palgrave.com Nicolás Prados Ortiz de Solórzano Cuba in the Caribbean Cold War Exiles, Revolutionaries and Tyrants, 1952-1959 Series: St Antony's Series Explores the revolutionary network known as the Caribbean Legion Analyzes previously unavailable Cuban sources, as well as British, American, and Spanish archives Pursues a transnational approach, showing Cuban revolutionaries’ close ties with rebels throughout the Caribbean This book argues that during the Cuban Revolution (1952–1958), Fidel Castro, his allies, and members of the Movimiento 26 de Julio tapped into a larger network of transnational 1st ed. 2020, XIII, 113 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. revolutionaries who sought to overthrow the region’s dictatorships. With his research in multiple in color. archives including those in Cuba, Prados offers a new, transnational perspective on conflicts over dictatorship and democracy, which shaped the Caribbean in the decades that followed Printed book World War II. The book traces the roots of the ‘Caribbean Legion’, a transnational network of anti-dictatorial revolutionaries, before detailing how Castro and many of his allies in exile Hardcover exploited this web during the struggle against Fulgencio Batista. Contacts in this network 49,99 € | £44.99 | $59.99 provided the Cuban revolutionaries with crucial military, financial, and diplomatic support from [1]53,49 € (D) | 54,99 € (A) | CHF 59,00 the democratic governments of José Figueres in Costa Rica, and Rómulo Betancourt in Venezuela, entangling the Cuban revolutionaries in a larger regional struggle between eBook democratic regimes and military dictatorships. This transnational involvement shaped the 42,79 € | £35.99 | $44.99 revolutionary regime of 1959 and had far-reaching repercussions for the larger geopolitical [2] 42,79 € (D) | 42,79 € (A) | CHF dynamics in the region, and for the Cold War as a whole. 47,00 Available from your library or springer.com/shop MyCopy [3] Printed eBook for just € | $ 24.99 springer.com/mycopy Order online at springer.com / or for the Americas call (toll free) 1-800-SPRINGER / or email us at: [email protected]. / For outside the Americas call +49 (0) 6221-345-4301 / or email us at: [email protected]. The first € price and the £ and $ price are net prices, subject to local VAT. Prices indicated with [1] include VAT for books; the €(D) includes 7% for Germany, the €(A) includes 10% for Austria. Prices indicated with [2] include VAT for electronic products; 19% for Germany, 20% for Austria. All prices exclusive of carriage charges. Prices and other details are subject to change without notice. All errors and omissions excepted. [3] No discount for MyCopy. Part of .