People often talk about how bad Castro was, and pretend like Cuba was some sort or paradise before him. My great-grandfather fled Cuba to Mexico because of Batista.
Your great grandfather was lucky. With Castro’s communism Cubans have been risking their lives to escape that murderous chaos on anything that floats. The Florida straits hold many thousands that never made it.
@@lourdesgarcia5140 it wasn’t any better before Castro. The only difference between Batista’a regime and Castro’s was that the former allowed a few people to get rich but so what? Like anywhere in the world, if you were rich in Cuba you could live well but most people didn’t. Batista ran a military dictatorship-a police state filled with organized crime. Cubans who glorify a time before Castro are either delusional, one of the few who were rich and owned land, or ignorant. Less than a third of houses had running water and human rights barely existed.
Both were horrible leaders in their own special way. Castros healthcare and education reforms targeted lower class citizens because he knew if he helped them, they would support him. Which was definitely more than Batista ever did for them, however those changes were not widespread throughout the island, it was mostly in the cities. Castro also killed thousands of innocent people during his reign- political opponents, homosexuals, religious groups, anyone who stepped out against him, or dared to make a change. Once communism started to decline in the 80’s, Cubas economy completely collapsed which made it a very difficult and rough place to live. The reason ppl tend to believe Cuba was better under Batista was because he was more favorable towards the US. But that doesn’t mean Castro was a great leader for Cuba either because he wasn’t.
One big difference between Batista and Castro is that under the former, if someone wanted to leave Cuba he was free to go openly, while under the latter emmigration was illegal for almost everyone, and those wanting to emmigrate had to risk their lives to sneak out (and we will never know how many thousands died attempting to do so).
Lol and if the Cuban politicos who were opposed to batista had taken a hold of the corruption perhaps the island nation could have been spared both batista's military dictatorship and Castrol repressive regime.
This is exactly what fueled the Las Vegas that we have come to know and love to this very day.. Every American should watch this, this is history that you won't necessarily get the chance to learn in high school.
@@clifforddriver9434outh Florida is majority Cubanos. There it is as if you are living in Cuba. Most of us either live or lived there and still have family ties en Florida.
As someone born in Mariano Havana Cuba. I really appreciate this My family immigrated to the US early in my childhood and I never got a good understanding of Cuban history. They always just made him out to be another dictator. Which they weren't that far off but still contacts matters and I really like this video thank you.
As Daytona born I am not well educated by who was there (here) and his son's lived here. I was born in 1952 & unwittingly parked my boat at his house & drank his wine c/o the company I was with (in the backyard). His wife who he left was there and my grandfather (mayor 1940) knew him
Yes most definitely, because the United States played a significant role in the collapse of Cuba's Democracy as well as the different party fashions that made up the Cuban government.
If Batista had addressed the issues of poverty, health care, illiteracy and kept his hands out of the public coffers, Castro never could have come to power. It must be recognized that what became a major impetus when the US invasion at the Bay of Pigs was attempted, was the fact that the Castro government made a special attempt at improving the three above items mentioned, which gave those people, who were among the poorest in Cuba, a great incentive to battle any invaders of their country. They preferred to keep what they had gained under Castro rather than return to some feudal existence.
@@h.s.lafever3277EXACTLY. Meantime the Castro was just as CORRUPT as he accused Batista of being..he led a luxury lifestyle.. while wearing DESIGNER Camo to continue the LIE that he was just another working class soldier.
Excellent presentation. When asked , at the end of it, what I thought of Batista, I thought of Shakespeare’s Macbeth : the great hero in Act One, but tempted to take a short cut to power , in Act 2.
A very good history of events. I do wish you would have mentioned that the first thing Fidel Castro did after taking power was to ask the US government for help. On refusal from the US , he was forced to go to the Soviet Union.
I was wondering why this wasn't mentioned, but after watching the video, did he really ask for help or was the whole help thing , a total bs fallacy made up by Castro and his supporters. I remember reading about something where he came to the US for help to realize his cause/agenda , but that was before. 🤔 ... Watching this video shows that he was a communist before he even started ... He was against the US from the beginning, bc he was bittered by the US controlling things in Cuba, what he failed to understand as any smart would've, is that the US and the other world power Soviet Union both do the same, just use different tactics; and now you can add China to that list. Now you see Cuba again looking for support where they shouldn't be, same with the rest of the Caribbean, and Latin America. They'll be paying a dear price for doing so.
jillburk, But, well, obviously the US had to refuse! Do you seem to have forgotten that the shameless Fidel Castro seized, confiscated, expropriated, stole or whatever you want to call it, ALL the properties of hundreds of thousands of families, among them, many were North American. Do you forget that the United States is the example country? respect for private property? We say hundreds of thousands, if not millions...Because he even stole (everything happened into HIS hands) small businesses, such as limbiabota stands, magazine and newspaper sellers, etc, etc!
True. The US caused the Cuban Missile Crisis and put the Corporations and Mob before the people of Cuba. I have always thought it was the Mob that had JFK killed as revenge for all his hypocrisy and double dealing.
Most historians describe Batista as a cruel dictator. This clip brings in many details which are as relevant to the acceptance of Castro as the great leader. Yet Cuba was corrupt for decades with the Castro revolution just another step in the long saga of Cuban sad tragedy. Good story telling.
Cuba is such a rich island manifested by its diverse people and resources that it never achieved its greatness due to its corrupt rulers bleeding it dry
Stupid and absurd. Cuba made terrific social and technological advances during the socialist period, unlike anything in Cuba's past - and would have made even more progress but for the U.S. embargo. Full literacy, food and medical care for everyone, longer life expectancies than in the U.S., and technological products which even the U.S. can't produce and try to suppress (such as the lung cancer vaccine).
" In 1950, Cuba ranked seventh in per capita GDP in (the 47 countries of) Latin America (and Caribbean). The order was Venezuela, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, and (nearly tied for sixth place) Cuba. If a nation is represented by its per capita GDP ranking, Cuba was thus highly ranked in Latin America... A half century later, in 2001, Cuba was the third poorest country in Latin America as measured by per capita GDP. Only Nicaragua and poorest-of-the-poor Haiti ranked lower."
@@LTrotsky21stCentury sadly, largely because of Soviet subsidies for sugar, the loss of which after the cold war showed that Cuba had been living well beyond its means, as a potemkin-like showpiece of Soviet success, ie a fake, a facade. One could say though that it demonstrated what could be achieved with proper investment in its ppl; showing how capitalism could do better by adjusting it's priorities.
