government in Cuba is communist. The current government was assumed by force in 1959. Cuba gained independence from Spain on May 20‚ 1959. There is only party though. Cuba is a communist state headed by Raul Castro and a bunch of party loyalists. Raul Castro replaced his brother Fidel Castro as chief of state‚ president‚ and commander in chief of armed forces on February 24‚ 2008. The Cuban Government seeks to control most of the aspects of Cuban life. The Communist Cuban government is constitutionally
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warfare and equality by socialism. He was a Marxist and wanted freedom for the peasants. In 1954‚ he met Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and his brother Raul while in Mexico. He later became part of Fidel Castro’s efforts to overthrow the Batista government in Cuba. He served as a military advisor to Castro and led guerrilla troops in battles against Batista forces. When Castro took power in 1959‚ He became in charge of La Cabaña Fortress prison. It is estimated that between 156 and 550 people were
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conditions of poverty‚ hunger‚ and the diseases people were suffering he started to move out the medical field thinking of other ways to support the unfortunate. In 1955 Guevara was introduced to Fidel Castro and his brother Raul. They as a group developed a plan to overthrow the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. As Castro planned for a last offensive against Batista’s troops‚ he led Guevara in charge of the eighth column with the power to move through islands and the ability to separate government forces
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1959‚ it was Fidel Castro who has mainly led Cuba throughout the years. It was in Febuary 19‚ 2008 when Fidel Castro finally ceded power to his brother Raul Castro. Since the majority of Cubans were born after the 1959 revolution‚ most of the Cuban people have known no other leader. President Fidel Castro outlasted no fewer than nine American presidents since he took power in 1959 (Castro:Profile). Relations between the United States and Cuba deteriorated rapidly as Fidel Castro and the Cuban
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odd years. What follows is some background information on what has caused the rift between the two countries. It is a brief history of the American backed Batista that allowed U.S. interests to flourish in Cuba‚ juxtaposed against the rebel leader Castro that came afterward and the lasting effects that that has had with the relationship between Cuba and the United States and the resulting embargo that sprung from the wake. After the brief history‚ there is a dissection of the problems and consequences
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and relations between the two nations have been at odds for decades due to the harsh foreign policy stance of the United States toward Cuba. The United States has considered Cuba as its enemy ever since July 1960 when Fidel Castro’s new revolutionary government changed everything. Castro seized privately owned land in Cuba‚ nationalized several privately owned companies (most of which were subsidiaries of U.S. businesses)‚ and heavily taxed American products which led to U.S. exports being reduced greatly
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justice. In this paper‚ I will utilize personal testimonies of women revolutionaries as well as scholarly commentary to explore the motivation‚ ambition and role of women in the Cuban Revolution from 1953-1959. Additionally‚ I will look at what Fidel Castro and the leadership of the July 26 Movement articulate to be women’s role in the revolution and consider how this contributes to women’s liberation. I conclude that women did not join the anti-Batista movement in spite of their femininity but instead
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Ernesto Guevara de Serna was born in Argentina in 1928 into a fairly privileged family. He developed serious asthma at the age of two‚ which would plague him throughout his life. He was home-schooled by his mother‚ Celia de la Serna. It was these early years when he became an eager reader of Marx‚ Engels‚ and Freud which all were all part of his father’s library. He went to secondary school in 1941‚ the Colegio Nacional Dean Funes‚ Cordoba‚ where he excelled in literature and sports. At home
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resulted in the overthrow of the Cuban dictator‚ Fulgencio Batista‚ and created a new communist government under Fidel Castro. The revolution replaced Batista’s regime which favored the capitalist interest‚ with Castro’s revolutionary government that focused on nationalizing industry and developing basic services (education‚ health). However‚ after the victory of the Cuban Revolution‚ Fidel Castro noticed the racism in Cuba‚ specifically in the job market and this led him to issue anti-discrimination laws
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Legal Base US-Cuba Business History The well-known Unites States (US) embargo against Cuba is generally related to the 1960 when the Cuban government under Fidel’s Castro wake‚ seized private land‚ privates companies and taxed the US products in excess. But this harsh relation dates back from 1898 when‚ after the Spanish-American war‚ Spain cede the Puerto Rico‚ Guam and Cuba territories to the US. The US granted Cuba its independence with the condition that it could intervene in the country
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