[rktman]

Yikes! I’m old enough to remember watching the Movietone News at the theater showing castro and che and the “freedom” fighters and their efforts to overthrow the Cuban govt. Like it was a good thing.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I found a 1962 Life magazine that has a picture of him wearing a Rolex.

[driftless2]

I saw a lot of those old news reels as well, but I didn't know anybody taken in by Castro and the other commies. In the eight grade when the nun left the room I remember a friend of mine getting up in front of the class and imitating Castro's harangues. We all laughed.

Even when I was a Dem I thought Castro was just another commie thug. When I went to college I quickly found out he and Guevarra were heroes to many of the profs in the liberal arts courses. And Stalin was still a hero to a few of them.