(11-26-2016, 10:05 AM)BIAD Wrote: You can't leave it like that! Please, for possible younger members, can you expand your reasons of glee?!
The media painted him as a noble revolutionary that seemed to want freedom for a down-trodden populace.
A cigar-chomping leader that wished -because it was reported thus, his people to remain free of capitalism.
However, the same mainstream media left out a few things.
Wow... your right. I had to go and look at what the media was saying because of what you said and it's fairly well glowing. Crazy.. the worst thing the associated press said about him was followed with a paragraph intended to counter the negative.
Quote:Within months, Castro was imposing radical economic reforms. Members of the old government went before summary courts, and at least 582 were shot by firing squads over two years. Independent newspapers were closed and in the early years, homosexuals were herded into camps for "re-education."
In 1964, Castro acknowledged holding 15,000 political prisoners. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans fled, including Castro's daughter Alina Fernandez Revuelta and his younger sister Juana.
Still, the revolution thrilled millions in Cuba and across Latin America who saw it as an example of how the seemingly arrogant Yankees could be defied. And many on the island were happy to see the seizure of property of the landed class, the expulsion of American gangsters and the closure of their casinos.
https://www.apnews.com/5ef60f67cefb46869...dies-at-90
This article in its entirety is just crazy how they try and make Castro look so wonderful.