IB History Topic Consolidation and Maintenance: Castro's Use of Force Revision Notes (SL/HL)

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Use of force

After Batista’s fall in 1959, Castro used summary trials and executions to consolidate power.
500+ officials executed in the first year, often without due process.
Many Cubans saw this as justified retribution, but international critics condemned it as human rights abuse.
Revolutionary tribunals: Run by military and committees, bypassed legal institutions to suppress dissent.
Targeted counter-revolutionaries, CIA suspects, and Escambray insurgents (1960–66).
Many faced imprisonment, torture, or execution, branded as enemies of the revolution and imperialist agents.

Case study

The Revolutionary Tribunals

Revolutionary tribunals (1959): Set up to punish Batista loyalists (army, police, intelligence) accused of torture, murder, and corruption.
Justification: Framed as revolutionary justice correcting the failures of Batista’s judiciary.
Trials: Public, politicized, broadcast widely; defendants had little protection, with outcomes often predetermined.
Executions: Hundreds executed in first 6 months; condemned abroad but supported by many Cubans as retribution.
By early 1960s: Tribunals became tools of political control, replacing independent courts with a judiciary loyal to revolutionary ideology.

Exile, Dissent, and Forced Labor

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Use of force

After Batista’s fall in 1959, Castro used summary trials and executions to consolidate power.
500+ officials executed in the first year, often without due process.
Many Cubans saw this as justified retribution, but international critics condemned it as human rights abuse.
Revolutionary tribunals: Run by military and committees, bypassed legal institutions to suppress dissent.
Targeted counter-revolutionaries, CIA suspects, and Escambray insurgents (1960–66).
Many faced imprisonment, torture, or execution, branded as enemies of the revolution and imperialist agents.

Case study

The Revolutionary Tribunals

Revolutionary tribunals (1959): Set up to punish Batista loyalists (army, police, intelligence) accused of torture, murder, and corruption.
Justification: Framed as revolutionary justice correcting the failures of Batista’s judiciary.
Trials: Public, politicized, broadcast widely; defendants had little protection, with outcomes often predetermined.
Executions: Hundreds executed in first 6 months; condemned abroad but supported by many Cubans as retribution.
By early 1960s: Tribunals became tools of political control, replacing independent courts with a judiciary loyal to revolutionary ideology.

Exile, Dissent, and Forced Labor

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Paper 1 - The Move to Global War6 subtopics

Paper 1 - Rights and Protest6 subtopics

Paper 1 - Conflict and Intervention6 subtopics

Paper 2 - Independence Movements5 subtopics

Paper 2 - Emergence and Development of Democratic States5 subtopics

Paper 2 - Authoritarian States7 subtopics

Paper 2 - Causes and Effects of 20th Century Wars4 subtopics

Paper 2 - The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries4 subtopics

Paper 3 - History of Europe18 subtopics

Paper 3 - History of the Americas18 subtopics

Paper 3 - History of Asia and Oceania18 subtopics

IB History Consolidation and Maintenance: Castro's Use of Force Notes

Paper 1 - The Move to Global War6 subtopics

Paper 1 - Rights and Protest6 subtopics

Paper 1 - Conflict and Intervention6 subtopics

Paper 2 - Independence Movements5 subtopics

Paper 2 - Emergence and Development of Democratic States5 subtopics

Paper 2 - Authoritarian States7 subtopics

Paper 2 - Causes and Effects of 20th Century Wars4 subtopics

Paper 2 - The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries4 subtopics

Paper 3 - History of Europe18 subtopics

Paper 3 - History of the Americas18 subtopics

Paper 3 - History of Asia and Oceania18 subtopics

Use of force

The Revolutionary Tribunals

Exile, Dissent, and Forced Labor

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Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit

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Use of force

The Revolutionary Tribunals

Exile, Dissent, and Forced Labor

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Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit

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