Batista fled the country on January 1, 1959. He died in 1973

Batista fled the country on January 1, 1959. He died in 1973.

Why do people always say "hurr do you prefer batista???" as a pro-Fidel argument, and assume that Batista is the only alternative in the entire island of Cuba to Fidel, whose government ended in 2008? Do people really think that no other better opponent could have shown up in those 49 years?

I don't care about Cuba, but people apply this logic to every single long-running government out there, so I want to know why people think like that.

US-dominated Latin America remains pretty shitty to this day, so it's fair to assume that Cuba would not have done well under a continuation of the old regime.

Batista was backed by the US, if you think they wouldn't have put their guy in charge if given the chance you need to look at the US backed coups in latin america.

This OP reads like someone under the assumption everywhere is a liberal democracy.

Even in the year 2000?

look at the criminals they put in power in Honduras in 2009.

In any year.

Cuba was and is way better than the other central american island nations that took on the yoke of US economic imperialism, Cuba has no particular natural resources to speak of but look at its standard of living next to Haiti who is in the same boat but drunk the IMF's poison chalice.

Are you Venezuelan or Zimbabwean?

People on this board are really paranoid about the US. That's it. They're naive enough to think that the "leftists" that were in power in Argentina or are in power in Venezuela couldn't possibly be people assigned from the US to make people think that capitalism with free shit is socialism. And they defend those people.

It's not about the boat, it's about the people in the boat. Cuba's demographics are more favorable, as are the dominican republics.

They defend those people, while they could easily be people sent from the US to slowly destroy a country's economy in a modern dictatorship (even North Korea has elections).

ye as left as labour and syriza

Yeah no other possible reason Holla Forums

That's all that normalfags can find when they look for "socialist" shit. That's why you find people making questions like "why does socialism work in sweden, but not venezuela?", 99% of "socialist parties" on earth just propose capitalism with free shit.

Other countries came out betterr from far worse circumstances, and the dominican republic used to be a part of haiti and is faring far better.

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Who would win in a fight?

Do you have a BGR monitor or some shit? Why are the pixels screwed up?

Wew lad

Castro was a fag

If I look at an image with BGR font smoothing with an RGB monitor, it will probably look screwed up.e

Cuba is pretty much the best place to live in central America and its the only place where communism won.

I've visited Cuba once, for family, it wasn't so great