My only criticism about this video is that they say after taking control of Cuba, Castro "immediately" aligned his administration with the USSR. This did eventually happen but the timing is inaccurate. It took approx. one year for them to decide to align with the USSR. Cuba made overtures to the USA first but was outright rejected. Our reaction toward his takeover helped push him toward the Soviets. Also, Che Guevara was the rabid Marxist, not Fidel-at least not at the beginning.
Wow, I never knew this about Batista. I was always brought up to believe he was a member of the Spanish elite, friend of the American bourgeosie. But learning now that he was part black African, part native American, part Chinese and only 1/4 white Spaniard... quite a new discovery of Cuban history, to me
And how much of importance are Batista's ethnic roots to The Cuban History? A brutal dictator who was kept in power by the USA, the self declared biggest "democracy". That's what you should have in your memory and not Batista's ethnicity.
@@johndorilag4129 there is a Cuban saying that we all have part Spaniard, part Afro and Part Chinese due to the large amount of those ethnicity that migrated to Cuba way back then!
Problem with Batista: He was not a Francisco Franco - a dictator with long range future plans. Franco carefully avoided joining the Axis in World War 2, then took advantage of the Cold War to get US investment and bases. He set the groundwork for Spain to become a constitutional monarchy after his death. Batista did not practice similar long term planning, so ended up like Ferdinand Marcos Sr. of the Phillipines - in exile though rich.👎
The regime after Marcos 🇵🇭 is at least both a democracy and an American ally. Castro turned Cuba into an authoritarian communist dictatorship who reasonably or wrongly hates the United States.
@@dvdortiz9031 The genocide and annihilation of the Natives by the Spanish, perhaps has no match in barbarity. Personally, and having lived a total of 6 months on the island, I can vouch for the horrible and relentless dictatorship of the Castro family (also of Spanish origin) and their collaborators.
People who make comments like “the annihilation of the native people … perhaps has no match in barbarity” love to sound as if they take the higher moral ground, especially when speaking about people who lived 500 or more years ago. Yes, of course, today we are so superior to those people from the past! If one looks at history with thoughtfulness and perspective, one understands that most people alive at the historical moment referred to, held the same views, for compelling cultural reasons of the day. Any of us alive today, had we been alive in 1500 in Cuba, would have participated in events considered ethical and even heroic and patriotic at that time. Including you. Today, in 2023, we are so noble and idealistic that we have dismembered and otherwise destroyed millions and millions of children in their mothers’ wombs. But we call this women’s healthcare because we are so very advanced.
@@martaacosta4415 Although I am tired of responding to the comments of illiterates, far-right, religious, naive and idiots or all of them together, I emphasize that the brutality of the Spanish against the natives of Cuba has been recorded since then (eg historian Bartolomé de las Casas) and more later (see historians Jeffrey Ostler, Andrés Reséndez, etc.).
@@pablosadelmundoand u have mexico who is ruled by Natives had freedom and still is a shitty country, if it wasnt for the european system world wouldn’t advance as much as it has
I grew up with a girl in Miami Beach who was from Cuba. Back in the 1950's on. She n her parents escaped and came to Florida. Good people. We became friends and her mother would only speak Spanish to me, so I'd learn. My best memories are of that time. My mom spoke of Batista. All those years ago. I'd give anything to be able to capture that time again, but I'm a senior and have lost touch with the precious family I once knew. Thank you 💛 for this excellent documentary about the history of Cuba. I will keep and cherish it. ❤
I understand Batista lived on the river but left his wife here and lived at The Waldorf in New York City. Anyway, he used to come to my granddad's house and my father told me that he could remember that near Main Street on the Halifax Lagoon.
Excelente documentary. A poor man that became Sargent, President and dictator is uniquely shocking! But what We can from this is that power corrupts good intentions. 70 years and Cubans still living in misery and lack of freedoms.
@@philipmaldonado9249 because of the abuse of power of a Communist Dictator and its followers! The fooled the people and took our every freedom and slaved a country
@@philipmaldonado9249porque el comunismo dolo deja miseria y calamidad por donde pasa. La teoría es muy bonita y equa, la realidad nos ha enseñado a base de golpes que no existe política más hipócrita que la comunista. Eso si, lo de ka propaganda se les da muy bien.
The people love Castro in cuba, he is a hero to the Cuban people, him and the peasants together fought and liberate the masses of people in cuba, gave them all education, healthcare, housing, food, water etc. Social change like that under the nose of the most powerful imperialist state on the planet was a slap in the face, sense such things are deemed “utopian” by the capitalist class, or they were before people fought to prove it was possible. The imperialist have made cuba suffer for years. Long love the Cuban revolution ✊🚩🚩 solidarity to my people in Cuba.
@@SPACEMONKEY288 the idea was false, the only ones that have food and any basic hygiene needs etc. is the Political upper-class Castro did not fix anything. He destroyed a country. Made slaves out of its people. Why do you think so many people risk their lives fleeing th hell hole the Castro regine hs created! the ideology is not the reality
THE AMERICAN'S PUT HIM THERE !!! CASTRO LET HIM GET AWAY WITH 3 PLANES FULL OF ART AND VALUEBALS WHILE HE COULD HAVE COURT HIM AT THE AIRPORT !!!!! WHY ?????
Oh, my gosh! I have been searching for years for a fair documentary about Batista and here I got it. Very informative! I’m Fidel’s supporter and have been wanting to understand Cuban’s life before Fidel
Don't see why you're Fidel's supporter. On balance, he was bad for both the US and Cuba, as this documentary essentially admits. If you cannot admit that, I really can't see you as much more than a leftist ideologue. In the fifties I'd have supported Batista as a necessary evil; people like you now defend Castro despite his record, and that record justifies my pragmatic support of men like Batista, for lack of better alternatives. The left Bashes Batista for not having elections, yet still celebrates Castro despite never delivering on that gripe about elections. As such, if that gripe were genuine, they would feel betrayed by Castro, and yet they do not.
@@user9xyz836 And you did? Do you honestly think Fidel made things better? The rallying cry for Batista's critics was elections, and he never gave them so the critics of Batista's should have been upset with Castro but we're not. They are liars, and need to be called out.
Wow! Very thorough and revealing of one who I didn't know much of. He turns out to have been a very dirty and corrupt leader. It also seems that the Cuban people have always suffered from repressive and or corrupt leaders. Poverty has been the lot of the masses from inception to now. It would be great to see some favorable changes.
My friend survived the farm work programs that Castro put in place, even though his Father was a Doctor. My friend, who was 12 at the time, talked back to the military official at the farm. He was placed in a ground pit overnight with a locked cage top. He said snakes & bugs came into the pit, which was flooded with water chest high. Can you imagine such torture on a child? They left Cuba on a boat ASAP.
