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The Cuban Revolution (Spanish: Revolución cubana) was the military and political overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship, which had reigned as the government of Cuba between 1952 and 1959. The revolution began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état , which saw Batista topple the nascent Cuban democracy and consolidate power.
The Cuban Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Cubano, PRC) was a political organization created by the Cuban intellectual José Martí on 10 April 1892 in order to organize the independence of Cuba and, as much as possible, Puerto Rico, the last two overseas provinces of Spain in America.
Taíno genocide Viceroyalty of New Spain (1535–1821) Siege of Havana (1762) Captaincy General of Cuba (1607–1898) Lopez Expedition (1850–1851) Ten Years' War (1868–1878) Little War (1879–1880) Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898) Treaty of Paris (1898) US Military Government (1898–1902) Platt Amendment (1901) Republic of Cuba (1902–1959) Cuban Pacification (1906–1909) Negro ...
According to the Cuban revolutionary ideologists, 1868 is the true beginning of the Cuban Revolution. 1869 April Guáimaro Assembly. Proclamation of the first independent Constitution of Cuba. 1873 May 11 Death of Major General Ignacio Agramonte. 1874 February 27 Death of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes. 1878 February 10 Signature of El Zanjón Pact ...
The betrayal thesis was developed in the early 1960s, in the immediate aftermath of the Cuban Revolution. It was propagated by Cuban exile organizations such as the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, and the Cuban Revolutionary Council. [1] The thesis was also famously propagated by anti-Stalinist historian Theodore Draper. [2]
The 1959 Cuban Revolution was a key event that galvanized and inspired the growing New Left in the 1960s. Cuba became viewed as a radical and anti-imperialist third world country worthy of praise by many of the radical activists of the 1960s. [3] In 1969, SDS was composed of competing factions with individual priorities and visions. [4]
“The Cuban Revolution sought to crush Cuba’s vibrant economy to make Cubans controllable, and it did. This destructive process has turned Cuba into a land of poverty and need, a country unable ...
The 26 July Movement (Spanish: Movimiento 26 de julio; M-26-7) was a Cuban vanguard revolutionary organization and later a political party led by Fidel Castro.The movement's name commemorates the failed 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba, part of an attempt to overthrow the dictator Fulgencio Batista.