HILA 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cuban Revolution, History Will Absolve Me
10 Apr 2017
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Explain why castro thinks his 5 revolutionary laws will solve cuban problems. History will absolve me speech on p. 208: 1st revolutionary law. Proclaimed the constitution of 1940 supreme law of the state: only until the people decide that it"s time to modify or change it (p. 209, 2nd revolutionary law. Granted property, non-mortgageable, and non-transferable to all planters, non-quota planters, lessees, share cropppers, and squatters. State would indemnify (compensate for loss) former owners on the basis of the rental which the would have received for these parcels over a period of 10 years: 3rd revolutionary law. Granted workers and employees the right to share 30% of profits of all large industrial, mercantile, and mining enterprise: including sugar mills, 4th revolutionary law. Helping rural farmers gain share of sugar production partial nationalization of sugar. Granted all planters the right to share 55% of the sugar productions and minimum quota: 5th revolutionary law.
