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As Pérez-Stable says, "safeguarding the Cuban quota in the U.S. market was their priority" (16-17). Conflicts arose between industrialists who wished to diversify Cuba’s economy by encouraging growth of other industries, and sugar producers who desired to maintain sugar’s economic dominance. According to Pérez-Stable, industrialists argued that a diversity of products would improve the Cuban economy and "change only the composition of Cuba-U.S. trade, not its overall amount" (23). For its part, the sugar industry continued to insist that its interests were best for the nation (Pérez-Stable 23). Despite some attempts at sugar reform, the Cuban government, which was reluctant to weaken its economic ties with the United States for fear of losing its support, refrained from taking any serious steps. The discontent produced by the lack of economic diversification added fuel to the fire of the revolutionary cause.

Despite the glamorous veneer publicized to foreign tourists, Cuban society was plagued by a complex web of unjust conditions, highly influenced by the past century of colonial control. In 1959, Fidel Castro finally pushed it over the edge and led the Cuban Revolution to overthrow Fulgencio Batista. While it later became known as a socialist revolution, it is important to remember that it began in a large part as fundamentally nationalist. Understanding nationalism as a cause of the revolution allows one to consider the conditions that gave rise to that nationalism. The conditions that Castro utilized to build support ranged largely from economic to political, all helping to create an atmosphere of unrest and anger. Behind each of these conditions lies American interference and involvement in Cuba.

Fidel Castro was a man who had a target on his head. Lots of people from all over the world wanted him dead. Fidel Castro wasn’t a capitalist person, he was a Communist.

Not only were the Hispanics discouraged from college, discriminated, and encouraged to drop out, less than 1 in 1000 obtained a degree. However, what Chavez was able to do for workers’ rights movements, Sal Castro began to do for education. He started filling his students with passion and organized a student strike. The students were captivated to fight for their rights.

At the start of this story, Fidel Castro recalls images from his youth of revolutionaries carrying weapons and demanding that things were done their way. He speaks of the fear of being killed. Castro goes on to talk about how these revolutionaries always seem to

During Dr. Castro’s addressment to the Pedagogia 99 Congress on February 99, he states, "We thought that to decree absolute equality and civil rights would have been sufficient to wipe out these traces. However, today we still observe that poorest sectors are still those descendants of slaves. Before the triumph of the Revolution, there existed on the island a culture of poverty and wealth, where the middle class was fundamentally white and were better prepared and had better material conditions. People with a better educational level influenced their children because they taught them, they looked over their homework, and they demanded of them. In the same way, poverty was transmitted. For all that everyone was made equal under the law, for all that assistance was rendered, the best grades came from those

Education is important in Cuba. The ratio between the teacher and student are twelve to one. The illiteracy rate of the youth is close to zero. The Cuban government has a strong commitment to the education sector. Teacher in Cuba hold strong relationship with the student, with the parents, and families. Education is free in all levels including university and

Next, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz did improve the corporeal conditions in Cuba of the upper class, but at the same time, he destroyed the economy. As for the most part, Castro has not endeavored to make Cuba a place where people want to establish a living in. According to the New York Times, in 1987, the GDP (gross domestic product) of all the farmed goods went downhill 3.2% from the year before. As a result, the individuals in the country of Cuba suffered from poverty and redundancy. The country still continues to be a huge disaster and Castro carelessly turns down Cuba’s cash crops which consist of tobacco and sugar. One would think that he would try to get treaties with other countries to re-establish the economy and try to make it better

After Cuba’s economic separation from the United State after a long history of reliance, Cubans began to receive economic support from the Soviet Union. Many a credit this alliance for improving economic conditions in Cuba, from supplying petroleum and helping to provide state of the art appliance. However, this golden period of economic success was not continues after the Soviet Union fell and withdrew it support. According to the CIA Fact book “the country faced severe economic down turn in 1990 following the withdrawal of former soviet subsidies worth 4-16 billion annually”. Even though the Cuba did reform it’s economy, the positive effects of the reform only lasted a short duration of Cuban history. Thus making the revolution unsuccessful because the goal of a communist country is to create a stable economy through socialism was not

