Successes And Failures Of Cuban Revolution
SUCESSES AND FAILURES OF CUBAN REVOLUTION
Successes:
The Cuban Revolution was successful in toppling the corrupt Batista dictatorship and getting the Cosa Nostra out of Cuba. January 3rd, 1959 in his address that day, Castro promised the Cuban people freedom of speech and civil rights. He also accused Batista of having fled into exile with millions of dollars and he promised to "do things that have never been done before." Castro introduce a national health care system that guarantees all Cubans free medical care and emphasis on education for his people. "Cubans were not worth two cents before the revolution," one man told a Miami Herald reporter this week. "It's true we have problems and we don't eat exactly what we want every day, but this
town (Santiago de Cuba, where the revolution began) was 70 percent illiterate before the revolution. Now it's filled with people who read, write, think and analyze." He drove out underworld entrepreneurs who profited from Havana's notorious gambling casinos and bordellos.
Failures
Fidel Castro has never lived up to his 1959 promises to the Cuban people, and since he seized power the island nation has suffered widespread poverty and seen political persecution of any critics Castro deemed enemies of the revolution. What's galling to many Americans (and many Cubans) is that relations between Washington and Havana have been terrible. Also, the longstanding American economic boycott, which long ago outlived whatever usefulness it might have had, has been extremely damaging to ordinary Cubans. The Cuban Revolution was and is NOT successful in making Cuba a free land and a good place to live for everyone. The Cuban revolution was not successful in igniting similar movements in Latin America and Africa.
Successes:
The Cuban Revolution was successful in toppling the corrupt Batista dictatorship and getting the Cosa Nostra out of Cuba. January 3rd, 1959 in his address that day, Castro promised the Cuban people freedom of speech and civil rights. He also accused Batista of having fled into exile with millions of dollars and he promised to "do things that have never been done before." Castro introduce a national health care system that guarantees all Cubans free medical care and emphasis on education for his people. "Cubans were not worth two cents before the revolution," one man told a Miami Herald reporter this week. "It's true we have problems and we don't eat exactly what we want every day, but this
town (Santiago de Cuba, where the revolution began) was 70 percent illiterate before the revolution. Now it's filled with people who read, write, think and analyze." He drove out underworld entrepreneurs who profited from Havana's notorious gambling casinos and bordellos.
Failures
Fidel Castro has never lived up to his 1959 promises to the Cuban people, and since he seized power the island nation has suffered widespread poverty and seen political persecution of any critics Castro deemed enemies of the revolution. What's galling to many Americans (and many Cubans) is that relations between Washington and Havana have been terrible. Also, the longstanding American economic boycott, which long ago outlived whatever usefulness it might have had, has been extremely damaging to ordinary Cubans. The Cuban Revolution was and is NOT successful in making Cuba a free land and a good place to live for everyone. The Cuban revolution was not successful in igniting similar movements in Latin America and Africa.