Fidel Castro, Cro, And Macro And The Cuban Revolution

The Cuban Revolution was touchy topic for the United States and Cuba. America’s alienation of Cuba didn’t help when communism from the USSR was brewing over the revolution. When the revolution gained Castro as its leader, the worry and hatred from the United States was unbearable, especially when the Soviet Union landed in Cuba to interest Castro in its aid. The US’s fear of communism, Fidel Castro, and aid from the Soviet Union was significant because it changed the US’s political role in Cuba during the Cuban Revolution.

The Cuban "destiny," according to Castro, is the creation of an independent nation with the conditions of territorial sovereignty, an independent political structure, a national economy, and a differentiated culture 4. These four conditions mentioned by Castro in his manifesto simply reiterate the frustrations of the Cuban people who although were liberated from colonial oppression continued to remain the subjects of foreign sovereignty. Foreign influence and sovereignty this time around in the 20th century was not wielded by the Spanish crown, but rather by the "friendly neighbor" from North America, the United States. Therefore, intimately related to the notion of Cuba’s destiny is the desire to stray away from dependency on any foreign nation for economic purposes. Harleigh Leach, in her essay concerning this particular matter, also defines the essence of the revolution in more economic detail as she states:

In 1959, Fidel Castro led a group of rebel forces to end and overthrow Fulgencio Batista’s regime in an effort to free the Cuban people from his tyrannous rule. For very many different political reasons this has been portrayed as an act of great injustice and hypocrisy in the modern world. A lot of this has of course been advocated primarily by the US due to the high level of political tension between the two nations that developed in the mid 1950s. Believing this conventional wisdom that Castro was simply an evil communist who oppressed his people and stripped them of their human rights is very dangerous because it

Fidel Castro was a man who had a target on his head. Lots of people from all over the world wanted him dead. Fidel Castro wasn’t a capitalist person, he was a Communist.

Brittmarie Janson Perez, author of Political Facets of Salsa, writes, “Late at night, in a discotheque in a Latin American country whose political system is dominated by the military and is not particularly known for its respect for human rights, a crowd is dancing salsa, a generic term covering Caribbean dance music” (149). This has been and continues to be a very commonly accurate depiction of many Latin American countries. Since Cuba was founded in October 1492, its government and politics has been characterized by brutality, corruption and instability. Nonetheless, involvement from foreign nations and its deeply engrained Spanish roots has without a doubt had a significant impact on the transformation of what Cuba is today. In this paper, I will explore the pros and cons of the 1959 Cuban Revolution through the examination of the historical context of politics and how it impacted the social atmosphere.

Methods: This investigation will describe Che Guevara’s involvement in Latin American independence movements, focusing specifically on his involvement with Fidel Castro’s “26th of July” movement. His actions and words will be analyzed, and his conduct this period of political upheaval will be used as evidence in order to answer the investigative question.

However, the revolution, led by Fidel Castro, brought hope for those who supported the fight against the repressive government in the island, but it also brought a red signal of danger and fear of Cold War to other countries in America, especially for United States. Even though the revolutionary Fidel Castro was friend with the Soviet Union, Cuba never played a big role outside of the island. Nevertheless, United State anti-communism policy encouraged a violent anti-revolutionary reaction that spreader all over Latin America in the 60’s and 70’s.

Throughout the Cuban series of learning in this semesters class, has orchestrated a vast perception of learning of a nations struggle for independence. In formulating a conclusion to interpret the views of the Cuban authors that were influenced by the Cuban revolution, their perception solely captures the struggle of the land. Unlike the El Lider’s attributes to Fidel Castro in the documentary of “The Untold Story of Fidel Castro”. The visual biography concludes a broader spectrum of formulating a culture of prideful and radical nationalist that revokes the rulings of big brother.

Before the revolution began, Che met with Fidel Castro in Mexico in 1955. During this meeting, Che seemed uninterested and reluctant about joining the 26th of July Movement at first, asking Castro if he “has a boat and fighters” (Che: Part One, Soderbergh). During this same conversation, Castro asks Che, “Do you think I’m

The film Che is about the man, Che, who joined forces in Cuba and start a revolution to end of the Batista regime in Cuba. The men that fought in the revolution were in bad conditions because they were on a really hard and dangerous combat, most of them got hurt during this fight. Also, the film shows that a lot of peasants were tortured and murdered by Batista’s army because of two men that decide to betrayal to the revolution and one of them was the messenger of the Rebel Army. Indeed, I think that Che became a hero in Cuba because he was a doctor but during the revolution, he was the commander and the one who protect and gave Cuba the freedom again and everyone respects him and him made sure that everyone was doing the right thing.

Castro’s involvement with the foreign and domestic politics during the early Cold War period greatly influenced the outcome of the Cuban Revolution. Without the actions taken by foreign powers like the United States and Russia, some events on the domestic front may have had very different results. It is important to understand how every nation’s foreign policies can influence more than just one other nation, and this was especially true for Cuba. It was this mix and chain of events which produced the communist Cuba that we are familiar with today.

On January 29, 1959, Che Guevara delivered the speech named, “The Social Ideals of the Rebel Army. Che Guevara met Fidel and Raul castro in Mexico City during the year of 1955. He joined the July 26 movement which was named after the attack of Moncada army barracks led by Fidel Castro. This attacked sparked a rebellion against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Che would soon become the second in command of the historical Cuba revolution (Keen and Haynes 2013, 401). The speech he gave was sponsored by a cultural organization named Nuestro TIempo at a ceremony in Havana. He begins by giving praise to Jose Marti who was a symbol of Cuba’s independence against Spain in the 19th century. Che claims that the revolution's goals are derived from Marti’s dream of Cuban independence. Jose Marti led a revolution to break free from Spain’s control which is similar to what the revolutaries during this time want as they want to eliminate the dictatorship that is controlling Cuba. In his speech, Che claims the way to accomplish this goal is by forming a coup as Barista did to get into power. However, Basita also had the support of the United States which provides insight into the relationship between the U.S and Cuba (Guevara, 1959). In 1952, Batista along with help from the United States overthrew the Prio presidency due to corruption and violence that shadowed his administration. Che acknowledges United States support of Batista as he states, “Batista has given hundred concessions to the United States and we must give them a hundred and one”(Guevara, 1959). One of the reasons why the United States chose to

In the Wikipedia page over the Cuban Revolution it is really interesting that Fidel and Che’s face both represent the faces of the revolution in contrast to the Fidel Castro documentary, which does not mention Che at all. One of the first things that the second paragraph mentions is the relationship between Cuba and the United States and how relations have only begun to improve recently. The Wikipedia page of the Cuban Revolutions mentions a lot of the implication of the Cuban Revolution and the results of the Cuban Revolution. This is important because it suggests that the document has been altered to match the current political situation between the United States and Cuba. The Wikipedia page for the Cuban Revolution provides a lot more information

In 1953, after he graduated as a doctor, Ché took off through Latin America but this with a more conscious interest in political education. It was in Costa Rica where he met six Cubans who had participated in their failed assault on the 26th of July 1953 on the presidency

Like the much used stencil of Guevara's determined visage, the general perception of his life is flat and two-dimensional. No where more so, it seems, then in the country richest in Guevara's history, Cuba. An article printed July 21st 1997 in Newsweek, entitled 'Return Of The Rebel', explored Cuban society in the wake of the long-awaited discovery of Guevara's skeleton in Bolivian town of Vallegrande. In it journalist Brook Lamer explains how 'the Cuban Government played a pivotal role in creating the Che mystique, and it is not about to let its franchise slip away'[2].