SANTOS TRAFFICANTE‚ JR. WHO WAS HE? Santo Trafficante‚ Jr. (November 15‚ 1914 – March 17‚ 1987) was one of the last of the old-time Mafia bosses in the United States. He allegedly controlled organized criminal operations in Florida and Cuba‚ which had previously been consolidated from several rival gangs by his father‚ Santo Trafficante‚ Sr. Reputedly the most powerful mafioso in Batista-era Cuba‚ he never served time in a United States prison Suspicions that Trafficante‚ along with
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Union and The United States of America over missile placement in Cuba‚ 150 km from US shores. This was a major nuclear threat to world peace. On the 1st January 1959‚ President Batista of Cuba was overthrown. This allowed Castro backed revolutionary forces to seize power. Fidel Castro then became Prime Minister of Cuba. In May 1960‚ a US plane flying over Soviet airspace was shot down and the pilot was taken hostage. The incident forced the US to admit to the international world that it was conducting
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Color discrimination is defined as a human being of the same race are treated differently based on their skin pigmentation‚ complexion‚ or skin tone. Your skin is made to bear the blame for the guilt‚ time‚ history‚ and death. There are numerous pigmentocracies throughout the world‚ and variability the light-skinned people in which are determined to have the highest social status. These are then followed by the brown-skinned‚ who occupy intermediate positions‚ and finally by the black-skinned who
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Marxism was sweeping across Latin America during the 20th century and acted as a stand to Capitalism and the United States. According to John Chasteen‚ a professor of history at the University of North Carolina‚ says this about Latin Americans adopting Marxist-ideas‚ “to adopt Marxism meant basically one thing: to side with the weal and impoverished masses against the rich minority and the US multinational corporations.” Latin America was fully influenced by imperialism and their society was shaped
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United States foreign and domestic policy and way of life. Within the Cold War‚ individual events altered the United States for the better and worse. One result of the Bay of Pigs Invasion and communism becoming more prominent in Cuba was that Fidel Castro decided to militarily ally with the Soviets. This caused the spread of fear for enemies penetrating the government in the United States and people were attacked because they were accused of being communist. In the Arms Race‚ the development of
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People’s Government‚ Castro spent much of his time trying to explain the superficially incompatible need for one of the world’s last forceful Marxist regimes to explain the importance and need for the foreign currency. With this speech‚ he asked the nation to accept the lack of access to tourist centers‚ which he said was not a short-term measure. "We have to maintain this for as long as the country has a need for foreign currency and does not have other means of acquiring it‚" Fidel Castro said. "We are
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During the Cuban Revolution‚ the revolt was led by Fidel Castro who was against the political system government led by Cuban President In 1959‚ Fidel Castro and his group of guerilla fighter‚ overthrew the government of President Fulgencio Batista. Because of Fidel Castro’s rule‚ the government has obtained private land‚ nationalized hundreds of private companies and heavily taxing the Americans. This lead
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Fox-Martin Planning Timeline 1945 – Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing 1949 – Soviet Union develops atomic bomb 1959 – Fidel Castro takes control of Cuba via a Coup 1960 – US places trade embargo on Cuba 1961 – US break diplomatic relations with Cuba (Steps taken by America ‘declared war’‚ Cuba ready to revolt) 17 April 1961 – 1500 Cuban exiles land on Bay of Pigs; intention overthrowing Castro September 1962 – Soviets equipped Cuba with missiles‚ tanks and radar vans October 1962 – U2 American Spy Plane
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Communism vs. Democracy Communism is an original system of society‚ quite different from Democracy in many ways. While total democracy is not widely spread‚ many forms of it are successful throughout the world today. One of the first and major differences between a Communist and Democratic government is their contrary economic systems. In a communist government‚ the community owns the major resources and means of production. The goal of such a system is to prevent
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flow of trade from the United States into Latin America. The Kennedy Doctrine was based on these same objectives but was more concerned with the spread of communism and Soviet influence in Latin America following the Cuban revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power under Eisenhower during the 1950s. Some of the most notable events that stemmed from tenets of JFK’s foreign policy initiatives in regard to Latin America and the spread of communism were: The Bay of Pigs Invasion‚ April 17‚ 1961‚ Increase
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