I loved Fidel

[HerrKarlMarx]

26. His greatest crime was overthrowing Batista

Batista was a brutal dictator who murdered tens of thousands of his people and imprisoned and tortured many more. Yet this was perfectly acceptable in the eyes of the US government for two reasons. First, his brutality was carried out not in the name of communism but anti-communism. Second, he invited US investments, and by the end of his reign the majority of Cuban resources were owned by American companies.

Castro visited the US in 1959 in the hopes of establishing a friendly relationship with the US, but Eisenhower would have nothing to do with it. His great crime? Overthrowing Batista. The worst offense in the eyes of American foreign policy is interfering with American business interests abroad. Castro has been vilified ever since, and it is what then drove him to seek a friendship with the Soviet Union instead.