Fidel Castro dead

[Brian37]

Castro drove the gamblers and graft out of Cuba.

Sure. Another way of looking at it is that he drove the Mafia out of Cuba because he wasn't going to get Batista's share.

The notion that this opportunistic thug was some kind of moral idealist is just nutty.

Boru

THANK YOU AND BINGO!

Which is why it sickens me to see poor Cuban Refugees make the escape only to come here and vote Republican. Most older Cubans and rightfully so condemn CASTRO but vote for Trump who is in bed with a former KGB thug a product of the communism they rightfully hate.

i have run into, not that many, but some social liberals whom have CHE as their avatar on social media, and I always find that fucking absurd considering our social media is banned in CUBA. It is railing against an open society while using the products of an open society.

CHE/CASTRO/PUTIN and Trump are all opportunists. Any CUBAN or even republican born here whom thinks Trump is a hero or cares about workers for that matter, is fooling themselves.

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Yeah, I'm about as liberal as it's possible to make us, and I would not for a second defend Castro in anyway. I merely understand the reasons why he rose to power and why some people would celebrate him.

Yea, me too, same with Hitler, nobody should excuse either monster. But that is how these assholes rise. Take a economically desperate population, have a well speaking orator bombastic populist....BOOOOM.

If those who defend CASTRO point to free health care and free higher education as evidence of his compassion that is simply bullshit. Many of our western allies already employ health care and have cheap to free higher education, so it is possible to do those things with out having a dictator provide them.

But yea, it is as simple as preying off desperation.