Castro is Batista’s avarice alloyed with Guevara’s blood lust.
Batista was a dictator who share the responsibility for opening the path to the communist takeover. Nevertheless, when Batista left power Cuba have almost not internal or international debts and the Cuban peso was internationally accepted on par to the dollar. Batista left in the Treasure $400 million dollar in gold and convertible foreign currency, the equivalent of several billions in today dollars. In perspective, it seems that Batista was a very frugal president compared with the Communist kleptocracy that have oppressed the Cuban people for more than half a century.
Very well put. How two well to do sons of a United Fruit exec. turned out like Fidel and Raoul, is beyond me.