Revolutions in Mexico & Cuba

With both Cuba and Mexico, roots of nationalism, and revolution, stretch back several centuries in time, essentially to their colonization. The colonization of the Americas--with its beginnings in 1492 and the military conquests of the 1500s--began a pattern of rule of the indigenous populations first by European conquerors and then by European settlers. This pattern, particularly in South and Central America, was extended into rule of the majority of the population, joined in Cuba and elsewhere by individuals descended from African slaves.

The relationship between the colonies in both Mexico and Cuba and the rulers in mainland Spain varied over the centuries, with both countries being the focus of interest at different periods and the focus of benign neglect at other periods of time. In the meantime, the s

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1959, was simply the most efficient manipulator of the political process, but did not represent any significant break from the earlier caudillos. He remained in the lineage of the corrupt, compromising, and cooperative with Washington rulers who attempted to respond positively to the Korean War, when it was over, political upheaval in Cuba became more and more intense, with Batista responding to it in such a way as to exacerbate the problems. He broke with the Soviet Union, outlawed Communist and Socialist parties in Cuba, sought support from the U.S. conservatives, and utilized terror as a tool of state. In other words, he operated much as dictators always have, of whatever persuasion. The result was increasing disorder, led by students and the Ortodoxos. The Ortodoxos, to whose creed Fidel Castro adhered as a university student, included provisions demanding economic and political independence, the diversification of the economy, dispersal of the latifundia, redistribution of land, and equality for the Negro. They also condemned Communism, along with U.S. imperialism, decrying the OAS, but pledging cooperation with the United Nations. The essential revolutionary army, eventually led by Castro, included students, intellect
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