The political and economic failings of Fulgencio Batista led to the Cuban Revolution and his eventual defeat to Fidel Castro in 1959. Batista first came to power in 1932 when he ousted the the dictator Gerardo Machado with the help of fellow military officers and students(pbs 2). Batista then with the help of the US controlled the country through a couple of puppet presidents and then became president himself in 1940. From 1940 to 1944 Batista ruled as president until in the 1944 election he lost and then stayed out of Cuban politics for eight years. In 1952 Batista ran for president once again but it was evident that he would lose so he staged a coup and ruled until being defeated and exiled by Castro in 1959(history of cuba). Batista started the …show more content…
revolution by stealing the election and the fueled it by being ineffective at leading, being brutal towards his people, not helping the poorest of his society, and by continuing to take power illegitimately. Batista lost power largely because his government was horribly corrupt, inefficient and Brutal.
Corruption is the dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power as defined by (dictionary). There's Almost nothing more fraudulent about the Batista Regime then when in 1952 Batista seized power in a military coup (historyof cuba.com). Because Batista was going to lose in a fair election in 1952 he fraudulently declared that the election was rigged and took power as a military dictator. Batista’s regime was corrupt and illegitimate from the beginning. This corruption, specifically the coup in 1952, will directly inspire revolutionaries such as fidel castro to overthrow Batista(pbs2). The illegitimacy of his regime led to much of the middle class opposing the man.This was added to by the Brutality of the regime. Batista relied on military force not only to obtain power in 1952 but also to keep it he, among other things, used violence through military police. After Fidel Castro’s failed Moncada assault Batista suspended some constitutional rights and responded to protest with violent attacks by military police(pbs2).The military police began to be used for public displays of brutality toward dissenters. In addition to violence
toward protesters the military police would make examples of young men in the cities through torture and death(pbs2). The violence of Batista's regime was aimed at crushing opposition but in the end it had the opposite effect. It led to much more of the middle and upper classing opposing Batista and gave Castro sme of the much needed support he needed from the middle class. Soon after winning the revolution, Castro estimated(in and ed sullivan interview) that many thousands of Cubans were killed and tortured by Batista and his military police(ed sullivan video). The killing and torturing of so many of the people led to the fast decline of his public support. Dr. elsa lake described the tyranny of the regime through an interview of her experience growing up during the regime. She collaborates castro’s statement that many people were killed by the military police and tells of police would gun down people at the university talking of freedom(elsa interview). She also adds how most people were opposed to Batista also because of how he severely limited their freedom by controlling the movement of the people and oppressing freedom of speech(elsa interview). Castro, in a different interview, talks of how Batista limiting the people's rights was a large motivation for the revolution and claims that the goal of his revolution was just to give back the rights the people had before 1952 that Batista had taken away(face the nation). Batista’s government was also heavily involved in casino corruption. Working with the american mafia he and his officials allowed american organized crime to come into cuba and build large casinos. In return they took 10% of the profit and the rest went to American contractors and the casino owners( history of cuba.com). Batistas corrupt involvement with the casinos turned much of the middle class against him and some of the middle class began to oppose them due to not getting any portion of the millions pouring in from the casinos. One of the large causes of Batista’s fall is the the very lowest classes opposed the man do to the continuing of their extreme poverty and inequality under his regime, eventually leading them to join in the Revolution to overthrow him.For the people living in the city's, many people prospered economically under the Batista regime and there was even a growing middle class(pbs). Also the income inequality was comparable to that of other latin american countries and they had a high literacy rate. Because of reasons like this much of the support for the revolution came from the countryside were inequality was far greater. The poor cubans living in the countryside were largely poor and malnourished(pbs). Many of these people were sugar cane cutters and because of the seasonal nature of the work many of them were perpetually unemployed half the year and always in debt(pbs). Batista was at first supported by the United States because he protected U.S. interest such as sugarcane(history). Because Batista put the protection of US sugar cane investments over the struggle of the people being used to farm it, these fARMERS will eventually go on to be part of the revolution the overthrows batista. Batista also lost power because he made the critical mistake of losing the favor of the united states. Without the united states he was unable to stop Castro once Castro had gained a more wide range of support and gain momentum. Batista lost the support of the united states because of the Brutality inefficiency and corruption of the Batista regime(history). These things caused public opinion of the regime to become negative in the United States leading to the Us having to find an alternative to support in the revolution opposed to Batista and to Castro as well. The Batista regime failed also because it was ineffective and squashing the rebellion against it. Instead of loosening his iron fist when met with public outrage, Batista would tighten it every chance he got. By allowing Fidel Castro and his brother to be released in 1955, after a failed revolt two years earlier, Batista inadvertently allowed the seeds of revolution to continue growing instead of stomping themout(cuban history.com). Castro would then go on to continue the revolution because of Batista releasing him and Castro would eventually gain the momentum and support needed to win the revolution because of Batista's cruelty and outright corruption when rigging the elections of 1954 and 1958.
