Nicolás Prados Ortiz de Solórzano

Research Topic

Between Exile and Revolution: The Struggle for Democracy in the Caribbean, 1944-1963

Supervisor: Professor Eduardo Posada-Carbó

My research focuses on the struggle for democracy that swept the Caribbean Basin in the late 1940s and how it developed during the 1950s and early 60s, negotiating the tensions between democracy, revolution and repression. I emphasize the role of transnational revolutionary networks operating in the region to bring about the downfall of dictatorships in Latin America.

I previously completed an MPhil thesis at Oxford on the participation of exiles and the transnational revolutionary network in the Cuban Revolution: "A Caribbean Revolution: The Caribbean Legion, Fidel Castro and the exiled revolutionary network, 1952-1959" (submitted in 2019).

My first book "Exiles, Revolutionaries and Tyrants: Cuba in the Caribbean Cold War, 1952-1959" is forthcoming in 2020, published by Palgrave Macmillan.