Silent thread for Fidel Castro. R.I.P

[Ken Burch]

87. Five years before the Cuban Revolution came to power, our country overthrew Jacobo Arbenz

the left-democratic leader of Guatemala, and replaced him with a right-wing white-supremacist dictatorship(devoted to wiping out virtually all vestiges of indigenous culture in Guatemala), a regime that has killed 200,000 people by a conservative estimate since we put it in power(an act no American president has EVER apologized for). He had allowed a free speech and the existence of an independent military, which was great-except for the fact that the US used that free press and free radio to broadcast propaganda against Arbenz and used the Guatemalan army to overthrow democracy.

You don't see how what happened in 1954 affected the choices Fidel made in 1959?

You don't see how the repeated US coups and destabilization campaigns the US has run in the Americas during Fidel's time in power might POSSIBLY have made him a little bit suspicious of how the US would use "free elections" to restore the old order and turn Cuba back
into our favorite Caribbean brothel and de facto colony?

Would you at least agree that the US should never have intervened to overthrow all of those democratic governments in the Americas?