It all started on July 30th, 1909 when Juan Bosch was born to a Catalan father and a Puerto Rican mother. Juan Bosch was born in La Vega, Dominican Republic where most of the income came from farming. Due to Bosch's surrounding he grew up close to peasants and landowners, even though his father ow...

Do you know what a revolution is? Well according to Webster it is an effort tooverthrow a government and set up a new one usually by violent means. Revolutions arenever cased by just one thing. There is usually plenty of background agitation set off byan event. A revolution can't simply replace ...

In the early 1950's the United States was worried about the spread of communism in the world. The United States provided many forms of aid to countries that were about to fall to the communist government. The Truman Doctrine, Eisenhower Doctrine, and the Marshal Plan provided food, weapons, and c...

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born near Biran in Orient Province, Cuba, in 1926. He was the third child born to Castro y Argiz and Lina Ruz Gonzalez. Angel became wealthy from laying track for the sugar railway and transporting the cane. Castro attended public school near the town of Mayari...

In retrospect, the mission in Bolivia seemed to have been doomed from the start. The very foundation that created the revolution failed it immediately, due to this fact, from the beginning to the end the revolution seemed an imminent failure. If one sat down and tried to reconstruct an account on...

The initiation of the Cold War in the late 1950s brought forth a feeling of uncertainty to the United States government. Communist activity in the USSR (United Soviet Socialist Republic) and else where around the world, increased drastically and put the U.S. in a defensive minded position. There w...

In the early 1950's the United States was worried about the spread of communism in the world. The United States provided many forms of aid to countries that were about to fall to the communist government. The Truman Doctrine, Eisenhower Doctrine, and the Marshal Plan provided food, weapons, and c...

For many, obtaining a law degree and marrying into one of Cuba\'s wealthiest families would have been success enough, however Fidel Castro had a different plan for his success story. Fidel Castro was a rebel and was willing to risk everything he had worked so hard for to lead a mass movement for so...

Fulgencio Batista Zaldivar was born in Cuba's Oriente Province in 1902 (Sierra 1). In 1921 he joined the army as a private, and in 1932 he became a military tribunal stenographer with the rank of sergeant (Sierra 1). His involvement in the Cuban military foreshadowed his army-dependant rule. He ...

Cachao"His name is Israel Lopez, but he is known as "Cachao." His real name is music though. Born into a family who were all bass crazy, at least thirty five members of the Cachao clan have played the double bass at one time or another, either with the Havana Filarmonica, or in popular combos. Some ...