...Kristian Delatorre Mrs. Pflaumer Spanish V Notes Fidel Castro y Raul Castro nació el 13 de agosto de 1926 en Birán, una pequeña ciudad en el este de Cuba. Su padre era un rico agricultor de caña de azúcar español que llegó por primera vez a la isla durante la Guerra de Independencia de Cuba (1895-1898); su madre era una empleada doméstica de la familia de su padre, que le dio a luz fuera del matrimonio. Después de asistir a un par de escuelas incluyendo jesuitas del Colegio de Belén , donde se destacó en el béisbol Castro se matriculó como estudiante de derecho en la Universidad de La Habana. Una vez allí, se interesó en la política, a la lucha contra la corrupción Partido Ortodoxo y participar en un intento de golpe de Estado abortado contra el brutal dictador República Dominicana Rafael Trujillo. En julio de 1953, Castro llevó cerca de 120 hombres en un ataque contra el cuartel Moncada en Santiago de Cuba. El asalto fracasó, Castro fue capturado y condenado a 15 años de prisión, y muchos de sus hombres fueron asesinados. Fulgencio Batista apoyado por Estados Unidos , en busca de mejorar su imagen autoritaria , posteriormente liberó a Castro en 1955 como parte de una amnistía general. Castro terminó en Mexico. Raúl se interesó en la política y se unió a un grupo de jóvenes socialistas . A finales de 1950 , participó en la revolución que llevó a su hermano , Fidel Castro, al poder, y poco después fue nombrado jefe de las fuerzas armadas. En las décadas que siguieron, también...
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...Fidel Castro was the prime minister and then president of Cuba. He ruled for about 50 years. When Castro showed an interest in politics, so did Fulgencio Batista, who takes over the Cuban government and establishes a military dictatorship. Fidel is well known for the Cuban Revolution, when he overthrew General Fulgencio Batista, and became the new leader of Cuba. Fidel Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926 in the city of Mayari which is in the northwestern part of Cuba. His Father, Àngel Castro y Argiz was a wealthy planter. Fidel Castro had many siblings including Raul Castro, who is the leader of Cuba today. Fidel was “educated by the Jesuits and studied law at the University of Havana” . He always liked Latin American Revolutionary Politics since he was a child also . Fidel Castro became a lawyer specializing in public-interest and was kind enough to sometimes represent the poor at no cost. In 1952 Castro decided to become a candidate for parliament...
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...A revolution is a radical change of an established government, political system, or social structure often accompanied by violence. Imperialism is the policy of extending the rule of an empire or nation over other countries or acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies. Both of these concepts were key during the Cuban revolution held in the XXth century. The Cuban revolution was an armed revolt led by Fidel Castro’s 26th of july movement and allies against the authoritarian government of Cuban president Fulgencio Batista. The revolution started in 1953 and lasted 5 years and a half until 1959 when the rebels finally ousted Batista, however the causes to it weren’t just short term but also long term ones. The purpose of this essay is to analyze both of this types of causes which led together to start the revolution. The long term causes started with the Cuban ten years war also known as the great war in 1868 to 1878. This war was part of Cuba’s fight for independence from Spain due to that it was the first of 3 wars between the 2 countries. In October 10 1868 sugar mill owner, Carlos Manuel Cespedes and his followers proclaimed independence beginning the conflict. The Cuban people demanded 4 main things to the Spanish parliament: Tariff reform, Cuban representation in parliament, judicial equality with Spaniards and full enforcement of a slave trade ban, however the Spanish government denied all of this demands which caused discontent among Cubans and ended in a conflict...
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...Unidos C. Investigacion y conversación 1. Busque información sobre la historia de la inmigración de por lo menos tres grupos distintos de inmigrantes hispanos que vinieron a los Estados Unidos durante los siglos XX y XXI. ¿Por qué salieron de sus países de origen? ¿Cuáles fueron las condiciones políticas, económicas, y sociales que les obligaron a salir de su país? La inmigración de hispanos es la más grande en los Estados Unidos. Cada ano llegan hispanos de diferentes partes de Latinoamérica en búsqueda de felicidad y prosperidad. Uno de esos grupos son los mexicanos. Por muchos anos los mexicanos han inmigrado a los Estados Unidos huyendo la situación económica, el poco progreso, y la violencia que se ve en su país. Los mexicanos vienen a los Estados Unidos en busca de empleo y crecimiento. Una de las razones por la cual hay tantos inmigrantes mexicanos en los Estados Unidos es porque México hace frontera con los Estados Unidos y para los que se arriesgan y logran entrar sin problema, es la forma más rápida y fácil de entrar al país. Muchos mexicanos vienen a los Estados Unidos en búsqueda de un empleo sin importarles el sueldo con tal de que tengan algún ingreso. Esto ha estado sucediendo por muchos anos pero ahora en el siglo XXI es mucho más difícil para que los indocumentados atraviesen la frontera por la cantidad de autoridades que ahora patrulla la frontera. Para los mexicanos afortunados que pudieron cruzar y escapar la frontera y para los que llegaron con visa...
