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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Fidel Castro"”.
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The Significance of Nationalism for the Spread of Communism to Vietnam and Cuba
… the revolution of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam and Fidel Castro in Cuba, the thesis seeks to determine the extent to which nationalism directed these revolutions and their turn to communism once assuming power. The study examines the conditions that existed in each country that allowed for a …
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“A Revolution within a revolution:” the quest for women's liberation in post revolutionary Cuba
… only with the revolutionary regime founded by Fidel Castro in 1959 could women like Celia Sánchez, Vilma Espín, and Haydee Santamaría not only continue to advocate women’s suffrage but also pursue equality with Cuban men in the public and private sphere. This thesis examines the development of …
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Taking the First Steps: Human Rights Activists in the Castros' Cuba
For decades, Fidel Castro had essentially limitless power and a constant megaphone to accompany it; his voice and opinions on all topics have been projected and disseminated ad nauseam in Cuba. This thesis gives the podium to the dissenters (especially to Oswaldo Payá and Yoani Sánchez), their …
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Once the Sun Comes Up
… history, still at the time under the rule of Fidel Castro Ruz as the Commander in Chief, as it presented the island with a new set of difficulties as it struggled to find its own identity as a newly independent republic after the end of the Cold War. Patriotism, disguised as indoctrination, …
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Why Black Nationalism and Cuban Communism were incompatible during an Age of Revolution, ca. 1950 – 1970
… a friend to help, they found an unlikely ally in Fidel Castro and his newly created revolutionary government that successfully challenged and defeated the U.S.-backed dictator. However, these movements had little in common and were only united in their criticism of the U.S. Soon, Black …
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La obra narrativa de Antonio Ortega
… Cuba a Venezuela, a consecuencia del triunfo de Fidel Castro. Este doble exilio le valió el olvido en su patria y la prohibición en el país de acogida. Uno de los principales objetivos de este trabajo consiste precisamente en recuperar el nombre de este extraordinario escritor, por lo menos, en …
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Art salvos : aesthetics of figurative acts of war between the US and Cuba along Havana's Malecón
… leaders like James C. Cason and his adversary, Fidel Castro, who inadvertently or not, personally authored public projects so large and stimulating that they should be considered public works of art. She puts forth the original term: art salvo, to describe precisely this type of intervention: a …
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The Costs of Cuba Libre: U.S. Neo-Imperialism, Tourism in Cuba, and the Habana Hilton
… of the Habana Hilton, suggested by the fact that Fidel Castro occupied the hotel and ran Cuba’s provisional government from it in the months following the revolution. I consider the Hilton Corporation’s international expansion at mid-century, the tourist experience its hotels orchestrated, and the …
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Castro's Cuba and Stroessner's Paraguay: A comparison of the totalitarian/authoritarian taxonomy.
In Latin America, the regimes of Fidel Castro and Alfredo Stroessner are indiscriminately posited as representative cases reflecting similarities and differences of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. This work tests the more general typology by studying the contrasting institutions, processes, …
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Embodied Dissent: Exploring the Activist Turn in Contemporary Cuban Art
In 1961, Fidel Castro famously proclaimed, ‘¿Cuáles son los derechos de los escritores y de los artistas, revolucionarios o no revolucionarios? Dentro de la Revolución, todo; contra la Revolución, ningún derecho’. These words have permeated the Cuban art scene ever since, with some artists choosing …
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Sugar and Rice Trade between the United States and Cuba Trade Potential and Welfare Analysis
<p>After the resignation of President Fidel Castro and forty-five years of the U.S.-trade embargo, the political environment between Cuba and the United States is expected to change. With the Trade Sanction Reform and Export Enhancement Act in 2000, trade sanctions were eased for a while. Future …
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Theological Higher Education in Cuba: A Case Study of the Eastern Cuba Baptist Theological Seminary
… at the Military Units to Aid Production (UMAP). Fidel Castro recognized in 1991 that the Cuban Communist Party erroneously made atheism its religion. Although the Cuban communist regime never issued an antireligious policy, in subtle ways Christians suffered the consequences of the religious …
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Archiving the revolution : claiming history in Cuban literature and film
… (ICAIC) three months after the triumph of Fidel Castro's 26 of July guerrilla movement in 1959, showed the urgency to establish a cinematic apparatus that would support the Cuban Revolution itself, that is, the need to project what had just happened to the outside world. On the other, …
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Curriculum renewal in acute care: a South African based study for returning Cuban-trained students
… integrated curricula. In 1996 the Nelson Mandela Fidel Castro (NMFC) student program was developed in response to societal health needs for equitable health care in rural and under-served areas, affirmative action, and the low doctor-to-population ratios nationally. Cuban medical education is …
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The Island the day after a new experiment for Cuba
… upper echelons of the Batista regime. Along with Fidel Castro came a promise of utopia. For a brief moment, the revolution sponsored a new, experimental architectural form. The US Embargo and the fall of the Soviet Union halted Havana's growth and urbanization abruptly. This history suggests three …
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Natural Resource Revolutions: Mexico and Cuba Within the Sphere of U.S. Hegemony
… revolutionary leadership,' Lázaro Cárdenas and Fidel Castro were successful because there were institutional dynamics inherent in revolution that facilitated the nationalist implementation of natural resource sovereignty. Specifically, they both came into power on the heels of the …
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The Central Intelligence Agency and Cuba: How the Trap of Success Led to the Bay of Pigs
… Arbenz (Guatemala), the Dulles faction, the anti-Castro program, and President Kennedy’s relationship with the CIA. Upon examining these areas, the study shows that the covert action success in Iran and Guatemala fueled American hubris and obviated the recognition of warning signs, which led to …