And Cuba was one of the least hellish communist dictatorships. As a kid i remember there were a lot of Cuban revolutionaries who left the island disillusioned.
@@bigtimepimpin666 The reasons which led to the victory of Castro's revolution are very easy overlooked and we are supplied with stories like the above. Long live the Cuban Revolution.
MY family left Cuba in 1969 and my sister 12 years old had to go to the mountains to pick CAFE. One of her classmates never came back from going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. MY father would go every weekend to ck on her and bring her food.
Vous rêvez en couleurs pour affirmer cela! 90 pour cent d'analphabétisme et cela enrayé en une année d'alphabétisation intensive. Para conocer hay que estudiar. Toujours des opinions à l'emporte-pièce dans l'Hexagone débitées avec de grands airs seigneuriaux.
THANK YOU VERY "MUCH"😊 FOR THIS/ HISTORY OF CUBA "COMPILATION"/ PARTICULARLY THE ROLE OF "FULGENCIO BATISTA"/ FOR THE CUBAN "NATION"/ A SPECIAL EXPERIENCE AS "SUCH"😊/ FURTHERMORE/ WITH CENTURIES OF HISTORY PILING UP/ AN "ACCUMULATION"/CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS/ "FORMULATION".
I think Batista needed to be ousted by the Cuban people in the 1950s. That he was kept in power by the US, specifically the Dulles brothers, with their rabid "anti-communist" cold war myopia, made the victory of Castro, or someone very like him, only more likely. The US, by then imposing a cruel, punishing *and unnecessary* embargo has ensured that the average Cuban is in only slightly better circumstances than they were before 1959. This has been the story, unfortunately, of US foreign policy almost everywhere in the 20th and 21st centuries. It is far past the time for that unnecessary embargo to be lifted. And for the US to climb down from its support for autocrats in the interests of humanity.
Hate to burst the bubble. The embargo has had ZERO impact on the quality of life of the wonderful Cuban people. Cuba is free to trade with any other nation on the planet. The core issue is that totalitarian communist rule does not work, period. All you have to do is analyze Cuban agrarian production values from 1959 to the present and you will see that the nation is dysfunctional and much more corrupt than in any previous government. It is now one of the central drug trafficking jump off points of Central America and the country exists largely based on the European and Canadian tourism that flows into “foreigners only” beach “and other”resorts….fill in the last one with your imagination. The tragedy is that the regime’s propaganda apparatus makes anything from their New York counterparts look like kindergarten child play. The truth will most likely never be widely disseminated. It’s like pushing a rope. But some of us that lives through that time in history know the intricate and important details. Your videos are always excellent but in this one, critical missteps were unknowingly made. All good. Better to get most of the story out than none at all. Health and prosperity to all.
@@F1Hopeful parece que nunca has trabajado para una empresa multinacional yanqui. el bloqueo(no es embargo, es bloqueo) tiene un impacto enorme en la vida del pueblo cubano. es la razon por la que el gobierno tienen que racionar la comida(si no lo hacen los ricos acaparan todo y los pobres literalmente mueren de hambre). cuando un pais no puede comerciar casi nada con casi nadie, no progresa.
@@F1Hopeful The USA the most powerful country in both military and economy places an embargo, and you think that an embargo from the USA doesn't effect the average citizen of a country... Either you do not understand today's economy or you're living a fantasy.
@@slowjamsliver7006 You are most likely correct; I do not understand the current global economy AND I am living in a fantasy world. The future will divulge the truth. Fare well.
@Jm Mac Freemasonry created modern republic, democracy and capitalism; as well as socialism and communion, they have presented those as opposite; no matter who rules, they are always high behind, pulling strings...every government is their puppet
Castro was pushed to turn Cuba to what it became due to the US. As always, the US loves to impose its will to other nations. Castro had to fight back and this pushed him to join the USSR. It would had being very diferent if the US would really had a culture of freedom.
Another example of how the US Department of State is so inept and the workers and staff of the State Department are stupid. The State Department must be reformed and the Ivy League establishment within should be terminated.
@@Soul_Flow_ batista stole huge amounts of land and gave them to certain rich usakistanis, so they woudl become even richer. and they did. once the cuban people kicked him out, they recovered those stolen lands. the rich usakistanis were furious. and the usakistani government resorted to the blockade as retaliation for not kowtowing.
If anyone wants to read what President Fulgencio Batista has to say in his own words, one of his books is available in PDF form on the Internet. Just look up "latin american studies the growth and decline of the cuban republic fulgencio batista pdf."
@@gregrodriguez714 It is not easy to find that many books that cover the initial stages of the revolution after the fall of Bastista. There is an excellent book that details what led up to the toppling of Batista. It is entitled "The Fourth Floor" and is by US Ambassador Earl Smith. It details how the US backed putting Fidel Castro into power with the full knowledge that he was a communist. It is out of print, but can be found through interlibrary loan. It is worth a read. Humberto Fontava, who despises the Castro regime with good reason, has written two books that highlight its shortcomings: "Exposing the Real Che Guevara" and "Fidel: Hollywood's Favourite Tyrant." One can, also, read the personal recollections of Fidel's chief bodyguard, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez: "The Double Life of Fidel." There are several books that I have yet to read, but that are on my Cuba-to-Read List: "And the Russians Stayed" by Nestor T. Carbonell, "The Losers" by Paul D. Bethell and "Cuba: The Disaster of Castro's Revolution" by Andres J. Solares. I hope that this helps.
In my life I have observed that systemic corruption may be enmeshed with functionality. A Machiavellian mindset doesn’t make anything better but it probably could avoid making things worse. Hard thing is to accept the greed and arrogance of fat cats living high on the hog while others are stuck in a rut of deprivation as the fruits of their labors are siphoned off.
This is a more nuanced take on modern Cuban history. Thank you for highlighting Batista’s mixed-race background. By contrast, the Castro brothers were white (sons of Spanish immigrants). The reign of terror that the Castros and sidekick Che Guevara unleashed after 1959 makes Batista look like a choirboy.
For the record, The colonial communities went to Haiti for support of their independence ie: Miranda and Bolivar obtained arms, and munitions from free Haiti in 1806 and the years after. This part was convenientely ommitted.
I feel for the people who had to flee their homes and countries, it's a great crime when such atrocities take place but an even greater crime when the world sits back and does nothing. Peace to all the Innocents who either died or fled with their lives from dictators, corrupt regimes and guided missiles dropped from planes.
