"Guess you're just a whole lot smarter than me."
I agree with you, I tried reading the article and wandered off scratching my head. So I asked some direct questions, and I'm made to feel like an idiot. :-) Glad someone else feels the same way.
If a person can't say what they want in one paragraph in this forum...they better try re-writing it.
Bottom line, sounds like a movie to go see!
It's one thing to have an off-point lead paragraph that catches readers' attention, followed by 2-3 graphs showing the main point the writer wants to make. After that more exposition is okay once a general point of view is established. This article keeps on backing and backing, giving mostly exposition instead of substance, to roughly the 21st paragraph.
Castro's "revolution" was indeed a rebellion. Its Marxist nature was well concealed, not just by the Castro contingent but by the American media. Once intellectuals and other anti-Castroites were being taken to "the wall" by Che and other killers and shot, the media were forced to tell the truth. But since then we've had almost 50 years of sympathetic media pro-Castro propaganda and lies.
Batista's regime was dictatorial and the U.S. was wrong for supporting it so uncritically. But pre-Castro Cuba wasn't at all the hell-hole of repression the Left claims it was. I look forward to seeing a truthful movie from Garcia's point of view.