Totalitarian and Authoritarian Dictators: A Comparison of Fidel Castro and Alfredo Stroessner Author(s): Paul C. Sondrol Source: Journal of Latin American Studies‚ Vol. 23‚ No. 3 (Oct.‚ 1991)‚ pp. 599-620 Published by: Cambridge University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/157386 Accessed: 27/10/2008 04:48 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s Terms
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Revolution Project The Cuba By- Sara Kim Revolution? Revolution generally means a big change. We call something revolution when old thing gets replaced by new thing in wide range. Actually‚ term of revolution is very hard to define. It means big change in general form‚ but it essentially means more than a big change. And there is no specific boundary of ‘big’ so the term of revolution is very hard to define. -Political Revolution Political revolution is a change of government or a
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The first cause was the Bay of Pigs Invasion. This was when Fidel Castro led a revolution to take over Cuba and set up a socialist (a form of communism) government. President Eisenhower than approved a secret plan to train an army of Cuban exiles to invade Cuba. He sent about 1‚200 Cuban exiles to get Cuban civilians to join but the plan failed. Cuban civilians did not join because of the fear of being executed‚ as well as‚ supporting Castro. This was an embarrassment to the United States because the
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in depth of the actual accomplishments he had. It was evident that the cruelty‚ injustice and tremendous poverty created a strong impact on Guevara‚ psychologically‚ emotionally and idealistically. Since then‚ he became a Marxist and supported Fidel Castro. Che Guevara turned his attention to South America. He believed that Bolivia would be his best bet to start a revolt‚ because of its discontented peasant population and the United States’ relative lack of interest in it. He grossly misjudged the
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Kennedy that the missiles would never be used as a weapon against the United States. This was a lie. Khrushchev fully intended to use the missiles as a mechanism of defense against the United States and as a way to further pursue a relationship with Fidel Castro who was the President of Cuba at the time. The United States needed to find a way to stop the development of missile sites without causing a break out of violent warfare. The account is told from Robert F. Kennedy’s point of view. Kennedy
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Conformity can make life easier in some aspects by giving one person control to make the decisions. For example‚ Fidel Castro might have been known for his rule as a “ruthless dictator” but many remember one of his greatest achievements when he “dramatically [raised] the living standards of the impoverished Cubans” brining about peace and easy living for the less fortunate
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was successful in toppling the corrupt Batista dictatorship and getting the Cosa Nostra out of Cuba. January 3rd‚ 1959 in his address that day‚ Castro promised the Cuban people freedom of speech and civil rights. He also accused Batista of having fled into exile with millions of dollars and he promised to "do things that have never been done before." Castro introduce a national health care system that guarantees all Cubans free medical care and emphasis on education for his people. "Cubans were not
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failed them. That for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba the United States led the Cuban exiles into a battle they could not win. They felt great resentment that the United States refused to assist them once in Cuba and were therefore left at President Fidel Castro’s mercy. Now‚ after I have read The Perfect Failure- Kennedy‚ Eisenhower and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs by Trumbull Higgins I can understand the basis for this type of thinking and resentment. Trumbull Higgins’ book is very interesting and
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Although Fidel Castro had not been as politically active since 2006‚ he is still very revered by certain sectors of the population and his passing does represent a void. Moreover‚ the recent election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States might cause
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improbable that the U.S. would want or need nuclear attack” ( Nuclear Files‚ 2013). The Bay of Pigs was the first situation John F. Kennedy had to deal with as president. The Bay of Pigs was an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) trained a force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba all with the support and
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