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Roger that about Batista. Cuba, like many another Latin American country, has lurched from "strong man" to "strong man." None of whom delivered on his promises.

I find it incomprehensible. I love the relatively neat and orderly processes of law and constitutions.

Maybe it has something to do with literacy? If you can't read, you get taken advantage of? But I think Cuba's literacy rate is not low, so maybe that's not it.

It's been rather a long time since I interacted with Latin American students but my recollection was that they tended to believe a lot of myths about capitalism. We have a lot of the tin-foil, black helicopter types here in the US as well, but when I was in college it seemed to me that this was more pronounced in Latin Americans. Then again, I've discovered that Russians and Eastern Europeans find Larouche fascinating, they think maybe finally they are hearing the truth about Americans.

In Cuba, the middle and even some upper class supported Castro's revolution because of his promises to restore the constitution, and hold free elections...he was after all, one of them. Once they figured out that Castro was a communist, they fled the country.

One of the main reasons for the incredible success of the Cuban immigrants in the US, is the fact that nearly the entire middle and upper class of Cuban's socioeconomic machine migrated here.