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...did he chose to live the life of a revolutionary when he could have been an affluent doctor in Buenos Aires? Why was he to always be a “foreigner” when he loved his Argentina? What motivated him to leave his opportune life in an aristocratic family to attempt to achieve a better world for others? Che was a man with a lust for battle. No matter what he attempted, he went for it with everything he could possible give. But, what did he accomplish in that life? When his life is examined and his endeavors looked at closely, did he really make a difference in helping others to have a better life? Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara de la Serna was born in Rosario, Argentina on June 14, 1928. His father, Ernesto Guevara Lynch and his mother Celia de la Serna y Llosa were both blue-blooded aristocrats. His father’s family had lived in Argentina for over twelve generations and his mother’s family had land, both signs of money in this land of immigrants. Che’s father was “a cultivated man, very intelligent, he was active in the ranks of the Radical Party” (page 4, Compañero). Che’s mother who with her sister’s influence, would become a”socialist, anticlerical feminist” (page 4, Compañero). This heritage, especially his mother’s influence, was Ernesto’s foundation to his revolutionary life. Ernesto’s early life was ridden with lung ailments. He contracted pneumonia less than two months after his birth, and began having asthma attacks just a few weeks prior to his second birthday. This forged a deep...
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...most liberalized it has been since the Communist government came to power in 1959. For the last seventy years, Cuba has been stricken by poverty and slow development despite its fairly skilled labor force. As Cuba has recently opened its nation for investments and economic improvements, the tourism industry has begun to flourish. Due to the educated population, low labor wages, and the government’s willingness to accept foreign capital, investment in Cuba’s hotel industry is a highly attractive prospect. I. Introduction Cuba, a nation whose communist government suffocated its economy for over half a century, promises profitable returns but requires the investment of pioneer businesses to regenerate the economy. After Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, the dictator quickly acted to transform Cuba into a communist state. Castro’s government unfairly seized private land and companies, imposed heavy taxes on imports from the United States, and prohibited foreign companies from establishing businesses in Cuba. As a retaliatory measure for stealing American owned property without recompense, President Eisenhower imposed sanctions on Cuba in 1960 which evolved into a full economic embargo. Over the last 55 years of the American economic embargo, it has been estimated Cuba has lost approximately $117 billion. Since Castro’s rise to power, Cuba’s economy stayed...
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...subsequent invasion of Spaniards, the indigenous cultures were soon eliminated by force or of diseases the Spaniards had.1 Under Spanish rule for three centuries and after various failed rebellions during the 19th century.1 The Spanish finally withdrew from the island after their defeat during the Spanish–American War in 1898. Cuba; however, did not gain formal independence until May 20, 1902.1 3. Following its independence and prompted by the cruel dictatorship of Gerardo Machado y Morales in the 1930’s, Cuba suffered through an attempt at revolution.1 Cuba developed into a democracy filled with prosperity under the “inheritors of the 1933 revolution, Grau San Martín (president, 1944–48) and Carlos Prío Socarrás (president, 1948–52)”.2 Though democracy flourished so did the propensity of political violence and corruption as, Gen. Fulgencio Batista, the vicious dictator backed by the United States government and the United States mafia was overthrown by the succession of despotic leaders, Fidel and Raúl Castro Ruz.1 Subsequently, Cuba has since been governed as a socialist state by the Communist Party. In response the United States imposed an embargo on Cuba on October 19,1960 and broke diplomatic relations in 1961.1 The failure of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sponsored invasion by Cuban exiles in April 1961 (Bay of Pigs) allowed Castro to emerge strengthened and consolidated, having defeated the United States.1 The failed endeavor was not only an embarrassment to the...
