“It is even more painful when you realize that pre-Castro Cuba attracted thousands of immigrants from all over the world.”
Good food, good music, good weather, and beautiful women. Who wouldn’t want to live there, if not for the commies?
Batista was an intelligent man who rose from the bottom to the top of his society, He was in his first presidency a model for Latin American leaders. He unfortunately fell to his own ego and became a parody in his second presidency. It appears his regime executed well less thana thousand rebels, far fewer than Castro did in any year of the first decade of his tyranny. Anyone old enough to remember what the capital of Cuba was like in 1958 and what Havanna is today knows who was the better ruler. Incidentally Batista diverted himself in retirement in Portugal in writing historical memoirs which are remarkable.
RE: Good food, good music, good weather, and beautiful women. Who wouldn’t want to live there, if not for the commies?
We visited Cuba in 2018. As you travel around Havana in one of those chartered 1950’s style GM vehicles, you notice a lot of old, unkept buildings with great traditional character still standing.
Imagine a very beautiful woman who hasn’t taken a bath nor combed her hair— that’s how Havana’s buildings look like.
And the island itself is NATURALLY BEAUTIFUL. Also, NO TRAFFIC as people don’t own cars. 😀😆
One can just imagine what the place would look like if free market enterprises were to return unfettered by corrupt government interference…