Cuba at the crossroads
Main Author: | Castro, Fidel, 1927- |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Melbourne ; New York :
Ocean Press,
c1996.
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Subjects: |
Item Description: |
English texts of Castro's speeches given between Nov. 25, 1994 and April 30, 1996 which first appeared in the Cuban weekly newspaper Granma international. |
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Physical Description: |
179 p. ; 22 cm. |
ISBN: |
187528494x |
Author Notes: |
Once Castro returned to Cuba after an exile in Mexico, he began a campaign of harassment and guerrilla warfare against Batista. Batista fled Cuba on January 1, 1959. Under Castro's rule, more than 500 Batista-era officials were brought before courts-martial and special tribunals, convicted, and shot to death. Castro cut ties with the United States after President Dwight D. Eisenhower cut the American sugar quota and turned to the Soviet Union for assistance, eventually becoming a Communist. The Escambray Revolt, led by peasants and anti-Communist insurgents against the Castro government, lasted from 1959 to 1965, before it was crushed by Castro's army. Cuban exiles arrived in the United States by the thousands. The Central Intelligence Agency helped train an exile army to retake Cuba by force. On April 17, 1961, 1,500 Cuban fighters landed at the Bay of Pigs. Castro was waiting for them and most of the invaders were either captured or killed. Castro was the leader of Cuba until stepping down in 2006 due to diverticulitis. He died on November 25, 2016 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) |