Recently, Fidel Castro ceded power to his brother, Raul, while undergoing stomach surgery. This action fueled speculation as to Cuba\'s future. As Cuban exiles rejoiced in Miami streets, believing that Castro was near death, political and business figures sat poised, ready to engage in a new trading...

Cuba: The Plight of a Nation and its Revolution While the isle of Cuba was initially discovered on October 27, 1492 during one of Columbus\' first voyages, it wasn\'t actually claimed by Spain until the sixteenth century. However, it\'s tumultuous beginnings as a Spanish sugar colony provides an...

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...

Iceberg 1Richard IcebergDr. Hassan B. AllouchePolitical Science 20117 April 2001CUBA:A Comprehensive AnalysisThe study of Cuba, in the twentieth century, has been very hard for researchers and analysts to carry out in most instances. Until 1959, Cuba was often ruled by military figures, who either ...

The Cold War was the term used to describe the intense rivalry that developed after World War II between groups of Communist and non Communist nations. It was called the cold war because it did not really result in fighting. According to the article on the cold war in the World Book 2000 e...

Cuban Missile CrisisIn 1960, as tensions grew between the Soviet Union and the United States, the premier of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, began planning to secretly supply Cuba with nuclear missiles. Not until 1962 did the United States gain knowledge of these actions and begin to take acti...

IntroductionOn the morning of Tuesday October 16, 1962, President John F. Kennedy was reading the Tuesday morning newspapers in his bed at the Whitehouse. Not twenty fours hours before, McGeorge Bundy, Kennedy's national security adviser, received the results of Major Richard S. Heyser's U-2 missio...

BAY OF PIGSIt seems that the United States has been one of the most dominant, if not the most dominant, countries in the world, since the Declaration of Independence. Yet, on Monday, April 17, 1961, our government experienced incredible criticism and extreme embarrassment when Fidel Castro, dictato...

THESIS : " The United States didn't want to get involved in the Spanish-American War, but was draggedinto it due to yellow journalism, they wanted to control the seas, and wanted complete control over Cuba."The Spanish-American War -"The Splendid Little War"Pia DeAngelisMr. FishmanPeriod 7For 113 da...

Outline on the AmistadI)Introductiona)Brief introduction about the Amistadi)Names of Captain and other crew members(1)Captain Ferrer- the captain of the ship (2)Jose Ruiz- A 24 year old Spaniard that was a slave dealer(3)Pedro Montes- A 58 year old Spaniard that was a slave dealer (4)Antonio- Cabin ...