Este hombre F Batista comparado con Castro y sus 60 años de sangrienta dictadura…… es un angelito , nuestra economía , desarrollo, auto sostén , nuestra libre empresa, nivel de educación etc etc hablan por sí solas . Pobre Cuba , muchos años necesitará para superar la ruina y miseria en la que mal vive no por Batista sino por los Castros . Lo muy malo que hizo Batista fue perdonarle la vida a Castro cuando atacó al hospital del Moncada , ya era un asesino desde joven hasta su muerte
Falta mucho más por decir ….. mafia, corrupción de Batista ? Pues ahora toda cuba es un prostíbulo de niñas y niños por un dollar o un euro para poder comer , mientras la nueva clase de los castristas viven como reyes y sin carencias
People in Cuba had it a lot better with a Mafia-backed dictator than they did with a Communist-backed dictator. Under Batista people were moving to Cuba, under Castro people were dying to leave Cuba. The mob wanted gambling and prostitution, which is the same thing the mob wanted in Vegas. They didn't get the prostitution in Vegas, at least not legally but they had their hooks in the gambling.
The problem with dictators is that despite their cause may be honest and well intentioned, you will always have opposition in politics. The moment you start repression, you become a tyrant, the more you kill and censure the opposition, the more opposition grows, and soon you find yourself forcing people to obey your policies, and instigate the reign of fear, and you get paranoid of who could betray you and spies, and corruption. It is never good. Cuba revolution started with a good intention, but soon enough they became the problem, and they were not willing to let go, making the people to pay for it.
I mean you could probably consider Castro and to some extent Stalin that due to both their political successes and cults of personality which form around more strong-man type leaders.
I appreciate this. I too never understood why batista was bad. I just knew my dad was a captain in the Cuban army trying to overthrow him. The last thing he imagined was that overthrowing Batista would give them Castro.
batista. a million times. he stole huge amounts of lands and gave it to certain rich usakistanis so they would be richer. he turned cuba into a super poor colony of usakistan. and when those stolen lands were recovered usakistan was livid.....and implemented a brutal economic blockade that is STILL keeping cubans in misery. but even with the blockade fidel managed to make the cuban literacy rate almost 100%, and make them a medical world power.
@@sabin97Castro, a million times. After Castro won the Cuban civil war, he put the elites into a coliseum and killed them in mass. Something Batista never did even if he was a dictator.
@@brianjones7660 they fled becaus eof the brutal economic(notice i said economic and nor military, whyte folks tend to confuse those two words) blockade that you imposed on the cuban people. look up something you call "export control". once you understand the rules, you will understand the terrible reach of the blockade usakistan is the most accurate label as you have been slowly but surely implementing christian sharia.
Raul and Ernesto were pink as flamingos before they ever got on the boat. Fidel was a Fidelista before his voice cracked back on the farm. But he didn't go looking for another dance partner till the White House offered to let him mow the grass. He was crazy but he wasn't stupid. We could have worked the problem. But we don't do uncertainty and enlightened self-interest never makes it past the receptionist. Instead, we only compromise with the irredeemably compromised, trumpet our leavening influence and pocket the difference.
My father was in Cuba at the time of the revolution..he witnessed Che and Fidel arriving in Havana..he was an avowed anti Communist all his life but even he said how moved he was about the joy and happiness that the Cuban people showed that day.. Batista was truly hated..if only the Americans had embraced Castro instead of driving him into the arms of the Communists.
Interesting and informative. A lot of historical events happened there. Remember part 2 of the god father movie. Just another chapter of its ever changing history.
I never really knew anything about Batista, yet always saw him as a sympathetic character…. A victim of the communists. I had no idea that he kind of was one. It interesting to see how cavalier and unashamed the U.S was about regime change, even back then. I will enjoy learning a lot from this channel. You have a new subscriber (Whoopi!)
Batista was not a communist at all he was a capitalist dictator. Huge difference. Communism is created by the people, it’s a grassroots movement. Communist are common people who aim to overthrow the ruling class and establish a free society ruled by the people for the people. It’s a classless society of workers only. There is no ruling class in a communist society. People either work alone or work together in a communist society. There are no private owners everything is done either alone or in common for the betterment of the community as a whole.
@@SPACEMONKEY288 liked your comments. The operative description is "ruling class" and what comes with it and which end of the "rule stick" you fall under especially when you consider the historical experience from Spanish colonial rule until...
@@SPACEMONKEY288*In theory.* in practice we know communism means a dictator rules all, benefits from everybody else. In regards to Batista, he was no different than China is today.
@@LynxStarAuto no the world knows only 2 different theory’s of communism, Leninism (the Soviet Cold War era) an anchro-communism the Spanish revolution and Ukraine revolution. That George Orwell an others fought in. The only flaw in the Soviet era communist experiment is that they did not have a People’s jury that held the vanguard party accountable to the will of the people, that was a crucial element to the structure of the communist model that was not added in, and I believe it wasn’t added in on purpose, because the Vanguard did not wanna be judged or held accountable to the will of the people.. they felt that they were above the people and could do it without the people holding the accountable or publicly checking them. And that led to a betrayal of the people eventually when those vanguard members became corrupted with their own personal interests, which is a divorce from the common peoples interest. everyone that followed the Soviets system of having an authoritarian vanguard opposed to a democratic one and did not implement a People’s jury, faced the same kinds issues of vanguard members adopting bourgeois interests and corrupting the solidarity of the system. Bastisa is a right wing reactionary dictator. He is different from China. Xi is a progressive dictator. China today is a capitalist state owned society. There hoping to transition into socialism by 2050. They had to reform to allow access into the world market and now that there almost the super power of the world there gonna try to lift as much of the 3rd world out of poverty as possible which will destroy the exploitation of the west of the global south leading to the fall of the dollar and our system which is taking place right now. Which is why we’re creating propaganda of war with China.
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No revolution occurs because everyone is content……….the problem is everyone wants a Moses to sort it out but all leaders are human so history repeats
Awesome video. Have you ever considered doing one for Trujillo? The man probably mentored Batista.
It's refreshing to see that the narrator made an effort to get the names right, in Spanish. Very well done!
But he said Jernán Cortés 😂.
Not Hernán... H is soundless when is behind any vowels
@@rocioaguilera3555hence he said effort mate.
People often talk about how bad Castro was, and pretend like Cuba was some sort or paradise before him. My great-grandfather fled Cuba to Mexico because of Batista.
Your great grandfather was lucky. With Castro’s communism Cubans have been risking their lives to escape that murderous chaos on anything that floats. The Florida straits hold many thousands that never made it.
