Like any sources there’s always limitations to a source the fact that he’s Cuban can create a bias in the text, the best option is always to have the writer as neutral as possible. That source is valuable to my investigation the way it’s written helps me understand the necessary steps that any dictator would take to achieve a totalitarian regime. The second source that I used for my investigation is an article called “A study of Castro: motives behind the revolution” this source describes Castro actions like even after the revolution he didn’t take power he didn’t want all that political power he just wanted to stop Batista that he said was under the control of the USA. The text describes Castro short into winning the revolutionary as not wanting all the power and making the decisions with fellow revolutionaries. At this the revolution was still consider like actions committed to better the situation of the …show more content…
When Fidel Castro came into power he said he was looking to aid the poor, the uneducated, the unemployed, the rights of women, the rights of elderly, and so many more. These aspects of society are important in maintaining a structure and common satisfaction among the population. A result of Batista dictatorship was the major gap between the upper class including wealthy land owner and the middle class. Castro dealt with this problem by passing the Agrarian Reform Laws which means that a large portion of land over 1000 acres for Cuban companies and over 3000 acres for foreign companies would be nationalized and redistributed to over 200 000 peasants. These laws were crucial into proving that the new government unlike the Batista was not corrupted and manipulated by the USA which had before made a fortune by installing their companies on Cuban soil and exploiting it under the Batista jurisdiction. An important area in Castro was education before he came to power more than 40 percent of the population was consider to be illiterate . He solved this problem by an country wide illiteracy campaign in which the goal was to built more schools in rural areas to educate the population there. To be able to make education a more common service he started closing private school and made education free. These tactics had positive effects since at