Diego Marquez is a Cuban soldier who serves for, and is devoted to the Cuban military of dictator Fulgencio Batista’s regime. He experiences many aspects of the revolution, but his loyalty lead him to his own fate. In this journal, he writes about his experiences in battle and the importance of his cause. Despite what he has learned throughout these experiences, Diego decides to persevere until the bitter end.
After many years of famine, injustice and racism under the corrupt regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista, the Cuban people decided that it was time for an inevitable revolution. Starting from street protests and small rebel groups, the people presented their hate for the government and eagerness for change. However, the government ruthlessly murdered these innocent souls who have already suffered enough repression. The brave revolutionary Fidel Castro takes a stand and leads the rebel group M-26-7 to victory and ends this horrible regime. Shortly after the liberation of the Capitol (Havana), a new temporary government under Manuel Urrutia is formed and it lasted for a few weeks until Fidel Castro started to gain control over it. Fidel Castro eventually becomes the new dictator of Cuba and makes new reforms such as increasing the literacy rate, providing better housing, and offering free healthcare for Cuban citizens. He also signs the First Law of Agrarian reform which distributed land to peasants who didn’t have any. Apart from those changes, Castro also legalizes the Communist Party in Cuba and nationalizes all previously owned American industries which triggers the US government. On the contrary to what the Cuban dictator claimed on social media, he was actually turning Cuba into a communist country and some of the rules that he had made were downright inhumane in the eyes of some citizens. These rules consisted of death penalties for all members of the previous government, the suppression of the freedom of expression, and short-term arrests for anyone who expressed their opinion on human rights and advocacy for similar things. These actions have equalized the level of corruption in Castro’s regime with Batista’s Regime and expressed to the world that a perfectly run utopian society doesn’t exist.
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The Cuban Revolution in plain English by Josh & Emily
In a political revolution such as this one, the primary focus is on the the individual desire of a being and their willingness to change society. For example, Fidel Castro Ruz was born into a wealthy family but oversaw the suffering of others who were living in poverty and helpless against the corrupt government under Fulgencio Batista. He knew that there was something humanly incorrect and had the audacity to try and change it. In most cases, there is an obvious inequality present in the population, however, the oppressed fraction of the population never mentions the problem in fear that they will suffer consequences set by the ruling fraction. The ones who are unafraid of the consequences though aware of them are the true leaders of the revolution. Leaders such as Fidel Castro are a representation of the people’s desires to correct society and are supported by the people, for the people. Just like how John F. Kennedy claimed that “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable,” a violent revolution will always occur if a corrupt ruler deems peaceful protests negligible. For instance, dictator Fulgencio Batista murdered over 20,000 cubans in 7 years through involving the police force in peaceful street protests and executing rebels without a trial. The citizens couldn’t bear these things any longer and a violent revolution occured.
Summary: The Cuban revolution was one of the revolutions that greatly affected the world, in fact it was the closest the world had ever gotten to nuclear war. Starting from a coup in which a cruel dictator seized power from the government, the citizens of cuba were devastated by police enforcement and famine. Cuba was a nation where tourism and production was for satisfying the foreign population in the country rather than the citizens. Due to these factors, the dictator, Fulgencio Batista must cease to exist in the country. Therefore, the revolution occured. Young revolutionary Fidel Castro and his companions who disliked the current state of Cuba decided to rebel against the government by forming a rebel group known as the M-26-7, named after their first mission where they failed to fulfill their goals. After being captured on their first attempt to overthrow the dictator, they were released through an amnesty from Batista himself because of the number of protests that begged this to be done. Exiled to Mexico, Castro and some rebels meet fellow revolutionaries such as Ernesto Ché Guevara. Once prepared, the rebels would go on a dangerous mission across the Caribbean to Cuba, where harsh conditions and the Cuban military would awaited.