I, Enrique Oltuski, was born in Cuba in 1933. As Jews in Poland, my parents were discriminated against, and they were put into isolated ghettos. By 1929, they had decided to escape to the New World when they arrived in Cuba. For the first years in Cuba, my father had many financial difficulties. ...

In retrospect, the mission in Bolivia seemed to have been doomed from the start. The very foundation that created the revolution failed it immediately, due to this fact, from the beginning to the end the revolution seemed an imminent failure. If one sat down and tried to reconstruct an account on...

Introduction This essay will attempt to show how the vision of a people's republic was maintained such that the US blockade failed to lead to a rejection of Fidel and Cuban socialism. It will be assessed through a series of economic and social case studies that underpin Cuban society today, in its ...

The Cuban Revolution Final Draft The Cuban Revolution was in various ways different from the American Revolution and in other ways similar to it at because it had the same purpose and it also succeeded. Therefore, it can be rightfully said that the Cuban Revolution is an example, among ot...

In the early 1950's the United States was worried about the spread of communism in the world. The United States provided many forms of aid to countries that were about to fall to the communist government. The Truman Doctrine, Eisenhower Doctrine, and the Marshal Plan provided food, weapons, and c...

In the early 1950's the United States was worried about the spread of communism in the world. The United States provided many forms of aid to countries that were about to fall to the communist government. The Truman Doctrine, Eisenhower Doctrine, and the Marshal Plan provided food, weapons, and c...

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born near Biran in Orient Province, Cuba, in 1926. He was the third child born to Castro y Argiz and Lina Ruz Gonzalez. Angel became wealthy from laying track for the sugar railway and transporting the cane. Castro attended public school near the town of Mayari...

Many old pieces of literature have influenced the way people think about today. The Prince, written by Niccolò Machiavelli, was written as a "how-to" manual for a new prince. In it, Machiavelli makes extensive reference to the leadership styles, successes, and failures of historical figures. The ...

CUBA THE TOTALITARIAN REGIME THAT STILL GOES ON Introduction When Columbus came to Cuba in 1492, he and his predecessors would probably never have imagined of this island's outcome within the centuries ahead. from conquering the country, to its independence, to the totalitarian regime ...

 It all started on July 30th, 1909 when Juan Bosch was born to a Catalan father and a Puerto Rican mother. Juan Bosch was born in La Vega, Dominican Republic where most of the income came from farming. Due to Bosch's surrounding he grew up close to peasants and landowners, even though his ...

The initiation of the Cold War in the late 1950s brought forth a feeling of uncertainty to the United States government. Communist activity in the USSR (United Soviet Socialist Republic) and else where around the world, increased drastically and put the U.S. in a defensive minded position. There w...

The Cuban Revolution of the 1950's was a big part of history in the 20th century. Cuba was the first Latin American country to start a communist style of government, the first to go against the United States of America and the first to ally with the Soviet Union. The main leader of this r...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States. He was the youngest president ever to be elected, the first Roman Catholic president, and the first president to be born in the 20th century. Although, he didn't get the chance to live out his term and possible another one, he ...

Directed by LEON ICHASO filmed in 1996 in Dominican Republic, was born in Habana, Cuba, and moved to the United States at age 14 where he was raised in Miami and New York. In Cuba, his family was very well known in radio, TV, journalism and literature. His father, Dr. Justo Rodriguez Santos, is on...

Fulgencio Batista Zaldivar was born in Cuba's Oriente Province in 1902 (Sierra 1). In 1921 he joined the army as a private, and in 1932 he became a military tribunal stenographer with the rank of sergeant (Sierra 1). His involvement in the Cuban military foreshadowed his army-dependant rul...

America, the ruthless super of this world has retained that status by means of using their vast economic wealth as well as their strategic manipulation among countries in need of their support. The Cuban Missile Crisis was an act of retaliation by both the Soviet Union and Cuba, to prevent America f...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States, the youngest person ever to be elected President, the first Roman Catholic and the first to be born in the 20th century. Kennedy was assassinated before he completed his third year as President, therefore his achievements w...