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

[Farmer-Rick]

20. Batista and a ruined Nation is why people fled. AND I never said ONLY the filthy rich

Propaganda and a white washing of history by the filthy rich and corporations in the US is why many have the wrong notion about how Cuba became what it is today.

Quit trying to insult and goad me for having a different opinion and listen with an open mind.

"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