I know that the death of Castro does not mean that the communist government of Cuba will crumble and go away, but I know that it will be giving the Cuban people hope, ambition, prosperity and a little piece of mind that a key figure in our history, who has left a scar, is no longer living. I hope the death of Fidel can finally put an end to the grief of older generations of Cubans, the political atrocities, and spark an interest in the newer and younger Cubans. Listening to stories from their parents and grandparents will help them decide on how they would like to be governed. Young Cubans may decide to establish democracy in the country and think of what kind of nation they would like the next generation to have. Now I will admit that under his presidency of Cuba there has been a strong importance for one to pursue an education, which has led to the country having a 99% literacy rate and that the country itself has one of the most outstanding healthcare systems that is closely tied to research and development (According to the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan). There are few things under Castro’s rule that brought benefit to the

Ruggiero writes, “Ironically, the very day that Castro returned to Cuba, he grandly announced his desire for agrarian reform. While the reform sounded moderate, and its phrasing was moderate, it was radical in its intent” (Ruggiero Pg. 86). This new Agrarian reform would go on to destroy American farmers who had invested years, time, and money into the Cuba land and economy. Ruggiero also writes, “Under the Agrarian Reform Bill U.S. and Cuban sugar mills were stripped of their cane fields and no foreigner could acquire farmland in Cuba or inherit in. Nearly 200,000 peasants were to receive this land” (Ruggiero Pg. 86). This reform came with two clauses for the peasants who wished to own land. One they could never sell or mortgage the land, and secondly peasants were to grow the crops approved by the National Agrarian Reform Institute. This reform alone began to shape the controlling dictator’s policies that Castro would

Cuba’s involvement with the United States brought social and economic dissatisfaction within the island. Looking at the economic reasons one can see the clear dissatisfaction in the people because when the economy is bad everyone suffers. Cuba’s main failure regarding the economy was the fact that it depended on one single crop for economic prosperity. Dependency on sugar, meant dependency on the United States. The relationship between both countries increased trade for both of them. Many of corporations from the United States relied on Cuba’s sugar plantations which in return increased the sugar exports in Cuba. However, profits from the sugar industry weren’t being reinvested in the island, and the people realized that the United States had the greatest amount of

According to Cuba since 1959, his redistribution policies sought not not only to enhance the purchasing power of the poor but also to curtail that of the rich. Wage scales set minimum as well as maximum salaries. The changes in the labor policy lead to a high unemployment rate. In 1963, the Cuban economy fell even further because of the drop in sugar production. It is then that Castro learned that the economy was lead by sugar and strived for the country to produce 10 million tons of sugar thus creating more jobs. After this discovery is when the idea of Cuba operating as one central unit and the government owned everything. According to The Petrified Forest, Castro offhandedly promised to let any Cuban with relatives in the U.S. depart from the Communist island free and clear after Oct. 10th. This did not last very long. In 1970, it was reported that 8.5 million tons of sugar was produced. This was the highest in history but the price for sugar was fifteen cents below target. The price for sugar rose more than twenty cents from 1970 to 1974. The Cuban economy was fixed by the need for sugar world wide. Because each farm is owned by the government there are no wealthy people in Cuba. At the same time there are no poor people in Cuba because the government gives everyone money. The main problem Castro had was maintaining a stable economy. Communism helped the poor because it gave them money and a job but it did this by taking

The poetry, artwork and story by people who witnessed the Great War depict chaos, destruction and death. To the world and future generations it is a stark reminder of this horror and atrocities of war and that human beings should never again engage in such wanton destruction of life and property. In this paper, these literature and art is discussed in detail to illustrate the destruction and death told of by these witnesses.

After coming to power in 1959 with the aim of making radical change to the country. He promised to end inequality, corruption and the economic dependency on USA. With these aims, he implemented economic policies to generate economic growth. The ups and downs of Cuba’s economic performance had not affected the state’s considerable investment in social reform, foreign aid and military involvement. Underpinned by long term credit and trade agreements with USSR, the Cubans had achieved standards of health and literacy rivaling those of developed countries.