Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution -T.J. English
“In the 1950s, the Mob; with the corrupt, repressive government of brutal Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in its pocket; owned Havana's biggest luxury hotels and casinos, launching an unprecedented tourism boom.”
When Castro and Che Guevara overthrew the brutal Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista all the American organized crime syndicate was finished in Cuba. That’s not bad either.
You know, Trump (in the debates of 2016) claimed a Cuban’s father was involved in the plot to assassination of JFK. That’s because there were Cuban’s who fled to America that were disenfranchised after organized crime and the corrupt government was ousted. There were people who just wanted to leave. But those people who wanted to go back and people in organized crime who were working to overthrow Castro together.
In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power when the revolution overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. The US government distrusted Castro because of his relationship with Nikita Khrushchev. Before his inauguration, John F. Kennedy was briefed on a plan by the CIA developed during the Eisenhower administration to train Cuban exiles for an invasion of their homeland. The plan anticipated that the Cuban people and elements of the Cuban military would support the invasion to overthrow Castro, and the establishment of a government friendly to the United States. It has been suggested that all of this could have played a role in the JFK assassination. Kennedy was furious at the CIA because he was lied to about the people raising up. He said he would smash the CIA into a thousand pieces.
One reason a dictator like Batista and others got control over the country and its people was their poor education and illiteracy. That’s what really does happen when you have an uneducated public.
Thomas Jefferson: “An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.”
Bernie Sanders said, “Castro Immediate initiation of an intensive campaign against illiteracy was a good thing,” And Obama said the same about Castro. I saw that in a video.
You would be surprised how many teenagers have read "The Motorcycle Diaries" (Spanish: Diarios de motocicleta) is a 2004 biopic about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would several years later become internationally known as the iconic Marxist guerrilla leader and revolutionary Che Guevara.
Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
If I were to vote in a presidential
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