Fidel Castro is arguably one of the most famous political leaders to ever live. He is internationally recognized for being a revolutionary, a supporter of communism, and an opposition of imperialism. Eugenia Charles is just as influential and recognizable around the World. She was the first female lawyer and Prime Minister of Dominica, and only the second female Prime Minister in Caribbean History. The contributions these two individuals have had on their respective nations have led to massive improvements in education, health care, and literacy. Yet similar in some aspect, Fidel Castro and Eugenia Charles are very different in their rise to political power, political ideologies, public image, and accomplishments.
Born August 13, 1926, Fidel Castro was described as an academically average student growing up. He showed more love for sports than school but in 1945, Castro enrolled himself at the law school in the University of Havana. He was not involved in politics, even considering himself politically illiterate at the time of his admission. He soon found interest in the politics of Cuba and Cuban nationalism. He developed an anti-imperialism ideology and began to try to understand socialism. He joined, and became president of the University Committee, which was a student organization that opposed the intervention of the United States in the Caribbean and fought for the Independence of Puerto Rico. Fidel Castro had a platform of honesty, decency, and justice. He opposed
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.
Fulgencio Batista was elected President of Cuba between 1940 and 1940. In 1952 Batista declared that constitutional guarantees and the right to strike will be suspended. He became a dictator with absolute power over Cuba. Batista turned the Cuban capital of Havana into one of the largest gambling cities in the world. Batista reorganised the Cuba’s treasury so that political representatives and himself can take freely from the riches. Under Batista’s rule, education and health care wasn’t free to the general public. The Cuban public were not satisfied with Batista and how he was ruling Cuba, the people didn’t have a say in decisions in government, were treated unfairly with high taxes, selling/giving the peoples land to American business owners.
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
Beginning in the 1920’s, relations improved somewhat for women in Cuba. With the political arrival of Ramón Grau San Martín, women’s rights furthered, and women’s suffrage was achieved in 1934. Grau San Martín attributed his presidential victory of 1944 to the support from the Cuban women. The upward trend of women in Cuba reversed in the 50’s underneath Batista. With sexual tourism, corruption, and Mafia ties, Cuba’s government increased the difference between the sexes that already existed, and gender relations worsened.
There are many views that people have of Cuba’s Fidel Castro. Castro is a figure with opinions on both ends of the spectrum. While he is not worldly popular at this point in his life, he was immensely beneficial to his country. Fidel Castro, leader of Cuba for the past 50 years may not be viewed in the best light, but he did phenomenal things for his people which makes him one of the most undervalued and overlooked political figures.
“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
Above all, in Cuba many people are dedicated to the revolution in different ways. For example, in the book Dreaming in Cuba Celia is one of the main characters who is very loyal to the leader Fidel Castro. Celia is a representation of many people in Cuba who dedicates their life to support Fidel by doing volunteering work. Celia del Pino, is the image of many Cubans who are giving their time to make sure everything goes according to how Fidel regime wants to happen. For example, Celia contributes to the revolution by serving as a coast guard, scanning for invaders in front of her home with her binoculars. “Celia del Pino, equipped with binoculars and wearing her best housedress and drop pearl earrings, sits in her wicker swing guarding the
Figures like Fidel Castro and Che Guevara tend to be attributed with the Cuban Revolution. When looking at Celia Sanchez’s influence during the revolution. It is clear that without her help to provide arms to the revolution after the landing of Granma then Fidel’s Revolution would have not been successful. If Vilma Espín had not convinced General Kirkpatrick of the CIA then the United States might have intervened to stop the Revolution. And without Haydée Santamaría’s ability to distribute Fidel’s “History will Absolve me Speech,” it is unknown if Fidel would have had the mass support to take control of Cuba. Their influence does not just stop but use the idea that Cuba is constantly in a revolution to push feminist agendas. This is where I began to connect their influence to the deceleration that sexism was over by Fidel Castro. Was the fact that he lived and fought with these women the reason he was able to justify
Fidel Castro was a leader who formed the lives and advance of improvement of the Cuba from shielded from the America. He also made the Cuba secured by diminishing the severe circumstances, for instance, robbery, murder, prostitution etc. As leader, he took care of the little issue in the Cuba i.e. on the villagers which made him to rebel against the Cuba government which later made him lead the Cuba.
Around the world and across history, women are not the first thing one thinks of when we think of revolution. When thinking of revolution and the ensuing revolutionary wars one thinks of men with guns and other kinds of manly things. However, the reality is that across Latin America, most evidently in the Cuban Revolution, women played an essential role in the successes of such movements. It goes without saying that women were present in revolutions all across Latin America most notably in Nicaragua, Chile, and El Salvador. Cuba’s revolutionary heroines Celia Sanchez, Vilma Espin, and Haydee Santamaria among others made the role of women in this kind of revolution vibrant and exciting. Celia
Fidel Castro was born on a cattle farm, that lies close to the village of Biran in Cuba’s orient province. Castro was the third of seven children of a successful Spanish immigrant landowner. Castro had athletic talent, playing basketball, and baseball with near professional talent. He too got to be dynamic in the Ortodoxo Party, which championed change and campaigned against debasement. The youthful lawyer was chosen to run as an Ortodoxo candidate for congress in the common races planned for June 1952.
In my 27 years on this planet, I have heard little to nothing about the revolutionist and Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Of the small amount of conversation which has occurred in front of me, Castro was always described in a negative way. He was described as a cruel, selfish Communist dictator who is against the ideas and beliefs of my own country. For those reasons, I have never bothered educating myself about Castro and his life. Now that I am older, my education has presented the opportunity for me to get to know Castro and see things from his perspective, the non-American perspective. Because I am curious about Castro 's rise early life, rise to power, and accomplishments during his rule, I have
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.
Castro’s involvement with the foreign and domestic politics during the early Cold War period greatly influenced the outcome of the Cuban Revolution. Without the actions taken by foreign powers like the United States and Russia, some events on the domestic front may have had very different results. It is important to understand how every nation’s foreign policies can influence more than just one other nation, and this was especially true for Cuba. It was this mix and chain of events which produced the communist Cuba that we are familiar with today.
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.