Castro is dead

[denilson200]

People forget some of the CIA-directed cold war bullshit preceded Castro. USA fostered a coup in Guatemala in 1954, and were using their might to prop up United Fruit-friendly right-wing assholes all over Central America. They had also gotten rid of Mossadegh in Iran long before Castro came to power.

Was Castro a good guy ? Depends on who you ask. I’ll say one thing, whatever people say about Castro, Batista (President of Cuba before Castro) was worse.

So when people talk about Castro they forget the man he replaced, just like people forget the corrupt and inept military dictatorship USA supported in Vietnam. The Mob totally owned Havana in the 1950’s. They were delivering suitcases full of cash to Batista, and he was making sure everybody got paid off so that nobody was bothering the Mob.

Batista also used torture and violence against protesters. Of course, USA didn’t care, he was *theirs*. As long as United Fruit, Meyer Lansky, and other Americans were getting rich, Batista was OK by them.

Castro was the first (and for ages the only) left-wing ruler in Latin America that was able to tell American robber barons, and their CIA allies, to go fuck themselves. He kept Cuba from becoming Guatemala.

Castro built a good healthcare system, excellent education, and a decent quality of life for most people, despite the best efforts of the USA. America has never had any interest in promoting democracy in other countries and has deposed democratically elected governments where those governments obstructed American interests.

When Castro came to power, Jim Crow was alive and well across the USA and the USA supported similar oppressive regimes across the world. South Africa is a good example. USA supported the apartheid regime till the 80s.

Fidel Castro worked with many African leaders like Kwame Nkrumah, Mandela, Malcolm X.







Fidel Castro & Cuba offered to send medical help 2 all the dying Black ppl during Hurricane Katrina & the US said no

Not only did Fidel Castro & Cuba help end apartheid in South Africa, he also helped the African nation of Angola win it's independence. Castro & Cuba did a lot to help west Africans in the Ebola crisis. Not to mention Cuba has doctors in Haiti right now combating the cholera UN workers gave the Haitian people.

Castro was an ally for African liberation around the globe.