Cuba in the Caribbean Cold War: Exiles, Revolutionaries and Tyrants, 1952-1959

ISBN-13: 9783030463625 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 113 str.

Nicolás Prados Ortiz de Solórzano

Recenzje

"This book opens a unique and pivotal avenue for understanding the Cuban Revolution and the international dynamics that made it possible. Resting on a rich set of overlooked Cuban sources ... Nicola´s Prados Ortiz de Solo´rzano's book provides a tremendous contribution ... . Embracing a much-needed transnational approach, this volume resurrects the crucial role of the Caribbean Legion ... . this book successfully forwards a new account of the Cuban Revolution." (Rafael Pedemonte, Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 101 (4), 2021)

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Caribbean Legion Revived.- Chapter 2. A Caribbean Cold War, 1947-1955.- Chapter 3. The Internationalization of the Cuban Revolution, 1955-1956.- Chapter 4. The Caribbean Legion supplying the Sierra Maestra,  1957-1958.- Chapter 5. Conclusion: The Demise of the Caribbean Legion, 1959-1961.

O autorze

Nicolás Prados Ortiz de Solórzano is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Oxford, UK. He is currently investigating the relationship between democracy and transnational revolutionary networks operating in Latin America and the Caribbean from the mid-1940s to the early 1960s.

Blurb

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.  

Nicolás Prados Ortiz de Solórzano is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Oxford, UK. He is currently investigating the relationship between democracy and transnational revolutionary networks operating in Latin America and the Caribbean from the mid-1940s to the early 1960s.