Essays on Cuba

At the end of the world war, the world is divided into two, east and west. This is marking the beginning of the Cold War. As the capitulation of Fascist states in the Europe and Asia, the communist and democracy country spread their ideologies to...

Since the economic crises of the 90s – the “Special Period in Time of Peace” – Cuba has become one of the prime destinations for sex tourism alongside Thailand, the Philippines and the Dominican Republic. Prostitution in Cuba has shifted several times due to factors...

While somewhat unrecognized, Cuba has a rich history when it comes to the visual (and literary) arts that are unique to the country. The history of art in Cuba is influenced largely by European artists, such as Picasso. Modernism, surrealism, and cubism, as well as...

During the 1980s hip hop arrived in Cuba via radio broadcasts from Miami. Since then the hip hop cultures main focused in breakdancing. By the 90s, with the collapse with the Soviet Union, many young “raperos” were looking for ways to demonstrate their disappointments. Hip...

It’s not hard to imagine of a world that at any moment you and everyone you know could be wiped out without a warning at a push of a button. Well that was the reality for millions of people during the 45year period after world...

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a one-month, four-day standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union that erupted into an international crisis when American missile deployments in Italy and...

In October 1962, the United States teetered on the verge of nuclear war. Soviet missiles, stationed in Cuba, had the range to strike Chicago and kill millions of Americans. Cuban communist revolutionary Fidel Castro and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reached an agreement to construct missile...

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and colonizer who completed four voyages a cross the Atlantic Ocean that opened the New World for conquest and permanent European colonization of the Americas. Columbus had embarked with intent to find and develop a westward route to the...

Many historians, such as Russell H. Fitzgibbon, point out the effect of Cuba’s economic and social dependence on the United States, as well as American economic imperialism in Cuba as an important cause of the revolution which should not be overlooked. Also, high unemployment and,...