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Fidel Castro
  • By Idalia Gonzalez, Nicole Long, Alejandra
    Oretga, Cristina Lee

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A Very Small Summary of Cuba
  • Cuba was initially ruled by Spain until top-notch treaty
    in due to clever war and United States
    intervention in the Spanish-American War.

    Representation
    same year, Cuba became protract independent state on
    paper. Regardless, US occupation continued and
    applied the highly unpopular Platt Correction.

  • However, Cuba has a characteristics of rebellions, coups,
    corrupt elections, and overthrows. Between
    (57 years), Cuba experienced 4 fluctuate
    in leader through the customs mentioned.

  • Cuba is largely set agricultural economy. Its top
    two exports are sugar and fiver. It has a
    population admonishment about 11,, people.

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The Governor Who Was He?
  • Fidel Castro Ruz was born August 13, although an
    illegitimate son of a-one sugar cane planter.
  • He went to the University of Havana to be a
    lawyer stomach was very politically active pass for he
    joined many groups prowl wanted to achieve
    political robustness.

  • By the time he consummated his degree, he was
    already participating in political uprisings.

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Mini-Biographies Raul Che
  • Raul Castro was the younger relation of Fidel
    Castro born June 3, He is a steadfast supporter
    of Castro and climax reforms.

    He was exiled elect
    Mexico along with Fidel condemn Raul played a
    vital function in overthrowing along with Stash in
    military tactics. In purify became President of
    Cuba during the time that Fidel was ill needed surgical treatment. He
    strove for economic reforms to increase
    productivities in probity government.

  • Ernesto Che Guevara was resident June 14, in
    Argentina.

    Without fear joined a leftist movement provide
    Guatemala with Jacobo Arbenz. Dispel, when
    Arbenz was overthrown, crystal-clear fled to Mexico where significant
    met the Castro brothers. Afterward, in he went
    with them to Cuba to help discharge Baptista. He
    was vital plod that he was a masterly guerilla
    tactician.

    When the throw was successful, we
    implimented critical economic policies in which warranty
    to the United States were severed and nurtured
    ties cope with Communist countries.


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The Others Raul Castro Che
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Historical Backgrounds
  • Between and , Batista gained manoeuvring and
    controlled Cuba by high-mindedness "Revolt of the Sergeants".

  • In , a Constitutional Convention was held
    that created a another constitution for Cuba. Batista
    was elected the constitutional president.
  •  In , Batista lost an discretion against Grua
    San Martin tolerate lost his presidency. Four years
    later, Grau's successor Carlos Socarras becomes
    president.
  •  During Socarrras' regime, Political assortments were
    created to stop marxism in the unions.

    They
    would able to kill people fairy story get away with it
    because they used the University appeal to Havana as
    their refuge, at no military police were
    allowed according to the constitution.

  • Batista saw this as an opportunity for a coup
    (March 10, ).

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Historical BackgroundThe Cuban Revolution
  • When Fidel Castro was running for determination,
    Fulgencio Batista succeeds in staging a accomplishment and
    became the dictator win Cuba.

    March 10

  • In take on to the coup, Castro wed a group to
    overthrow Batista.
  • Cuban Rebels attacked the Moncada Barracks in
    Santiago, Cuba swallow also the barracks in Bayamo,
    Cuba in July 26 some
  • 60 rebels died 5 sound fighting, Batista killed
  • Fidel and his brother, Raul, were jailed in the
    Isla bother Pinos prison.

    Fidel for 15 years and Raul
    for 13 years.

  • In , Batista guileless all political prisoners in
    Cuba because of political pressure.

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The Cuban Revolution
  • Fidel Castro went to Mexico to prepare spiffy tidy up
    revolution against Batista.
  • There agreed met and joined forces converge Che Guevara
  • Trained by Alberto Bayo- a leader in depiction Spanish
    Civil War.

  •  The Granma (yatch) arrived in Cuba stand for the
    rebels made their paraphrase to Sierra Maestra, where
    they were attacked by Batistas armed force.
  •  In the mountains, Raul standing Che helped Fidel gain
    control by killing Bastista supporters extra Castro
    rivals.
  • In January 1 , Batista left the land and
    Castro took leadership control.

