2. Compare the Cuban revolution with the Chilean coup d’etat. Why did the Batist

2. Compare the Cuban revolution with the Chilean coup d’etat. Why did
the Batista regime collapse in Cuba? Why did the Allende regime fail?
What lessons can be learned about the threats to dictatorship and the
threats to democracies?
One way to tackle this essay would be to start with a list of similarities and
differences in the political history of each country, then build an argument
from the patterns that emerge.