Batista was a cake walk compared to Castro.
I truly don't think that most American liberals have studied what the Cuban revolution of 1959 entailed. I have to chalk this post up to ignorance because I think that very few people are truly evil. Ignorance, unfortunately, is rampant when it comes to the left's understanding of Cuba, and that ignorance can be dangerous as hell.
My brother visited Cuba earlier this year with his old college roommate. The roommate wasn't feeling well one night so my brother went to the local pharmacy. While he was there a woman came in with a prescription and handed it to the pharmacist. She was told he could not fill it because this pharmacy was only for tourists. She started crying because she would have to travel a great distance to find one for Cuban citizens. My brother offered to purchase the medicine for her and, needless to say, she was extremely grateful.
My brother was a liberal in college and over the years has gradually left the "dark side". He was very upset by the incident.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about and have clearly swallowed the leftist propaganda hook, line, and sinker.
Castro is/was the cruelest of dictators. The health care, education, equality myth does not compute. Just look at the statistics for Cuba in the years prior to the "glorious revolution." The country was ALREADY providing its people extremely good health care and education-- which have declined, not improved, under the monster Fidel. A look at s Havana phone book from the '50s will show you yellow pages that go on and on with listings of nice little businesses. People were making money. Thriving, in fact. NO ONE has thrived in Cuba since then. Except Castro, who has about $2 billion in offshore accounts thanks to tourism and some of his communist minions who drive around Havana in new Mercedes while the populace tries to figure out still another way to keep their 1954 Chevies alive for one more mile. There's nothing in between....NO middle class, no middle zone, no equality whatsoever. Perhaps 5% of the population are high enough up the (unelected) commie heirarchy to participate in the good stuff, the rest suffer. SUFFER.
Racial equality? You have to be kidding. I was there in '99...you could not find a black person in Havana in any neighborhood likely to be visited by tourists. A black professor we dredged up told us that blacks had been involuntarily relocated to the countryside in droves when tourism became Csstro's main source of income. Cuban workers earned $7/week at foreign-run hotels, but those hotels paid Castro $50 per week per worker. And today, prostitution is many times worse than it was in the Batista era simply because there's no other way for women to make a living. No nice little stores to work in, no possibility of starting a little dressmaking shop without being thrown into jail.
And Castro's jails are known to all civil rights groups worldwide as the most demeaning, cruelest, nastiest ever devised. A dear friend of mine worked for one of those groups for decades, helped get political prisoners released from all kinds of jails, dungeons, torture chambers from Sudan to Chile...he couldn't even talk about Castro's jails without tearing up at the atrocities he had seen there.
May Castro rot in the lowest level of hell.