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Poor Country Great Leaders
485 wordsI am going to compare two great leaders. One from this century, and one from the reign of Caesar. It is interesting to see how through out history that all the great dictators thought alike. Though they might differ in details all of them basically followed the same pattern. And I think that is the case with Caesar and Fidel. One of the main similarities between Caesar and Fidel is their early life. Both leaders came from middle class families. Each leader had to work his way up the ladder. Caes...
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Soviet Union Diplomatic Relations
867 wordsFidel Castro was born on August 14, 1927 in Mayor, Cuba. His parents were relatively wealthy and owned a sugarcane plantation. During his childhood, he attended private Catholic Schools and graduated to attend the University of Havana in 1945. His teachers immediately noticed Fidel's amazing memory, which he used to memorize entire books. At the university, he majored in law studies and became a member of several groups that opposed the Cuban regime, aiding exiles from the Dominican Republic in ...
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Che Guevara Ernesto Guevara
1,490 wordsErnesto? Che? Guevara Che Guevara was the Argentine born Marxist guerrilla who helped oust the corrupt Cuban government and set up a communist system 90 miles from the US. Che under the leadership of Fidel Castro helped lead a small guerrilla band of soldiers to take over the country. After the old government was out Che helped Castro decide communism as the way to go for Cuba. He helped Castro try to quickly industrialize the country, set up social reforms to try, and make Cuba a better place f...
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Che Guevara Fidel Castro
2,959 wordsOn November 25, 82 men left on a yacht leaving from Mexico. Most of the men were sea sick. They soon overcame it a little. I was a stormy night when the men left Mexico. On December 2 they landed in Las Colorado. They were spot by the coast guard and it was telegraphed it to Batista. They soon hurried off the yacht and left quickly into the swamps. Being attacked by enemy planes but no casualties. They were led by one of comrades and was led to solid ground, where they were lost. December 5 they...
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Cuban Missile Crisis Fidel Castro
3,503 wordsCuba: 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 insightful backdrop into the very essence of the country? s political and economic unrest. From it? s early revolutionary days to the insurrection challenge of the Marxist-Leninist theories emerged the to...
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Elian Gonzalez Janet Reno
5,512 wordsIt began on Thanksgiving day, in November, 1999, when two fisherman pulled the body of a five year old cuban boy out of the waters off the coast of Florida. The boy was Elian Gonzalez. He was one of three survivors of a group of Cuban refugees seeking political asylum and freedom from communist Cuba under Fidel Castro's rule. Elian's mother, Elisabeth Brotons, along with her common-law husband and nine others, drowned when the boat carrying them to the United States capsized and sank. Elisabeth ...
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First Ten Years Fidel Castro
1,505 words(TITLE) Inconsistencies of Castro? s Revolutionary Government The revolution that occurred in Cuba in 1959 created a government with many inconsistent policies. These policies, initiated by the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, caused many economic problems in the first ten years of his regime. Many of these inconsistencies are due to a definite lack of planning on the part of Castro and his advisors. Cuba attempted rapid industrialization while at the same time renounced American capital, which woul...
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Fidel Castro Castro
2,726 wordsWhen you speak of Fidel Castro, what do you speak of? The Cuban Leader is not your everyday leader. To fully understand Fidel Castro you must have a firm foundation with which to work from. I will explore the political ideology of Fidel Castro by explaining what is in an ideology, Fidel Castro? s background, and his political position both before the Cuban revolution and presently. An ideology is a number of action-oriented, materialistic, popular, and simplistic political theories that were ori...
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