“I make no excuses for Batista’s mistakes”
Yes, yes you do.
Batista to Castro was one Shiite Hellhole for The People into another.
Batista was the old Patron style of exploitation that still exists in lots of Latin American cultures. Great for the top tier, crap and more scraps for the bottom.
Castro was just a brutal Crook. But a system with the same great deal for the top tier, with scraps, crap and prison for the rest.
“Batista to Castro was one Shiite Hellhole for The People into another.”
Yep, Commie revolutions don’t come from nowhere.
Things have to be pretty bad for the population to look at a group of Marxist thugs and think “those guys might be better”
Hogwash.
Though thoroughly corrupt and unstable, pre-revolutionary Cuba was a relatively wealthy and prosperous country.
During the first half of the 20th century, well over a million Spaniards (as in the European kind) emigrated to Cuba. By 1958, on the eve of the revolution, tens of thousands of Italians had pending visa applications in the Cuban consulate in Rome.
After the revolution, needless to say, millions fled the island.
Please explain how the revolution transformed Cuba from a nation of immigrants to a nation of emigrants.
SeeMs to me Cuba and Havana were still a hugely popular vacation destination for lots of civilized people. All through the ‘50s.
Not sure how that squares with hellhole.
If we had let United Fruit handle this, Fidel Castro never would have come to power.