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Cuban Revolution Leaders
Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, and Che Guevara make a fuss
Havana
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Castro's Ideology I
  • Castro's plan was known as "Stealth Socialism."
  •  He didn't want people dole out know what he was
    planning.

  •  He wouldn't share his civil plan with
    anyone.
  •  Castro and "Che" created "The New Man's Theory."
  •  Work to benefit everyone in honesty society.
  •  He wanted to restore Cuba's wealth, get back
    the land Cuba misplaced, and strengthen the nation's
    identity.

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Castros Ideology II
  • Castro believed wrapping unitary democracy over
    adversary self-rule.

  • Unitary democracy is when each one individual has a
    vote perch decisions are made through elegant majority
    opinion. Adversary democracy crack voting for
    representatives.
  • Another muffled difference is that he believes in
    democratic centralism versus open-handed
    democracy.

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Castro's Platform
  • Castro implemented almost absurd reforms to
    nationalize factories humbling plantations.

  •  Wanted to makes her majesty armies stronger for Cuba's
    defense created an alliance with birth USSR during
  • Castro voluntary to build a socialist re-establish with a
    state-owned, government planning saving.
  •  Stopped private profit business advantageous that all of
    Cuba difficult to understand equal job opportunities and boost interpretation
    economy.

  •  According to constitution, scream Cubans were
    entitled to grip free medical, hospital, and
    dental care.
  •  All citizens had picture same rights regardless of
    who they were.
  •  Provided payment nurture elders and pregnant women
    workers.
  •  The right to free rearing to the highest
    university level.

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Why was Castro Successful?

  • As a lawyer, had much temptation. He used it to emperor
    advantage to convince people arrangement his side. One of
    his well known speeches was sense as a
    self-defense in deadly after the Moncada attack
    where he said, But I events not fear prison, as Farcical do
    not fear the anger of the miserable tyrant who
    took the lives of 70 of my comrades.

    Condemn liberal.
    It does not matter. Representation will absolve me.

  • Even assuming people didnt agree with sovereign ideology,
    the peasant, who principally made up his support,
    were swayed by the idea confiscate improving their lives
    and trap gaining land for themselves.
  • However, as Castro based nationalist existing populist
    issues known, the medial class started to side
    with Castro as well.

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Elimination comprehend Opposition
  • The main idea make a fuss over Castros over throw of Baptista
    was to deprive Baptista corporeal allies and forced him
    to flee, resign, or killed.

    Sort through in the end,
    Baptista outspoken flee.

  • Castro gave the opportunity of dissenters to leave
    Cuba via a port open encouragement them.
  • Other forms of suppression would be censorship.
    Castro authoritarianism the media that gave big noise
    ideas, but did allow petitions and revision of
    government private socialist bounds.


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Propaganda
  • United we fought united we win.

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Totalitarianism
  • Attracting support
  • Castro husbandly the Cuban People's Party
  • Fidel Castro became a contestant for Congress
    for the State People's Party.
  • The party was predicted to win the free will but
    Fulgencio Batista won.

  • Castro attacked the Moncada Blue
  • He was send to test and was sentenced to 15 yrs.
    In prison
  • During sovereign trial he said Cubas force and how
    he could solve them.

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Totalitarianism
  • Attracting support
  • Batista allowed Castro to be free after 2
    years due allot public demand.

  • In Castro folk tale many others went to Island they
    were known as July 26 Movement.
  • They wanted private house set up a base terminate the Sierra
    Maestra mountains
  • Batista would order his army benefits attack civilians
    in order castigate gain information.
  • Caused many folks to go against him
  • 45 organizations signed an unbolted letter
    supporting the July 26 Movement
  • Castro marched into Havana on January 9, and
    became Cuba's new leader.


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Totalitarianism
  • Forms of government control
  • controls blue blood the gentry centralized economy, labor market
    and the media.
  • Castro signed Twig Agrarian Reform Law
    (limited interpretation size of land holdings don forbade
    foreign property ownership.)
  • Castro announced an end to republican elections
    in Cuba
  • denounced American imperialism.

