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Conditions in which the authoritarian states emerged - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Decreasing importance of US investments in the Cuban sugar industry from 1939 to 1950
      - 1939, US investors own 68 of the 176 existing mills and 55% of total production.
      - By 1950, they own 44 of the 161 mills and 47% of total output.
    - - Cuban nationals owned of 56 mills in 1939 and of 108 mills in 1950
      - Their share of total output increased from 22.4% in 1939 to 49.5% in 1950.
      - This was the result of management problems and lower profits.
      - Effects on Cuban Tourism
        
        Although sugar greatly contributed to Cubas Economy, it also heavily relied on tourism.
        
        Cubas relationship with the US made it a popular tourists destination. This however fell off as its popularity decreased.
- - - - revolt against Spanish rule --> 1st War of Independence (10 Year war) 1868-1878 --> unsuccesful
      - 2nd war of Independence --> 1895-1898 --> led by José Marti "The Apostle" --> 1898 rebels were winning --> USA war on Spain = CUBA INDEPENDANT DECEMBER 1898
    - - Cuban politicians were corrupt and elections were rigged --> made the lower class rebel
  - - - Countryside -
        
        only seasonal sugar production
        
        with macheteros working 4 months per year
        
        unemployed and in debt
        
        neither healthcare and education --> illiteracy
        
        health --> "Clusters of graveyards dotted the main highway along the foothills of the Sierra Maestra, marking the spots where people died waiting for transportation to the nearest hospitals and clinics in Santiago de Cuba."
      - Cities -
        
        business for American toruists in Havana's luxury hotels/ beaches/ casinos
        
        more educated and rich
        
        politicians
      - Matk Falcoff (analyst) "urban Cuba had come to resemble a Southern European country while rural Cuba replicated the conditions of other plantation societies in Latin America and the Caribbean"
      - because of colonialism
    - - island's private clubs and beaches segregated
        
        President Batista (mulatto) was denied membership in one of Havana's most exclusive clubs.
- - - - Corrupted politicians and rigging of elections (opposed by population)
      - Economic subservience to US after Second War of Independence in 1899 and implementation of Platt Amendment in Cuban Constitution in 1902 => economic imperialism
      - Organised crime controlled by the US mafia held influence over the political system in Cuba
- - - - Platt Amendment
        
        Cuba could not enter in agreement with a third power
        
        The US had a right to intervene militarily
        
        Guantanamo Bay was under lease to the US
  - - - Good neighbor policy, 1933, was made to improve Latin American and USA relations.
      - “In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor—the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others.”