ANTH 2230 Lecture Notes - Special Period, Developing Country, Utopia
12 Nov 2012
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Anth 2230 / november 8, 2012 / lecture notes. Spanish colony: settler island: island where european travelers, settled and stayed. Us intervention: cuba was under u. s. rule from 1888 to 1902. Independence in 1902: 1890"s war of independence from spain, from 1902- 1950 cuba was a playground for the very wealthy. Castro 1959: cuba became a communist country and thus started a lot of problems. A lot of wealthy cubans left because of castro: until 1990"s, cuba had links with the soviet union. After the cold war, cuba has become very isolated. For the people, this time was known as armageddon, but the government calls it a special period . Embargos (total embargo: lots of embargos against cuba. Cuba has implemented lots of reforms to become self-sufficient despite the burdening embargos (agriculture, medicine, etc. : cubans get a subsidy for the nutritious essentials, great ratio of doctors: people.
