Latin America: History, Politics & U.S. Policy

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CUBA

The Caribbean Island of Cuba became a republic after its liberation from Spain at the hands of the USA . American presence , both in military financial and diplomatic terms however continued as a means of providing stability and solvency to the island nation . The Cuban President 's were incompetent and unpopular with the general populace , thus , producing revolt . From 1925 onwards , although technically still a democratic republic , the country became an elite dictatorship with an army officer named

Fulgencio Batista , having seized control of the Cuban army pulling the strings from behind the curtains . The government remained corrupt and incompetent with a rising sense of resentment amongst the general population on their state of affairs . Following 1940 , he was the official President of the country until his departure from office in 1944 . In 1952 , he seized power again and ruled by decree until 1955 when he was elected President in an election with only himself as the candidate . To mark his victory , the new President issued an amnesty for political prisoners and opponents . One of the prisoners was Fidel Castro , who had been jailed for his involvement in the 26th of July incident in 1953 , whereby he had led a column of men to ambush the Cuban military installations at the Moncada Barracks

Castro wasted no time in resuming his revolutionary activities and in 1956 , accompanied by Argentine Ernesto Che ' Guevara , launched an invasion of Cuba , setting sail with his...