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These nonideological, personalistic traits of Cuban politics...dated to the foundation of the republic in 1902. They made Cuban Politics open to sultanization but did not require it.” (117)

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"There was enough constitutionalism and press freedom to expose the regimes illegitimacy but not enough repression to crush the opposition" (127)

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"Batista did not invent Cuba's nonideological and clientelist politics, but he came to embody them." (p. 115)

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“He watched films until late at night and this got up late in the morning [...] Batista wanted to be president in search of private pleasure, not to use the presidency for public benefit” (122)

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“There was enough constitutionalism and press freedom to expose the regimes illegitimacy but not enough repression to crush the opposition” (127).

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"Never fewer than one-quarter, and as high as nine-tenths, of the members of Cuba's House of Representatives who had been reelected shifted political parties to gain reelection" (116).

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In short, it is the crisis within the state, and especially within the military, that explains why Batista fell.

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“Batista was all too willing to reestablish social peace at low cost; he brought the communists into his coalition” (116).

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“The reliance on repression does not mean,however, that the law and the courts did not work at all” (128).

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“The regime’s charecterisics made for a swift disintegration in the face of a revolutionary challenge” pg 114

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“ In such a political system, the key incentive is access to political power and its rewards, including money and status.” (117)

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“The United States ‘presence, moreover, has weakened Cuban rulers’ claim to legitimacy. Indeed, there were strong sultanistic tendencies in Cuba during those decades.” (119)

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“Batista did not invent Cuba’s nonideological and clientelist politics, but he came to embody them” (115).

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The regime lacked an ideology; indeed, it even lacked guiding ideas of a general sort other than the goal of generating prosperity. As economic growth faltered during the second half of 1958 and as Bastistas continuation in office seems more a liability than an asset in maintaining political order, it’s erstwhile supporters deserted. (128)

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“The innovation adopted under Batista’s leadership in the 1930s was the informal segregation between the making of key economic policies and the filling of public offices” (117)

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"Another feature of Batistas rule was that he did not alter the institutionalized protections for economic elites. The elites retained access to and control of important chunks of state." (120

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“In August 1960 an even angrier tabernilla caused Batista of haveing ‘destroyed he morale lf the armed forces by using them for electoral purposes.’ Batistas ‘lust for wealth,’ tabernilla charged, also ‘demoralized’ the military” (122)

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“With the support of the US gov’t., Batista established himself as Cuba’s “strongman”.

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Why did Batista have no real ideology?

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How did Batista plan to keep his regime non-ideological?

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In short, it is the crisis within the state, and especially within the military, that explains why Batista fell (131).

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I am confused about paragraph two on page 124 about corruption in the government before Batista's return.

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What role did communist party play in Batistas regime?

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Did Batista's nonideological policies allow for more democratic plurality?

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How did Batista’s regime last so long with his lack of ideology?

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What does “clientelist” mean

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What made it possible for a communist, ostensibly highly ideological, society, to arise out of this sultanistic political system?

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What did Batista gain by segregating key policies and filling public offices?

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Why did the US care about the leader of Cuba during this time, weren’t there more pressing things to worry about?

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How did Batista “woo his enemies” into submission?

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How effective was the revolution in creating a constitutional government?

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Was there any point in keeping his regime without ideology?

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When studying Batista, what is considered “traditionalist” and what is considered “revisionist?”

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"he read little" - TRUMP

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How did Cuba survive this regime and power hungry person in power?

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How did Batista react to losing his supporters?

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He appends a footnolte, however, indicating that “contributions in cash or in kind to specific individuals, or confidentialy to individuals acting on behalf of their organizations, made by the president or by Mrs. Martha F. De Batista.....

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"His purge of professional officers, his distrust of his own appointees"

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He’s like Trump because Batista has the need to control all aspects of the Cuban government. Similarly, Trumps shows signs of using all aspects of the government as his tool to maintain power. He’s doing this by using the FBI as a means to get what he wants.

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What similarities can we see between the Batista and Trump with running their countries?

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It says earlier in that paragraph that there’s “no clear relation between Cuba’s crisis of sovereignty and sultanistic tendencies” (119) but how can this be the case?

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What was Batista purpose of having all of this power?

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“Though the state and society seemed well suited for sultanistic tendencies, Batista himself bears responsibility for the regime change.” (118).

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"Batista's innovation was not the practice of corruption but rather it's orchestration by one man"(125).

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I am confused as to how implementing a lottery system in Cuba is sultanistic

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Batista differs from the South African regime for two main reasons. The first is that in Batista's case, all of the power was consolidated by him while in South Africa a larger group of elite white men consolidated most of it. In addition, the apartheid regime successfully crushed it's opposition for many years while Batista failed to do so