Fidel Castro

Examples of Fidel Castro in the following topics:

• The Cuban Revolution

  • The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement against the regime of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
  • The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement against the regime of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
  • The survivors, among them Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl Castro Ruz, were captured shortly afterwards.
  • In a highly political trial, Fidel Castro spoke for nearly four hours in his defense, ending with the words: "Condemn me, it does not matter.
  • On the far left of the photo is Fidel Castro, while in the center is Che Guevara.

• "The Hour of Maximum Danger"

  • In this policy, Kennedy voiced support for the containment of Communism, the reversal of Communist progress in the Western Hemisphere, and sought to prevent the spread of communism and Soviet influence in Latin America following the Cuban revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power in the 1950s.
  • The incident reflected poorly on Kennedy's strength against the communist threat, and also made Castro wary of the U.S.

• Interventions in Latin America and the Middle East

  • The Cuban Revolution (1953–59) was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the U.S.
  • Fidel Castro blamed the United States and compared the incident to the 1898 sinking of the USS Maine (ACR-16), which had precipitated the Spanish–American War, though admitting he could provide no evidence for his accusation. 
  • Eisenhower authorized the CIA to organize, train, and equip Cuban refugees as a guerrilla force to overthrow Castro, which would lead to the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.

• The Middle East

  • In a reflection of the moral judgments inherent in the conflicts, Gaddafi, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, and Cuban leader Fidel Castro were named the "unholy trinity."

• Intervention in Latin America

  • In both cases, the Johnson administration, wanting to prevent the rise to power of another Fidel Castro in the western hemisphere, chose to provide military support to one side of the conflict.

• George H.W. Bush Abroad

  • -supportive leader who was later accused of spying for Fidel Castro and using Panama to traffic drugs into the United States, was one of the most recognizable names in America and was constantly in the press.

• Nixon and Foreign Policy

  • Upon taking office, Nixon increased covert operations against communist Cuba and its president, Fidel Castro.

• Cuba and the Castros

• International Fisher Effect

  • Fidelity utilized this financing strategy to earn profits from the large interest rate difference.
  • Fidelity borrowed funds from the United States at id = 5% and invested in Mexican funds and earned the interest rate, if = 12%.
  • Fidelity borrowed funds from a U.S. bank at 5% that we calculated in Equation 24.
  • Fidelity utilized this strategy during the early 1990s and earned profits between 1.5% and 11%.Unfortunately, Fidelity lost all its profits in December 1994 after the Tequila Devaluation.
  • Fidelity used a strategy called an uncovered position because Fidelity exposed itself to an exchange rate risk because it relied on a future spot exchange rate.

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • In January of 1959, following the overthrow of the corrupt and dictatorial regime of Fulgencio Batista, Castro assumed leadership of the new Cuban government.
  • After landing at the Bay of Pigs on the Cuban coast, these insurgents, the CIA believed, would inspire their countrymen to rise up and topple Castro’s regime.
  • The Bay of Pigs invasion was a major foreign policy disaster for President Kennedy and highlighted Cuba’s military vulnerability to the Castro administration.
  • An additional outcome of this Kennedy-Khrushchev Pact that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis was that it effectively strengthened Castro's position by guaranteeing that the U.S. would not invade Cuba.