which prowled through the streets, the "Masferrer's Tigers" picking up leftists, torturing them, murdering them, hanging their parts from trees in places like Santiago de Cuba, they were the same ones who hated Black people, the descendants of so many slaves brought to Cuba to work on sugar, tobacco, fruit, or work in mines, etc., most of whom had only seasonal work only and lived in desperately poor conditions, without water, without electricity, without access to medical treatment, of course without education, without even minimally decent shelter, and without adequate food.
Hence, two REVOLUTIONS, of course.
The people of Cuba didn't revolt because they wanted even more, they rebelled because they couldn't keep living like that.
Most people who bother to start researching will get the picture in no time at all.
The first wave of "exiles" (a hilarious term) was composed of very wealthy, very political, fascist racists. Miami became their kingdom, they continued to despise any among them who dared to hold different opinions, they terrorized people for a very long time, bringing Miami to the point the FBI termed the town the "Terror Capital of the U.S." back during the days of the little power-mad demon, JJorge Mas Canosa, who believed he would become the next president of Cuba.
The vicious, greedy dirtbag, with Ronald
Reagan.
The vicious, greedy dirtbag, as he
buttonholes George H.W. Bush
Dirty greedy dirtbag holds Clinton
prisoner.
Greedy dirtbag with George H W Bush, Rafael
Diaz-Balart (former attorney for United Fruit
in Cuba, then Speaker of the House, then
Minister in Cabinet of dictator of Fulgencio
Batista, and father of two US Congressmen,
Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart) and Ileana
Ros-Lehtinen, US Congresswoman from
Florida. (Rafael's sister, Mirta, was the first
wife of Fidel Castro.)
Mirta Diaz-Balart, and Fidel Castro, just for curiosity's sake. Interesting.
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Anyone who hasn't taken the time to research, dive in, and learn about the unbelievable corruption, the well-known bribery, deals with both Batista, and the legislators, the Mafia, and its influence, for Chrissakes, (Batista's brother-in-law made nightly runs to bag the day's payoff to Batista at all thes casinos, oh, and don't forget the fact that Cuba was also a designated Rest and Relaxation spot for the US Navy during those days, just like other notorious spots, like Manila was, and Hong Kong, etc. for US Navy men.
Interesting article:
A Brief History of Guantanamo Bay, America’s “Idyllic Prison Camp”
A Hundred Years at the Edge of Empire
VIA THE NEW ENGLAND REVIEW
By Stephen Benz
January 30, 2019
https://lithub.com/a-brief-history-of-guantanamo-bay-americas-idyllic-prison-camp/
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Two sailors in Cuba in 1939
US sailors stationed at Guantánamo in the 1950s on a night out in Cuba
US sailors in Cuba
A link I've had a long, long time. Once it was a resource for people interested in finding great nightspots in Havana. At that time, there were even flights from Miami to Cuba, which wouldn't really take all that long, of course, with champagne, even a floor show, of sorts, for tourists who wanted to go horse around in the U.S. party town:
http://cuban-exile.com/menu1/%21entertain.html
This was saved and made available online for people curious about what was going on. If you take your time there should be quite a few photos, still.
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