FIDEL CASTRO: EARLY YEARS
“Castro was born on August 13, 1926, in Birán, a small town in eastern Cuba. His father was a wealthy Spanish sugarcane farmer who first came to the island during the Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898); his mother was a domestic servant for his father’s family who bore him out of wedlock. After attending a couple of Jesuit schools–including the Colegio de Belén, where he excelled at baseball–Castro enrolled as a law student at the University of Havana. While there, he became interested in politics, joining the anti-corruption Orthodox Party and participating in an aborted coup attempt against the brutal Dominican Republic dictator 1950, Castro graduated from the University of Havana and opened a law office. Two years later, he ran for election to the Cuban
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The election never happened, however, because Batista seized power that March. Castro responded by planning a popular uprising. “From that moment on, I had a clear idea of the struggle ahead,” he said in a 2006 “spoken autobiography.” Havana, Cuba - Fidel Castro, a titan of the Cold War who defied 10 American presidents and thrust Cuba onto the world stage, is dead at age 90.The US government spent more than $1bn trying to kill, undermine or otherwise force Castro from power, but he endured unscathed before old age and disease finally took him. On December 17, 2014, Obama announced that the US planned to renew diplomatic ties with Cuba and loosen some trade and travel restrictions.Obama's critics were enraged, saying he was throwing a lifeline to the socialist government and undermining the work of democracy activists who were regularly arrested and beaten. His father, Angel Castro y Argis, was from the Spanish province of Galicia and journeyed to Cuba as a 13-year-old orphan
Salvador Castro was born on October 25, 1933 in Boyle Heights, California. Soon after his birth his parents moved to Mexico where he received his childhood education. When he came back to Los Angeles to continue his education he was punished for not knowing English. He went on to attend Cathedral High School in 1952, Los Angeles City College, and graduated Cal State L.A. in 1961. In 1961 he also earned his teaching credentials and obtained a teaching positon at Belmont High. He urged Mexican-American student to run for student government positions as well as pressed them to make campaign speeches in Spanish, at the time this was a big deal which caused a lot of problems. He also founded a nonprofit organization called the Chicano Youth Leadership
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.
On February 16, 1959 Fidel Castro was sworn in as prime minister of Cuba. Cuba was the first communist state on the west side of the world. Castro has had more than 600 assassination attempts on him. His fight for prime minister of Cuba was not an easy task for him. He had to fight for it. Castro led 160 of his men in a attack on Moncada Barracks. His plan was to take weapons and tell of his revolution from the Barracks radio station, but most of his men died and Castro got arrested and put on trial for trying to overthrow the Cuban government. He argued that he was trying to make a democracy in Cuba but he still got 15 years in prison. Then two years later prime minister Batista let him got because he felt that Castro wouldn’t try attacking the Cuban government again. He later went to his brother Raul in Mexico and planned another attack on the Cuban government, but with only had 81 people to fight with him. On December 2, 1956 his 81 men landed on the Cuban coast. All but Castro, Raul, and ten other were killed or captured. Then they retreated and started guerrilla warfare on the Cuban government and caused
His fundamental vision of creating an honest administration in Cuba, reinstating full civil and political liberties, and to create his own reforms to make Cuba a better place, happened with a lot of passion and fighting for his country. After graduating college, Castro began practicing law and he became a member of many reformist groups in Cuba and started forming revolutionary groups. With these little impacts, his name was now known in
As the leader of Cuba changed, so did the government and it’s way of functioning. This constant and extreme regime change had an effect on everyday people’s lives. Oscar Montero and his family have been affected by such change. Oscar Montero was born the small town of Cruces, surrounded by dull and broken down buildings, yet at the same time by the beautiful landscapes in which Western Cuba holds. Both sides of the Montero family lived in Cruces, but he, his mother, and his sisters moved to the United States in 1961.
Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926 in Buran, Cuba to the parent’s foreigners Angel, and Lina Castro Ruz. He is the son of a successful sugar cane planter. Fidel Castro was known for his athletic skill and for his smarts. He went to
Embroiled in opposing political points of view, the United States and Cuba have historically had a complicated relationship with each of them cognizant of how to bear a grudge. When Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, relations between the two countries quickly devolved into bitter arguments, political grandstanding and the occasional international crisis, even though things started out pleasant enough. Fidel Castro, full name Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, seized power in Cuba on January 1st, 1959, overthrowing the corrupt and right-wing military dictatorship of Batista. Curiously, in April of that year, he visited Washington, D.C. receiving a warm welcome from Vice President Richard Nixon. However, soon after all U.S. businesses in Cuba were
The fight against communism became less important. The United States faced bigger issues when the Cold War ended. As a result to the Cold War present President Obama lifted problems with Cuba. By lifting these problems he made 1 billion dollars in income. Obama felt that such out dated thinking was irrelevant and didn’t make since on rebuilding a democracy in Cuba.
On April 11, 2015 President Obama and Raul Castro met to hold the first meeting between Cuba and the United States in 54 years. The countries have announced to begin conversing after tension started during the Cold War. An embargo was placed on the country of Cuba in 1960 and in 1961 an end to all relations. President Obama has been working on rekindling the relationship of this island country. Because the United States lifted the embargo on Cuba the economy on the island will be boosted, there will be a change of correspondence between the United States and Cuba, as well as a reshaped interaction between the government and the people of Cuba.
Castro was born on August 13 1926. He was born in Cuba in a small town called Birán. His father, a wealthy man, was a farmer while his mom was a slave for the family. Castro tried various schools but Colegio de Belén is where he exceeded in baseball. He eventually went to University of Havana. He went into the school learning about the law but he started to became interested in politics, joining the Orthodox Party. After joining, he attempts to overthrow the Dominican Republic Dictator.
ecently the United States and Cuba have been making news due to a possible reconciling between the two nations. In 2016 President Obama visited the leader of Cuba, Raúl Castro. This was a big deal because he was the first president to visit the country since Calvin Coolidge. Raul Castro took over office following the death of Fidel Castro. Fidel was a strong supporter of the communist party and many of his ideas regarding running Cuba were very radical and not supported by the United States. He was one of the main reasons the United States ended all ties with the country. For many years these two countries have been butting heads and been involved in a power struggle. During Obama's presidency, there was a shift in both the United States
For more than 50 years following its independence, Cuba was governed by a succession of elected and authoritarian leaders, culminating with rule of Fulgencio Batista, who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1952. Batista ruled as a brutal dictator and was overthrown by resistance groups led by Fidel Castro on January 1, 1959. Castro began his more than 45 years as Cuba’s leader by promising democratic rule, but he quickly began to stifle dissent often by imprisoning or executing opponents. Relations between Castro and the U.S. deteriorated quickly in 1959 and 1960 as he courted the Soviet Union, the U.S.’s adversary in the Cold War, and began confiscating Cuban property owned by U.S. corporations and citizens.
Fidel Castro was born somewhere around Birán, Cuba, August 13 1926. Castro was one of six siblings, he had two brothers, Raúl and Ramón, and he also had three sisters, Angela, Emma and Agustina. Fidel’s father Ángel was original from Spain. Ángel was a well-respected sugar plantation owner. He plantation also worked with the American-owned United Fruit Company. The United Fruit Company was one of the top companies in agriculture at this time. Fidel’s mother Lina
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.
Death of a Salesman is about a man that can’t get passed his own ego. William, the salesman, is a narcissistic untrustworthy man that has no values for his own wife. At the beginning of the play, we can clearly see that Willy is this macho man that wouldn’t accept his faults. His decaying state of mind gives us even more evidence to argue his deficiencies. His wife, Linda, is always trying to defend him against his own family, yet she unconsciously knows that her husband has some sort of mental illness, such as dementia. Both his sons, Biff and Happy, are in today’s society “normal” citizens that are trying to change their world around and succeed. However, Willy sees this as a waste of time, and insults their efforts of creating their own lives which is mostly