Compare And Contrast Santiago De Cuba

The once powerful Spanish Empire was hanging onto a thread as Cuba and Puerto Rico were their last two major colonies. Tension between the Cuban people and the Spaniards had been building since the beginning of Spanish reign over the island in 1492. One of the leading issues was the “impact of increased taxation and an international economic crisis” (LOC). Spain was exploiting Cuba for its sugar plantations and treating the locals very poorly. This poor treatment and taxation by Spain would lead to the “Ten Years' War” (LOC), from 1868 to 1878, in which the Cubans

Even though Cuba is a little under 100 miles away from the United States, the relationship between the two countries has created an atmosphere full of tension and perpetual mistrust. When Fidel Castro decided to align Cuba with the U.S.S.R. and become a communist country, the United States of America was stunned and highly insulted. Because of their relationship, both countries have played a back and forth game of trying to outdo the other. This game and state of affairs in Cuba has created a large influx of Cuban immigrants looking for better opportunities and trying to escape poverty and persecution. This paper will be focusing on Cuban immigrants and examining different Cuban immigration laws, which allowed them to easily become United States citizens, including; the Cuban Adjustment Act, The Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1976 and the Wet Foot, Dry Foot Policy. It will also discuss whether the Cuban immigration laws are unfair to other foreign immigrants and whether the laws are relevant today. Finally, we will be considering the future and try to predict how the laws will change with the changing diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States and the imminent removal of the Embargo Act.

The study of race relations in contemporary Cuba indelibly requires an understanding of the dynamic history of race relations in this ethnically pervasive island of the Caribbean. Cuban society, due to its historical antecedents of European colonialism and American imperialism, has traditionally experienced anguished and even tumultuous race relations. Racial disharmony has plagued Cuban society ever since the advent of the Colonial institution of the plantation system. Thus, in order to acquire some understanding of Cuba’s dynamic race relations one must study and investigate the evolution of racial tensions and the quintessential

To begin, it is important to know about the history of Cuba to fully comprehend how things came to be as they are today. Since the Conquest and Colonization Era (1492-1898), many of the prominent European countries and the powerful neighbor to the north of Cuba, the United States of America, have attempted to take control of the land. It first began with the Spanish conquistadors, specifically Diego Velázquez, who was the first to explore and settle the land. Up until the end of the 19th century, the Spanish monarch was the authoritative figure overseeing the land and

Cubans have had a long history of migrating to the United States, often for political reasons. Many Cubans, particularly cigar manufacturers, came during the Ten Years' War (1868-1878) between Cuban nationals and the Spanish military. Yet the most significant Cuban migrations have occurred in the last 35 years. There have been at least four distinct waves of Cuban immigration to the United States since 1959. While many, perhaps most, of the earlier migrants were fleeing Cuba for political reasons, more recent migrants are more likely to have fled because of declining economic conditions at home.

The forth aspect of the Afro-Cuban experience which Helg mentions is the formation of the first black political party in the hemisphere, which, as I will address later, was destroyed between 1910-1912. When it is finally destroyed in 1912, official antiblack violence is what destroys it, and Helg shows that as the fifth particularity of the Cuban case. Lastly, Helg discusses the reconciliation of the "democratic ideologies versus racist practices" contradiction in Cuba for her final aspect of uniqueness. This last characteristic which Helg mentions played a huge role in the maintenance of racial hierarchies in Cuba.

They have the leading college completion rate of all the Latino groups in the U.S. The majority of them came during the anti-Castro movement as refugees to the United States. They were generally well educated, had managerial or professional backgrounds, and therefore met with greater economical success than later immigrants (Racial and Ethnic Groups Chapter 9). Fidel Castro has ruled over Cuba for the past 48 years, and there are still people coming to the United States (Miami, Florida) to get their citizenship and running from his reign. As recent as today, some immigrants from Cuba are not accepted well, unless they are outspoken critics of Fidel Castro (Racial and Ethnic Groups Chapter 9). The younger generation is more worried about how the Miami Dolphins are doing than what is going on in Havana these days (Racial and Ethnic Groups Chapter 9).

Although both Cuba and Mexico have Spaniard influence that is the most they have in relation to each other historically. Not much of Cuba is known before the arrival of the Spaniards in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, upon arrival there were no indigenous peoples on the island. Where in Mexico there plenty of indigenous people from Aztecs, Mayans, to Tzotzil. When the Spaniards arrived in Mexico in 1529 there were natives roaming around everywhere. After the arrival of the Spaniards in Cuba, the island was being used as a slave stop before

To understand current U.S. laws pertaining to Cuban Immigration, one must first understand the origins of this laws and the social history behind these laws. Consequently, in this essay, I trace the origins of the immigration of Cubans from the 1800s to our days and how this immigration influenced the creation of current laws pertaining to Cuban immigration. I have also analyzed the socioeconomic factors that have influenced the immigration of Cubans to the U.S., and the historic events that have shape the U.S. laws pertaining to immigration. For this, I have extensively research the major Cuban Event that, one way or the other, influenced the Cuban Immigration, and promoted changes in the laws pertinent to the Cuban immigration. Some of these

