I loved Fidel

[Bad Dog]

17. Castro was a lot better than what he replaced.

James Woods has a very telling line in Salvador, basically America doesn't care about human rights abuses as long as the perpetrators aren't communist. Which is why they aided Pinochet's coup in Chili and said nothing about the 'disappearances' that followed. It's also why we heard nothing about Saddam Hussein's brutality while he was at war with Iran. The human rights abuses in Honduras are shocking but because they swell the coffers of US companies like Chiquita they're barely mentioned. Even when US companies overthrew the democratically elected government the silence was deafening.

Churchill was pretty dictatorial during WW2, when you're fighting fascist imperialists there's very little time for such niceties. We only had to deal with fascist aggression for six years, Castro has had to contend with it ever since the revolution.

Castro was far from perfect but he was a damn sight better than America's fascist puppets throughout the region.