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This 6 page paper discusses Fidel Castro’s influence on the politics of Latin America. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the years which preceded it. This paper discusses how Castros views shaped Latin American politics. Discussion In 1959, when Fidel Castro led his revolutionaries in the overthrow of the corrupt
Batista regime, he seemed more like a fairy-tale prince than a real person: distinguished and handsome, he was fighting for the peasants against the "evil" overlords. So when he eventually
declared himself a Communist, jaws dropped around the world. For five decades, Castro has brought his particular brand of Communism to Cuba, not always with the consequences he might have
expected or hoped for. Despite this, and as his era draws to a close, its not likely that Cuba will celebrate change, but will instead acknowledge the "stubborn survival of
a revolution that has had profound consequences for the Americas--though rarely those that Mr. Castro wanted" ("Heroic Myth and Prosaic Failure"). There is evidence to suggest that Castros decision to
impose a Communist system was his own idea, not a "reaction to American hostility," although that hostility, part of which were endless bungled attempts by the CIA to assassinate him,
made it easier for him to dictate his policies to the Cuban people ("Heroic Myth and Prosaic Failure"). Even so, it "was not inevitable that the Cuban revolution should become
a communist one" ("Heroic Myth and Prosaic Failure"). The Mexican Revolution that occurred earlier in the 20th century "installed a nationalist but non-communist regime," and in 1959, the same year
as the Cuban Revolution, a popular uprising in Venezuela overthrew a dictatorship and "led to a democracy under R?mulo Betancourt, a social-democrat" ("Heroic Myth and Prosaic Failure"). Thus, the decision
to make Cuba a Communist state and later a satellite of the U.S.S.R. was entirely Castros idea. Even though Cuba was Communist, it was not the "drab variety imposed
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