Cuban History: The Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution was one of the most defining events in Cuba’s history. With blood hardwork and a dream the Cuban Revolution was one of the most influential and defining moments in Cuba’s history. The Cuban Revolution was led by Fidel Castro and a few other key figures such as Che Guevara and his brother Raul Castro. Before Castro’s revolution the Cuban government had been taken over by Fulgencio Batista. He made Cuba into a puppet for countries to take resources from without proper retribution. When Castro re-took Cuba he nationalized the land that was owned by foreign governments and gave it back to the citizens of Cuba without giving the foreign countries anything in return. Even though many lives have been lost …show more content…
Fidel Castro had only eighty five men with him when he sailed from Mexico to Cuba on a yacht meant for only twenty five people. Once they made sure they were met by the military and almost all but twelve people were killed (Sanchez 1). Most men would have given up and just let go of their hope for change but Fidel retreated with his remaining revolutionaries to the sierra maestra mountains, where they hid from the government. This shows the fight that was inside the revolution. The will of men to witness almost all of their friends and fellow comrades to die for a cause made it all the more worthy. This is what helped the fire inside the revolution to help retake the …show more content…
Free speech inside the revolution was a very touchy subject. According to Fidel Castro “Cubans are not prohibited from “writing on any subject he likes.” On the one hand it seemed Castro was letting people do what they want but in reality he was limiting the expression of free speech. Not to mention the amount of human life that was lost due to the revolution. Thousands upon thousands of people have died trying to defect from Cuba since the revolution took over. The limited cultural expression has certainly led to some of this distrust in the government which has led to these large amounts of people trying to defect from Cuba and seek asylum in the United
The Cuban Revolution was one of the most defining events in Cuba’s history. With blood hardwork and a dream the Cuban Revolution was one of the most influential and defining moments in Cuba’s history. The Cuban Revolution was led by Fidel Castro and a few other key figures such as Che Guevara and his brother Raul Castro. Before Castro’s revolution the Cuban government had been taken over by Fulgencio Batista. He made Cuba into a puppet for countries to take resources from without proper retribution. When Castro re-took Cuba he nationalized the land that was owned by foreign governments and gave it back to the citizens of Cuba without giving the foreign countries anything in return. Even though many lives have been lost …show more content…
Fidel Castro had only eighty five men with him when he sailed from Mexico to Cuba on a yacht meant for only twenty five people. Once they made sure they were met by the military and almost all but twelve people were killed (Sanchez 1). Most men would have given up and just let go of their hope for change but Fidel retreated with his remaining revolutionaries to the sierra maestra mountains, where they hid from the government. This shows the fight that was inside the revolution. The will of men to witness almost all of their friends and fellow comrades to die for a cause made it all the more worthy. This is what helped the fire inside the revolution to help retake the …show more content…
Free speech inside the revolution was a very touchy subject. According to Fidel Castro “Cubans are not prohibited from “writing on any subject he likes.” On the one hand it seemed Castro was letting people do what they want but in reality he was limiting the expression of free speech. Not to mention the amount of human life that was lost due to the revolution. Thousands upon thousands of people have died trying to defect from Cuba since the revolution took over. The limited cultural expression has certainly led to some of this distrust in the government which has led to these large amounts of people trying to defect from Cuba and seek asylum in the United