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...