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Someone who held no free nor fair elections for half a century, imprisoned his political opponents after trials presided over by crony judges, completely contro
by vixen99 10y ago
Someone who held no free nor fair elections for half a century, imprisoned his political opponents after trials presided over by crony judges, completely controlled all the national media and installed his brother as his successor? And that's not a tyrant?
- vic-traill 10y agoWell, that's a part of the story. And the only part of the story that you have been able to encounter in the American media since the 1950's. The story is much broader than that. Fidel was also the liberator of his country from a military dictatorship which had sold Cuban casinos to the Mafia [0] and swaths of Cuban agricultural land to the United Fruit Company. [1] In that context, Castro was certainly not the tyrant. History is nuanced. Look below the surface. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lansky#Cuba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lansky#Cuba [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company#Cuba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company#Cuba