Cuba in the Caribbean Cold War : exiles, revolutionaries and tyrants, 1952-1959 / Nicolás Prados Ortiz de Solórzano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prados Ortiz de Solórzano, Nicolás, author.

Series:

St. Antony's series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

St Antony's series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016.

Castro, Fidel.

Caribbean Legion--History.

Caribbean Legion.

History.

Cuba--History--Revolution, 1959.

Cuba.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 113 pages : color map ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

Summary:

"This book argues that during the Cuban Revolution (1952-1958), Fidel Castro, his allies, and members of the Movimiento 26 de Julio tapped into a larger network of transnational revolutionaries who sought to overthrow the region's dictatorships. With his research in multiple archives including those in Cuba, Prados offers a new, transnational perspective on conflicts over dictatorship and democracy, which shaped the Caribbean in the decades that followed World War II. The book traces the roots of the 'Caribbean Legion', a transnational network of anti-dictatorial revolutionaries, before detailing how Castro and many of his allies in exile exploited this web during the struggle against Fulgencio Batista. Contacts in this network provided the Cuban revolutionaries with crucial military, financial, and diplomatic support from the democratic governments of José Figueres in Costa Rica, and Rómulo Betancourt in Venezuela, entangling the Cuban revolutionaries in a larger regional struggle between democratic regimes and military dictatorships. This transnational involvement shaped the revolutionary regime of 1959 and had far-reaching repercussions for the larger geopolitical dynamics in the region, and for the Cold War as a whole." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Caribbean legion revived

A Caribbean Col War, 1947-1955

The internationalization of the Cuban Revolution, 1955-1956

The Caribbean Legion supplying the Sierra Maestra, 1957-1958

The demise of the Caribbean Legion, 1959-1961.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783030463625

3030463621

OCLC:

1180174489