How Did Fidel Castro Rule

Castro’s Rule over Cuba When Castro proclaimed power the Cuban people thought it would be for good, but overall it would turn into a dictatorship. Castro’s rule caused many Cuban people great fear and strife. He had promised many things which he did not fulfill for the Cubans which many became angry and left Cuba before it was too late. While others were not as fortunate to get the chance to flee, they had to stay and endure Fidel Castro’s laws. Castro vowed to improve Cuba, but ultimately the Cuban people would suffer under his rule.

Castro’s revolution to leadership did not turn out as everyone expected it to. In 1958, a movement against the dictator at the time, Fulgencio Batista, had developed and Fidel Castro had emerged as the leader of the Anti-Batista opposition. In April, Castro called a national strike but was soon called off by Batista and his regime because they ordered the strikers to be shot which in a final result caused mass shootings. One year later in January Castro with the help of his 26th movement moved in and took power resulting in their provisional government (Fidel Castro, 1998). This was not Castro’s first attempt at trying to
While Castro was in power, thousands of Cubans were detained in prisons, while thousands more were harassed and intimidated, and entire Cuban generations were denied their basic freedoms. Castro, trying to protect his movement had the repression codified in law and enforced for all of those who resisted him (Cuba: Fidel Castro’ Record of Repression, 2016). The abusive actions taken by Castro generated fear in Cuba, which pressured many Cubans to show their allegiance to the dictatorship. Castro also held public trials and executions against the criminals of Batista's regime. Many abusive actions like surveillance, beatings, arbitrary detention and many more that Castro reinforced, are still used in Cuba