Overview
- Explores the revolutionary network known as the Caribbean Legion
- Analyzes previously unavailable Cuban sources, as well as British, American, and Spanish archives
- Pursues a transnational approach, showing Cuban revolutionaries’ close ties with rebels throughout the Caribbean
Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)
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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 the region, and for the Cold War as a whole.
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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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cuba in the Caribbean Cold War
Book Subtitle: Exiles, Revolutionaries and Tyrants, 1952-1959
Authors: Nicolás Prados Ortiz de Solórzano
Series Title: St Antony's Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46363-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46362-5Published: 10 June 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46363-2Published: 09 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2633-5964
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 113
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Latin American History, Social History, Political History