India And Cuba Similarities

India and Cuba, two countries with different backgrounds and distinctive futures. This article will provide a brief history of each country starting with India. A discussion will be addressed about nine factors that explain the democratization and events that lead the countries towards freedom. Learning about each countries history will give a better understanding on how India and Cuba manage themselves today. Readers will see the differences and similarities in their democracies, and a conclusion will be made on which country has managed the best system.
In the 15th-17th centuries Portugal, Great Britain, France, and Germany fought over the economic control in India. Great Britain ended colonizing it and had a great deal of influence over
Cuba was also a colony at one point in time. Now they have different presents, while India is a democracy, Cuba is under a communist dictatorship. The fallowing events were the cause for the current government. October 28, 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba and the Spanish settlement started in the Island. The Spanish thought it would be peaceful to conquer the island, but the indigenous people thought otherwise. In 1511, Diego Velazquez set out from Hispaniola to conquer the island of Cuba. Hatuey, a native who fled to warn the others of the invasion, led him. The natives didn’t believe his stories, so he sorted out to guerilla warfare. He was then capture by Diego Velazquez and was burned alive to send a warning to the others. This was the first manifestation of fight against the exploitation and for the men’s right to be free (cubahistory.org). In 1512 the king of Spain gave authorization to send black slaves to the Island of Cuba. This brought a depopulation of natives in the Island and an increase of black Africans. Almost a century later the British invaded the island taking Guantanamo Bay during the War of Jenkin’s Ear with Spain. Edward Vernon the British admiral, who was in charge of the occupation, saw defeat by guerrilla warfare and diseases in the island, he was force to flee to the British colonized Island of Jamaica. Later in 1748, Tension grew in the Caribbean by the three colonial powers Spain, France, and Britain. The Battle of Habana took place between Spanish troops and British troops, and the seven-year war erupted. In 1762 an expedition of the British captured Habana. When Habana surrendered, British Admiral George Keppel, the 3rd entered the city as governor taking control of western Cuba. A rapid transformation took place as negotiations between Cuba and North America started to take place, under British colonial. The colonization of the British did not last very long, due to the protest in London