Bugsy Siegel Scandal

The Cuban government was not ideal for its people at the time, so they decided to initiate a change. Before Castro’s revolution, Cuba’s economy was highly based on tropical fruits, sugar, and tobacco. During this time, the government of Cuba mainly consisted of wealthy land-owning conservatives. Fidel Castro, a strong liberal who thought the Cuban government was corrupt, decided to bring together a band of two-hundred revolutionaries (Carey, Jr. 15). These revolutionaries attacked the Moncada Military barracks on July 26th, 1953 resulting in a failure that earned both Castro and the revolutionaries a ten-year prison sentence. Two years into his sentence, Castro was exiled to Mexico and began to plot another attempt in Mexico City. After many battles with Cuba’s National Army, Castro’s rebels were able to keep Cuba in a state of turmoil while other rebel groups were able to gain control. Through his actions, he was able to gain the support of the Cuban people who thought he was the logical choice for the new leader (Carey, Jr. 15).

Louis A. Pérez Jr. is an American author who wrote this source in 2002, which was four years before the end of Castro’s rule. The journal article in its entirety was made to explore how and why the US had fear of and loathing towards Fidel Castro. In the extracts, I have selected benefits and disadvantages brought about by Castro are mentioned and explored. The source, for example, mentions how Castro nationalised US property such as sugar corporations, cattle ranches, oil refineries, utilities, mines, railroads and banks. Although it may have initially created economic problems, the nationalism of US property would have been a good thing, as it would have helped Cuba feel more independent and free and therefore benefit the nation socially by creating a sense of patriotism. In another extract pulled from the same article, the four

After the El Rancho was established, three more Western Casinos opened for business. In 1941, El Cortez opened as the first large hotel downtown. The hotel Last Frontier opened on the strip in 1942, and in 1946, the Golden Nugget opened downtown. The one big casino to the Western motif was Benjamin Siegel’s The Flamingo which opened in 1946. Siegel was a mobster with ties to the Chicago and California networks, envisioned a “jewel in the desert.” The Flamingo was not a success and was temporarily closed. It then re-opened and had a diverse theme-oriented style in the hotel casino industry in Las Vegas.

In 1955 a revolutionary leader came to power in Cuba. His name was Fediel Castro. Castro kicked out the gambling crime bosses out of Cuba, angering those in the US. Castro wanted to be friends with a major power. He first tried to talk to the US. The president at the time, Eisenhower, did not come down to Cuba though. He sent his

In the 1950’s, tourists visited the island of Cuba for its warm beaches, culture and Spanish colonial architecture. But underneath the surface, was a revolution ready to burst through the Cuban people they just needed the right person to lead them. Cuba at this time was run by a Political Dictator named Fulgencio Batista.

southeastern shoreline. Promptly around 1959, combating for many years. Castro gets to be distinctly ruler, his sibling, Raul, turns into his assistant. Fidel Castro dominated in regards to defeating the legislature of Cuban dictator. American sensitivity dissolved quit quick, Although, when Premier Castro started to act and sound like a communist dictator. He neglected to hold the free electoral polls, that he had guaranteed the Cuban citizens. He put to death several of his previous political competitors in nasty trials expected more as publication than as legal procedures. At that point he continued to fill Cuban prisons yet again with political commentators, including a large portion of Castro's previous acquaintances, against communist work pioneers, and other veteran opponents of the Batista administration. The press was strictly being watched. foreign claimed property was taken impulsively without reasonable pay, and maybe with no pay at all. only the communists came out unscathed from Castro's severe and vindictive

Fulgencio Batista, ex-president of Cuba, was a

One of the biggest hurdles I had to jump through in my life was being diagnosed with convergence insufficiency (CI) in the fifth grade, an eye muscle abnormality that caused me to see double of everything. The only thing I remember about the day I was diagnosed was that everyone asked me why I did not say anything about seeing double; however, this was the only way I saw my entire life and I assumed everyone saw this saw. One thing I do remember, is the amazing fifth grade teacher, Mr. Siegel, that had a great impact on me, which is now the reasoning I want to be a special education teacher. While I did not receive an IEP or a 504 plan, Mr. Siegel made special accommodation for me, especially in reading. My reading and spelling skills were severely compromised because my diagnosis. I was reading and vocabulary was nowhere

The Cuban Revolution began in 1952 when a former army sergeant named Fulgencio Batista seized power during a contested election. Fulgencio was the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and dictator from 1952 to 1959. Another one of Cuba’s important men is Fidel Castro. Castro is a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba. Fidel and his partner Che Guevara were both in charge of the Cuban Revolution, and made the isolated Moncada Barracks his target. Castro estimated the trip would take 5 days. However, due to engine problems, him and his men arrived late in broad daylight. On the morning of July 23, 1953, Castro made his move, but he needed weapons, and he got them. 138 men attacked the Moncada at dawn, many were captured.

