Based in Center Harbor, New Hampshire, Jorge I. Dominguez is a retired Harvard professor and a publisher and writer. He studied history at Yale and graduated with a bachelor of arts before studying political science at Harvard, where he earned his PhD. Jorge I. Dominguez has written numerous publications focusing on Latin America and its political climate.
The Cuban Revolution of 1959 is a historic event that marked a significant turning point in Cuba as we now know it. Fidel Castro and his band of revolutionaries overthrew the US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista and renewed the hope of Cubans for an equitable and just society. Corruption played a significant role in fanning the flames of the Cuban revolution, but was also a threat to the same ideals that birthed the revolution. Cuba’s first presidential tenure, under Don Tomas Estrada Palma, is widely regarded as a period with high standards of administrative integrity. This changed with subsequent presidents, with multiple corruption scandals and allegations of nepotism. Petty and grand corruption became the norm in Cuban administration and public life. When Fulgencio Batista began his second tenure after seizing power and annulling the 1952 elections, Fidel Castro, then an activist and lawyer, accused Batista of corruption and tyranny and petitioned for him to be overthrown, which eventually led to what is now known as the Cuban Revolution.
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