@@lourdesgarcia5140 it wasn’t any better before Castro. The only difference between Batista’a regime and Castro’s was that the former allowed a few people to get rich but so what? Like anywhere in the world, if you were rich in Cuba you could live well but most people didn’t. Batista ran a military dictatorship-a police state filled with organized crime. Cubans who glorify a time before Castro are either delusional, one of the few who were rich and owned land, or ignorant. Less than a third of houses had running water and human rights barely existed.
Both were horrible leaders in their own special way. Castros healthcare and education reforms targeted lower class citizens because he knew if he helped them, they would support him. Which was definitely more than Batista ever did for them, however those changes were not widespread throughout the island, it was mostly in the cities.
Castro also killed thousands of innocent people during his reign- political opponents, homosexuals, religious groups, anyone who stepped out against him, or dared to make a change. Once communism started to decline in the 80’s, Cubas economy completely collapsed which made it a very difficult and rough place to live. The reason ppl tend to believe Cuba was better under Batista was because he was more favorable towards the US. But that doesn’t mean Castro was a great leader for Cuba either because he wasn’t.
One big difference between Batista and Castro is that under the former, if someone wanted to leave Cuba he was free to go openly, while under the latter emmigration was illegal for almost everyone, and those wanting to emmigrate had to risk their lives to sneak out (and we will never know how many thousands died attempting to do so).
Lol and if the Cuban politicos who were opposed to batista had taken a hold of the corruption perhaps the island nation could have been spared both batista's military dictatorship and Castrol repressive regime.
This is exactly what fueled the Las Vegas that we have come to know and love to this very day.. Every American should watch this, this is history that you won't necessarily get the chance to learn in high school.
Especially if you're currently attending high school in Florida.
@@termsofusepolice What does the price of tea in china have to do with Florida?
@@clifforddriver9434outh Florida is majority Cubanos. There it is as if you are living in Cuba. Most of us either live or lived there and still have family ties en Florida.
@@el-Cu9432 What I care about Florida you simply wouldn't want to know.
Or they could just read about it in a book.
As someone born in Mariano Havana Cuba. I really appreciate this My family immigrated to the US early in my childhood and I never got a good understanding of Cuban history. They always just made him out to be another dictator. Which they weren't that far off but still contacts matters and I really like this video thank you.
As Daytona born I am not well educated by who was there (here) and his son's lived here. I was born in 1952 & unwittingly parked my boat at his house & drank his wine c/o the company I was with (in the backyard). His wife who he left was there and my grandfather (mayor 1940) knew him
Americans are the cause of everything evil in the world
I came to the US when I was 11 with my parents By that age we had already been fully taught Cuban history in school. I was born in El Cobre.
@@doncunningham5242 I am Cuban born and a resident of Daytona now.. Would really love to see where they live. There’s a museum now here..
That house is now an apartment complex.
Thank you, once again, for presenting a fair, honest, accurate, and factual biography on a most controversial political figure. 👍
Yes most definitely, because the United States played a significant role in the collapse of Cuba's Democracy as well as the different party fashions that made up the Cuban government.
@@kennethcharles1386 But then again, the Castros have proven no less controversial.
@@Tomatohater64 that's a whole nother issue right there. That America has yet to face up too.
@@kennethcharles1386 Agreed.
Your content is always topnotch! Thanks for this!
Wonderful to see the bedraggled elegance of Cuban architecture. Some of the landscape shots are lovely.
If Batista had addressed the issues of poverty, health care, illiteracy and kept his hands out of the public coffers, Castro never could have come to power. It must be recognized that what became a major impetus when the US invasion at the Bay of Pigs was attempted, was the fact that the Castro government made a special attempt at improving the three above items mentioned, which gave those people, who were among the poorest in Cuba, a great incentive to battle any invaders of their country. They preferred to keep what they had gained under Castro rather than return to some feudal existence.
thats an interesting interpretation of events, my grand parents would absolutely disagree with that version...
@@h.s.lafever3277EXACTLY.
Meantime the Castro was just as CORRUPT as he accused Batista of being..he led a luxury lifestyle.. while wearing DESIGNER Camo to continue the LIE that he was just another working class soldier.
Excellent presentation. When asked , at the end of it, what I thought of Batista, I thought of Shakespeare’s Macbeth : the great hero in Act One, but tempted to take a short cut to power , in Act 2.
Short cuts to power always turn out dangerous no matter how good your intentions are
Power tends to corrupt,. Absolute power corrupts absolutely!
Lo dices por el camarada Fidel, supongo
Another great informative post. Thank you.
Informative ,fairly biography introduced the modern history of Cuba 🇨🇺 through this great biography of Batista....thanks (the people profile) channel
A very interesting video, thank you for increasing my knowledge.
A very good history of events. I do wish you would have mentioned that the first thing Fidel Castro did after taking power was to ask the US government for help. On refusal from the US , he was forced to go to the Soviet Union.
I was wondering why this wasn't mentioned, but after watching the video, did he really ask for help or was the whole help thing , a total bs fallacy made up by Castro and his supporters. I remember reading about something where he came to the US for help to realize his cause/agenda , but that was before.
🤔 ... Watching this video shows that he was a communist before he even started ... He was against the US from the beginning, bc he was bittered by the US controlling things in Cuba, what he failed to understand as any smart would've, is that the US and the other world power Soviet Union both do the same, just use different tactics; and now you can add China to that list.
Now you see Cuba again looking for support where they shouldn't be, same with the rest of the Caribbean, and Latin America. They'll be paying a dear price for doing so.
Interesting
If you believe this obvious bid of Castro propaganda, you should educate yourself better.
jillburk, But, well, obviously the US had to refuse! Do you seem to have forgotten that the shameless Fidel Castro seized, confiscated, expropriated, stole or whatever you want to call it, ALL the properties of hundreds of thousands of families, among them, many were North American. Do you forget that the United States is the example country? respect for private property?
We say hundreds of thousands, if not millions...Because he even stole (everything happened into HIS hands) small businesses, such as limbiabota stands, magazine and newspaper sellers, etc, etc!
True. The US caused the Cuban Missile Crisis and put the Corporations and Mob before the people of Cuba.
I have always thought it was the Mob that had JFK killed as revenge for all his hypocrisy and double dealing.
Thanks!
Thanks Jack!
Well produced and informative as always. Thanks.
I would LOVE to see you make a people profile on Rafael Trujillo (Famed former dictator of the Dominican Republic)...
Cuban restaurant
Most historians describe Batista as a cruel dictator. This clip brings in many details which are as relevant to the acceptance of Castro as the great leader. Yet Cuba was corrupt for decades with the Castro revolution just another step in the long saga of Cuban sad tragedy. Good story telling.
