Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil

This article is about the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE), the student led opposition party that was involved in the Cuban Revolution against Batista. While the article appears to be written by a neutral source, the article tends to focus on the DRE and its post-revolution opposition to Castro and involvement with the United States. This is derived from the fact that the sources of the article all focus on the Kennedy administration and its involvement with the group. From clicking on a few links within the article I was able to find out that Lee Harvey Oswald had been in contact with the group and the CIA was in touch with the group prior to the Bay of Pigs invasion. These connection are what have drawn the Cubans into the Kennedy Assassination conspiracy theory. From examining the sources and links within the page the sources were from both political science and history journals however, the lack of content and relatively few number of sources on the page suggest that there is room for improvement. For the purposes of this class the area of focus would be to increase the involvement in the time leading up to the revolution as well as its actual involvement. I think these additions would increase its start rating within the two groups that the article is a part of (Terrorism and Cuba). This lack of detailed information could have potentially led to why their is not a dialogue amongst wikipedia authors. In all this is a well written article that falls short when talking about the actual role of the DRE in the revolution and needs a little more detail (attention) to be a strong article.

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