https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/27/fidel-castro-policies-dictator#comments Forget Fidel Castro’s policies. What matters is that he was a dictator Zoe Williams says, "Forget Fidel Castro’s policies. What matters is that he was a dictator". In one sense of course, she is right as Fidel Castro was a dictator, albeit that the description could be interpreted in a number of ways. However, to say "forget Fidel Castro's policies", ignores and trivialises the predominant truth of the Cuban revolution and its subsequent social structure. On the 1st January 1959, the 26th of July Movement and its allies, finally overthrew the corrupt and despotic President Fulgencio Batista and his authoritarian government, after some 6 years of sporadic fighting. Fulgencio Batista, Cuban president and crime syndicate chief? The Batista government had political, financial and military support from the United States after seizing po...
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The "revolutionary", who brought higher living standards, free education and free healthcare to the people of Cuba.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/26/fidel-castro-cuba-revolutionary-icon-dies Fidel Castro dies aged 90 Fidel Castro was a South American revolutionary who together with Che Guevara freed the people of Cuba from the despotic and corrupt Mafia controlled rule of Fulgencio Batista in the late 1950's. Ernesto " Che " Guevara Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz Fulgencio Batista ZaldÃvar Castro created a socialist society in Cuba building schools, hospitals and public utilities and improving living standards, providing free health care and education and improving adult literacy. Against a background of perpetual American sanctions and embargo's in place for almost 50 years, together with numerous assassination attempts, Castro maintained programmes which have led to Cuba now having first-world levels of literacy and life expectancy. Havana Loved or hated the world over,...
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/magazine/it%E2%80%99s-not-the-us-embargo-that-keeps-cuba-poor-it%E2%80%99s-the-brothers-castro/ar-BBgUYpV?ocid=U142DHP It’s not the US embargo that keeps Cuba poor, it’s the brothers Castro Celebrations in Havana for US and Cuba plans to restore ties. The headline from this MSN, introduces an article which, ostensibly, is to report on the American initiative to "normalise" the relationship between Havana and Washington.The article of course does nothing of the sort, and soon sinks to the depth of yet another criticism to add to the list of criticisms leveled at Cuba and Fidel Castro in particular, over the last 56 years.The piece of journalistic nonsense, goes the way of all the rest and seeks to explain away the Cuban revolution as just another failed exercise in the "Marxist" experiment of economy management and ignores, as is often the case with American versions of history, the "Why" and the "How...