FREE ESSAY ON FIDEL CASTRO

FIDEL CASTRO

After Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar seized control of the Cuban 
government in 1952, Fidel Castro became a leader of an underground 
antigovernment fraction. A Year later he was jailed for having led the 26th 
uprising against Batista. In 1955 he was released and went into exile in the 
United States and Mexico. He returned to Cuba in 1956 and led a rebellion of 
Oriente Province. Soon, Castro won steadily increasing popular support, with 
his rebel forces; known as the 26th of July Movement. Few years later, 
Batista fled the country, and assuming power Castro took control on 
February 16th. Castros's position as a dictator transformed Cuba into 
a communist country.
According to the Book of Knowledge, Castro came to power as a 
nationalist, but soon he began to move toward communism. He opposed 
that the United States had extensive business interests in Cuba. Castro 
nationalized foreign companies, and signed trade agreements with the Soviet 
Union. The United States ended any relations with Cuba in 1961. The United 
States also backed up a group of Cuban exiles on an unsuccessful attempt to 
overthrow Castro at the Bay of Pigs.(133)
Cuba as a communist country resulted in serious economic problems.
"...He has been less than successful as an economic policymaker: Cuba 
remains a poor country in debt whose livelihood depends on sugar 
production and soviet economic aid. He nonetheless holds the system in 
place..." 
Bibliography
(Academic American Encyclopedia 192)