La Cuba de Castro y despues...: Entre la historia y la biografia by Marcos Antonio Ramos

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?Dictador o libertador? ?Genio caritativo o tirano opresor? El doctor Marcos Antonio Ramos se enfoca de manera equilibrada y analiza al lider cubano, Fidel Castro, y el contexto historico que rodea su influencia. Ramos escribe desde una perspectiva privilegiada dentro y fuera de Cuba y presenta a un hombre que ha sido en momentos odiado, en momentos querido, ignorado o aceptado por sus contemporaneos alrededor del mundo. Desde su ascenso al poder, sus inicios en la vida politica, la influencia reciproca del Che Guevara, y la influencia que tuvo Castro sobre gran parte del desarrollo de Latinoamerica, La Cuba de Castro y despues… incluye temas como:

1. La era de la Guerra Fria
2. Los varios exodos de la poblacion
3. El aislamiento
4. El posicionamiento actual y la influencia de Castro en la formacion de los lideres actuales de Latinoamerica
5. El lugar de Castro en la historia
6. Una Cuba sin Castro y su funcion y posicion en el futuro de Latinoamerica

Rafael Ocasio - Criticas

In a traditional biographical-historical approach, Ramos traces Castro’s rise to power as a natural consequence of a complicated national political scene. Set against the devastating political consequences of the Spanish defeat in the Spanish American War in 1898, which led to American involvement in Cuba’s national affairs, the first part of this book traces the political struggles between professionals and the military to gain control of Cuba’s presidency. Castro’s earliest involvement in politics as a university student, including his participation in armed movements (1945), is fully explored. The second part of this book is considerably shorter. It presents Castro’s opposition to the government of Fulgencio Batista, his guerrilla attack on the Moncada police head quarters (1953), and the launching of his revolution at the “Granma” landing in Oriente Province (1956). Two chapters cover (in a rather schematic format) the development of the revolutionary government after the triumph of the revolution in 1959. A last chapter briefly examines the role of Raúl—Castro’s brother and designated replacement while Castro recuperated from his recent lengthy hospitalization. This sensible work is a multidisciplinary approach to the complex Cuban political background; recommended for collections of Cuban history.

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