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...Fidel Castro’s Influence on the Cuban Revolution, 1953-1959 The year was 1953 and Fidel Castro was a dashing and daring reformer that was determined to make a impact in a country that was ruled by an unjust president. With the Movement strong and confident, Castro delivered these strong words to his group of men: “In a few hours you will be victorious or defeated, but regardless of the outcome – listen well, friends – this Movement will triumph. If you win tomorrow, the aspirations of Martí will be fulfilled sooner. If we fail, our action will nevertheless set an example for the Cuban people, and from the people will arise fresh new men willing to die for Cuba. They will pick up our banner and move forward... The people will back us in Oriente and in the whole island. As in '68 and '92, here in Oriente we will give the first cry of Liberty or Death!” These words by Castro illustrates what type of leader he was and still is to this day. Castro is one of the most polarizing figures in Cuban history, with many natives of Cuba arguing that he was the central cause of the destruction of Cuba, while others consider him to be the visionary that saved Cuba from the destruction that would have come about if a capitalist system had been instituted instead of a communist one. Actions taken by Fidel Castro during the Cuban Revolution shaped Cuba politically and socially to what we know it to be today. Fidel Castro was born in southeast Cuba, in the Oriente Province on August 13, 1926...
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...Deterioration of Chavez Chavez_Cancer http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/10/us-venezuela-chavez-idUSTRE7994RB20111010 With the Venezuelan elections coming up, Hugo Chavez, the current president of Venezuela, is trying to win the elections again after being 13 years in possession of the power. At the same time, Chavez’s health has been deteriorating as he announced he has cancer. He also took the cancer look by shaving his hair off and going bald. On the other hand, Chavez has recently been leaving Venezuela unexpectedly going to Cuba leaving his people unattended, meanwhile the media has not always been able to report exactly why the president had to leave his people. It is not the media that is at fault, but the president himself who is trying to hide things; the president himself is at fault of turning Venezuela into a fake democracy in order to keep the power himself. First we will be looking at Chavez’s health conditions in the past years. In June of 2011 Chavez left Venezuela and underwent unscheduled surgery in Cuba for pelvic abscess. After being absent for almost a month from his country, on June 30th, 2011, Chavez announced that he was recovering from an operation removing a cancerous tumor. The Vice President then stated that Chavez remained will “full exercise” of power and that there was no need to transfer powers despite of being absent from Venezuela. On July 2nd, 2011, the newspaper “El Periodico de Catalunya” stated that Chavez had “colon cancer that...
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...La caída de Allende: una versión heterodoxa El pasado 11 de septiembre se conmemoraron los 42 años del golpe militar en Chile, el cual le puso fin al gobierno (y posiblemente a la vida) del líder Salvador Allende y catapultó en el poder al fallecido dictador Augusto Pinochet por los siguientes 17 años. Mucho se especula sobre la materia desde todas las orillas. Sin embargo, mi intención no es abordar la moralidad o no del golpe y muchos menos las desdeñables violaciones a los derechos humanos que le siguieron. Lo que anhelo es desentrañar ciertos mitos y vicisitudes de la gestión del líder socialista y, de igual manera, traer a colación algunos asuntos que son excluidos en el análisis histórico de los hechos. Vasili Mitrokhin, antiguo funcionario de la KGB soviética, logró exiliarse en Gran Bretaña en 1992 con una gran cantidad de expedientes secretos de la entidad. En 1999, los compiló en su texto: The world was going our way: The KGB and the battle for the third World. En él, un capítulo entero es dedicado a la relación entre la URSS y Chile. Algunos han llegado a afirmar que Allende fue tan importante para los soviéticos, que se convirtió en su segunda ficha en Latinoamérica, después de Fidel Castro. Lo cierto (http://ellibero.cl/actualidad/la-mano-de-la-kgb-y-la-cia-en-el-quiebre-democratico-en-chile/) es que los devaneos de Allende con los soviéticos comenzaron alrededor de 1953, un año después de haber perdido las elecciones. Su enlace fue el agente Svyatoslav Kuznetsov...
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...President’s brother and Attorney General of the U.S., had “the feeling that the noose was tightening on all of us, on Americans, on mankind, and that the bridges to escape were crumbling.”1 In Moscow, the tension was “phenomenal.” On Sunday morning, General Secretary Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev and his advisors worried “that Kennedy intended to declare war, to launch an attack” against the Soviet Union.2 That same day, the two leaders reached an accommodation that, in retrospect, turned out to be one of the key turning points of the Cold War. 1 OVERVIEW The “Caribbean crisis,” as it was known in the former Soviet Union, was attributed to the Kennedy administration’s unwillingness to accept the status quo in Cuba. Unalterably opposed to Fidel Castro, the administration organized an ill-fated invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro refugees in April 1961. After the “Bay of Pigs” fiasco, the Central Intelligence Agency tried to assassinate Castro and sponsored covert operations against Cuba, the Department of State organized an economic and political boycott of the country, and the Pentagon prepared and rehearsed a full-scale...
