PEOPLE, aren’t the USA’s racist rednecks still very very publicly sulking about Fidel Castro's regime literally ending Cuba's role under the Battista regime as the USA's offshore whorehouse, where a diverse array of white mobsters, gangsters could do as they like to the country's non-whites generally, African Cubans specifically; who were automatically the underclass with no possibility of higher education, social mobility?
In fact, what is their explanation of Cuba still having the best free healthcare system in the world TODAY whereas despite the USA’s far greater, richer status, the USA’s citizens always have to pay for healthcare, with the country’s growing underclass getting no healthcare at all?
Isn’t ANYONE who genuinely believes they are not programmed graphically illustrating that their programming is COMPLETE?
Cuba was much more than just play grounds for the assorted gangsters of the 50's, Cuba was almost owned entirely by US corporate interests that ran it as like a feudal lord might. Here's a consideration of the amount of monies lost when Battista was overthrown:
"American investments in Cuba, estimated at $1 billion at the time of Batista's overthrow on January 1, 1959, were also important in other branches of the economy. The US selective investment in Cuba gave rise to what Thomas calls a “reserve country” in many ways, which was clearly infuriating to the Cubans. And he adds:
The mines were only worked when North America was waging a war. Peace brought inactivity. It was the same story as in the sugar industry. U.S. ownership of the mineral fields meant that the Cuban economy could never be seen as a whole. Even those minerals which were exported were left unprocessed.... The importance of Cuba to the U.S. will not be fully understood without realizing that the U.S. companies engaged in Cuba read like the
Who's Who of American business: total U.S. investment stood at $1 billion; shareholding and commercial-political interest was widespread. Any action in Cuba which affected these interests would be bound to have widespread consequences. 160,000 workers, over 90% of Cubans, were employed in North American firms in Cuba, and North American firms spent $M730 in Cuba, of which $M70 was in taxes—almost 20% of the Cuban budget. Many of these firms were Cuban subsidiaries of U.S. companies, dependent on the parent company for supplies. Any radical party in Cuba would have been driven to affect these interests since the U.S. business community dominated Cuban trade... (1971, pp. 1171–1172)."*
(I believe that $1 billion figure is in 1950 dollars)
So the loss of those $'s was not going to be tolerated, and that's how Castro was driven into doing business with the USSR because Castro's hand of peace offered towards the US after the revolution was slapped away. And that's why the continued animosity unto this day.
'Our owners' are pissed about losing the control over the isle and then of course there's that money. And on the bye, Obama wasn't going to be doing them (the Cubans) any favors by supposedly 'normalizing' any relations.
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From my quick scan a short relatively even handed history of Cuba;
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