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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

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Author

Nicolás Prados Ortiz de Solórzano; SpringerLink (Online service)

Publisher

Springer International Publishing, Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030463632

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Latin American History