HIST 1150 Chapter : Week 10: 'Third World' Revolutions: China and Cuba
10 Dec 2011
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Cuba achieved latin america"s most successful social revolution. By the 19th century, cuba was a producer of cane sugar and secondarily tobacco. Cubans were under spanish domination at the time, however began to resent it and were closer to the us than spain anyway. After a couple cuban rebellions (1868-1878 and 1895-1898) us intervention forced spain to grant cuba independence in 1898. The us encourage cubans to draft a new constitution (1901), giving washington extensive rights (hence the us naval base in. Us investment in cuba grew from million in 1896 to . 5 billion in 1929. Cuba"s dependence on sugar, however, had major political and social effects. This is because sugarcane is harvested annually and only needs to be planted every 5-25 years, therefore it only employs workers for 3 months a year. Most rural cubans were workers, whose main concern was wages and by the 1930s, there was much migration from countryside to urban slums.
