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re: Cuban exiles that relocated to Miami were the henchmen and elites that knew their turn had
Posted on 5/23/26 at 11:43 am to Ailsa
Posted on 5/23/26 at 11:43 am to Ailsa
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Ailsa
Oh, weet summer child: you are either good-hearted but empty-headed, and believe this shite
or....
You're a f-cking Commie agitator. Either way, I don't think I'll be taking you seriously
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Posted on 5/23/26 at 12:09 pm to lake chuck fan
Hey we got almost all of Cuba's best chefs too.
Posted on 5/23/26 at 12:10 pm to Ailsa
Nope. I lived through it as an adolescent and teenager growing up in SoFla. We had Cuban friends whose parents were all middle class and left Cuba because Fidel Castro was a communist dictator. Miami/Ft. Lauderdale had a lot of cross-cultural exchange with Havana that had zero to do with wise guys and casinos. We had swimming and diving meets, baseball tournaments, tennis matches and other athletic activities plus academic exchanges. Those of our Cuban friends’ parents who had gone to college in the United States (Ga Tech, U of F, Miami, LSU, etc) got out as soon as Fidel announced he was a Marxist. In the late 1950s everyone in the West knew what came with communism and its mind numbing totalitarianism: government suppression of the truth, police state, collectivism, and nationalization of businesses. Most of those who became political refugees in the beginning of the 1960s had originally supported the revolution, but once the march toward Soviet style authoritarianism began, they left and left the island fast.
Posted on 5/23/26 at 12:25 pm to Ailsa
So the Cuban people traded one set of thugs for another another set of thugs.
Posted on 5/23/26 at 12:34 pm to Ailsa
For some reason, I don't care. We have new groups now to dislike.
Posted on 5/23/26 at 12:34 pm to udtiger
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Those peasants have definitely been better off under Castro.
GMAFB
Socialisman - now everyone is a peasant.
Posted on 5/23/26 at 12:52 pm to Ailsa
So, all those Cuban kids' parents I went to elementary and high school with were millionaires? Mr. Sosa went to his job as a mechanic just for the physical exercise. Mr. Riva helped build the Sugar Co-op in Belle Glade for funsies? Never knew they had spent decades torturing fellow Cubans.
GTFO
GTFO
Posted on 5/23/26 at 1:10 pm to UtahCajun
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We actually do. It was one of the most corrupt places in the world.
Not hardly.
It was a typical, corrupt, post-colonial dictatorship, except with better business sense and more prosperity.
Communists utilized the same tactic of class warfare to stoke resentment over financial disparity, like they were doing all over the globe.
Posted on 5/23/26 at 1:15 pm to Ailsa
Corrupt dictators without ideological delusions just want people's money. Ideological dictators want everything.
Posted on 5/23/26 at 1:27 pm to udtiger
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Those peasants have definitely been better off under Castro.
It was a case of 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss'
Posted on 5/23/26 at 1:44 pm to Ailsa
Godfather II is not accurate in this regard and a lot of other details.
More Cubans vacationed in the US than Americans vacationed in Cuba, casinos or not. Cuba had a healthy middle class. Trade with Cuba was primarily via New Orleans and Tampa. A lot of business invested in Cuba and vice versa in the USA.
FTR, New Orleans began its slide downward with the fall of Cuba to Castro. That was a big economic hit the city took.
More Cubans vacationed in the US than Americans vacationed in Cuba, casinos or not. Cuba had a healthy middle class. Trade with Cuba was primarily via New Orleans and Tampa. A lot of business invested in Cuba and vice versa in the USA.
FTR, New Orleans began its slide downward with the fall of Cuba to Castro. That was a big economic hit the city took.
Posted on 5/23/26 at 2:07 pm to Jimbeaux
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more prosperity.
For who???… you got a misreading of the Cuban revolution if you think the majority of Cubans were prosperous under Batista
Posted on 5/23/26 at 2:27 pm to Jimbeaux
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Not hardly. ?
It was a typical, corrupt, post-colonial dictatorship,
So I guess you never read what tUSA and tUK governments had to say about it at the time.
Cuba pre-revolution was reaching new heights of corruption.
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except with better business sense
Maybe
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and more prosperity.
For the select few, sure.
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Communists utilized the same tactic of class warfare to stoke resentment over financial disparity, like they were doing all over the globe
That doesn't discount how bad the Cuban government was prior.
This post was edited on 5/23/26 at 2:28 pm
Posted on 5/23/26 at 2:31 pm to Ailsa
Spreading communist agitprop, I see.
This post was edited on 5/23/26 at 2:35 pm
Posted on 5/23/26 at 2:32 pm to Ailsa
CUBA is far gone....they have no off ramp to success without the USA!
Posted on 5/23/26 at 2:34 pm to Ailsa
What a dumb arse article
Posted on 5/23/26 at 2:37 pm to HailToTheChiz
The OP is literally a simp for a communist regime spreading propaganda and lies. Not surprising given the esteem with which leftists hold Che Guevara and how they buy into the lies of “free healthcare for all.”
Posted on 5/23/26 at 2:39 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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So, all those Cuban kids' parents I went to elementary and high school with were millionaires? Mr. Sosa went to his job as a mechanic just for the physical exercise. Mr. Riva helped build the Sugar Co-op in Belle Glade for funsies? Never knew they had spent decades torturing fellow Cubans.
The X post does not say ALL CUBANS...just a lot of those that were "henchmen and elites" that wanted to escape repercussion for what they did in Cuba.
Posted on 5/23/26 at 7:25 pm to UtahCajun
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communists NEVER tell the truth
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We actually do.
quote:letting your true colors slip
UtahCajun
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It was one of the most corrupt places in the world.
How do you know? Are you a Cuban that lived there pre-Castro?
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