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The Pros And Cons Of The Cuban Revolution

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Introduction
Cuba today is currently struggling because of the actions that previous government officials took. Cuba is a great place to visit and has high amounts of tourism, but it also got its flaws. The government controls most of the country which leads to a shortage of goods and services. Due to Cuba’s condition right now, the people can’t receive food and drinks because the government has a controlled amount of spending. Our goal is to provide them with more variety of food and other supplies to fulfill their needs.
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We will dive into Cuba’s history to better understand Cuba’s economic and social differences from the United States. Cuba was under a military dictatorship when Fulgencio Batista was ruling. In 1959, everything changed when Fidel Castro overthrew Fulgencio Batista. Fidel Castro was Cuba’s president for five decades. Under Castro’s rule, there were a lot of positive outcomes and disadvantages as well. Some of the positive outcomes were that he brought light to the countryside, and provided health care, employment, and education to citizens. The disadvantages of Castro’s rule were …show more content…

Cuba is the largest Caribbean Island geographically and population-wise as well. Havana is the capital of Cuba and is only two hundred and twenty-eight miles from Miami, Florida. The island has a tropical climate which is perfect for farming. One-third of Cuba is full of mountains, and the other two-thirds are low plains which are used for agriculture. With a coastline of three thousand five hundred miles, Cuba has four hundred and thirty beaches. All those beaches have a variety of powdery white, golden, and black sand. Havana’s architecture comes from a mixture of Spanish, British, and French roots. The current issue in the environment is soil degradation and desertification. Due to there being poor farming techniques and numerous natural disasters, there is deforestation, biodiversity loss, and air and water

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The Spanish managed to calm the insurgency by promising refoms, but change was slow in coming slavey was not abolished until 1886 (schoolworkhelper.net). The worldwide depressioin of 1890s hit cuba hard because it was a one market econoy which was sugar and suffered more because of the American tariff act, which hiked the rate on Cuban sugar by 40 perent and this cutted off Cuban sugar grower from their biggest buyer (us.history.org). A Spanish general, General Valeriano Weyler, was sent to stop the revolts in Cuba. He put much of the Cubam population in concentration camps using violence in order to stop the Cuban revolution. In total, 100,000 Cubans died in the concentration camp including women and children.

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Castro set up policies to improve education which was “regarded as the key to the future” Source E, he created teacher-training institutes and the number of schools quintupled, illiteracy virtually disappeared during Castro’s Dictatorship, and education was made free from nursery school through to university as made evident in source E. This improvement of education can be argued to have resulted in the mass exile and dissatisfaction with Fidel Castro’s policies, as the Cuban people were now educated enough to see past the good healthcare and cultural improvements and were able to see the personal freedoms and the economic issues Castro’s dictatorship caused. It can be argued that Fidel Castro may have benefitted his people in some ways but, to a large extent, his policies didn’t benefit them. He jailed everyone who opposed him, ruined the economy by making Cuba a communist country and relying heavily on the Soviet Union, and led hundreds of thousands of Cuban people to flee the country, a quarter million out of a six million population left after the first 3 years after the revolution, many of them being the educated such as professionals like doctors, lawyers, and technicians as evident in source C, this supports the argument that Castro’s educational advances opened the public’s eyes and caused them to leave as his policies did not benefit the people to a large extent as he took away many personal, and political

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