Raúl Castro

The answer of whether or not the Spanish-American and Philipine-American wars were created to build an American empire should be predictable, considering America’s history of beginning wars for their own benefit. Therefore, it is not that much of a shock that these two wars were commenced to benefit the United States in expanding their country and growing more powerful. Initially, President McKinley “did not want war; he had been sincere and tireless in his efforts to maintain the peace” (Zinn 293)

The first order of business for Lansdale was to take an assessment of the state of Cuba. How was it fairing with Castro leading the way for the country. The previous assessments of the United States and how to properly deal with Castro would be determined to no longer be a viable option. This was because that Castro had begun to resonate with more of the Cuban people and the plan to have the United States interject from the outside in would not be successful and it could potentially seem as if the

These last few lines are interesting for various reasons. First, it is a fine example of a message that Castro often employs which is the sacrifice of the individual in favor of the betterment of the country as a whole (Valdés 31). Part of the way to gain the people’s support was to obtain “Legitimacy derived from service, not self-interest” (Valdés 31). Castro makes himself sound like a martyr as he talks about the torture and belittlement he says he will endure while imprisoned. The historical

1. Encourages the continuation of diplomatic talks between the United States and Cuban government and reiterates the need for the United States to eradicate the Cuban Embargo in its entirety; 2. Urges the Cuban government to enact a non partial body in order to regulate the black market in turn, strengthening the Cuban economy. 3. Strongly suggests that the United States immediately create and publish a phase-out plan that would effectively shut down the GITMO facility within the next four years;

José Martí, born on January 28, 1853 in Havana, Cuba, was a poet, essayist and patriot who proudly lead Cuba through its struggle for independence from the Spanish with objectives to establish a new Cuba with improved principles. He was the son of poor Spanish immigrants, Leonor Pérez and Mariano Martí. Martí grew up in poverty with his father’s small army pension that was supplemented by his work as a night watchman. Despite these surroundings, Martí was very studious and well educated. When he

relationship with the United States, but then the Cuban Revolution came and everything changed. On Jan. 1, 1959 Fidel Castro accompanied by guerrillas overthrew the government of President General Fulgencio Batista. The US supported Castro and his group by providing them with arms. During this period, the Castro government was very efficient which worried the American government, since Castro could turn against it. That's why in 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the CIA to attack Cuba. In April

by leftist Fidel Castro ("The Bay of Pigs”). Castro quickly reorganized and rebuilt the Cuban government. Much to the dismay of the United States, this new government severed the ties between Cuba and the United States, expropriated any “U.S. economic assets in Cuba,” and began building a strong relationship with the Soviet Union ("The Bay of Pigs”). Due to Cuba’s close geographic location, the United States saw revolutionized Cuba as a threat to national security.

Independence of Cuba It began with a failed decade of war, and the American intervention ended and ended Spain colonial rule in the United States. Cuba's independence apparently began in Cuba. The fight and debate began in 1895. During the years of the so-called "reward truce", which lasted seventeen years from the end of the 10-year war in 1878, there was a social change in the Cuban society. As a result of the abolition of slavery in October 1886, former slaves joined the working class of farmers

to file suit in U.S court against foreign nationals that benefit or profit from expropriated U.S. property in Cuba (USITC, 2004). Even though these two laws defined US-Cuban relations for the next couple of years, they were not enough to oust the Castro leadership from Cuba’s government. Later on, the two laws were rescinded at the request and concerns of the European Union who had interests in dissolving several enactments from the Helms-Burton Act of 1996 (USITC, 2004). In the end, there are several

landed in the Bahia de Cochinos, known as the Bay of Pigs. These Cuban exiles were Cubans who had emigrated overseas, particularly to America to find better social and political conditions due to the cruel communist regime that their dictator, Fidel Castro had implemented. The CIA which was funding the invasion broadcasted fake invasion sounds from a separate beach to temporarily draw Fidel’s forces from the Bay of Pigs. However the Cuban militia saw this coming and informed the Cuban army to return