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Opposition to Castro - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Introduced regulations to forbid Cubans from leaving without a valid reason.
        
        to reduce political tension, he would occasionally allow large numbers of Cuban to leave.
        
        Castro would always accompany these moments with vast propaganda displays in support of himself to show the mass of the population backed the revolution.
        
        Peruvian embassy siege 1980 - 10,000 sought asylum, Castro responded let them all leave
        
        Mariel Boatlift - boats from Florida assisted 125,000 Cubans leaving the island
        
        regulations added to the feeling that Cuba was a closed, authoritarian society
- - - - By 1963, one third of the population worked for the CDR
        
        Level of peer surveillance was high, intimidated people
        
        Many Cubans felt that joining the CDR was a way to contribute to the goals of the revolution and ensure what they gained was not lost
- - - - businessmen, solicitors and teachers angered under state control.
    - - ammounted to state control of the judiciary
      - Objections voiced by Manuel Urrutia, judge who opposed the Batista regime and chose to reign in protest of new regime's suspensions of elections.
    - - representative was Silvio Rodriguez, a folk singer
      - expressed in protest songs that stated that bureaucracy had grown between Castro and the people
- - - - It was the existence of these emigres abroad and their contacts with disaffected groups in Cuba that gave Castro justification for surveillance and controls on the people
      - Although opposition groups looked large and formidable, they were never a serious threat
        
        Only US backed emigres represented resistance, and when they challenged Castro at the Bay of Pigs, they failed.
- - - - Even if the number is exaggerated it shows the amount of danger Castro was constantly in and the degree of hatred towards him.
- - - - Camps closed in 1968 due to domestic and international pressure on Castro
        
        Castro claimed that he made the decision himself