The Cuba-US relations after the triumph of the Cuban revolution: An analysis of an unresolved international conflict
COTIPSO Thesis: Approved
Student: Rodriguez, Roberto M
Completion Date: Aug 2011
An excerpt from the thesis:
On December 31, 1958, while Cubans expected the arrival of a new year, Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country together with his family and a few dozen of his most important collaborators. A few hours later, when this event was known to the public, Cubans gathered in the streets of all of Cuba’s major cities to celebrate the end of an eight-year bloody dictatorship and the beginning of a new era. The rebel forces led by Fidel Castro started a victorious march from the mountains of the Sierra Maestra, where they had been fighting for the previous two years, toward Havana, the capital, where they arrived on the first days of January 1959.
