He set out to overthrow the corrupt, brutal Batista dictatorship. He wanted what was best for all Cubans, not just the white casino and business owners, U. S. corporations, and land owners who treated brown-skinned and indigenous people literally like slaves.
Right after he came to power, he came to the U. S. to cultivate a relationship between the two countries. At that point, he was a socialist in the mold of Musaddiq, Peron or Chavez. But after his meeting with then VP Nixon, Nixon reported that Castro was just a damn commie. The U. S. immediately set out to destroy the new Cuban government because the U. S., ruled as it is by corporations and global bankers, would no longer be able to vacuum profit out of the island as it did everywhere else. Castro could not be bought.
After the U. S. essentially declared war on the revolutionary government, Castro had no alternative than to seek alliance with the USSR. He moved to a full communist economy.
Many of the white ruling class lost their plantations and businesses and fled to the U. S. Mobsters lost their casinos and property, too. And corporations cried their eyes out.
As for those who were imprisoned or executed, the fragile new government had little choice - either allow subversives to plot overthrow with the help of the CIA, or eliminate the threat. I can relate to that in light of the fact that there are people undermining the U. S. that I would love to see executed.
The U. S. always claims that its motives for attacking other countries are about human rights and democracy, even while its overthrow tactics result in misery and death to millions. It always call the leaders of those countries brutal dictators. The U. S. doesn't give one fuck about human rights or democracy. Anyone who hasn't figured that out by now is blind.
It's true that the Cuban government did some bad things such as outlawing homosexuality. But the U. S. was still practicing racial segregation at the time. Cuba was tough on drug use. It didn't put up with dissidents, so free speech and rallies were considered dangerous. In those respects, it was oppressive.
In the end, though, despite every effort by the U. S. to kill Castro, starve the country, and overthrow the revolution, Cuba managed to do fairly well by being innovative in the fields of agriculture and medicine. It has even helped a lot of countries around the world.
Castro, himself, was a mixed bag. Name one U. S. president who wasn't. But I think Castro was genuine in his desire to benefit the Cuban people. I think he was a good man. He was certainly courageous, intelligent, and incorruptible. And I applaud his success in keeping his rabid and extremely powerful northern neighbor at bay forever. Viva la revolución!
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He was no worse than Batista. I’ve gotten a little inside info from Cuban nationals, and they’d rather be under Castro than Batista, given the choice (if both were alive, obviously). The old Batista regime was corrupt and in the pocket of both the American government and the American mafia. Sugar, tourism, gambling, prostitution…. Americans were seeing their cut. And that, along with the standard irrational American fear of communism existing, not even in America, but just existing, and Castro was always going to be portrayed as a bad guy to Americans.
All you need to know is that, to have my American education tell it, Cuba basically never existed until like 1950-something, then it suddenly existed as some major threat to the American way of life, lmfao. There was no backstory, just Cuba—>Castro—>bad—>U-S-A!!! U-S-A!!! U-S-A!!!🤦♂️😂 That pretty much tells you how unbiased the information source is.
I don’t know much about him other than about his relationship with and his thoughts of JFK. There are transcripts of his interviews when asked about JFK and he was even in the middle of one when he got the call Kennedy was assassinated. Intriguing, interesting stuff for sure.
Other than that, don’t know much.
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He was a commie piece of shit that ruined what could have been a great country.
It’s disgusting how the left wingers here in the US glorify him even when the Cuban people protest against the tyranny Fidel created.My first opinion: Fidel Castro is dead.
He led a revolution against a dictatorship... a good thing. But then he got too power-hungry, sided with the communists, and ruined his country.
In hindsight, he was initially good for Cuba, then became misguided.Let's just say, it doesn't take much effort to guess where Ubisoft got its ideas from for Far Cry 6. Castillo is a paper-thin stand-in for Castro. Lacking only the iconic beard. The DLC Breaking Bad jokes also feel weirdly appropriate. As in, if we didn't have monsters that like the Castro regime running our current CIA, we'd probably have had the CIA plant a lot of real-life Walter Whites just to take out the real life Gus.
One thing the game gets wrong: it ignores China. Cubans this year decided they all wanted to be Dani Rojas. And then China invaded and put a stop to that nonsense.He did good for Cuba. Cuba's working classes were being fucked by the upper classes, corrupt politicians like Batista, and exploitation by foreign countries like the USA. Castro broke the cycle that is pretty much the same all over Latin America, the rich stay rich and poor stay poor with no hope of economic success or education to better their selves. Under Castro Cuba's medical/ healthcare system became one of the best in the world for a 3rd world country. The Cubans are better educated because of the free school system and free higher education that was started by Castro's system. My opinion of Castro is good.
Given how people talk about "what he did do Cuba", you get the impression that Cuba under Batista was a shining beacon of liberty and prosperity LMAO.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/jeH3MTNUjmUAnd FYI, he wasn't originally a communist. His revolution was to make Cuba's wealth benefit it's people versus crime sindicates in the US. He became a communist to ally with the USSR because he was afraid of an invasion by the US.
Yet another human who exploited the lives of others for personal gains and went insane with power. Whether he started off with the intent of becoming a ruthless military dictator or not is debatable, but I don't know a single person of Cuban descent who has anything but unadultered resentment for him.
As someone who personally knows survivors of his Gulags. I can say that I hate him. He was a dictatorial Warlord who didn't care about Cuba, and only wanted to pander ro his largest ally at the time. His actions hurt and displaced people I know and love. For that he will always be seen as a Demon.
All we can do is compare him to other communist leaders. He didn’t have gulags or secret police- that I know of- and didn’t kill thousands or millions. He didn’t do much for his country though. Just let it rot as he drank banana daquiris. Though the 60 yr American boycott didn’t help.
He’s a good communist. The only good one is a dead one.
If you talk to actual Cubans none of them like him. And that’s pretty telling.
So it doesn’t matter what I think.He was an evil dictator up words of Stalin Mao and Hitler
Well I have a friend whose Grandparents were from Cuba from what I understand is the guy's a real piece of s***
Many people who has fled to the US from Cuba has definitely hated this guy with a passion and I don't blame them. Socialism ruins countries and Cuba is no exception.
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My grandfather is in the sign advertising business back then and he met Fidel and he actually made a sign for him before he turned bad
Dopey Communist who took advantage of a corrupt situation in Cuba and generally made it worse.
he's an evil man who drove cuba back into the stone age
Better than average pro pitcher , communist , and dictator.
The Cromwell of the Caribbean.
He's dead now who cares.
He’s a scumbag commie. Like all commies.
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