Siegel didn’t start out with a rich family, and he wanted to become someone that everyone dreamed of, and that was to be rich. During the prohibition era, Siegel started bootlegging and made off with some really good cash. Siegel thought this was a hit until the prohibition ended and he could no longer make the is bucks from alcohol. This leads into Meyer Lansky. Lansky started up a gambling business, and tried to make the big bucks during rough times. Making money back then was pretty rough, and without a good background people were left in the lower class. Lansky and Siegel held significant influences within the Italian-American Mafia and the National Crime Syndicate. “Lansky and Siegel started the Bugs-Meyer Gang which was a scary Jewish gang, that was a bunch of contract killers, under the name Murder, Inc.” (Biography). Siegel ended up befriending Lansky and wanted to become a man of his own gang. With Siegel pushing away from Lansky, Lansky new there would be trouble at some point, and that Siegel would be in trouble. Siegel was known as a ruthless man who wouldn’t care what the job was if he was told to do something gruesome, he did not mind, and did what he was told. This is where his nickname “Bugsy” came from, since he was so brutal with his killing as a hit man. It was said that Luciano ordered a hit on Joe “The Boss” Masseria, and Siegel stepped to the plate and killed one of the biggest mob bosses during this time. This was mostly the only time Siegel worked with Luciano. Siegel was also married to Esta Krakower, who was his childhood sweetheart, and had two children, to which Siegel ended up getting a bad reputation with other women. This ended the two’s marriage and Esta left with their two

Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was born into a poor Jewish family in 1906 in Brooklyn and raised there for the remainder of his childhood. At a young age, Siegel had already developed a troublesome personality and became involved in gangs that were from the lower east side of Manhattan. Being a part of the local gangs, Bugsy had committed numerous crimes, the main ones being theft. Often he would steal money from merchants or just threaten them until they paid him a certain amount. It was not until his teenage years that he met Meyer Lansky, a now infamous mobster, and became part of the mafia. Lansky and Siegel became close friends during their youth, which also happened to be the same time that Meyer Lansky was putting together a small-time mob. As author Ric Dickinson, author of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, stated in his article, "During adolescence, Siegel befriended Meyer Lansky, who was forming a small mob whose

Siegel continued to carry out murders for Luciano and by 1937 there was a large number of contracts out of Siegel's life since he had angered so many of the bosses. To protect him, Lansky and Luciano persuaded him to move out to California. In California, Siegel he was the main man in the Luciano and Lansky gang and extorted money from movie studio owners. He continued to do murders for Luciano. Siegel " borrowed" five million dollars of syndicate money to build the first super casino/hotel in Las Vegas.

In the early 1900’s, Cuba was a stomping ground for many of the rich and famous from the United States. Many famous movies stars and wealthy business entrepreneurs spend their vacations there along with a substantial amount of money. Trade and commerce between the United States and Cuba flowed freely and abundantly. Even with the Dictatorship-like regime of Batista, the countries benefited from the economic trade between them. This was all about to come crashing down as revolts against Batista occurred and Fidel Castro came to power within Cuba.

Fidel Castro was a leader who made the Cuba secured by decreasing the brutal situations such as murder, theft, prostitution etc. After taking power Castro has provided the electricity to all over the cube and he raised educational institutions, medical facilities for people of Cuba. But at the same time the individual newspapers was closed and some of the opposition persons were killed and some of them are imprisoned. Even more Cubans were shifted to Miami in Florida and some are killed by state forces when they tried to flee the country, which occurred during the 1980 Casimir River Massacre and the Tugboat Massacre of

While Felgenico Batista was running Cuba many American companies grew rich off of Cuban resources while the Cuban people remained poor. An American mobster named Meyer Lansky came to Cuba to open a hotel. The mobster gave Batista 10% of the profits of the hotel and casino, so Batista became wealthy off of that. Batista became very wealthy off of American business and also organized crime. Meyer Lansky also turned Havana into a drug port. Batista did very little to help the Cuban citizens. While running Cuba Batista did not offer the people neither health care nor education. So many Cubans lived in poverty. When they became ill they wouldn’t be able to go to a doctor because they wouldn’t be able to afford it. When Batista took over the country in