Treatment of the Opposition
Arrests, executions & imprisionment
MIlitary units to aid production
Toleration of opponents leaving Cuba
Committee for the defense
of revolution 1960s
Show Trails
Padilla Affairs
Reported on counter revolutionary activity through thr secret police
The CDR was made to protect Cuba
from foriegn invasion
High level of sourvelience of the population
Peruvian embassy siege 1980
Where and how many people flee?
Opponents encouraged to go into exile
250 000 left the first year of Castro's Government
10 000 sought asylium from the harsh living conditions in Cuba
Castro responded: Let them all leave
thousands of Cubans flet to the US
Labour Camps
25 000 people sent between 1965-1968
800 000 members of CDR by 1961
really effective
Active CIA members were still in Cuba at the time
university professors and journalisrs who voiced their dissent at the increase in communist influence wee threatened with dismissal and arrest
February 1968, the CCP members that were against Castro's crticism of the USSR were arrested and sent to trail under sectarism
This trails were televised
The trails of the people under Bastista made the majority of this, especially those who had acted violently for Batista.
1959 - 1960: Cubans worried about the change of regime and what it might bring
Radios and Newspapers were closely monitored to stop any anti Castro sentiment from being expressed
1960 - 1962: Operation Peter Pan - the Catholic Church helped Cuban parents to send their children to be fostered in the USA
Oct. - Nov. 1965: the Camarioca Exodus - Castro announced that any Cuban wishing to leav for the USA could do so from Camarioca
2979 left Cuba for Miami
1965 - 1973: "Freedom Flights" - flights from Cuba to Miami allowed Cubans with relarives in the USA to flee Cuba twice a day
Propagandda was set to increase Castro's popularity as it declined through the years
265 297 Cubans flew
Education policies were set to ensure loyalty and prevent a revolt
At first people that were agaisnt Castro's rules and style of governmnet were permitted to leave and in many ocassions were encouraged to do so.
UMAP camps
Poeple who where sent there
Christians and any religuos groups that possed a threat to Castro
People from the LGBTQ community
Political opposition
The people who were sent here where those who could not be sent to work in the Army for their strong opposition to the government
In occasion whole families were sent there
Conditions
Lack of proper food
little privacy and space for the people
generally poor living conditions
What was manifactured there
banned political parties of the Batista regime
Clothes
Forniture
constrations
They were mainly factory jobs and therefore produced factory goods
promised elections that were never held
"Political correction"
"revolutionary justice is not based upon legal precepts, but moral conviction"
Many sought to leave
Castro lifted the security that protected the Peruvian enbassy
showed the Cuban public that the new government would uphold the law and would dispense justice
rapid, public panishment of criminals ensured that the revolition did not descent into chaos of violent reprisals and vigilantism
The peruvian gobernment compromissed to help them scape to other countries
Costa Rica
rapid, public panishment of criminals ensured that the revolition did not descent into chaos of violent reprisals and vigilantism
Canada
Perú
Spain
establishment of secret police and a hardline approach to traitors and enemy
Cubans in Miami organized (with the aid of the US) a bridge to help the people cross
gained the hate of
Information from "el comercio"
US corporations that lost their Cuban investments
the CIA (saw it as a direct threat to their operations and influence in the region)
the US govenrment (potential communist threat and a challenge to their hegemony in the region)
Batistla loyalists (lost their power with the fall of the regime)
Autenticos (wanted ro return to powr and hated the left-wing aspects of Castro's government
One of the biggests propaganda failures
Heberto Padilla was obligated by the Cuban government to renouce the revolutionary ideas he had foight for.
American Mafia (had lost its lucrative drugs, gambling and prostitution trades)
US-supported governments of other Latin American countries (feared the impact of Castro's exapmple on their own repressed citizens
The manipulatio was so clear that the oppositio used this as an emblema for the resistence
allowing malcontents to leave for the USA reduced the need of repressive measures in Cuba
He was retained under anti-cuban sentiment, his letters, papers and more of the criticism he wrote against the government was used to justify the arrest
Castro fave permission for Cubans to leave if they wished to (allowed "exoduses")
referred to them as "escoria" (scrum)
encouraged other Cubans to turn against them as traitors
August 1959: Coup organized by the Domican Republic and was sure that there would be many more US-sponsored attempted coups in the near future
President Eisenhower had already authorized the CIA to plan and implement Operation Mongoose (the Cuban Project) to remove Castro from power (full-scale military invasion)