There are three main types of power, and many people posess all of these types. One of these people is Fidel Alejandro Castro, the old communist dictator of Cuba. He was the first person to introduce communisin to the western hemisphere. Even though he may have been seen as a tyrant, he did a lot of good for cuba, as all people there have food, water, shelter, free education, and healthcare, as well, with Cuba being a dictatorship, there is a far lower crime rate than in other places, this is also due to the fact that everybody has the same opprotunities. Fidel had an interesting rise to pwer, and stayed in power for 47 years before resigning, and passing his power to his brother Raul. Fidel Castro had a very strong source of all three types …show more content…
Fidel Castro tried to run for government in 1952, serving as a candidate for the Cuban Peoples Party. His ability to speak helped him make followers out of many of the young people in the party. The party was expected to win the election, but General Barista took controll of the country through the use of the armed forces. Fidel tried twice to overthrow Barista’s dictatorship, the first attempt in 1953 failed, and Fidel was sentenced to jail for 15 years. He served 2 years before Barista freed Fidel due to public demand. The second attampt of Fidel to overthrow the government was succesful, Fidels rise to power is much like Vladimer Lennin because they both used current issues, such as inequality and corruption, of the Cuban government, and the Russian, to convince people to turn on their current government, and support reform. and Fidel Castro rose to power in 1959. This demonstrateds relational power because Fidel was just a nobody, but through his relationships, books, and eventualy speeches, he was able to convince people to help him become the ruler of …show more content…
He abolished segrigation in Cuba, and was very anti-racism. He also introduced social wellfare, universal education, nearly garunteed employment, and good healthcare. He introduced Communism to Cuba, as had been done in Russia, but Castro’s form of communism was closer to the true Marxist ideal, without as much abuse of power, or ukrainian genocides, therefore it was far more effective, and much longer lasting. Not every Cuban was a fan of Marxist philosophys of equality. hundreds of thousands of middle, and upper class Cubans fled to the United States, where they could continue their life that capitalism had blessed. Many Cubans supported Communism, as it gave them a chance to succeed. While Castro had done some terrible things while in power, such as torturing, and murdering Batista government supporters, he has done more good than harm to
From the Cuban perspective most of the hostility towards America came as a result of knowledge that they exploit people and lands in order to enhance their own wealth. Cuba did not see themselves as needing help from people like the United
In the early 1900’s citizens of The Dominican Republic were against Rafael Leonidas Trujillo because he used his power to control and destroy the Dominican republic. Dictator Rafael Trujillo was born on October 24, 1891, in San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic. Raised in a small rural town by parents of Spanish, Haitian and Dominican descent. He became president of the Dominican Republic in 1930 through political maneuvering and torture.
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
After this, he pushed for women's rights, and the ability for them to vote. After, he delt with most of the Colt War Problems that rose up. It started with Fidel Castro, a communistic
Introduction: Cuba from 1959 was a Dictatorship under the control of Fidel Castro. Castro’s Cuba was a communist Cuba, he nationalised all the companies that America owned and made them Cuban, as well as finding friendship in the Soviet Union, leading to the Americans to enforce a trade embargo with hopes of it forcing Cuba into becoming a democracy and not a communist state which many believed to be the reason behind the Cuban Missile Crisis between America, Cuba and the Soviet Union in 1962. Fidel Castro’s rule started off in 1959 by benefitting the people; in the first years he increased the literacy rate to a state where illiteracy was virtually eradicated, he abolished legal discrimination, provided full employment, electricity to the
The first rebellion, the ten-year war, ended in an unsatisfactory stalemate leaving the Cuban people with limited resources and hope. The writer and activist Jose Marti had supported Cuba’s independence for most of his life, he wrote about the dream of independence in poems, essays and letters. While in the United States he began to rally up those who had fought in the
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.”
People like Castro are jerks and are very forceful, bad leaders. Castro canceled elections, forced non-communists to resign from the government in disgrace, worked secret arms deals with the Soviets, carried out mass executions live on the TV’s, shut down the free press, attacked the church and confiscated its property, tortured critics, criminalized private commercial transactions and blanketed all of Cuba with the enduring terror of his dictatorship. A bad leader is a big push factor that made Mario Loyola and his family leave Cuba and go to the
For instance, Cuba has been established as a dictatorship while Puerto Rico has been established as a republic. Under these conditions each of the countries have developed in complete different ways. For example, in Cuba, the citizens have had to live under the constant rules of their leader Fidel Castro. Castro used his power to create the structure of Cuba in the same structure as that of the Soviet Union, which in return caused him to lock up or execute anyone who went against what he said. Due to those reasons, Cuba 's economy was gravely wounded and the entire country was forced to grow under strained conditions,
Late president Nikita Khrushchev (from USSR), agreed to assist Castro and took immediate action. He installed missiles in Cuba, which the US thought was a threat to the security of their nation. In summary, I think that this was a defensive move by the Cubans. I most definitely agree with
Castro pushed education for his people to assist his aim in creating a well-rounded Cuba. In politically, economically, and socially declining environments, Joseph Stalin and Fidel Castro both gained power and attempted to bring the change the people so desperately
Rectification (1986) -Castro saw that Cuba needed a greater political change in the late 80’s. -He created the Rectification program to help with the decline of volunteer work, workers not having incentives to work, and shifts from official production to private enterprises. What he did was: have tighter punishment in labor, wage cuts for certain jobs, increased
He deposed of a man who was consistently backed by the national army. Ultimately, Castro won a war against an entity embellished with weapons and superior technology with only 82 men. In order to do this successfully, he utilised guerrilla warfare tactics as they best suited his resource. Fighting a war against an enemy far greater with orthodox and predictable methods would be an irrefutable disaster. Instead, small scaled yet mobile attacks on troops when they least expected proved to be an effective method of confrontation.
The Cuban Revolution was successful in toppling the corrupt Batista dictatorship and getting the Cosa Nostra (a major crime syndicate in Sicily) out of Cuba. The Cuban Revolution was and is not successful however, in making Cuba a free land and a good place to live for everyone. It benefited just the communist party leaders. At first the Cuban people thought they were fighting from freedom, and that they were trying to free themselves from Batista and the United States. However, what most of the cuban people didn 't know it was that it was all a lie.
The Batista dictatorship was widely despised and had lost the support of the majority of the population. The revolutionaries were able to capitalize on this discontent and mobilize the Cuban people behind their cause. The revolution also had a strong ideological component, with the revolutionaries espousing a vision of a more just and equitable society. This message resonated with many Cubans, particularly those who had been marginalized by the old regime. Another factor that contributed to the success of the Cuban Revolution was the leadership of Fidel Castro.