MDST 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Fidel Castro, Platt Amendment, Blogosphere
27 Oct 2016
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Granma = the official newspaper of the castro regime. Generacion y = the blogosphere that has emerged over the last 10 years. Cuba background : cuba has never had any type of free speech, even before fidel castro. They have never actualized what free speech is. Easier to suppress speech when you have a country with absolutely no history of free speech. Revolution: these 3 have all set the stage for cuba being unique in terms of a population that is easily subdued in terms of civil rights and is having trouble finding its feet. Any marriages out of the catholic realm were forbidden. Torture/confessions: strategic tactics to discourage dissent, 340k people were killed. Book bans one of the primary methods that the holy order used to suppress speech and thought . Culture of fear: cultivated, if you"re afraid to say something that could get you turned into the. Tie them onto a rack, unravel it and stretch the person.
