1. Change in Cuba Fidel at 90 to the Party Congress: “I will die soon”
A move to Democracy or just more of the same?

2. Change in Cuba Fidel Alejandro Castro 1926-2016
Only Queen Elizabeth has ruled longer

3. “Fidelistas”

4. Fidel Castro The bane of 11 U.S. Presidents
Came to power in January 1959
Stepped down due to intestinal cancer in 2006 & ceded power to brother Raul

5. Raul Castro Age 86, four years younger than Fidel
Appointed temporary president 26 July 06
Elected president on 24 Feb 08 after Fidel announced he would not stand for election
Only Defense Minister Cuba has ever had
Was he a puppet for Fidel? He is Sancho Panza to Fidel’s Don Quixote

6. Fidel & Raul Castro 26th of July Movement/Moncada Barracks attack
Exile in Mexico
“Granma”
Sierra Maestra
Cuban Revolution
Raul’s supervision of executions

7. Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Iconic photo by Alberto Korda, one of the most widely published photos in history
Charismatic Argentine doctor joined with Castro in Mexico through Raul’s introduction
After the revolution he ran Fidel’s prisons
Executed an estimated political prisoners without trial in 59-60

8. Che Guevara Wrote numerous books on revolutionary theory
Killed by CIA-supported Bolivian government forces while trying to lead a continent-wide Marxist revolution

9. 90 Miles to Miami
How many presidents tried to get rid of Fidel?

10. Bay of Pigs CIA support and training in Guatemala JFK humiliation
Failure to provide air support

11. Cuban Missile Crisis

12. Cuban Foreign Policy: A Threat to the U.S.?
Export of Revolution in Africa in the 70s and 80s
Cuban troops in Angola and Ethiopia
1979 Sandinistas topple Somoza
1996 “Brothers” plane shot down by MiG 29
A model for Latin America? Chavez replaces USSR

13. Boat People 500,000 anti-Castro Cubans fled in 58-60
1966 LBJ and the Cuban Adjustment Act
Mariel k Cubans flee to Florida/ Castro empties his prisons
,000 flee per month, US sends them to Guantanamo
“Wet foot/Dry foot” policy

14. The Change
1985 Perestroika, Glasnost & New Thinking/Economy contracted by 1/3
1989 Attempted Coup of Gen. Ochoa
1991 The fall of the Soviet Union
90s Cuba replaces Thailand as the “Sex Tourism” destination of the World & Dollar legalized
1994 “Brothers to the Rescue” & Helms-Burton

15. The Change
Elian Gonzales 1999

16. U.S. Policy for the Future?
2003 New Crackdown on Democrary
2005 Luis Posada Carriles – 1976 bombing of Cuban airliner that killed 73
2007 Rangel Dorgan immigration bill & Delahunt immigration bill
2015 Opening of Diplomatic Relations

17. OBAMA to Cuba 2016
“The Cuban people should choose their government in free elections”

18. The New Cuba Life after Fidel
1.14M Cubans are in the US
Mobile Phones
½M Cubans now work in private sector
Dual currency economy