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The alternating struggles for political independence in Brazil and Cuba.One may be stating the obvious by saying that both Cuba and Brazil are both Latin American countries when asked to make a comparison between the two. But this is one of a very shortlist of similarities between these two very alternating countries and this is mirrored in fact in their very different struggles for political independence. Although both struggles were long and arduous, they stemmed from very different origins. Brazils struggle has roots firmly planted in its geographical history aswell as its geographical positioning, while Cuba on the other hand relies firmly on its political activism and civilian opposition and uprising to gain its political independence. From the landing of the first Europeans in Brazil in the sixteenth century the countries abundance of natural resources was immensely obvious, but this is not to say that Cuba was not rich in resources also but it came nowhere near to sharing the natural wealth Brazil gleamed with and as a result did not rely on its natural resources as a stepping stone to gain a political utopia. The first resource to be tapped by the new inhabitants of Brazil was the short-lived and short-sighted m
So in response the Americans broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba and began to economic pressure also. It was unbeknownst to the people at the time however that the mercury would cause serious health implications in centuries to come, causing political uproar due to poisoning of remote Indian tribes. But before it began looking to other sources for income, the government thought it should try to fix the mining resources in the country. At present there are an estimated one million garimpeiros in Brazil. But this was not uncommon at the time as this was the backbone of first world countries economies such as the United States at the turn of the century. In 1898 the USS Maine mysteriously blew up at the port in Havana and as Cuba was a Spanish colony the Americans declared war on Spain via Cuba. After this Brazil was forced to look elsewhere for economic stability as its politic stability was also in question. This soured relations with the US who had supported the old regime. So from the outset Brazil was "a melting pot of cultural diversities" (Robinson, H. Since Fulgencio Batista succeeded in a right-wing coup d'etat in 1952, the countries ties with the US began to weaken and the country was divided over his regime. The other outsider was Britain who was quite happy to see South America independent of Spain and Portugal for commercial reasons. In July 1958 Castro and his rebels won the battle of "El Jique" which was a decisive victory and after more battles like this it took just four months until they had control of half of Cuba. However, oddly enough the first mercury mine was found in Peru and named the potosi mine. This made visible to the rest of the world reports of torture and violent repression in Brazil which was previously seen as a civilised and constitutional state which was usually associated with Cuba.
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