Cuba is such a rich island manifested by its diverse people and resources that it never achieved its greatness due to its corrupt rulers bleeding it dry
Stupid and absurd. Cuba made terrific social and technological advances during the socialist period, unlike anything in Cuba's past - and would have made even more progress but for the U.S. embargo. Full literacy, food and medical care for everyone, longer life expectancies than in the U.S., and technological products which even the U.S. can't produce and try to suppress (such as the lung cancer vaccine).
@@LTrotsky21stCentury Cuba was a fuckin mess under Castro. It was not a pleasant place to live. Ppl wanted out.
" In 1950, Cuba ranked seventh in per capita GDP in (the 47 countries of) Latin America (and Caribbean). The order was Venezuela, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, and (nearly tied for sixth place) Cuba. If a nation is represented by its per capita GDP ranking, Cuba was thus highly ranked in Latin America...
A half century later, in 2001, Cuba was the third poorest country in Latin America as measured by per capita GDP. Only Nicaragua and poorest-of-the-poor Haiti ranked lower."
@@LTrotsky21stCentury sadly, largely because of Soviet subsidies for sugar, the loss of which after the cold war showed that Cuba had been living well beyond its means, as a potemkin-like showpiece of Soviet success, ie a fake, a facade.
One could say though that it demonstrated what could be achieved with proper investment in its ppl; showing how capitalism could do better by adjusting it's priorities.
My only criticism about this video is that they say after taking control of Cuba, Castro "immediately" aligned his administration with the USSR. This did eventually happen but the timing is inaccurate. It took approx. one year for them to decide to align with the USSR. Cuba made overtures to the USA first but was outright rejected. Our reaction toward his takeover helped push him toward the Soviets. Also, Che Guevara was the rabid Marxist, not Fidel-at least not at the beginning.
That was an excellent summary of this critical period of Cuban history.
Wow, I never knew this about Batista. I was always brought up to believe he was a member of the Spanish elite, friend of the American bourgeosie. But learning now that he was part black African, part native American, part Chinese and only 1/4 white Spaniard... quite a new discovery of Cuban history, to me
Hes a mestizo
I don't know about the Chinese part...it's a long stretch
And how much of importance are Batista's ethnic roots to The Cuban History? A brutal dictator who was kept in power by the USA, the self declared biggest "democracy". That's what you should have in your memory and not Batista's ethnicity.
What difference does it make? He was a puppet of the US government and much worse than whatever they accuse Fidel of
@@johndorilag4129 there is a Cuban saying that we all have part Spaniard, part Afro and Part Chinese due to the large amount of those ethnicity that migrated to Cuba way back then!
Problem with Batista: He was not a Francisco Franco - a dictator with long range future plans. Franco carefully avoided joining the Axis in World War 2, then took advantage of the Cold War to get US investment and bases. He set the groundwork for Spain to become a constitutional monarchy after his death. Batista did not practice similar long term planning, so ended up like Ferdinand Marcos Sr. of the Phillipines - in exile though rich.👎
Even Castro has a lot more in common with Franco than Batista with Franco.
@@brianhu9700 I agree that Castro was a wiser dictator than Batista, as were Francisco Franco and Portugal's Antonio Salazar
The regime after Marcos 🇵🇭 is at least both a democracy and an American ally. Castro turned Cuba into an authoritarian communist dictatorship who reasonably or wrongly hates the United States.
Excellent factual documentary condensing history in easily digestible form. Thank you! ☺️
excellently done!
Thank you kindly!
Nice documentation, Brilliant approach, Excellent Presentation ❤
This is an excellent documentary on a political figure that has affected millions of lives.
Interesting, he was complex. I learned a lot of facts I wasn't aware of. Great documentary keep up the good work. I see him in a new light, thanx.
His bad deeds far outweiged his good deeds.
Thank You For This Video. It was really very Nice & Infotmative. All must watch & appreciate. Thank You. ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉💐💐💐🌺🌺🌺🌹🌹🌹.
From October 24, 1492 until today, Cuba has only known conquerors, colonialists and dictators.
USA the worst!!!
@@dvdortiz9031 The genocide and annihilation of the Natives by the Spanish, perhaps has no match in barbarity.
Personally, and having lived a total of 6 months on the island, I can vouch for the horrible and relentless dictatorship of the Castro family (also of Spanish origin) and their collaborators.
People who make comments like “the annihilation of the native people … perhaps has no match in barbarity” love to sound as if they take the higher moral ground, especially when speaking about people who lived 500 or more years ago. Yes, of course, today we are so superior to those people from the past!
If one looks at history with thoughtfulness and perspective, one understands that most people alive at the historical moment referred to, held the same views, for compelling cultural reasons of the day. Any of us alive today, had we been alive in 1500 in Cuba, would have participated in events considered ethical and even heroic and patriotic at that time. Including you.
Today, in 2023, we are so noble and idealistic that we have dismembered and otherwise destroyed millions and millions of children in their mothers’ wombs. But we call this women’s healthcare because we are so very advanced.
@@martaacosta4415 Although I am tired of responding to the comments of illiterates, far-right, religious, naive and idiots or all of them together, I emphasize that the brutality of the Spanish against the natives of Cuba has been recorded since then (eg historian Bartolomé de las Casas) and more later (see historians Jeffrey Ostler, Andrés Reséndez, etc.).
@@pablosadelmundoand u have mexico who is ruled by Natives had freedom and still is a shitty country, if it wasnt for the european system world wouldn’t advance as much as it has
I grew up with a girl in Miami Beach who was from Cuba. Back in the 1950's on. She n her parents escaped and came to Florida. Good people. We became friends and her mother would only speak Spanish to me, so I'd learn. My best memories are of that time. My mom spoke of Batista. All those years ago. I'd give anything to be able to capture that time again, but I'm a senior and have lost touch with the precious family I once knew. Thank you 💛 for this excellent documentary about the history of Cuba. I will keep and cherish it. ❤
There are two biographies about Batista but,they never cover the years between 1952 to his death in 1973.
I understand Batista lived on the river but left his wife here and lived at The Waldorf in New York City. Anyway, he used to come to my granddad's house and my father told me that he could remember that near Main Street on the Halifax Lagoon.
@@doncunningham5242 Ишь ты!
Excelente documentary. A poor man that became Sargent, President and dictator is uniquely shocking! But what We can from this is that power corrupts good intentions. 70 years and Cubans still living in misery and lack of freedoms.
lack of everything! unfortunately
@@rosenunez4328 Gee wiz,I wonder why?
