The Other Side Of Castro

During the 1950’s, Cuba was on the brink of revolution. The nation, which had suffered numerous corrupt and oppressive governmental regimes, fell victim to yet another when Fulgencio Batista seized power under a military coup in March of 1952. A cry for a just Cuba, that was economically, politically, and socially free continued to echo throughout the island. In 1959, a group of radical revolutionaries, under the leadership of Fidel Castro, overthrew the Batista dictatorship and put in place the political and social structures that exist in Cuba to this day.

Castro was a socialist, a leninist and a marxist. His attitude throughout his “dictatorship” was the way he communicated with the United States on military, trading agreements and politics. As he came to control the country, he made the promise to maintain the Cuban constitution of 1940, a constitution which guaranteed certain individual rights to the citizens of Cuba. Also stating that all of the governmental representatives would be held exactly a year from the day he took control. Despite not actually being in office, Castro was the most important force in regards to the post Batista Government. His full control of the country came when the former prime minister Miro Cardona resigned after a month of work with Castro.

In 1959, Fidel Castro led a group of rebel forces to end and overthrow Fulgencio Batista’s regime in an effort to free the Cuban people from his tyrannous rule. For very many different political reasons this has been portrayed as an act of great injustice and hypocrisy in the modern world. A lot of this has of course been advocated primarily by the US due to the high level of political tension between the two nations that developed in the mid 1950s. Believing this conventional wisdom that Castro was simply an evil communist who oppressed his people and stripped them of their human rights is very dangerous because it

In the early 1930's during Hitler's uprising, he began to sweep throughout Europe seeking out nations to conquer and add to his already growing German empire. He used the Soviets distrust of the western nations to form a temporary alliance and take over Poland. France, and Britain would soon join the battle against one of the most powerful and destructive European powers.

Another reason behind Fidel Castro being a poor leader for Cuba is when the article adds,” In 1964, Castro admitted to holding 15,000 people as political prisoners and thousands of Cubans fled, including Castro’s own daughter and sister.” His own daughter and sister fled the country. This displays that Castro was a very bad leader because he couldn’t even have his own family respect and favor his form of ruling Cuba.

Fidel Castro was the man who successfully removed Batista from his cruel dictatorship. In Castro’s early life, he went to three expensive Catholic schools. He was good at sports, and participated and led camping and climbing exhibitions. Castro fought with the other boys and teachers frequently.

I do not feel that I know enough about Fidel Castro to be an expert on his life or how he ruled Cuba, but the little that I do currently know, I would not consider him a kind and caring man. With that in mind, some of the comments made by Fidel Castro in “Castro Announces the Revolution,” were shocking to me, since he tries to make the point that he cares for the people of Cuba and the revolution was set into motion for the benefit of the people, not an egotistical leader.

Fidel Castro Ruz was born in Biran, Cuba on August 13, 1926 (Britannica, 2014). Born into a middle class sugar farm owning family, Castro grew up relatively affluent but his origins pointed to anything but a revolutionary career. “I was born into a family of landowners in comfortable circumstances. We were

In conclusion, one political leader in history, Fidel Castro, has impacted his nation by the various choices and changes he has made. When making his decisions, Fidel was the first leader of Cuba to make the country a communist country; however, he restored and reformed Cuba as well. The political decisions that Castro made, how they changed and impacted his and other nations, and how genres of literature can educate people about choices and consequences are just a few ways on how a nation can change from choices and consequences.

Now I will be telling about Raul Castro’s life. Raul Castro was born on June 3,1931 near Biran, Cuba. Raul has spent most of his life living in his older brother’s shadow, Fidel, Castro. Raul is one of the five children, from a Spanish landowner,Raul grew up in his father’s farm with his siblings. He used to go to school temporarily before he got expelled.After from being expelled Raul went back to work on his father’s farm. When Raul was in his teens he joined a socialist group and he attended a conference for communist youth in Vienna,

Fidel was one of the seven children (Britannica). Throughout Castro's early life, his family was in a good economic state, so he was wealthy. Fidel attended Colegio Dolores and El Colegio de Belen, and throughout his schooling he showed a gift in intelligence. Although he was very intelligent, he showed rebellious and athletics qualities as well and worked more towards his sports than schooling. However, after graduation he attended the University of Havana where he focused more on politics. In 1947, Fidel went on an expedition to overthrow the Dominican Republic's dictator and he also joined an anticommunist group to reform Cuba's government. Fidel married a wealthy women named, Mirta Diaz Balart, and they had one child named, Fidel. During this time, Castro began to take interest in the works of Karl Marx, and he decided to become apart of the Cuban Congress; however, the election was soon cancelled. The cancelation left Fidel with very little money. Meanwhile, a dictator was coming to power in Cuba, and in 1953, Castro and many others formed "the Movement" to attack and

As a child Castro grew up working on his fathers sugar cane plantation in Oriente, Cuba. Castro had ambitions to receive the best education possible at a time where schooling was only given to very few. Castro threatened that he would burn down his own house if he didn’t get his way ("Cuban Americans"). The childhoods for these two built the makeup for two very controlling

Cuban leader Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926. In 1959, he made history by using guerilla warfare to successfully overthrow Cuban leader Batista. Here are some facts you didn't know about the dictator.

Fidel Castro was a interesting leader. Fidel Castro was born in August 19, 1926 in Biran, Cuba. When he was little his father was very powerful Angel Castro owned basically everything, he was very powerful on his behalf. When Angel Castro's wife came back Fidel and his siblings had to leave their house. First Fidel and his siblings went to Santiago and than Havana.

In 1940 to 1944, communist Fulgencio Batista withheld power as the president of Cuba and then from 1952 to 1959, United States backed dictator until fleeing Cuba because of Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement. Socialist Fidel Castro governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Fidel Castro’s intent was to provide Cuba with an honest democratic government by diminishing the corrupt way in which the country was run, the large role the United States played in the running of Cuba as well as the poor treatment & the living conditions of the lower class.