John Van Buskirk History 131 Professor Ehrlich October 10th, 2015 Lázaro Cárdenas, Juan Perón, Jorge Gaitán and Fidel Castro are four people that are famous for what they did for their people. The main agenda of each person is what shaped that person’s future. Also every person strived to help the poor people of their country or town. Even though it did not always work in the long run. Each person had their own unique way to do this. Lázaro Cárdenas’ main agenda as president was to fix the
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Lydia Garcia Professor Raul Rubio November 20, 2014 Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights Directed by: Guy Ferland 1. Set against the corrupt glamour and escalating danger of revolution-eve Cuba, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights follows the blossoming love affair of young couple Katey and Javier against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution in 1958. Katey is an American girl living in Cuba with her parents who meets Javier, a local. Javier takes Katey to a nightclub where he teaches her how to dance
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Born on August 13th, 1926 Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a revolutionary in the making. He was able to take over the Cuban government and transform Cuba into the first communist state in the western hemisphere. Castro led Cuba with a strong fist for a total of 49 years before passing power over to his brother Raul. Through is ruling Castro was a man who sparked different opinions from many different people before passing away on November 25th, 2016. With so many opinions floating around about Fidel
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Introduction The island nation of Cuba is in a strange economic situation, stuck between an outdated state run government and an increasingly more complex global economy. Cuba is one of the last Communist nations from the Cold War. It has held onto its Communist ideals for the last 50 years but that is changing. With a new President in Raul Castro, the country is breaking down barriers with the United States and opening new frontiers for its citizens. History of Cuba Discovered by Christopher
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Dianet Perez Garcia Politics of International Investment May 1, 2012 Foreign Direct Investment Risk Analysis on Cuba Background: Cuba is an island in the Caribbean. La Habana is the capital of Cuba and its biggest city. Cuba is not an industrialized country and it mainly consists of farms. Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean and the most populated with a population of over 11 million people. Cuba is a totalitarian communist country and has been ruled by Fidel Castro since 1959. Raul
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Introduction; Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926 near Biran, in the eastern Orient Province of Cuba. He was the third child out of six and had two brothers and three sisters; his father was a wealthy sugar plantation owner, although he is originally from Spain. His mother was a maid to his father’s first wife, Maria Luisa Argota at the time of Fidel’s birth. As his father married his mom at the age of 17 Fidel had his last name changed from “Ruz” to “Castro”. He soon got married in 1984 he
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For many years after the revolution, homosexuality was frowned upon and was taboo in Cuban politics. The government, led by Castro, used Ernesto Guevara's idea from his piece Man and Socialism of the "new man (Cuba Reader Guevara 370)" as a political tool to push forth laws that restricted the rights of homosexuals in the country. For example, when enrolling for the army, gay men were not allowed to fight and were often assigned to Military Units to Aid Protection (UMAP) to
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Fidel Castro (more formally known as Fidel Alejandrio Castro Ruz) is well known for his positions as a Cuban politician, revolutionary, Prime Minister of Cuba, and then as president. Castro was educated in private Jesuit boarding schools, allowing him to be raised away from the common poverty of Cuba’s people. He was a very intellectual mind, but preferred to spend the majority of his time in sports rather than studies. During his childhood, he pitched for the baseball team at El Colegio de Belen
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Bay of Pigs Invasion The Bay of Pigs was a significant event in world history. In 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew the dictatorial President Fulgencio Batista. After this occurred the string of events began to ensue. “American corporations and wealthy individuals owned almost half of Cuba’s sugar plantations and the majority of its cattle ranches, mines and utilities. Batista did little to restrict their operations. He was also reliably anticommunist. Castro, by contrast, disapproved of the approach
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926, in Birán, Cuba. His father was Ángel Castro, who was a sugar plantation owner. His mother was Lina Ruz Gonzalez, whom Castro’s father had an affair with while she was a maid to Ángel’s first wife. He had seven brothers and sisters, one of which would become Castro’s future chief associate. Castro attended many different schools as a child, such as the Roman Catholic Boarding School located in Santiago, Cuba, and the Catholic high school in Havana
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