United States and Cuba had announced restoring diplomatic relations after approximately six decades. After the announcement was made, both United States and Cuba re-established embassy in Havana and Washington D.C. respectively. The restoration is hoped to improve economy in Cuba in terms of bank transactions, trades and travel as United States imposed embargo on Cuba in 1960s by initiating economic sanction, banning trades and bank transactions which are still in operation today. United States is now working on easing the travel and trade rules on doing business in Cuba (Donnelly, 2015). Also, the restoration is hoped to open up the international culture to Cuba because Cuba has limited access to internet and it costs several dollars for an hour where majority of Cuban cannot afford (Gutierrez, 2015).
The diplomatic relation between both countries was stopped in 1961 when Fidel Castro, the former president of Cuba wanted to overthrow the government and build relations with the former USSR. The action taken by Castro led to the ending of diplomatic relation between United States and Cuba which then led to the economic sanctions, banning of trades and financial transaction towards Cuba in 1962 (Letisinger, 2014).
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The re-establish diplomatic relation was due to their national interest, for example in economy. Restoration of diplomatic relations can help to boost up the economy for both United States and Cuba. Cuba produces best quality tobacco and the Americans are the biggest consumer of Cuban cigarettes. Since United States imposed embargo towards Cuba 60 years ago, Cuba lost millions of dollars of income from business sectors (Mcclam, 2015). Now, with the approval of easing the trade embargo, America travellers are allowed to bring cigarettes worth up to $100 from Cuba. This has been said as a good news to both cigarettes retailers and Cuban cigarettes consumers (Ted Kemp and Fred Imbert,
The book That Infernal Little Cuban Republic, focuses on the relationship between both Cuba and the United States. A lot of the contention between Cuba and the United States stems from the American view that every country is in need of our assistance. The author details how American officials asserted themselves into Cuba and with their presence in most cases did more harm than good in reference to the Cuban population. The book highlights that the U.S. government supported many policies in Cuba that were undemocratic leading to their citizens suffering politically, economically, and socially. After Castro took power the relationship between the two governments suffered immediately.
Apparently Cuba holds a huge grudge and forgets nothing. I personally believe that they will continue to collect intelligence on the United States, just as we do of them. We are a very close neighboring country that has completely opposite views of them. We have a long history of supporting their dissident
Their fear of the United States united the Cuban people and generating their support for communism. Succeeding the Cold War, The Vietnam War was malicious with most of the
January of 1959, Cuba welcomed the first of the Cuban Revolution, and had become a communist country under the rule of Fidel Castro as mentioned in “Document D”. The US, against communism, became much involved in Cuba during 1962, when
The agreement was that Russia gave oil, machines and money to Cuba in exchange for sugar from the Cuban. The resource agreement alerted the USA and thus increased the tension between the two superpowers because USA felt that USSR was persuading Cuba into joining USSR political ideology which was communism (Source D). This increased the tensions and the USA stop trading with Cuba which then influenced Cuba to join with USSR communism. By the USSR trading and making agreements with Cuba with resources as well as putting missile basses in Cuba, this led up to the Cuban Missile Crisis and one of the factors that increased the tension between the USA and USSR. (Source
The Cuban Missile Crisis largely was between the Soviet Union and the United States. Their leaders, Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy, most likely felt forced to do what was best for their country. In Kennedy’s situation, the Americans wanted to get rid of the missiles, get rid of Fidel Castro and eliminate Communism from Cuba. Khrushchev and the Soviets wanted to test the USA and prove that the USSR was stronger, but he also wished other countries to feel attracted to
Another reason they needed help was because the US refused to carry on buying sugar from Cuba which placed them in a poor economic state. After Fidel Castro came to power, he nationalized American companies within
Cuba became a communist country under the dictatorship of Fidel Castro, the united states did attempt to stop it but they failed. (Doc D) The United States late on discovered that there was a range of nuclear missiles sites in Cuba, the United States responded to this by announcing a quarantine. (Doc D) A quarantine is a place of isolation in which people or even animals are placed after coming from somewhere else, this was usually practiced to stop pesticides and other infections.
In January of 1959, Fidel Castro came to power. The United States’ attempted to overthrow Castro with the Bay of Pigs Invasion, a CIA operation to overthrow Fidel Castro by landing 1200 disgruntled Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs. The attempt fails miserably and is a huge embarrassment for Kennedy, who then vows to bring down Castro. After the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, Castro looked to the Soviet Union for protection. According to document D in 1962 “The soviets began shipping 40,000 troops, 60 missiles and 158 nuclear warheads to communist Cuba.”
(Alpha History). The Americans feared communism and saw the only way to rid it by expanding their influence into Cuba. They did this without the consent of many Cubans and did it for own personal American gain. Their paranoia fueled their drive to intervene in Cuba, as they saw it
Growing up in Cuba, boys and girls were freely allowed to play with one another. Many girls would climb big trees to get fresh savory mangos. They would fall and scrape their knees while playing hide and seek and even play sports which were considered “manly”. Many girls preferred to work outside the house, they would perform jobs such as; repairing a broken fence or painting the house. Boys were never told not to play with the girls, in fact, they would also help out around the house and clean dishes after a meal.
The Cuban Missile Address is delivered October 22nd, 1962 in the Presidential office through a major radio and television address (Podell, Anzovin, and States United 705). Historically, it is worth mentioning that United States had attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro, who was at the time Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, in at least two occasions known as the Bay of Pigs Operation and Operation Mongoose, because of his communist regime and close relationship with the Soviet Union (Pious). Then, after the Bay of Pigs incident, Fidel Castro urged Nikita Khrushchev, the Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to send support and weapons to Cuba, because of the fear of another attack to his person/regime, Nikita did by sending missiles capable of carrying weapons of mass destruction, hence, this major crisis that lasted 14 days ending October 28, 1962 (Deinema and Leydesdorff). In addition, the target audience for this speech is the American people as President starts his speech with the phrase, “Good evening, my fellow citizens” (Kennedy); however, the secondary audience would be the Cuban people, whom he describes as captive people, the Soviet Union leaders, whom he directly addresses and even quotes, and Fidel Castro of course (Kennedy). As noted above, the cultural, socio-political context is important to understand the seriousness of this crisis and
Our views are not calculated or ‘preferred-choices’, we just follow what is expected from us in our social setting and usually we do so without thinking. Our day to day life is a sum up of involuntary actions where the society structures our daily schedule and we heartedly keep following it without extensive thinking. Assumption: While Cuba and Canada share a similar balance of military power and are located alongside the United States, Cuba is regarded as a foe and Canada a close ally by America, evidently not simply on the basis of material distribution of capabilities but as a consequence of ideational structure of friendship and enmity which attach greatly different meaning to Cuban and Canadian military power for the United
Another reason why America was aggressive is because for example, when there was a meeting on what action the US should take against Cuba and USSR, three out of the four proposals were ones that could probably cause another war. One of the proposals was to destroy the Soviet missiles in Cuba by an airstrike, which is a very intense act. Furthermore, another reason why I agree with Cuba’s point of view, is because America was unfair with its ‘regulations’ with Cuba. Castro was not allowed to keep Soviet missiles in his land, because Kennedy stated that it was a threat to the security of the US. While on the other hand, the US had all the nuclear power to fire at Cuba at any time without any conditions.
Nothing changed things got worse and worse and worse. Cuba remained the same as it did earlier with Batista; a poor country in debt whose livelihood depends on sugar production. At first the United