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A 9 page paper tracing Cuba's history from Columbus' discovery to the present day, focusing on Castro's seizing of the government in 1959. The paper also discusses Che Guevara, an Argentine revolutionary that Castro met while both were in exile in Cuba. Guevara joined Castro's cause and served in Castro's government for several years before being executed by American-trained Bolivian soldiers in 1967. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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File: CC6_KShistCuba.rtf
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all necessary ingredients for a tropical paradise. Situated in the Caribbean with all the benefits of having a tropical climate and within 100 miles of the US, Cuba today
could have been a vacation mecca on the order of the Virgin Islands and the Bahamas. In order for that to happen, however, its history would have had to
be greatly different than it has been. The Cuban people are hard working and strive to maintain optimism. The fact is, however,
they have suffered centuries of political and economic oppression. Cuba presents perhaps the finest - or worst - example of the consequences of inept government based on unworkable ideology
rather than on the realities of life. The Colonial Period Cuba was one of the West Indies islands Columbus discovered on his voyage
to the New World. At the time he landed there, it was inhabited by the Ciboney, friendly relatives of the Arawak. Spain took note of Columbus reports of
Cuba, sending Diego Vel?zquez to begin colonization in 1511. Vel?zquez founded Baracoa Vel?zquez first, followed by Santiago de Cuba in 1514 and Havana in 1515.
Cubas position in the Caribbean has made it attractive to non-natives for centuries. The Spanish gave it extra attention in the 16th century because it was
ideally situated to act as a supply base for Spanish activity in both Mexico and Florida. The Spanish invaders were no kinder to the Cuban natives than they were
to any others, and native populations were nearly extinct only 40 years after Vel?zquez established the first town for Spain. Mining and agriculture
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