@@philipmaldonado9249 because of the abuse of power of a Communist Dictator and its followers! The fooled the people and took our every freedom and slaved a country
Blaming the USA block 😂😂😂
@@philipmaldonado9249porque el comunismo dolo deja miseria y calamidad por donde pasa. La teoría es muy bonita y equa, la realidad nos ha enseñado a base de golpes que no existe política más hipócrita que la comunista. Eso si, lo de ka propaganda se les da muy bien.
Batista was a horror show yet after having visited Cuba a dozen times during the Castro regime and thereafter, the people have suffered miserably
The people love Castro in cuba, he is a hero to the Cuban people, him and the peasants together fought and liberate the masses of people in cuba, gave them all education, healthcare, housing, food, water etc.
Social change like that under the nose of the most powerful imperialist state on the planet was a slap in the face, sense such things are deemed “utopian” by the capitalist class, or they were before people fought to prove it was possible.
The imperialist have made cuba suffer for years.
Long love the Cuban revolution ✊🚩🚩 solidarity to my people in Cuba.
the people and the country have been degraded!
@@SPACEMONKEY288 the idea was false, the only ones that have food and any basic hygiene needs etc. is the Political upper-class Castro did not fix anything. He destroyed a country. Made slaves out of its people. Why do you think so many people risk their lives fleeing th hell hole the Castro regine hs created! the ideology is not the reality
@@rosenunez4328 by the USA
@@SPACEMONKEY288you probably don't live in Cuba.
Cuba’s history is quite tragic, from Batista to Castro.
Damn
Enjoyed the doc on Batista. I remember a large book about him published in the late 1940’s. It had shown some of those reforms.
Excellent, crammed with information...thank you.
Absolutely fantastic documentary. I teach US foreign policy, and this will greatly enrich my teaching.
It would be very interesting to know " What you teach"!!!!
Naughty!!!
Do your own research!
Democracy for Cuba!!!!!!!
THE AMERICAN'S PUT HIM THERE !!! CASTRO LET HIM GET AWAY WITH 3 PLANES FULL OF ART AND VALUEBALS WHILE HE COULD HAVE COURT HIM AT THE AIRPORT !!!!! WHY ?????
Thank you very much! Very educational.
Oh, my gosh! I have been searching for years for a fair documentary about Batista and here I got it.
Very informative! I’m Fidel’s supporter and have been wanting to understand Cuban’s life before Fidel
Don't see why you're Fidel's supporter. On balance, he was bad for both the US and Cuba, as this documentary essentially admits. If you cannot admit that, I really can't see you as much more than a leftist ideologue. In the fifties I'd have supported Batista as a necessary evil; people like you now defend Castro despite his record, and that record justifies my pragmatic support of men like Batista, for lack of better alternatives. The left Bashes Batista for not having elections, yet still celebrates Castro despite never delivering on that gripe about elections. As such, if that gripe were genuine, they would feel betrayed by Castro, and yet they do not.
You certainly don't live in Cuba.
@@user9xyz836 And you did? Do you honestly think Fidel made things better? The rallying cry for Batista's critics was elections, and he never gave them so the critics of Batista's should have been upset with Castro but we're not. They are liars, and need to be called out.
Wow! Very thorough and revealing of one who I didn't know much of. He turns out to have been a very dirty and corrupt leader. It also seems that the Cuban people have always suffered from repressive and or corrupt leaders. Poverty has been the lot of the masses from inception to now. It would be great to see some favorable changes.
GREAT HISTORY LESSON APPRECIATE THE CONTENT....
Thank you. Always good to learn something new.
Thanks...impressive details
My friend survived the farm work programs that Castro put in place, even though his Father was a Doctor. My friend, who was 12 at the time, talked back to the military official at the farm. He was placed in a ground pit overnight with a locked cage top. He said snakes & bugs came into the pit, which was flooded with water chest high. Can you imagine such torture on a child? They left Cuba on a boat ASAP.
Cuba never had democracy or real indipendence. Yet. After the Castros you will though :)
And Cuba was one of the least hellish communist dictatorships.
As a kid i remember there were a lot of Cuban revolutionaries who left the island disillusioned.
@@bigtimepimpin666 The reasons which led to the victory of Castro's revolution are very easy overlooked and we are supplied with stories like the above.
Long live the Cuban Revolution.
@@selcukcilek555 i was a revolutionary child. And stellar party members. But there are some issues with the regime.
MY family left Cuba in 1969 and my sister 12 years old had to go to the mountains to pick CAFE. One of her classmates never came back from going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. MY father would go every weekend to ck on her and bring her food.
Thank you for this video which feel my gap of the Batista reign
Il n'empêche que les Cubains étaient plus heureux sous Bautista que sous les Castro, qui ont fait de leur île prospère un pays du Tiers-Monde.
Vous rêvez en couleurs pour affirmer cela! 90 pour cent d'analphabétisme et cela enrayé en une année d'alphabétisation intensive. Para conocer hay que estudiar. Toujours des opinions à l'emporte-pièce dans l'Hexagone débitées avec de grands airs seigneuriaux.
No, it was not a dream but a reality. My family left cuba in the early 1960's because of communism and social upheaval it caused.
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Slavery for Cuba, that's what you mean?
I think Batista needed to be ousted by the Cuban people in the 1950s.
That he was kept in power by the US, specifically the Dulles brothers,
with their rabid "anti-communist" cold war myopia,
made the victory of Castro, or someone very like him, only more likely.
The US, by then imposing a cruel, punishing *and unnecessary* embargo has ensured
that the average Cuban is in only slightly better circumstances than they were before 1959.
This has been the story, unfortunately, of US foreign policy almost everywhere
in the 20th and 21st centuries.
It is far past the time for that unnecessary embargo to be lifted.
And for the US to climb down from its support for autocrats in the interests of humanity.
Hate to burst the bubble. The embargo has had ZERO impact on the quality of life of the wonderful Cuban people. Cuba is free to trade with any other nation on the planet. The core issue is that totalitarian communist rule does not work, period. All you have to do is analyze Cuban agrarian production values from 1959 to the present and you will see that the nation is dysfunctional and much more corrupt than in any previous government. It is now one of the central drug trafficking jump off points of Central America and the country exists largely based on the European and Canadian tourism that flows into “foreigners only” beach “and other”resorts….fill in the last one with your imagination.
The tragedy is that the regime’s propaganda apparatus makes anything from their New York counterparts look like kindergarten child play. The truth will most likely never be widely disseminated. It’s like pushing a rope. But some of us that lives through that time in history know the intricate and important details. Your videos are always excellent but in this one, critical missteps were unknowingly made.
All good. Better to get most of the story out than none at all. Health and prosperity to all.
