The one thing I always hear from Miami Exiles is that as cruel as Gueverra was and as cold as Castro was, the one that scared everyone the most was Raul Castro.
Raul apparently executed something like five thousand people because he got bored, he had a private mausoleum where his boyfriends were buried because he'd kill them when they all turned 21 or 18 depending on who is telling the story. Exiles basically portray Raul Castro as a ravenous beast man who was entirely governed by his instincts and had almost no self control over anything
Getting tortured personally by Che? He must have celebrated when Che's days of foreign adventures were over in Bolivia and would pay for a ticket to see him in captivity and spit on him to his execution.
I've actually got a family history with Guevara, mostly because originally he was a diehard fascist and a big fanboy of Peron. My grandfather who was the Minister of culture for at the time had been a speech writer for Peron. Che, apparently kept trying to convince the head of some Federal agency to kill him but the "dictator" that governed Argentina at that point was benevolent and dismissed him as a harmless larper.
Then he fucked off for Mexico..and the rest is history..
I was able to meet the CANF founders, even got to talk to Jorge Masconosa before his death but I was really young so don't remember much of that.
Huber Matos was an interesting figure.
The stories of the Cuban exile is quite interesting. The general hoopla I know is Che and Castro banded together like a communist dirty dozen and overthrew the Batista regime. After that I don't know much of anything else except this one celebrated general of his thrown under the bus for drug trafficking when instead it was the sunk cost fallacy of fucking around in Angola playing at foreign military adventures.
Naw, Che was banging mestiza's and getting high off cocaine in Mexico City when Raul Castro was shattering the pelvis of a boy whore and the two basically did a bunch of drugs together and Raulito convinced Fidel this dude was a charismatic mouthpiece.
There's a story about Camilo Cienfuegos wanting to torture Guevara to death for being such a dumbfuck. The reality of Guevara vs the myth of the man are very different.
He was a shitty upper middle class larper who got humiliated by the real deal, switched ideologies for clout, more or less prostituted himself for attention and was a generally, violent, dimwitted, willfully ignorant slob who was so stupid he genuinely thought the Chinese viewed him as an equal.
That was why he was killed by the way, he was trying to get the Chinese to replace the Soviets as the puppet masters of leftist movements in Africa and Central and south America. He was so desperate for fame and so butthurt that Castro made a better figurehead of the revolution that he convinced himself the Cheecoms would be better for the Americas than The ruskies.
Dude was trash. He gives us Argentines a bad name...Him and that sack of shit Justicialista Pope..
I genuinely have no idea how Fidel successfully overthrew Batista when the most competent and intelligent members of his inner circle (Matos and Cienfuegos) were plotting to kill his ass and torpedo the revolution from day one.
And the rest of his cadre consistent of a blood thirsty lunatic (Raul) and a fucking attention whore (Che). There was always a rumor that Lansky convinced the heads of the commission to withdraw their support from the Batista regime and the US was too busy jerking it over what was happening in Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina at the time.
To hear the tale as told by the survivors of that era who are all now pushing 90 or 100 they basically say Castro deserves respect for being so strong of will that he was able to professionally tard wrangle his allies enough to take advantage of a clusterfuck.
Then slowly remove the maniacs and put a leash on his loony toon brother and that's basically how he ran Cuba..by being the head Dog in the junkyard.
God though, the stories I've heard about Raul make him out to be some kind of ogre. I've heard he's done everything short of literal baby eating.
Also supposedly he was on personal terms with Jimmy Saville..and assuming that isn't just Exile homophobia (All Cubans seem to detest the LGBT community pretty profoundly..Exiles are just the loudest ones in the US), that kinda tells you all you need to know about the Castro's.
Batista backed the wrong horse, he also thought he could reason with the Castros...my guess is that's what destroyed him, coupled with the insane viciousness of Castro's people.
Also if Che were born in the 90's, he'd be a feminized soyboy chanting ACAB and BLACK LIVES MATTER and FED GOV PLEASE DON'T SHOOT ME and all that other bullshit.
He'd probably post on Whitehall too...with all the other dysgenics.
So at the beginning were the exiles the top class before it went lower when the oppression started to clamp in?
Naw the Exiles who built Miami were all the Cuban middle class. castro got this big brained idea to eject all the small business owners, engineers, managers, accountants, doctors and lawyers from Cuba.
the very wealthy fucked off to New York, Spain or Houston..sadly most of those traidores vote Democrat.
But the guys who became the political monster that made Miami into an economic mecca, fought Pablo Escobar all over the South East, broke the back of the dixiecrats in Florida and some say..killed every single Kennedy' whose died mysteriously since Dallas were the soccer moms.
Basically suburb types. It's just they arrived at a city ready to grow, with the right kind of expertise and were determined never to get fucked over like that again. So they consolidated and began building.
Most of the wealthy elite of South Florida today are the grandchildren of men and women who came with only their minds and ambition. One guy I know started as a security guard at a Jewish owned Jewelry store in Brickell
He's 90 now and is a gem supplier who founded a small bank out here.
It's a myth that they were all the wealthy elite, the "slave owners" as mouth breathers on Sv and on Twitter call them. Most of them were basically just regular people.
What they became over the following six decades was because of their resolve. Caribbean peoples tend to be very upwardly mobile, Not very many Haitians stay poor for example.
But its a lie the Democrats and commie sympathizers like to tell because it makes them feel better about the fact that they tried to enslave the exiles with welfare the way they did blacks and got their asses handed to them and were mocked as a result. They have a pathological and neurotic hatred of the exile community and it makes them feel better about themselves to call them Gusanos and slave drivers...the truth is.
They're what the American left fears, redpilled immigrants and irate soccer moms.
From this I get the impression it was the usual spiel to convince naive people to support him. Your current leaders a dick and corrupt too so let me takeover and be even worse because I'm a control freak with no idea how to run society?
It was also a little bit of personal resentment.
People don't realize how deeply personal a right wing Latinos took Kennedy's treachery at the Bay of Pigs and his perceived surrender during the missile crisis.
This resulted in not just among Cubans but amongst a lot of South American and Caribbean peoples rejected them and raising their kids to screw the Democratic party at every opportunity.
You even see this now, where its not uncommon for parents to tell their kids "Don't expect much from your public school teachers, if they were smart they wouldn't be teaching you" and its because most educators vote Democrat.
So its not just...just historical revisionism.. done to suck off Castro's rotting corpse, its out of butthurt basically.
I wish I knew all the facts. Narratives lie.
The facts are this.
Batista was a piece of shit...
But Fidel Castro was even worse... And everything that South Florida has, is owed to Fidel being so stupid that he threw every talented person off his island and gave them to us
I'll tell you a little secret...No South American revolution that was leftwing was ever benevolent.
Pinochet, primadonna asshole that he was, has a more legitimate claim to being heroic than any leftwing rebel, terrorist, Montonero, Castrista and Chavista will ever have.
edit- Hah I'm Hurricane posting.