Fulgencio Batist The Cuban Revolution

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Meanwhile, Fulgencio Batista, the country’s ex-president, came back to power in a dictatorship and overthrew Stalin’s communism in Cuba, then became very unsympathetic towards communists (Wood, week 10, slide 17). Consequently, Castro’s worldview was no longer represented in the society. As a result, he called for a revolution to overthrow the supposedly corrupted government that Batista had established (Biography.com Editors, 2016). Along with his brother Raul Castro and famous revolutionary Che Gueverra, Castro succeeded in taking back power from Batista’s hands against the Americans. Batista’s ideology was much closer to the Americans which is why they supported him throughout his reign and feared Fidel Castro’s sovereignty for his far-left

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