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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:35:55 -0400
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- From: ICJME@ASUACAD.BITNET
- Subject: Castro vs. Batista
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- Greetings and Salutations
- Both were/are bad, but wasn't Batista's repression more random than Castro's
- systematic repression of those he doesn't like, ala Stalin?
- Didn't the US support Batista for pragmatic reasons, as in the late fifties,
- the anticipated alternative looked so much worse? And also why should the
- average American of the time have cared about what was going on in Cuba?
- Wasn't Cuba one of the prime holiday spots, much as Acapulco is today?
- A question about current policy/events: Why does the US keep up its embargo
- of Castro? and part 2) Why does the US keep Gitmo - and pay for it each year,
- as agreed with the Cubanos many regimes ago?
- Aren't the only differences between Batista's Cuba and Castro's Cuba 1)
- Systematic versus random repression; 2) The United States' reaction to the
- regimes; and 3) Those regimes' attitudes and reations to the US?
- As I recall, initially, most Americans supported Castro, until news of his
- mass murders (read: executions) became public, and Castro began attacking the
- US.
- Why should the US be supportive towards someone who attacks the US and who
- nationalizes private property of both citizens and corporations of the US? Why
- should the US be altruistic at all?
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- The love of peace and
- Jim Emmons the unwillingness to fight
- <icjme@asuacad> never kept anyone out of trouble.
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