Castro took power the relationship between the two governments suffered immediately.
The Spanish managed to calm the insurgency by promising refoms, but change was slow in coming slavey was not abolished until 1886 (schoolworkhelper.net). The worldwide depressioin of 1890s hit cuba hard because it was a one market econoy which was sugar and suffered more because of the American tariff act, which hiked the rate on Cuban sugar by 40 perent and this cutted off Cuban sugar grower from their biggest buyer (us.history.org). A Spanish general, General Valeriano Weyler, was sent to stop the revolts in Cuba. He put much of the Cubam population in concentration camps using violence in order to stop the Cuban revolution. In total, 100,000 Cubans died in the concentration camp including women and children.
After this, he pushed for women's rights, and the ability for them to vote. After, he delt with most of the Colt War Problems that rose up. It started with Fidel Castro, a communistic
Introduction: Cuba from 1959 was a Dictatorship under the control of Fidel Castro. Castro’s Cuba was a communist Cuba, he nationalised all the companies that America owned and made them Cuban, as well as finding friendship in the Soviet Union, leading to the Americans to enforce a trade embargo with hopes of it forcing Cuba into becoming a democracy and not a communist state which many believed to be the reason behind the Cuban Missile Crisis between America, Cuba and the Soviet Union in 1962. Fidel Castro’s rule started off in 1959 by benefitting the people; in the first years he increased the literacy rate to a state where illiteracy was virtually eradicated, he abolished legal discrimination, provided full employment, electricity to the
The Cuban Revolution was of great significance to the U.S. because it put Fidel Castro in power as a communist dictator in Cuba and contributed to the Soviet Union’s power during the Cold War. Castro went against everything that represented democracy and basic human rights, meaning that the U.S. was challenged by his role and meant to overthrow him and keep him out of
After becoming dependent on other failing nations to acquire the essentials for our country to become adequate, Cuba is stuck leading a nation to continued suffering. How are we, the citizens of Cuba, supposed to willing let corrupt leaders take advantage of us? We demand the right to free speech without punishment. We deserve the right to a fair trial. We require our basic human rights to be met.
In the late 1800’s, Cuba was fighting for its independence and striving to break free from Spain’s control. On February 28, 1898, the U.S.S Maine mysteriously exploded, which was stationed on the coast of Cuba. This led to the U.S involvement in the Spanish-American War. There were many economic reasons why the U.S joined this war, however, there was nothing significant that would require their involvement. The U.S was already keeping a close eye on the battle between the other two nations; waiting for a reason to intervene.
Women have faced patriarchy and discrimination for centuries. In Cuba, women lives generally meant working for the male figure in the family. That is, until 1959. The Cuban Revolution encouraged equality, meaning equal rights and equal opportunities for everyone, including women. However, obtaining equality is not an easy struggle.
The artist is criticizing how Fidel Castro failed to lead Cuba successfully because he did not follow “The Marxist Theory” which explains how the artist shows Castro burning the book as if to show how Castro was opposing and Marx and Engels theories. Furthermore, the artist aims to say that not following “The Communist Manifesto” exactly would result in consequences such as a failed state. Castro’s plans for Cuba were unsuccessful and placed Cuba in horrific situations economically and socially to this today which is seen in the cartoon where the artist depicts Cuba as an isolated and torn-down state. The artist of the political cartoon criticizes how Castro poorly handled leading the country of Cuba for many years as a Prime Minister and as a President. The artist criticizes Fidel Castro as a leader but does not criticize the theories of Marx and Engels and of communism as a whole.
The Cuban Missile Address is delivered October 22nd, 1962 in the Presidential office through a major radio and television address (Podell, Anzovin, and States United 705). Historically, it is worth mentioning that United States had attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro, who was at the time Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, in at least two occasions known as the Bay of Pigs Operation and Operation Mongoose, because of his communist regime and close relationship with the Soviet Union (Pious). Then, after the Bay of Pigs incident, Fidel Castro urged Nikita Khrushchev, the Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to send support and weapons to Cuba, because of the fear of another attack to his person/regime, Nikita did by sending missiles capable of carrying weapons of mass destruction, hence, this major crisis that lasted 14 days ending October 28, 1962 (Deinema and Leydesdorff). In addition, the target audience for this speech is the American people as President starts his speech with the phrase, “Good evening, my fellow citizens” (Kennedy); however, the secondary audience would be the Cuban people, whom he describes as captive people, the Soviet Union leaders, whom he directly addresses and even quotes, and Fidel Castro of course (Kennedy). As noted above, the cultural, socio-political context is important to understand the seriousness of this crisis and
In this part in particular, De La Fuente utilizes figures and solid facts to prove his claims, especially with his effective use of census records to show black flight from Cuba due to lack of opportunity (pg. 104). Speaking to social mobility and education, De La Fuente identifies the mediocrity of Cuban and American efforts to create a literate population. Although the government made significant strides to educate the populations, imperialist motivations fueled the system, which lacked secondary systems of support and training for Afro-Cubans. It is essential that De La Fuente identifies lack of labor opportunities and education in Cuba because both Afro-Cubans and white Cubans could eventually find solidarity in combatting these issues. Upon reading this chapter, De La Fuente’s revelation of a cyclical nature in Cuba with revolution and racism is uncovered.
Late president Nikita Khrushchev (from USSR), agreed to assist Castro and took immediate action. He installed missiles in Cuba, which the US thought was a threat to the security of their nation. In summary, I think that this was a defensive move by the Cubans. I most definitely agree with
Castro pushed education for his people to assist his aim in creating a well-rounded Cuba. In politically, economically, and socially declining environments, Joseph Stalin and Fidel Castro both gained power and attempted to bring the change the people so desperately
The Cuban Revolution was successful in toppling the corrupt Batista dictatorship and getting the Cosa Nostra (a major crime syndicate in Sicily) out of Cuba. The Cuban Revolution was and is not successful however, in making Cuba a free land and a good place to live for everyone. It benefited just the communist party leaders. At first the Cuban people thought they were fighting from freedom, and that they were trying to free themselves from Batista and the United States. However, what most of the cuban people didn 't know it was that it was all a lie.