I recall that Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was pretty dark skinned and widely seen as "black" by western countries, but the Egyptians themselves were very irate at Lou Gossett Jr. being cast to play him in a Hollywood biopic, seeing it as an insult to have him portrayed by a black man.
Anyway, I DID know that Batista was an absolute dictator who seized power in a coop BEFORE Castro, resulting in Americans greeting Castro's overthrow of Batista with open arms and hailing him as a liberator. Of course, the honeymoon was short lived as they figured out within a few months that he was a Lenin style marxist figure and an even WORSE totaltarian dictator.
Makes me wonder when's the LAST time Cuba had some leader that was actually freely chosen in a democratic process.
It’s hilarious Castroite apologist & fanboi loons still cite Batista as being so “horrible” and that Castro & Co. were “justified” in getting rid of him. Batista was fine with business as usual and keeping good relations with the United States (and, after all, Cuba still had a high per capita income by 1958, one of the wealthiest nations). We’ve seen what 62+ years of Castroite Stalinism has done to this once great nation.
1948. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Cuban_general_election
Bautisa of course had been freely elected President prior to taking over via coup.