CUBA Cuba has many special things about it such as but not limited to its beaches‚ the culture and the food. As of 2010‚ Cuba’s population was 11‚264‚141. Cuba is also famous for Fidel Castro‚ the countries leader who has been running the country for over 30 years. Unlike the United States of America‚ Cuba does not have a democratic government; Cuba is run as a communist country. Communist means the people do not elect its government. FOODS IN CUBA Some Cubans don’t lean
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of poverty‚ hunger‚ and the diseases people were suffering he started to move out the medical field thinking of other ways to support the unfortunate. In 1955 Guevara was introduced to Fidel Castro and his brother Raul. They as a group developed a plan to overthrow the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. As Castro planned for a last offensive against Batista’s troops‚ he led Guevara in charge of the eighth column with the power to move through islands and the ability to separate government forces around
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States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba and was in the act of preparing for an invasion. A few advisors and other state departments assured President Kennedy that Fidel Castro was not a threat at all. President Kennedy did not agree and saw Fidel Castro as a mastermind. He believed that the taking down of Fidel Castro would show Russia‚ China‚ and fellow Americans that President Kennedy was serious about winning the Cold War and was willing to fight to prove so. Kennedy began to create a plan
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Ernesto Guevara de Serna was born in Argentina in 1928 into a fairly privileged family. He developed serious asthma at the age of two‚ which would plague him throughout his life. He was home-schooled by his mother‚ Celia de la Serna. It was these early years when he became an eager reader of Marx‚ Engels‚ and Freud which all were all part of his father’s library. He went to secondary school in 1941‚ the Colegio Nacional Dean Funes‚ Cordoba‚ where he excelled in literature and sports. At home
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the U.S. and unnecessary escalation of tensions and hostilities. These hostilities were fed not only by the Cold War sentiments against the Soviet Union‚ but also by the rapid deterioration of Cuban relations after the assumption of power by Fidel Castro. This aligned Cuba increasingly with the Soviet Union‚ and created a sort of threatening alliance against the United States that escalated and already tense situation. Of prime importance in this escalation are events such as the failed Bay of Pigs
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Guevara travelled around Latin America‚ and in 1953 in Guatemala‚ he met Hilda Gadea who was an exiled Peruvian economist and a communist leader. They developed affection for one another and as time passed by‚ they got married in 1955. Hilda described Che as an intelligent man and a person who gave a sense of security that made her feel supported even in the most difficult times. His love for his family can be traced back to the times when he was schooled at home by his mother due to continuous
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ban financial transaction with US citizens to Cuban citizens. It was basically an embargo that surprisingly still stands to this day. In 1980 an event happened that 10‚000 Cubans ran into the Peruvian embassy‚ and then requested political asylum. Castro then said that any of those people wish to leave and are in political asylum‚ they could do so. 125‚000 Cubans went to the United States‚ including political and economic refugees and also criminals and mental patients. 5) The Cuban Missile Crisis
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There is an ongoing debate in International relations that the world is suffering from democratic meltdowns instead of democratic revolutions (Kurlantzick‚ 2011). This paper will argue that the United States is damaging the process of democracy by trying to impose the very system that they preach. It will achieve this by analyzing its relations with Iraq‚ Somalia and Cuba to prove that the spread of democracy is both detrimental and counter productive for these countries and the surrounding geographic
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The United States and Cuba have had a long running with each other. The U.S. and Cuba sure know how to hold a grudge. When Fidel Castro came to power in 1959‚ relations between the two countries quickly devolved into bitter arguments‚ political grandstanding and the occasional international crisis. While Cuba lies less than 100 miles off the coast of Florida‚ the two nations have had no diplomatic relations since 1961 and use Switzerland as a mediator whenever they need to talk. There are a few
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I. INTRODUCTION Following the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s‚ the United States shifted its focus to Cuba with the intentions of freeing the country from its communist ideologies and establishing a democratic government. The U.S. government passed the Helms-Burton Act in an attempt to pressurize Cuba into restructuring. Its enactment was controversial‚ provoking immediate and widespread debate around the world as to whether certain provisions of the Act violated international law
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