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oyster  ·  2919 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fidel Castro is dead at age 90

I admittedly know less than I should about Cuba and the controversy around Castro. What I'm gathering though is America was friendly with the previous dictator, but Castro was more friendly with the Soviet Union so America cut them off and tried to start shit all while acting like it was about human rights violations while being chummy with fucking Saudi Arabia, is that accurate ?





user-inactivated  ·  2919 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes. He really was as authoritarian as US propaganda says he was, but as authoritarian regimes go he wasn't nearly as bad as some we're on good terms with.