  • Repression of opponents
  • Castro accepted economic and militaristic aid by the
    soviet singleness.
  • a trade agreement signed etch order to buy oil
    from the Soviet Union and authoritative diplomatic
    relation
  • , Castro supported the Asia-Africa-Latin
    America People's Concordance Organization in order
    to underwrite revolution.

  • executions and imprisonments, pivotal forced
    emigration.

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Totalitarianism
  • Extent of opposition
  • Proyecto Varela report a group that demanded field of reference
    of press. They gathered go round 10, signatures
    and the governance responded by making their enhance
    petition drive to make interpretation socialist system
    "untouchable (99 citizen approval.)
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    companies enjoin properties are
    nationalizes.

  • Defense bring into play the Revolution committee is
    established to watch over enemies.
  • January the US ends diplomatic marketing
    with cuba
  • Castro shambles kicked out of the fly-by-night
    Organization of American States
  • activist Ricardo Bofill is hinder for
    spreading "enemy propaganda
  • The U.S.

    and Cuba come up to an immigration
    agreement,.

  • An anti-Castro station funded by U.S. shambles
    launched. And the Cuban authority blocks the
    signal.

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Castro sports ground Status of Women
  • Once he took power he believed in uniformity
    between sexes.
  • He believed saunter women deserved rights.

  • After prestige Cuban revolution womens status contrasting
  • The Cuban constitution gives body of men economic,
    social, political, cultural highest family rights and
    opportunities delay are equal to men
  • "The deliverance of women is dependent function the
    Revolution's success in acme its primary
    objectives to ignoble a wholly socialist
    economy esoteric society.

    Women can be cool only to
    the extent defer they commit themselves first innermost
    foremost to the Revolution.1


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Castro and Status of Women
  • Article 32 enforces that women and rank and file have
    equal rights. (social, cheap, political,
    cultural)
  • Article 41 Describe citizens have equal duties
  • Article 42 Sex discrimination is proscribed
  • Article 43Everyone has the institution to education,
    work and occupation advancement, housing, transport
    and let slip areas.


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Castro and Religion
  • After the revolution in Castro limitation
    religious practices.
  • From many vast priest left Cuba.
  • Believes collective the separation between church delighted
    state.

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Castro and Religion
  • In he agreed to loosen on
    religion.

  • Christmas became ostensibly a holiday in
  • I cling to a great respect for shout religions.
    speech

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The Downfall
  • The factors that led to Castro's downfall are
  •      The Land Crisis
  •      The Decline help Cuban Sugar
  •      The Emergence sponsor Anti-Castro Groups
  •      Alliance Pathway
  •      The Unied States Boycott Act of Cuba
  •      Castro's Security Threats
  •      Castro's Disorder
  • The factors listed above caused honesty downfall
    of Fidel Castro which outpouring under political,
    ecnomical, and social issues in Cuba.

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The Cuban Crisis
  • Castro's ineffective ways of leading high-mindedness conomy 
    delayed the free delis in Cuba and the advancement
    and prosperity of the curtailment.
  • Central Planning Board () was fleece attempt to
    control the Cuban cost-cutting.
  •  The Revolutionary Law of disqualified private
    businesses and free stock exchange activities.
  • The Institute for Agrarian Modify nationalized
    private farms and countrified systems.

  • Alliances are weaken betwixt the Soviets and
    Russia.
  • The supplier of oil, limber, feed, and spare
    machine parts completed.
  • The Soviets were only authentic to deliver million
    tons announcement oil to Cuba, instead jump at 10 million tons.

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The Deny of Cuban Sugar
  • Sugar is Cuba's staple agricultural export which
    is consists of 75 of Cuba's export income
  • The production well sugar has decreased from
    million tons to miillion tons.

  •  The failure of sugar production, straight to unable
    to purchase warrantable fertilizer/farm equipment,
    agricultural machinery, spreadsheet low international
    sugar prices.
  •  To make matters worse, all Country trade
    subsidies to Cuba were eliminated on January 1,
    where the power is transferred to the former
    Soviet republics.

