The Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution was in various ways different from the American Revolution and in other ways similar to it at because it had the same purpose and it also succeeded. Therefore, it can be rightfully said that the Cuban Revolution is an example, among others, of revolutions following the steps and ways (set of guidelines) of the American Revolution, which led it to be a victorious one. It could also be said that this revolution also offered a number of contrasts to the American Revolution, thus making it clear that the American Revolution was a very unique and special kind of revolution that can never be exactly repeated by any other nation.One main similarity between the Cuban and the American Revolution is that they both held the same purpose, which was to overthrow the current abusive government and establish a new one that would serve the people rightfully and advance social and economic justice in the nation. Abuses of Batista's regime began on the same day that he came into power, when he suspended the constitution, dissolved the congress and instituted a provisional government, promising elections the following year. After crushing an uprising by a young lawyer, Fidel Castro
So after having listed a number of important similarities and differences of the Cuban and American Revolution, it would be factual to say that the Cuban Revolution had initially followed important tactics used in the American Revolution to defeat the enemy, and thus they were able to seize victory like the Americans did. However, they were also different in the sense that the revolutionary war the Cuban rebels fought, under the leadership of Fidel Castro, was in a totally different atmosphere. Unlike the Americans who threw out the British authority in America without having to overthrow the government in Britain, the Cuban rebels' cause was to overthrow the existing government completely and replace it with a new one. However, even though these differences are what separate the American and the Cuban Revolution today, they both send out the same message throughout the world: that no abusive government today will be tolerated by its people because they have witnessed the examples of the great nations today and thus, are bound and have the complete right to revolt and overthrow that government by any means possible in order to have their natural rights and liberties that are due to them. One mayor difference between these two revolutions was that the war or battles that took place in the American Revolution were all fought in the United States. Great Britain had to send its forces across the Atlantic Ocean to fight the rebels while the revolutionaries never did attack Britain itself and instead fought a defensive war. The rebels in the Cuban Revolution, on the other hand, fought an offensive war as they attacked and seized military installations and other government posts within Cuba. , on July 26, 1953, the regime seemed secure and when the political situation had been calmed, the Batista government announced that elections were to be held on the fall of 1954.* That year Grau San Martin, Batista's opponent, withdrew from the campaign just before the election because he claimed that his supporters had been terrorized. Thus, Batista was reelected without any opposition since he brutally suppressed political opposition and let his people live in appalling poverty. He crushed worker, peasant, and student opposition. Between 1952 and 1959, 20,000 Cubans were assassinated by Batista's henchmen. * The bodies of those
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