https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23 Made with serendipity en-us 2018-03-19 16:17:18 UTC 2018-03-20 06:03:07 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243604577 " __________ " (p. #)]]> 2018-03-19 16:21:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243604577 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764029 "Batista did not invent Cuba's nonideological and clientelist politics, but he came to embody them." (p. 115)]]> 2018-03-19 21:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764029 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764059 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)]]> 2018-03-19 21:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764059 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764065 "There was enough constitutionalism and press freedom to expose the regimes illegitimacy but not enough repression to crush the opposition" (127)]]> 2018-03-19 21:01:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764065 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764075 “There was enough constitutionalism and press freedom to expose the regimes illegitimacy but not enough repression to crush the opposition” (127).]]> 2018-03-19 21:01:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764075 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764109 “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)]]> 2018-03-19 21:01:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764109 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764115 Dani 

• "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). 

]]> 2018-03-19 21:01:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764115 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764191 In short, it is the crisis within the state, and especially within the military, that explains why Batista fell.]]> 2018-03-19 21:01:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764191 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764247 “Batista was all too willing to reestablish social peace at low cost; he brought the communists into his coalition” (116). ]]> 2018-03-19 21:01:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764247 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764263 “The regime’s charecterisics made for a swift disintegration in the face of a revolutionary challenge” pg 114]]> 2018-03-19 21:01:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764263 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764265 “The reliance on repression does not mean,however, that the law and the courts did not work at all” (128).]]> 2018-03-19 21:01:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764265 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764346 “ In such a political system, the key incentive is access to political power and its rewards, including money and status.” (117)

]]> 2018-03-19 21:02:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764346 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764546 “Batista did not invent Cuba’s nonideological and clientelist politics, but he came to embody them” (115).]]> 2018-03-19 21:02:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764546 ameliasmyth https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764551 “The United States ‘presence, moreover, has weakened Cuban rulers’ claim to legitimacy. Indeed, there were strong sultanistic tendencies in Cuba during those decades.” (119)]]> 2018-03-19 21:02:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764551 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764582 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)]]> 2018-03-19 21:02:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764582 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764590 “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)]]> 2018-03-19 21:02:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764590 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764608 "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]]> 2018-03-19 21:03:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764608 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764630 “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)]]> 2018-03-19 21:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764630 zoecarr https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764710 “With the support of the US gov’t., Batista established himself as Cuba’s “strongman”.]]> 2018-03-19 21:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764710 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764738 Why did Batista have no real ideology?]]> 2018-03-19 21:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764738 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764807 In short, it is the crisis within the state, and especially within the military, that explains why Batista fell (131).]]> 2018-03-19 21:03:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764807 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764889 I am confused about paragraph two on page 124 about corruption in the government before Batista's return. ]]> 2018-03-19 21:04:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764889 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764897 How did Batista plan to keep his regime non-ideological?]]> 2018-03-19 21:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764897 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764904 What role did communist party play in Batistas regime?]]> 2018-03-19 21:04:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764904 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764912 Did Batista's nonideological policies allow for more democratic plurality?]]> 2018-03-19 21:04:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764912 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764914 How did Batista’s regime last so long with his lack of ideology? ]]> 2018-03-19 21:04:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764914 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764968 What does “clientelist” mean]]> 2018-03-19 21:04:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243764968 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243765064 What made it possible for a communist, ostensibly highly ideological, society, to arise out of this sultanistic political system?]]> 2018-03-19 21:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243765064 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243765089 What did Batista gain by segregating key policies and filling public offices?]]> 2018-03-19 21:05:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243765089 zoecarr https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243765116 Why did the US care about the leader of Cuba during this time, weren’t there more pressing things to worry about?]]> 2018-03-19 21:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243765116 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243765225 How did Batista “woo his enemies” into submission? ]]> 2018-03-19 21:05:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243765225 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243765302 How effective was the revolution in creating a constitutional government?]]> 2018-03-19 21:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243765302 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243765560 Was there any point in keeping his regime without ideology? ]]> 2018-03-19 21:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243765560 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243765877 When studying Batista, what is considered “traditionalist” and what is considered “revisionist?”]]> 2018-03-19 21:07:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243765877 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243766017 How did Batista react to losing his supporters?]]> 2018-03-19 21:08:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243766017 rebeccavillagran https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243766050 "he read little" - TRUMP

]]> 2018-03-19 21:08:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243766050 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243766118 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.....]]> 2018-03-19 21:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243766118 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243766136 How did Cuba survive this regime and power hungry person in power? ]]> 2018-03-19 21:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243766136 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243766299 "His purge of professional officers, his distrust of his own appointees"]]> 2018-03-19 21:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243766299 ameliasmyth https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243766459 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.]]> 2018-03-19 21:09:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243766459 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243766476 2018-03-19 21:09:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243766476 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243766886 What similarities can we see between the Batista and Trump with running their countries? ]]> 2018-03-19 21:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243766886 ameliasmyth https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243767389 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?]]> 2018-03-19 21:12:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243767389 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243768144 What was Batista purpose of having all of this power?]]> 2018-03-19 21:15:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243768144 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243770834 “Though the state and society seemed well suited for sultanistic tendencies, Batista himself bears responsibility for the regime change.” (118). ]]> 2018-03-19 21:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243770834 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243846774 "Batista's innovation was not the practice of corruption but rather it's orchestration by one man"(125).]]> 2018-03-20 05:58:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243846774 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243847053 I am confused as to how implementing a lottery system in Cuba is sultanistic]]> 2018-03-20 06:00:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243847053 https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243847116 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]]> 2018-03-20 06:01:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccavillagran/t6nf0b6yns23/wish/243847116