Fulgencio Batista's Seizure Of The Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution
The year was 1952, an election between Fulgencio Batista and Carlos Prío Socarrás was heating up on a small island ninety miles off Florida’s southern coast, and the citizens of Cuba were furious. The new Cuban leader, Fulgencio Batista, seized power through a military coup against President Carlos Prío Socarrás. Cuba, at the time, had a democratic form of government; Batista’s seizure of power revealed the corruption in the country’s flawed democracy. Batista’s corruption angered many Cubans, including Fidel Castro, who then decided to lead a revolution against Batista by using a rebel force of Cuban citizens. The intent of Castro and the rebel force was to overthrow Batista. They formulated a successful plan to overthrow …show more content…
He and his army were defeated twice by Batista before being successful, ultimately, with the 26th of July Movement. The first attack (the attack that started the revolution) by Castro and his 800-man guerrilla army on the military barracks at Santiago de Cuba resulted in a defeat by Batista’s massive army of 30,000. This attack led to Fidel Castro and his brother Raul being incarcerated but freed shortly after due to Batista facing pressure for reform internationally. The brothers were incarcerated after the first revolutionary attack because Batista did not want any citizen revolting against him or the government as he wanted to create a civil, equal nation. With Fidel and Raul now free, they decided to launch second attack, in 1956, on the Sierra Maestra region. This resulted in another defeat, simply because the Cuban army snuck up and attacked, killing the majority of Castro’s men. It wasn’t until 1957 that the guerilla army gained their first victory, storming and defeating a military outpost on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Castro formulated a plan to finally overthrow Batista, called the 26th of July Movement, using a group of mostly of middle and working class rebels who sought change in the government. One very significant man, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, was an important communist figure in the Cuban Revolution and one of Fidel Castro’s most trusted aides stated: “Our revolution is endangering all American possessions in Latin America. We are telling these countries to make their own revolution.” Under Castro, Cuba wanted to extend the ideals of revolution to other parts of the world to show that change can happen and that nations should not be victims of imperialism. Cuba promoted revolution around the world in places like Africa and Latin America. The leaders of the revolution were encouraging citizens in other nations to revolt, thinking it could result in greater power for lower-class
The year was 1952, an election between Fulgencio Batista and Carlos Prío Socarrás was heating up on a small island ninety miles off Florida’s southern coast, and the citizens of Cuba were furious. The new Cuban leader, Fulgencio Batista, seized power through a military coup against President Carlos Prío Socarrás. Cuba, at the time, had a democratic form of government; Batista’s seizure of power revealed the corruption in the country’s flawed democracy. Batista’s corruption angered many Cubans, including Fidel Castro, who then decided to lead a revolution against Batista by using a rebel force of Cuban citizens. The intent of Castro and the rebel force was to overthrow Batista. They formulated a successful plan to overthrow …show more content…
He and his army were defeated twice by Batista before being successful, ultimately, with the 26th of July Movement. The first attack (the attack that started the revolution) by Castro and his 800-man guerrilla army on the military barracks at Santiago de Cuba resulted in a defeat by Batista’s massive army of 30,000. This attack led to Fidel Castro and his brother Raul being incarcerated but freed shortly after due to Batista facing pressure for reform internationally. The brothers were incarcerated after the first revolutionary attack because Batista did not want any citizen revolting against him or the government as he wanted to create a civil, equal nation. With Fidel and Raul now free, they decided to launch second attack, in 1956, on the Sierra Maestra region. This resulted in another defeat, simply because the Cuban army snuck up and attacked, killing the majority of Castro’s men. It wasn’t until 1957 that the guerilla army gained their first victory, storming and defeating a military outpost on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Castro formulated a plan to finally overthrow Batista, called the 26th of July Movement, using a group of mostly of middle and working class rebels who sought change in the government. One very significant man, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, was an important communist figure in the Cuban Revolution and one of Fidel Castro’s most trusted aides stated: “Our revolution is endangering all American possessions in Latin America. We are telling these countries to make their own revolution.” Under Castro, Cuba wanted to extend the ideals of revolution to other parts of the world to show that change can happen and that nations should not be victims of imperialism. Cuba promoted revolution around the world in places like Africa and Latin America. The leaders of the revolution were encouraging citizens in other nations to revolt, thinking it could result in greater power for lower-class