Although I had to share headphones able to translate his Spanish to my comprehendible English with a fellow student due to the vast turnout of students and professors desperate to even catch a glimpse of this notorious leader, I was able to grasp his every word. ... Interacting with the many students from the University of Havana and other Cubans, my fellow students and I had a great time, but I could not help to try to understand how despite Cuba's severe food shortages, we were granted this abundant revelry. Additionally, I could not help but ponder what, if any, alternative motiv...

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Bacardi was born in 1862 when Spanish-born wine merchant Don Facundo Bacardi Masso bought a small tin-roofed distillery in Santiago de Cuba; however, the founding family fled the country for the Bahamas in 1960 when Fidel Castro seized control of the company. ... CANF has not only been important for Cuba, they also interfered in the Central American conflict and took part in the secret war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; they have never made secret of his operations, and have always tried to help in the well being of countries like in Nicaragua's case where they tried to inform and ...

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On other hand, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was born on June 14, 1928, in Rosario, Argentina, to Ernesto Guevara Lynch, a Civil Engineer of Irish descent, and Celia de la Serna of Spanish descent. ... At home he was impressed by the Spanish Civil War refugees and by the long series of squalid political crises in Argentina which culminated in the 'Left Fascist' dictatorship of Juan Peron, to whom the Guevara de la Sernas were opposed. ... Ernesto joined other Castro followers at the farm where the Cuban revolutionaries were being given a tough commando course of professional training i...

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• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate