HIST 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mariel Boatlift, Cuban Revolution, Special Period
14 Jun 2017
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Legacies of the cuban revolution: social reforms & Women"s rights: free: education; medical care; reproductive rights; social security; child car, maternity leave; rent, 1975 cuban family code: discrimination ag. Women and girls outlawed, even in family: federation of cuban women (fmc): government oversight of women"s progress. Chile"s political economy: strong economic nationalism since 1880s. Balmaceda (suicide 1891: extreme concentration of land and wealth (latifundia) 2% of farms own 78% of cultivable land: copper mining. Allende: victory of popular unity (unidad popular) coalition: Socialist, communists, and left wing of christian democrats (mapu) - win 36% of vote: salvador allende > president; marxist; socialist oarty candidate marxism through democracy no contradiction. The chilean road to socialism : gradual rather than immediate change. Critics of allende: us: cia & kissinger, middle class, left: revolution from below. Mapu & mir (movement of the revolutionary left) Peasants: still, popular unity coalition increases in support.
