The Cuban revolution
It was a popular movement in January 1959.
Before this revolution, Cuba was a place that lived influenced by the United States, the sugar and the hotels were dominated by North Americans.
Cuba was an island with a lot of poorness and the people were angry because the rich people were becoming richer and the poor people poorer.
In 1952, president Fulgencio Batista, a former sergeant that previously ruled the island, assumed power through a state cop supported by Americans, Batista installed a corrupt and violent regime of capitalist ideas with social inequalities where the benefices were for the richest.
In 1956, Fidel Castro, a lawyer, with a group of 80 more, Ernesto Che Guevara, started to fight against Batista and the Cuban people started to support them because all the injustices of the Batista government, with the increase of people they started to conquer a lot of Cuban cities.
References:
Luis, W. (2003). Lunes de Revolución: Literatura y cultura en los primeros años de la Revolución Cubana. Editorial Verbum.
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