EP 23: Cuba - Socialismo o Muerte!

Why is the United States so possessively obsessed with Cuba?

In this episode we dive into the history of Cuba. From the native Taíno, Ciboney, and Guanahatabey societies that organised the island around community and cooperation, to their world being shattered by the Spanish invasion, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the brutal extraction of Cuba’s resources that would lay the foundation for modern capitalism.

Join Triploi as we look at the rise of Havana as an imperial hub, the sugar revolution, and the independence war that saw a dying empire replaced by an emerging one.

From the US backed Batista dictatorship, to the 1959 Communist revolution, the brutal US embargo, and the resolver spirit that saw Cubans endure the unendurable.

All the way to modern Cuba, where a declining US empire, looks onward at one final attempt to seize the island it could never let go.

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References and reading list:

• Ada Ferrer, Cuba: An American History (2021)
• Hugh Thomas, Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom (1971)
• Sidney W. Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985)
• Fernando Martínez Heredia, In the Shadow of Marx: The Cuban Revolution and Socialist Thought (ed 2018)
• Ernesto Che Guevara, Guerrilla Warfare (1960) and Episodes of the Revolutionary War (1963)
• Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, Cuba in Revolution (1966).
• Samuel Farber, The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered (2006)
• Steve Cushion, A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution (2016)