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...ensalzar sus valores genéricos, o bien para denunciar los atropellos, injusticias y abusos cometidos por quienes detentan el Poder en cualquiera de sus formas. Poesía ésta que no se evade de la realidad, sino que incide en ella con intención transformadora. Se entiende por ello que tal producción y sus autores hayan sido frecuentemente acallados, desprestigiados, censurados e incluso perseguidos por dichos poderes dominantes. Se trata, en fin, de una poesía no neutral, teñida por el compromiso ético de sus autores. Los textos aquí incorporados proceden de muy diversas fuentes. Unos de nuestra biblioteca personal, otros de Internet. La edición digitalizada de estos cuadernos poéticos carece de toda finalidad económica. No obstante, si alguien se considera perjudicado en sus legítimos derechos de propiedad intelectual, rogamos nos lo haga saber para que retiremos los textos cuestionados. Entre los poetas míos… Juan Gelman -3- Entre los poetas míos… Juan Gelman Juan Gelman Burichson nació en Buenos Aires, el 3 de mayo de 1930. Poeta, traductor y periodista argentino, está considerado como el poeta más importante de su generación. Hijo de emigrantes judíos ucranianos, ejerce diversos oficios antes de dedicarse al periodismo. Por su actividad periodística y política vive en el exilio entre 1975 y 1988, residiendo alternativamente en Roma, Madrid, Managua, París, Nueva York y México. Durante su ausencia de...
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...kagaspangan L ng Phil. Ports Authority ang lugar na iyon. Bagamat may kagaspangan ang pagkakasemento, na noong una ay binalak niya sa v for you?" // "Wala ho. Hihingi lang ako ng paumanhin sa kagaspangan ko kagabi. Pasensiya na ho." // "Wala iyon. Pero sa j glalakad sila patungo sa third hole. Nadadaanan nila ang kagaspangan ng matataas na damo, punungkahoy at mga palumpong. I inis. Galit din siya kay Cocoy dahil sa ipinakita nitong kagaspangan ng pag-uugali. Buong akala pa naman niya'y maginoo A g kapinuhan sa kainang publiko. Lumala ang hatol niya sa kagaspangan ni Alvin nang ang tubig na inumin ay minumog bago l j pagsasalita ni Divine. // Dahil ayaw niyang magpakita ng kagaspangan, pilit na nakipag-usap nang matino si Menard sa dal A o. // "Bastos! Ano ka ba? Pati sa bata nagpapakita ka ng kagaspangan. Wala kang karapatang gawin 'yon. Ayoko na!" impit 6 oong Santos // iyon ang ahente // mabuti hung tao // may kagaspangan lamang na kumilos at magsalita // dinaramdam kong h 4 awa mo lang ang tungkulin mo // at hindi ka nagpakita ng kagaspangan ng ugali // sa pagiging doktor hindi ka nagkait sa 2 gpakita ng takot kay Mommy hindi rin naman nagpamalas ng kagaspangan o galit // kung iba sigurong mahina-hina ang loob b 9 ba pang nasa gayunding hanapbuhay ang taxi-driver ay may kagaspangan tahimik at may madilim na mukha // malas siguro par kagat F there o." Turo niya sa langit. // Nangingiti si Mitchel, kagat ang dalawang kamay ng nangangating gilagid. Napadako si...
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...Giovanni Zanoletti Il consolidamento democratico in America Latina: storia e prospettive. Il processo di formazione di regimi indipendenti e democratici in America Latina, iniziato con le lotte per l’affrancamento dalla dominazione coloniale verso la fine degli anni ’10 del XIX sec., è sempre stato caratterizzato da alcuni elementi culturali e sociali che si sono mantenuti costanti durante questi due secoli di storia, in parte comuni alle varie entità statali di cui il sub-continente si compone e in parte peculiari, a seconda dell’epoca e dal tipo di colonizzazione. Certo è che questi caratteri hanno giocato un importante ruolo nella difficoltà di affermazione dei caratteri dello stato democratico nelle varie realtà territoriali, giungendo a un certo grado di diffusione delle procedure democratiche solamente verso l’inizio degli anni novanta. Considerando la storia dell’America Latina, quello di fronte a cui ci troviamo è quasi un secolo e mezzo di “volatilità istituzionale”: è infatti possibile riscontrare più o meno in ogni parte della regione frequenti cambi di regime, avvenuti tramite golpe e rivoluzioni, l’affermazione di dittature e il loro rovesciamento, elezioni democratiche e plebisciti. Solo a partire dagli anni ’90 sembra che la situazione politica si sia stabilizzata verso un indirizzo di governo democratico più o meno ovunque, anche se alcune eccezioni rimangono. Definito il quadro d’insieme, è interessante analizzare quali elementi componevano il substrato...
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