Instead of hunter-gatherers who weren’t very productive, people became farmers (García, The Colonial Era). The development of agriculture was very important to the development of Cubans because before the Cubans did not have enough food to support people working in other professions like metalworkers (García, The Colonial Era). Not being able to have many other professions in a tribe was the reason why many of the tribes did not have complex cities or towns. The conquistadors discovered tobacco, a cash crop, which started a new trend in Europe and created a high demand for Cuban tobacco, which helped the Cuban and Spanish economy (García, The Colonial Era). Another cash crop that was harvested in Cuba because of the Spanish was sugar. As soon as sugar arrived in Europe, it was in high demand for Cuban farmers (García, The Colonial Era). Cuba was also used as a rest stop to house passengers and crews of ships while their ships would be repaired by the townspeople (García, The Colonial Era). It was very helpful for Spain as it allowed them to get to Mexico safer and easier (García, The Colonial Era). It also created jobs for Cubans (García, The Colonial Era). Slavery was also introduced to Cuba (García, The Colonial Era). It added all of the economic activities and created a more prosperous economy (García, The Colonial

The indigenous populace in Miami attempted to strip Cuban citizens of their heritage by insisting upon them to just speak English. The cries for Cuban assimilation were getting loud which prompted the local government to act. In 1980, the constituency of Miami-Dade County overwhelmingly voted for a referendum that decreed Miami-Dade wasn’t multicultural and English is the single language used by the local government (Stepick, A., & Carol, D. S., 2009). Because of the ordinance funding for multicultural services and programs were eliminated (Bradford, A. C., 2016). With a law designed to oppress these new American citizens and strip away their heritage, the Cubans showed how resilient they are by becoming active in politics. Their political concerns shifted from Cuba and regaining control from Castro to placing Cuban Americans in positions in the local government so that government officials in Miami are not ignoring their interests. Because of the oppression that local politicians attempted to place on Cuban Americans overcame this by using the power the United States gave them and soon attained vast wealth and political power in Miami (Stepick, A., & Carol, D. S.,

The island of Cuba is located on the northern rim of the Caribbean Sea and was inhabited by Arawak and Ciboney Indians prior to colonization by the Spanish in 1511. This native population, due to the colonization of the Spanish, was ravaged by decease, enslavement and warfare which ultimately caused their extinction. Cuba received little attention throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries like most of Spain’s Caribbean colonies because Spain was concentrating attention on Central and South America, largely ignoring the island colonies.

“The difficulties of creating and maintaining maroon societies in the colonial slave systems of the Americas required the full range of the collective experiences of Africans from a variety of cultures who had to adapt themselves not only to a challenging environment but also to a new social community that could range from newly arrived Africans to highly acculturated Creoles” “In Cuban slave society people from all the African ethnic groups were divided into naciones (nations) upon their arrival”. These divisions were unreliable and inexact as they often referred to the ports of embarkation rather than the place of origin. Religious indoctrination in Cuba was sporadic. Religious instruction in the countryside was lax, this was where the majority of the slaves were. The Catholic Church was weaker in Cuba, there was less religiosity primarily because of the “secular, cosmopolitan, port city of Havana”. Spain was indifferent to the colony, matched by the Church’s disinterest in organization. Conflict with plantation owners unwilling to grant slaves time for religious activities. Majority of the Spanish settlers to the “New world” adapted a folk practice incorporating Catholicism. “Two types of Catholicism resulted: the Catholicism of the priests and that of the people”. As well, “The Cuban Catholic Church sponsored religious cabildos for the purpose of evangelization through a policy of ‘guided change,’ tolerating those African values that could be reinterpreted within Catholicism and radically opposing those that could not”. These were mutual aid societies – Church sponsored cabildos were built around the cofradias – “groups gathered to assist one another in times of need and to worship their patron saint”. These were initially developed with the idea of controlling the slaves and enforcing conversion through “guided change”.

In this paper, the question of why did Cuban slavery collapse in the nineteenth century will be answered. In 1820s, some Spanish colonies rebelled and finally gain the independence, while Cuban was still loyal to the Spanish. It is partly because Cuba depends on Spain for trade and the need for continuous protection from pirates and slave rebellions. Although, at that period of time, they were unhappy about Spanish rules, they were more afraid of the rising power of United States. During that time, Cuba continuously conveys sugar, coffee and tobacco to Europe and American. And to do so, the economy of Cuba needs slaves, since slavery was the economic foundation for the farming and mining

Jshfkjhdkjhfkljsdhfkjhsdkjhskldhgkjhskjshdgkjhd (1860-1920) This essay will discuss the social equality change in Cuba in relation to the sugar industry. First I’ll look back at Cuba’s insurrection attempts against Spanish rule – with the rise of “the Cuban”, then examine United States’ intervention in Cuba, and finally analyze US influence to social and economic divisions along racial lines. Cuba’s racially equal society it gained in the fights against Spain were reversed in the years US led Cuba. The sugar industry during Spanish-ruled Cuba and US controlled Cuba plays a major role in Cuban societal changes.