service of the Cuban people for the Cuban people; and he improved the health care system and education to decrease illiteracy greatly. The results are a more equal state with documented advances and advantages for the Cuban people. The Cuban Revolution‚ which was pivotal when it occurred in the 1950s‚ remains‚ as we know‚ important to discussions and studies of social‚ political and economic issues today globally. Along with the event‚ the importance of the foremost leader of the revolution‚ Castro‚
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Ernesto Guevara Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (1928-1967) was an Argentine physician and revolutionary who played a key role in the Cuban Revolution. He also served in the government of Cuba after the communist takeover before leaving Cuba to try and stir up rebellions in Africa and South America. He was captured and executed by Bolivian security forces in 1967. Today‚ he is considered by many to be a symbol of rebellion and idealism‚ while others see him as a murderer. Ernesto was born into
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Library of Congress – Federal Research Division Country Profile: Cuba‚ September 2006 COUNTRY PROFILE: CUBA September 2006 COUNTRY Formal Name: Republic of Cuba (República de Cuba). Short Form: Cuba. Term for Citizen(s): Cuban(s). Click to Enlarge Image Capital: La Habana (Havana). Term for residents: Habaneros (males)‚ Habaneras (females). Major Cities: Cuba’s six largest cities (more than 200‚000 inhabitants) in order of population (2005 estimates‚ not including urban agglomerations)
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Kennedy had planned to take out the American missiles in any event. This was the version of events depicted in the first published account of the RFK-Dobrynin meeting by one of the participants‚ in Robert F. Kennedy’s Thirteen Days: A Memoir at the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ posthumously published in 1969‚ a year after he was assassinated while seeking the Democratic nomination for president. While Thirteen Days depicted RFK as rejecting any firm agreement to withdraw the Jupiters‚ this was also the first
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How accurate is Fresa Y Chocolate as a representation of the treatment of homosexuals by the Castro Regime? The 1959 revolution brought about perhaps the most considerable change the island of Cuba has ever seen in its recent history‚ causing a complete remodelling of everyday life. Under Castro’s rule‚ the new regime challenged old politics of the state and people by tackling issues such as race and gender. Though it may have taken a while for the government to successfully implement considerable
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Key considerations are the points at which the Soviet Union interests conflicted with Cuban foreign policy initiatives and what enforcement measures the Soviet Union could have taken to place Cuba in line with its own intentions. It is important to understand the nature and limits of this Cuban foreign policy autonomy because a clarification of the same allows us to better define conflicts in this era as truly proxy wars or battles that were
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experiences depicts Che as the critical element in the success of the Cuban revolution. Che is a description of the 82 man guerilla force that first arrived in Cuba in 1956. They used a historic leaky boat from Mexico. In the beginning‚ Che was a medic‚ after undergoing training in Buenos Aires as a doctor. This beginning part of his
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host to one of the most hostile moments in the Cold War‚ the Cuban Missile crisis. This small Mid-Caribbean island became the focal point of Soviet and Western superpowers within four years of Castro’s coup of the Cuban government. How was he able to rise and seize control of a country to become one of the world’s most influential political leaders of the Cold War? Factors that contributed to Fidel Castro’s ascent in Cuban government include his promises to improve living standards‚ the
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by (Alfonso‚ 2004). The categorized characteristics are based on facial features‚ skin color‚ and hair texture but Cuban do not define themselves as fixed racial groups. Cuba is conceptually structured based on race and not ancestry. Cuban classification is reflected on the status of whiteness and blackness as identity marker (Alfonso‚ 2004). Language is intricately involved with Cuban identity. Spanish being the principle and official language of the island since the Spanish colonization‚ is
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Have you ever patronized a Cuban establishment and wondered why they were so passionate to emphasize “Before Castro” when referring to their product? Before the regime of Castro‚ Cuba was a different place socially‚ economically‚ and politically. Before Castro‚ Cuba was under Spanish rule from the days of discovery back in 1492 when Christopher Columbus landed on the island‚ until 1898 when the Cubans finally won their independence from the mother country. The United States helped greatly in their
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