Fulgencio Batista

which had suffered numerous corrupt and oppressive governmental regimes, fell victim to yet another when Fulgencio Batista seized power under a military coup in March of 1952. A cry for a just Cuba, that was economically, politically, and socially free continued to echo throughout the island. In 1959, a group of radical revolutionaries, under the leadership of Fidel Castro, overthrew the Batista dictatorship and put in place the political and social structures that exist in Cuba to this day. Pérez-Stable’s

The Other Side of Castro In my 27 years on this planet, I have heard little to nothing about the revolutionist and Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Of the small amount of conversation which has occurred in front of me, Castro was always described in a negative way. He was described as a cruel, selfish Communist dictator who is against the ideas and beliefs of my own country. For those reasons, I have never bothered educating myself about Castro and his life. Now that I am older, my education has presented

play with Cuba’s leadership. Cuban citizens started to become angry. One of these people were Fulgencio Batista, who led a Coup and successfully overthrew the existing government, becoming the new de-facto dictator (Brenner et al. 6). Although his first term in office was progressive as he supported labor unions and established economic reforms, his second presidency was quite the opposite (7). Batista was known to be a puppet president. When he came back and decided to be president again in 1952

to stop the government led by Batista. Castro needed to achieve his goal through other means, even force if necessary as exemplified by the uprisings in the Caribbean. His alternate approach to achieving his goal was to organize a group of underground rebels who would aid him in his fight against the oppressive rule of Batista. Castro began to draw followers to his cause through his personality, which compelled many people to join him in his fight against Batista. This gathering of followers would

The story of Cuba is a very interesting one. Most are familiar with it as a small island in the Caribbean. Those who have not been completely negligent over the last half a century have probably also heard the names Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. These two men were very pivotal players in the history of Cuba and its revolution. Literary and cinematic reenactments are a great method for providing historical knowledge. However, they can be heavily biased and much of the factual evidence can

The U.S. and Cuba have had a decades long contentious relationship ever since the Cuban Revolution in 1959. Yet, strangely enough, one of the leading figures in the Cuban Revolution was a young American who grew up in Toledo, Ohio. William Alexander Morgan drifted from one odd job to another in the U.S. and even served prison time for desertion from the U.S. Army. Somehow Morgan ended up smuggling guns to the Cuban rebels, led by a young Fidel Castro, in the late 1950s. Eventually, Morgan joined

in the running of Cuba and the poor treatment & conditions the lower class Cubans lived with. The leader before the revolution was a man named Fulgencio Batista, who came into power via a coup. He suspended the Constitution, effectively establishing a dictatorship, and increased the Cuban dependency on the US. Batista allowed the

Hunter Sharp Mon/Wed 2:15 Final Paper There have been revolutions which were dominated by important personalities, creating personalist regimes. Revolutionary leaders including Napoleon Bonaparte, Vladimir Lenin, and Fidel Castro have been both an embodiment of revolutionary ideas and an antithesis to many of the original ideals of their respective revolutions. Napoleon Bonaparte During the French Revolution, the poor and oppressed majority are fighting to get a place in society, and get natural

Cuba’s economy. Castro’s positive economic impact can be traced back to 1959 when he first came into power as Prime Minister of Cuba following the approximately seven-year rule of dictator Fulgencio Batista. During Batista’s rule and even far long before it, Cuba had long had relations with the US. Under Fulgencio Batista, however, these relations were particularly strong and during this time period, Cuba saw great amounts of corruption. The USA was exploiting it for its resources, although the great majority

In Mexico he began to organize a guerrilla voyage to Cuba for a violent uprising against Batista authority (Castro, 2009). On December 2, 1956 Castro, joined by 81 other revolutionaries (which included big names such as Che Guevara, and Jesus Montane), reached the Cuban cost. (Castro, 2009). For the next two years Castro helped the Rebel Army