This article of the week was just really hard for me to understand, I didn't like it all. I cannot seem to make myself like history stuff with politics and such. Anyways, this weeks article was on a brief history of Cuba. I guess Cuba gained independence in the 19th century because the United States interfered. This caused us in the U.S to end up in war with the Spanish in 1898.
Our Military was so strong that it took all the Spanish out. As stated in the article, “In 1980, Castro suddenly let thousands of Cubans flee to the U.S”(The Week 2). This would not have happened if we would of just stayed out of it. The U.S always tends to put their noses in other countries problems. We need to learn to stay out of their conflicts and stop jumping in and forcing our ways of doing things in their country, It really does no good but to get more wars started.
Batista was good for Cuba, he was a brutal dictator but his ruling was great. He caused Cuba to grow even though they were still pretty poor.Honestly though what country isn't poor anymore, look at how bad the U.S is in debt. Batista left and came back and ran for office again and lost. I guess Castro was a pretty horrible person, he destroyed his rivals and was trying to destroy communism.
I think I understood that right. Anyways, They hired an ex lover to try and poison Castro, but it did not work and he ended up resigning because of being ill. He had Cuba’s economy run down and they were still desperately poor. Can we not just learn to leave this poor country alone? let them run their country how they want without causing them so much grief.
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