Many factors led to the rise of Castro’s power but finally after popular up-rises and other communistic approaches like the overthrowing the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, led to him being sworn in as Cuba’s prime minister and took power in the winter of 1958 (source A & F). He turned the country of Cuba into a one-party dictatorship with a gulag which evoked fear in the hearts of his fellow
The Cuban Revolution began at a time when Cubans could no longer tolerate the American capitalist influence in Cuba. Cubans blamed the United States for their destitutions and for the ruthlessness of American politically supported dictator Fulgencio Batista. Bastia’s administration was inhumane. Of the countless things he did, he annulled the 1940 Constitution that he helped to instate, widened the gap between wealth and poverty and turned United States supplied guns and ammunition on his own people. Fidel Castro and the 26th of July Movement extended hope and freedom to the oppressed people of Cuba. Castro earned the support of the public during his most famous
Fidel Castro led a revolution with the help of Che Guevara and his brother Raul. At the time before the revolution Fulgencio Batista was in power at the time. Many did not agree with his dictator ways. According to The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its People by Stephan Palmie and Francisco A. Scarano
The Cuban Revolution began in 1959 when a small group of guerrillas overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. There were several main goals to the revolution that revolved around improvement of the lives of Cuban citizens. Even though these goals were not all completely successful, most of the fundamentals of...
1952-(March) Fulgencio Batista, who was financed by Lansky, took over Cuba’s government with a coup.
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“What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, freedom is to the soul of man” (Brainy Quotes). Light is essential to the eyes, love is what makes the heart beat, and freedom is the hope of man kind; all of which are essential to the happiness of humanity. Having to live without these rights is a difficult way of living. For example, Cubans have suffered time after time in pursuit of their freedom, but sadly they never accomplish their goal. They live in fear of their broken government, but never stop fighting for freedom. In the early 20th century, Cuba was a democracy. From 1940 to 1944 Fulgencio Batista, a Cuban politician, was Cuba’s president. In 1952 he decided to run again, but when it was apparent he’d lose, Batista seized power before the election took place. The citizens were outraged causing them to turn against their flawed democracy that was brought upon by the election. As a result, Fidel Castro, a communist revolutionary political man, began to plot Batista’s downfall. The Cuban Revolution, also known as Castro’s Revolution, began on July 26, 1952, and ended January, 1, 1959. After Batista, Cuba’s former president, fled the country, Castro took complete control and turned Cuba into a communist country. The Revolution brought upon: many deaths, censored news and publicity, and no freedom of speech. Throughout the years Castro stayed in power, but due to health issues originating on July 31, 2006, he had to step down. After Castro returned, he took control of Cuba up until February 19, 2008. He then abdicated his place as dictator and handed down his position to his brother, Raul Castro.
Both Batista and Castro contributed to the extremism of Cuba's military/political history. As many Cuban leaders had done before him, Fulgencio Batista was part of a militant movement that overthrew his predecessor, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes y Quesada. During this movement, Batista was chief staff of the army, which eventually led to his attaining control of Cuba. In a similar manner, Fidel Castro overthrew Batista. Instead of staging a coup, Castro was the leader of the best organized force of anti-Batista groups during the Cuban Revolution. Because of the guerilla warfare that Castro and other groups were waging against Batista, he eventually resigned from office and fled to the country.
Batista was a cruel dictator who refused to aid the poor in the country or the insufficient education system and in the end that was why a revolution had to take place. Fulgencio Batista liked being in control and when he was not he had cruel ways of dealing with it. He ordered police to be brutal with citizens often hav...
Corruption is something that is motivated by greed and fraud. It’s a very threatening personality that controls and destroys people’s lives and makes them the kind of person other people don’t want to associate with.
Cuban Dictator was overthrown by Fidel Castor. The main problem was that the United States
Returning to Cuba, the revolutionaries hid in the Sierra Maestra mountains, gaining support among the peasants. Eventually, Batista was forced to flee in 1959 and Castro took over.
In order to fully understand why the Cuban Revolutionary War occurred, it is important to know what was happening in Cuba before the war, what was influencing Cuban decisions at that time, and what precipitated the revolution where eventually Fidel Castro came into power. In 1933 General Gerardo Machado ruled the tyrannical government in Cuba, but his regime began to disintegrate. Enter a young Cuban Army Officer, Fulgencio Batista who had caught the attention of the Cuban people. Batista began a campaign to take over the rule of Cuba. His effort was successful as he allied with unions and student groups and because the Machado regime had effectively fallen apart. Batista was Cuba’s president in the early 1940’s and ran again for President in 1952. Before the elections could be completed, Batista was afraid he would lose the election, so he seized power without warning and cancelled the elections.
The Cuban people had a very good reason to revolt. Fulgencio Batista was a cruel ruler. Batista was a cruel leader who didn’t care about his people, just himself and money. He was not very supportive of his people and their wishes. The Cuban people had asked for a change before, and Batista refused to listen.
He suspended the Constitution, effectively establishing a dictatorship, and increased the Cuban dependency on the US. Batista allowed the US to build casinos, reaping the profits from the casinos and from the growing drug trade. He ignored crimes, allowing many drug dealers to continue under the condition that he got a share of the profits. He, a select group of friends, and businessmen from the US, grew richer and richer while the lower class of Cuba were poor and suffering. The people of Cuba saw this corruption and resented it, causing a gaping rift between leaders and people.