Miami to hold 'anti-Communist' concert after Sanders defends Castro regime

[Farmer-Rick]

18. And Batista was better?

I never said ONLY the filthy rich fled. It was a society in turmoil made horribly worse by the filthy rich trying to suck all the wealth from the nation.

I am tired of teaching folks about Cuban history. Here is one excerpt that explains why the filthy rich and organized crime are still propagandizing Cubans today so they forget how the rich destroyed their wealthy country.

"At the beginning of 1959 United States companies owned about 40 percent of the Cuban sugar lands—almost all the cattle ranches—90 percent of the mines and mineral concessions—80 percent of the utilities—practically all the oil industry—and supplied two-thirds of Cuba's imports.

In a manner that antagonized the Cuban people, the U.S. government used its influence to advance the interests of and increase the profits of the private American companies, which "dominated the island's economy". By the late 1950s, U.S. financial interests owned 90% of Cuban mines, 80% of its public utilities, 50% of its railways, 40% of its sugar production and 25% of its bank deposits—some $1 billion in total. According to historian Louis Perez, author of the book On Becoming Cuban, "Daily life had developed into a relentless degradation, with the complicity of political leaders and public officials who operated at the behest of American interests." As a symbol of this relationship, ITT Corporation, an American-owned multinational telephone company, presented Batista with a Golden Telephone, as an "expression of gratitude" for the "excessive telephone rate increase" that Batista granted at the urging of the U.S. government."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista

Read history, it provides the reason why you see those people on boats.