Castro, however, did keep his cards very close to his chest.
My father figured him out from the start. My mother thought he was the greatest thing since Clark Gable......until he threw my maternal grandfather into the Cuban Gulag as a political prisoner.
In 1959, my uncle was fighting with Castro against the two-bit thug Batista as Castro had promised to restore the Constitution of 1940.
On April 17, 1961, after Castro had showed his true colors, that same uncle has hitting the beach at Playa Giron with Brigada 2506 to fight against Castro.
Cuba's trust in Castro may have been naive but Cuba's disdain for Fulgencio Batista, who betrayed the Cuban Constitution of 1940, was fully justified.