Melissa Handel

Ms.Barnett

AP World

24 April 2017

DBQ

Document 1
El discurso del metodo By Heberto Padilla
you are not Hearing what you will have to hear for a long time still; Or (worse) you
think that cunning or good judgment will suffice to avoid that one day, when entering your
house only find a chair destroyed, with a lot of broken books, I advise you to run right
away, to look for A passport, a password, a crippled child, anything

Document 2
Fidel Castro 23 August 1961
Castro Addresses Writers and Artists

On 28 January we will have the Latin American Congress of Writers and

Artists. That will be another triumph of the revolution and a stimulus for
others in Latin America, where there are so many revolutionary writers and
artists who form committees of solidarity with the Cuban Revolution. We
greet them warmly. We hope they will soon reap the harvest of their
efforts. We wish them success as writers and artists and as seeds of the
fatherland of tomorrow.

Document 3
Free Speech and Press Around the World
S.Daul
Historically, free speech has been limited through the use of censorship by the Cuban
government, especially in the case of the Fidel Castro regime. Firstly, according to Fidel
Castro, Cubans are not prohibited from writing on any subject he likes. As well, the
citizens are to choose the form that suits him, let each express freely the idea he wants to.
[The Fidel Castro Regime] will always judge his work though the prism of the
Revolution. Although Castro recognizes the right to basic free speech of the people of
Cuba, it is always subjected to the censorship of the Revolution, or the Castro Regime. For
example, an unnamed journalist and publicist reflected... His stand was taken as an
expression of opposition to the government, and Fidel Castro responded by inventing
footnotes, an addition to every published thought by Cuban journalists as a way of
 adding Castros input of the journalists speech is not truly free and is subjected to the
governments thought.

Document 4
Free Speech and Press Around the World
S.Daul

Secondly, it is a widely known idea by the Cuban people that, publications attacking or
condemning socialism or the Revolution are prohibited, in Cuba, in the past and present.
The limitation is created in regards to the people is a hushing affect, also limiting the use of
free speech in Cuba. When a Cuban citizen expressed their thoughts on Fidel Castros
leadership through the press, Castro manipulated the majority into disregarding the expression
based on viewpoint discrimination and ordered the opinion be withdrawn from the press
entirely. Removing speech based on its content is a form of censorship that has been used in
Cuba by the Castro Regime, limiting their citizens freedom of expression.

Document 5
Cuba Verdad: Reporters Sans
Frontieres (RSF)
 Throughout history, Cuba has gone through many political changes and many different

political leaders. And with these many changing political climates comes many different changes

in different art forms, including literature. From the early 1950s to the beginning of the

Communist revolution in the early 1960s, we see a change in the way that literature is used.

Before the revolution, it is used more for leisure activities as well as to provided writers with an

outlet to express themselves. After the revolution, Fidel Castro established my new rules that

prohibited writers from expressing themselves freely. These laws included writers not being

allowed to write on any subjects that Castro liked.

The communist revolution led to some changes in the world of literature including

different laws that were put in place to prohibit writers from speaking their minds. In document

3, the speaker talks about a law that Castro put in place that does not allow people to write

against things that he likes. The purpose in this article is significant because it shows how Castro

and the communist government used many different censorship techniques to keep writers true

opinions. Document 4 shows the strong grasp that the government has over the newspapers

which prohibits people from publishing their thoughts. The occasion in this case is important

because many of the articles that are being removed from periodicals and newspapers are articles

that criticize Castro.

Not only was this censorship seen as problem from the citizens in Cuba, It was, and still

is, seen by different democratic countries around the world. In document 1, the audience is

significant because they are most likely the people to be swayed by the government that their

lives will be changed and not necessarily for the better if they follow the Castro regime. In
document 5, the poster shows a French propaganda poster that shows how oppressive the Cuban

government is on journalists. The speaker is important in this document because the poster was

made by a democratic country looking in on a communist country. The significance of that is

how even though the communists are trying to eliminate the negative writing, it is still being read

by people around the world.

In order to gain respect and support, the communist government talked about and talked

about creating many different government run programs that would appeal to the intellectuals of

Cuba. AN example of one of these programs was the Latin American Congress of Writers and

Artists. Document 2 is a speech by Fidel Castro implementing this congress and describing the

writers and artists as seeds of the Fatherland. The purpose of this is significant because Castro is

trying to gain support of the writers in order to get them to write positive things about him in the

first place. Because even if the writers had written something that was not approved by the

government, it would have been changed to sound more positive. During this time, the Soviet

Union was going through a period called destalinization due to the death of Joseph Stalin.

The Soviet Union in the 20th century did some of the same things that Castro did to make

sure that the public only read and saw what the government wanted them to see. In the Soviet

Union, many books, periodicals, and works of art were disseminated due to their strong anti

communist comments. This also occurred in Cuba when writers were trying to speak out against

the communist regime and were not heard due to the governments strong censorship rules.