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Cuba's Revolutionary World (Hardcover)
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Cuba's Revolutionary World (Hardcover)
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On January 2, 1959, Fidel Castro, the rebel comandante who had just
overthrown Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, addressed a crowd of
jubilant supporters. Recalling the failed popular uprisings of past
decades, Castro assured them that this time "the real Revolution"
had arrived. As Jonathan Brown shows in this capacious history of
the Cuban Revolution, Castro's words proved prophetic not only for
his countrymen but for Latin America and the wider world. Cuba's
Revolutionary World examines in forensic detail how the turmoil
that rocked a small Caribbean nation in the 1950s became one of the
twentieth century's most transformative events. Initially, Castro's
revolution augured well for democratic reform movements gaining
traction in Latin America. But what had begun promisingly veered
off course as Castro took a heavy hand in efforts to centralize
Cuba's economy and stamp out private enterprise. Embracing the
Soviet Union as an ally, Castro and his lieutenant Che Guevara
sought to export the socialist revolution abroad through armed
insurrection. Castro's provocations inspired intense opposition.
Cuban anticommunists who had fled to Miami found a patron in the
CIA, which actively supported their efforts to topple Castro's
regime. The unrest fomented by Cuban-trained leftist guerrillas
lent support to Latin America's military castes, who promised to
restore stability. Brazil was the first to succumb to a coup in
1964; a decade later, military juntas governed most Latin American
states. Thus did a revolution that had seemed to signal the death
knell of dictatorship in Latin America bring about its tragic
opposite.
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