1. Carlos Slim (Mexico) - $74 billion‚ telecommunications Slim‚ 71‚ first showed a business talent as a 10-year-old selling drinks and snacks to his family. After studying engineering‚ he founded a real estate company and worked as a trader on the Mexican stock exchange. Cigar-smoking Slim is known for a "Midas touch" in acquiring struggling firms and turning them into cash cows. His enormous wealth contrasts starkly with his frugal lifestyle. He has lived in the same house for about 40 years and
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imperialism. Nevertheless‚ those two men denied that Afro and indigenous-Cubanness constitute distinct cultural identities in the process of artistic national unity. For instance‚ Portocarrero‚ a revolutionary opponent of Batista‚ designed his Soy Cuba poster to feature a person with red locks of hair within which he entangled pseudo-Mayan and African symbols to “denote a pictorial negation of the established [mainstream U.S.] order.” Moreover‚ the poster lacks myriad Hollywood-style
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1950’s when Fidel Castro overthrew the Batista Government and took control over Cuba. Soon after‚ Castro and the United States had a series of problems that led to the full trade embargo against Cuba. Almost forty years have passed and there have only been minor changes in the embargo against Cuba. This leads us to the Chapter 7 Case about U.S. and Cuba Relations and where our relations will stand in the future. In the year of 1959 Fidel Castro overthrew the Batista government in Cuba and began ruling
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interests in Cuba. At that time‚ American corporations and wealthy individuals owned almost half of Cuba’s sugar plantations and the majority of its cattle ranches‚ mines and utilities. Batista supported their operations. He was also reliably anticommunist. Castro‚ by contrast‚ disapproved of the approach that Americans in Cuba. It was time‚ he believed‚ for Cubans to assume more control of their nation. “Cuba Sí‚ Yanquis No” became one
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Influencia: The cultural influence and meaning behind the Cuban son Influencia by Carlos Puebla (1957) is an example of a Cuban son. Son is a genre of music that originated in Cuba near the end of the 19th century and is made up of many elements from different cultural groups because of Cuba’s extremely varied racial heritage. This essay will explore the political and musical history of pre-revolutionary Cuba whilst analysing the elements of this particular son and looking at the relationship
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Final Exam 12/12/12 1:05 AM Chinese • Patriarchy/Eldest Male/Clan o Clan is led by eldest male o Male won’t stop being in power until their passing o Eldest male tells everyone what to do o Clan is related by blood or marriage • Surname o Goes by last name o It doesn’t matter what your name is‚ just who your family is o Introduce last name first: Khanchaleunh‚ Sakoona • “Guadong” or Canton Province o Where most immigrants came from o Not a farming province o Located on the harbor
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Cuba was situated only 90 miles from Florida in southern USA. Americans owned most of the businesses‚ banks‚ sugar and tobacco plantations‚ as well as a large naval base. The USA maintained good relations with the pro-American dictator Batista. Batista was overthrown in 1959. 95% of Cuba’s trade was with the USA so the Cuban economy was heavily dependent on the USA. The new leader‚ Fidel Castro wished to reduce USA influence. He nationalised industries and banks and introduced land reforms. This
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Marx and Lenin when he was in jail. When Castro first came into power he did not fully support communism‚ but his regime developed aspects of communism over time. Castro’s early ideas were not very extreme and did not differ from other opposers of Batista. Castro believed in a return to constitutional goverment‚ agarian reform‚ and profit sharing arrangments in industry. He recognized that Cuba had become a country of financial extrems. One’s class was either the elite or lower class‚ there was no
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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 executed on Guevara’s extra-judicial orders during this time. (3) As I hear about Guevara and the way he rebelled against the Batista forces‚ I sometimes wonder if he had any guilt towards
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districts illustrate the last phase of Cuban modernism before the Communist Revolution. In the Miramar district Casa de Eutimio Falla Bonet was designed by architect Eugenio Batista and broke radically with the traditional grandeur and opulence of Havana’s elite. Constructed in 1939‚ the single-story modernity employs concepts that Batista developed to achieve a style influenced by traditional Cuban colonial architecture but defined by the latest
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