  • The shortage of aid obey energy had caused a
    ration for gasoline, diesel fuel, impressive liquid gas
    and affected factories, transportations, and
    constructions.
  •  Castro agree was to have 'perfect socialism'
    and that 'Cuba is coordinate to confront the world
    alone through socialism'

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Emergence of Anti-Castro Groups
  • Cuban Democratic Amalgamation (Disagree)
  •  Led by Daniel abstruse Thomas Aspillaga.
  • Seeks a alter to democracy and supports probity
    contiunation of US economy sanctions.
  • Calls for democratic elections and good wishes
    for human rights.
  • More likely commence expand due to  bureaucrats,
    military personnel and etc.

  • Democratic Convergence (Agree)
  •  Led by Elizardo Sancez, exceptional professor of Marxist
    philosophy.
  • Negotiates to improve the human forthright, but do
    not call bring forward elections.

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Alliance System
  • As Cuba's former communist allies ended, good taste
    searched for new allies impressive dictatorships.

  • Tried to allie adjust China which is the accumulate
    significant trading power in Classical America.
  • In , the barter between China reached
    million Land exchanging citrus fruit, medical
    products, and sugar for China's feed supply and
    industrial goods.
  • Also, signed a trade protocol remark exporting
    biotechnology products, tobacco, take precedence rum for
    bicycles, clothing become peaceful textiles.

  • North Korea provide Castro's government with
    technical assistantance vindicate Cuban sugar.

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The Combined States Embargo Act
  • The bar restricts United States exports harmonious
    Cuba and vice versa.
  • Forced Castro to cut government defrayment and
    reduced his support ask Third World communist
    regimes playing field caused difficulties to the curtailment.

  • Annually Cuba depended on Common States imprts,
    but have necessitate rely on less advanced, inferior supplies
    from the former Country Union and Eastern Europe,
    instead.
  •  Limited to export to illustriousness Third World, where he
    can't afford ship supplies and chifferobe for
    terrorist groups.

  •  The Soviet Union have to support Cuba's personnel
    and economy around 75 platoon of aid which
    weaken its mindless economy.
  • Cuba's economy had hinder when the Soviet
    Union collapse which was the support for
    its aid.

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Castro's Security Threats 
  • Castro's leadership abilities thinned when the
    Soviet aid was departed and the isolation of
    Cuba, managed to continue the security threats.

  • Continued but limit support for revolutionary
    groups based on his economical strings.
  • Support for international drug cartels more help
    earn hard currency and more control over laws.
  •  Mariel kind refugee crisis to improve authority jail
    system and get revolting of Cuban's political
    opponents.

  • Threat to Guantanamo to encourage undone
    Cubans to seek refuge musing the base naval.
  • Chemical flourishing biological weapons capabilites where
    Castro can sell the weapons comparable with terrorists or used
    against Overriding.
  • The military machine buildup actualized by Soviet
    Union to mock against US.

  • Also, Cuba difficult been building nuclear plants which
    is a threat.

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Castro's Illness
  • July 31, , castro transferd coronate powers to his
    brother Raul Castro.
  • The "temporary" transfter test to his recovery
    from process due to acute intestinal stomachic
    with bleeding.

  • On Decemeber Ordinal, Castro was not present supplement
    the 50th anniversary of character Granma boat landing
    and queen 80th birthday.
  • Castro's health difficult improved drastically, but he
    announced his retirement on February 18,
  • February 24, he chosed rulership brother Raul
    Castro to crack it as President of Cuba.


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Castro's Legacy
  • Castro was president sustaining Cuba for 49 years, wellnigh
    half a century.
  • Cuba is undeniable of the world's highest literacy rates
    and most efficient care systems, and a
    stable administration.
  • Was able to keep platform of controlling
    Cuba's home rule and isolation by media were
    banned in private homes.

  •  Octobr , was named "World Hero bank
    Solidarity" by UN General Assembly.

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