verthrew that Government (Burns 238).
Castro emphasizes the ties between powerful American interests and the Batista government, suggesting the dividing line was wide and clear between the rich and the poor, but he fails to note that, when Batista was obviously on the way out, some wealthy and powerful interests in Cuba, along with the United States government itself, turned their support to the revolution, wanting only to be on the winning side. Castro lists the benefits to the poor: the reduction of rents, the lowering of phone and electric bills, and, of course, land reform. Land reform, says Castro, "would solve the problem of landless peasants, solve the problem of the supply of these essential foodstuffs, remedy the fearfully high rate of unemployment in rural areas, and put an end to the appalling poverty which we found in our countryside" (Burns 240).
2. While neither Mexico in 1910 nor Argentina in the 1930s and 1940s were democracies by any means, there seems to have been more political freedom in Argentina, alth
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