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LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES UNIT 6: CUBAN REVOLUTION MAY 6, 2011

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Latin American studies. Unit 6: cuban revolution May 6, 2011. Blackboard configuration. Do Now: Grades/missing work check-in Objectives: To understand Cuba after 1959 and the United States ’ response To define and discuss counterinsurgency To work on the research paper Homework: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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LATIN AMERICAN STUDIESUNIT 6: CUBAN REVOLUTIONMAY 6, 2011

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BLACKBOARD CONFIGURATIONDo Now: Grades/missing work check-in

Objectives:1. To understand Cuba after 1959 and the United States’

response2. To define and discuss counterinsurgency3. To work on the research paper

Homework: • Cuban Revolution Quest on Monday• Rough draft of paper due 5/11

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CUBAN REVOLUTION

LESSON 5: 1959 AND BEYOND

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REVIEW FROM THE MOVIE—POP QUIZ!• What was the essential revolutionary virtue?

• What was Che’s condition for participating in the Cuban Revolution?

• How would you define “guerrilla warfare?” What was it like for the Cubans during the Revolution?

• What was the relationship between Che and Fidel like?

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Purging of Indiscipline(Heroic Guerrilla)

Reveling inIndiscipline(Hippies/Jipis)

New Left’s Spectrum of Cultural Practices

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1959: REVOLUTIONIZING THE GOVERNMENT• Batista fled Cuba 12/31/1958

• Guerrillas take Havana 1/1/1959

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COMMUNIST OR NOT?• Che was never aligned with the communist party

• HOWEVER…• Beliefs in land reform and work against economic

imperiism Marxist base

• Alternative markets in Russia

• 1960: Castro’s trip to New York

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ECONOMIC TENSIONCUBA AND RUSSIA• New market for

sugar

• Bought Russian oil

CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES• US embargo on

sugar

• Refusal to refine expropriated

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1961: BAY OF PIGS INVASION• CIA trained anti-Castro Cuban exiles try to invade Cuba

• Soundly defeated

• Did not spark an internal rebellion

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May 1961

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1962: CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS• US spy planes photographed nuclear missile installations

under construction

• JFK’s ultimatum to the Russians• Withdraw or “else”

• Agreement between the US and the Soviets

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What were the “Lessons” of the Cuban Revolution(for the Latin American Left)?

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1. Revolution is possible

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2. Peasantry as “soul & strength” of revolutionary movements

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3. Revolution will be global

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Counterinsurgency

“A combination of military, paramilitary, political, economic, psychological, and civic actions carried on by a government in order to destroy any movement of subversive insurgency”

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“Civic Action” Programs

“Programs of civic military action [aim at] trying to obtain the loyalty of the population toward the government, and at the same time, to undermine the roots of insurgency among the peasants.”

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“Return toOrder!” (Revolverat the ready)

May 1965

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SCHOOL OF LAS AMERICAS• Created in 1946 at the US-controlled Fort Amador in

Panama

• Officially became its name in 1963• Expanded

• Purpose of the school: To train individuals in counter-insurgency and military skills

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“Day of theHeroic Guerrilla”(October 8th)

Distributed by the “OrganizationFor Solidarity with the Peoples ofAfrica, Asia and Latin America”(OSPAAAL); by Elena Serrano, (1968)

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HOMEWORKQuest on MondayRough draft of paper due Friday