Castro's Changes
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- Created on: 05-03-15 23:13
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- Castro's Changes
- ‘Committees for the Defense of the
Revolution’ were established throughout the country and recruited
500,000 soldiers who owed their allegiance to Castro
- Conscription was used and helped to unite Cubans behind a common cause
- 550 of Batista’s supporters and officials were
executed
- Many middle class Cubans were worried about
this and it led to the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Cuba’s best educated
ad talented to the US
- Within 18 months the free press was suppressed and the academic autonomy of the University of Havana was abolished
- Many middle class Cubans were worried about
this and it led to the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Cuba’s best educated
ad talented to the US
- Ministry
for the Recovery of Stolen Property confiscated the property of Batista and
his supporters as well as dissidents. This
was estimated at US $25 million and funded future ventures
- Lavish houses and mansions were converted into multi-family housing units that helped alleviate a housing shortage
- When
several major oil companies refused to extend credit to the new government for
oil imports, Castro bought Soviet crude oil to be processed in US-owned refineries in Cuba
- US revoked the Cuban sugar quota which annually bought 80% of the cane crop. Castro responded by seizing all US property and utilities, sugar mills and nickel mines.
- On
April 15 1961, shortly after the failed Bay of Pigs invasions, he declared he
was leading a socialist revolution under the nose of the US
- The Integrated Revolution Organisation brought together the fidelistas and Cuban communists officially in 1961
- Guevara
believed that moral incentives should be used to create a new breed of Cubans
who understand the need for personal sacrifice
- Carlos Rafael Rodriguez was an economist who argued that for the economy to advance there needed to be incentives offered
- On
May 17 1959, the Agrarian Reform Law (ARL) was passed. This allowed the expropriation of large
agricultural holdings
- Set
the maximum farm size to 30 caballerias (995
acres or 403 hectares). It abolished
sharecrops and restricted foreign ownership
- In 1963, the Second Law of Agrarian Reform expropriated about 10,000 mid-sized farms (over 67 hectares) and the state controlled 70% of the land
- On
June 11 the US government demanded immediate and fair compensation for all US
interests.
- October 1960, in response to the US ending the sugar quota and imposing an embargo, Castro expropriated all US landholdings without compensation
- Set
the maximum farm size to 30 caballerias (995
acres or 403 hectares). It abolished
sharecrops and restricted foreign ownership
- ‘Committees for the Defense of the
Revolution’ were established throughout the country and recruited
500,000 soldiers who owed their allegiance to Castro
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