Cuba and a Never Ending Dictatorship
by Since the Cuban dictatorship has been going on for so long, nobody knows when it will stop.
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I really don’t think the United States should get involved. If we did, we would cause even more problems. The United States could try diplomatically, but after what they’ve done to Fidel I don’t think they would listen to us. If we sent any troops in, Cuba wouldn’t hesitate to declare war to the United States. Cuba would then ask the Russians for help. What would the Russians do? Help Cuba, and create a war between the two strongest forces in the world? Or would they let down their allies? Both ways are bad for the Russians, and they would be very angry at the U.S. I don’t think the U.S. will get involved, unless it threatens national security. The U.S. already closed down business with Cuba. I don’t think they will ever go any deeper than that.
A little bit about Cuba:
Cuba has been a dictatorship since the early 1900’s. In 1959, their dictator Fulgencio Bastia was overthrown by the revolutionary’s led by Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro and his best friend Che Guevara wanted to make Cuba a socialist country. Che Guevara had gone to many places in the world, and thought that the reason Cuba was doing so bad was they were influenced by North America. There was to much mob, prostitution, and poverty going on in Cuba. When Fidel took over Cuba, he made it a strongly communist country. Fidel Castro made major changes in his first years in office. He lowered many taxes, made free health care, and closed down night clubs which forced the mafia to leave. Fidel Castro was good at the beginning, but became more and more of a dictator. The CIA tried to assassinate him several times, but always failed. Fidel Castro realized how much the American Government disliked him and became a lot closer with the Russians. On February 19th 2008, Fidel Castro announced that he would let his brother Raul Castro become the new Cuban leader.
Some believe there is a big problem in Cuba, and others don’t. “I have lived here my whole life, and never had any problems with the rules.” said pedro when interviewed by an American news station. Another man called Enrico said “Fidel Is a hero to us.” “Fidel, saved us from poverty.”
One of my parent’s friends lives in Cuba, and told me that over there, Most people consider Fidel Castro and Che Guevara heroes. He also told me that most people there were very poor, but they were happy because they had what they needed, and that’s how they’d always lived.
I couldn’t find anyone who said they disliked Fidel. Some said he had changed, but no one specifically said he was bad.
Although everyone seems to like Cuba, the facts are hundreds of people try to leave Cuba every week. Cuba is restricted in many ways. In Cuba, people can’t say bad things about their ruler, or they might be imprisoned. The Cuban government I also known to have tortured many people. In Cuba you aren’t aloud to write what you think about the government, unless you say it’ good.
Although Cuba has improved in many ways, it remains a dictatorship. I don’t know when this will end, or if it will ever end. Many people think Raul Castro will bring new hope to Cuba. I don’t think so. I believe he will be very similar to his brother. Raul was also with Fidel when they overtook Cuba. He was the General.
Sources:
http://www.directaction.org.au/issue1/is_cuba_a_dictatorship
http://www.hicuba.com/eng/history-2.htm
Black Book of Communism. p. 664.
“The Cuban revolution at 50: Heroic myth and prosaic failure”. The Economist. Dec 30th 2008. http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12851254.
Ernesto Che Guevara: “The African Dream” The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo. With an Introduction by Richard Gott (New York: Grove Press, 2001)
Thomas, Hugh: Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom 2nd edition. Chapter One
Bakewell, Peter. A History of Latin America. Blackwell Publishers, pp. 129–130
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