174. The Cuban Revolution

Empire

Jack Davenport

History

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It’s 1959 and the swaggering Cuban revolutionary, Fidel Castro, has just overthrown the unpopular American backed dictator, Fulgencio Batista. Che Guevara, the Marxist physician whose face would become an internationally recognised symbol of resistance, is at his side. But how did the small Caribbean nation go from a profitable outpost of the Spanish empire to a heady American party island, rife with gangsters and gambling, to a hub of revolution? Listen as Anita and William are joined by Alex Von Tunzelmann to discuss the events that led up to the Cuban Revolution. Twitter: @Empirepoduk Email: [email protected] Goalhangerpodcasts.com Assistant Producers: Anouska Lewis and Alice Horrell Producer: Callum Hill Exec Producer: Neil Fearn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	If you want access to bonus episodes reading lists for every series of empire, a chat community,
0:06.7	discounts for all the books mentioned in the week's podcast, add free listening and a weekly
0:11.5	newsletter, sign up to Empire Club at
0:14.4	W.
0:15.1	W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me William D with me Anita Arnum and me William
0:34.3	Drempo. Let's say we're a bit giddy. We are a bit giddy. We are because we've got a
0:38.5	great friend of the podcast on who's a right old laugh and a wonderful, wonderful historian.
0:45.0	The great Alex von Tinselman is here and the reason you're here, I mean you could talk
0:49.4	about so many different things indeed you have spoken about the last vice-roy before brilliantly on this
0:54.5	podcast if you haven't heard it go back and listen because she's amazing but we're talking
0:59.5	about Cuba today she was so good in fact that we decided to put her on this show months ago. We've been
1:05.4	planning this for weeks to go. Some terrible slander is arising.
1:12.7	She is an honored and cherished guest.
1:15.4	Shut your face, I'm poor.
1:16.7	Anyway, you are here because you are the author of Red Heat,
1:21.2	which is the critically acclaimed history of Cuba. And Cuba is just one part of a puzzle
1:26.7	Alex we've been looking at when it comes to America's Empire. The term itself is just so loaded and controversial because so many people say what empire, we know, an empire, and we have had Daniel Imovar on the program as well who's talked very compellingly about the hidden empire, and Cuba you would contest is very much a piece of this jigsaw puzzle.
1:46.3	Well I think the whole Caribbean is a piece of this jigsaw puzzle at least the independent countries in the Caribbean
1:51.3	so really you're looking at Cuba Haiti and the Dominican Republic because of course a lot of the other countries, places like Jamaica or Barbados, were in the British orbit. Some of those countries still are, you know, or in the French orbit or Dutch orbit or whatever else but those independent countries
2:07.4	certainly attracted from quite early on the attention of American politicians and you know, I think when we're talking about empire, it's difficult,
2:16.0	depends what definition you go for and of course a lot of people would say it's not an empire unless you are
2:20.3	occupying land, but the United States did occupy parts of the Caribbean for significant
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jack Davenport, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jack Davenport and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.