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In reply to the discussion: The New Opening With the USA (statement from Raul Castro) [View all]Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)People living with intestinal parasites, without running water, without sewer systems, without electricity, people who had to get written permission from the landowners to go to the doctor, etc., etc., etc. Death squads? The "White Palace" described by U.S. CIA Philip Agee as a horrendous torture center? On, and on, and on.
Batista's military bombing his own people? Blacking out stories in the magazines in the news stands? Having his brother-in-law picking up nightly pay-offs from the Mafia-run hotel casinos? On and on, and on, and on. It was a viciously racist society, and Batista was so stupid he didn't even know they secretly looked down on him because he was part Chinese, didn't want him to be a member at their Yacht Club.
It was a pile of maggots. The Cubans were glad to say goodbye to those dirty, racist creeps when they ran for the airplanes, Batista's regime, of course, taking along the contents of the Cuban National Treasury as they cleared out.
Jesus H. Christ.