@@F1Hopeful
parece que nunca has trabajado para una empresa multinacional yanqui.
el bloqueo(no es embargo, es bloqueo) tiene un impacto enorme en la vida del pueblo cubano.
es la razon por la que el gobierno tienen que racionar la comida(si no lo hacen los ricos acaparan todo y los pobres literalmente mueren de hambre).
cuando un pais no puede comerciar casi nada con casi nadie, no progresa.
@@F1Hopeful The USA the most powerful country in both military and economy places an embargo, and you think that an embargo from the USA doesn't effect the average citizen of a country... Either you do not understand today's economy or you're living a fantasy.
@@slowjamsliver7006 You are most likely correct; I do not understand the current global economy AND I am living in a fantasy world. The future will divulge the truth. Fare well.
Kid Mohair, neither extreme form of government, left, or right is good for the great mass of citizens!!!
My entire extended family fled Cuba in the late 60s. Batista was a brutal dictator but Castro's communism is a totalitarian hellish nightmare.
My work colleague got out and speaks rarely of the hell he left behind under Castro. He is sure USA and Canada of today are heading same direction
@Jm Mac Freemasonry created modern republic, democracy and capitalism; as well as socialism and communion, they have presented those as opposite; no matter who rules, they are always high behind, pulling strings...every government is their puppet
Castro was pushed to turn Cuba to what it became due to the US. As always, the US loves to impose its will to other nations. Castro had to fight back and this pushed him to join the USSR. It would had being very diferent if the US would really had a culture of freedom.
Another example of how the US Department of State is so inept and the workers and staff of the State Department are stupid. The State Department must be reformed and the Ivy League establishment within should be terminated.
Why do you say that? Tell me what US Department of State should have done
@@Soul_Flow_
maybe not allow the brutal economic blockade against the cuban people to be implemented?
@sabin97 , go one step back, why did US do the blockade?
@@Soul_Flow_
batista stole huge amounts of land and gave them to certain rich usakistanis, so they woudl become even richer. and they did.
once the cuban people kicked him out, they recovered those stolen lands.
the rich usakistanis were furious. and the usakistani government resorted to the blockade as retaliation for not kowtowing.
@@Soul_Flow_ should not had supporter a loser. We always back a horse that comes in last
If anyone wants to read what President Fulgencio Batista has to say in his own words, one of his books is available in PDF form on the Internet. Just look up "latin american studies the growth and decline of the cuban republic fulgencio batista pdf."
Where can I find out about the decline of the cuban republic after Fidel Castro and the Revolution..?
@@gregrodriguez714
It is not easy to find that many books that cover the initial stages of the revolution after the fall of Bastista. There is an excellent book that details what led up to the toppling of Batista. It is entitled "The Fourth Floor" and is by US Ambassador Earl Smith. It details how the US backed putting Fidel Castro into power with the full knowledge that he was a communist. It is out of print, but can be found through interlibrary loan. It is worth a read.
Humberto Fontava, who despises the Castro regime with good reason, has written two books that highlight its shortcomings: "Exposing the Real Che Guevara" and "Fidel: Hollywood's Favourite Tyrant." One can, also, read the personal recollections of Fidel's chief bodyguard, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez: "The Double Life of Fidel."
There are several books that I have yet to read, but that are on my Cuba-to-Read List: "And the Russians Stayed" by Nestor T. Carbonell, "The Losers" by Paul D. Bethell and "Cuba: The Disaster of Castro's Revolution" by Andres J. Solares.
I hope that this helps.
Excelente documental,felicitaciones.
This is a really good documentary!
Excellent biography
Thanks for sharing
He certainly was somewhat enigmatic to a degree.
Just found your interesting channel. New Sub.
In my life I have observed that systemic corruption may be enmeshed with functionality.
A Machiavellian mindset doesn’t make anything better but it probably could avoid making things worse.
Hard thing is to accept the greed and arrogance of fat cats living high on the hog while others are stuck in a rut of deprivation as the fruits of their labors are siphoned off.
You have observed that, But you have not been able to identify who manipulates all that!!! Have you???
Thanks so much.
The computer voice is super annoying. Sounds very real at first but then i zoned out.
Very informative
This is a more nuanced take on modern Cuban history.
Thank you for highlighting Batista’s mixed-race background. By contrast, the Castro brothers were white (sons of Spanish immigrants).
The reign of terror that the Castros and sidekick Che Guevara unleashed after 1959 makes Batista look like a choirboy.
agree
In USA, Spaniards are considered " non anglo-whites" under-rated, that is, Catholics by defect!!!
Cuba had was starting its middle class in the 1950's then came Fidel and his minions and destroyed the economy with his social upheaval.
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PATRIA Y VIDA !!!
CUBA LIBERTAD!!!
That opening scene is not in Cuba... those cars are way to modern and we don't use some of those signs
Very interesting info
Any chance you could do Juan Peron?
The United States Government LOVED Batista.
Is it true the USA agreed to never invade Cuba if the Soviet missiles were removed?
Yes.
Not necessarily; loopholes in the treaty would have made it unenforceable Graciela Catasus
A decent and fair film.
For the record, The colonial communities went to Haiti for support of their independence ie: Miranda and Bolivar obtained arms, and munitions from free Haiti in 1806 and the years after. This part was convenientely ommitted.
A real Twisted and complícated history First a spanish colony and then a usa colony
I feel for the people who had to flee their homes and countries, it's a great crime when such atrocities take place but an even greater crime when the world sits back and does nothing. Peace to all the Innocents who either died or fled with their lives from dictators, corrupt regimes and guided missiles dropped from planes.
I knew a Cuban business man who told me he had to include the bribe when calculating your price.
nothing changed
That happens in most countries, including the USA. Kickbacks are king.
Este hombre F Batista comparado con Castro y sus 60 años de sangrienta dictadura…… es un angelito , nuestra economía , desarrollo, auto sostén , nuestra libre empresa, nivel de educación etc etc hablan por sí solas . Pobre Cuba , muchos años necesitará para superar la ruina y miseria en la que mal vive no por Batista sino por los Castros . Lo muy malo que hizo Batista fue perdonarle la vida a Castro cuando atacó al hospital del Moncada , ya era un asesino desde joven hasta su muerte
Falta mucho más por decir ….. mafia, corrupción de Batista ? Pues ahora toda cuba es un prostíbulo de niñas y niños por un dollar o un euro para poder comer , mientras la nueva clase de los castristas viven como reyes y sin carencias
La brutalidad y corrupción de Batista es lo que llevó a Castro al poder. Basta de comparaciones ridículas.
His own coup in 52 fueled the discontent and ultimately a rebellion that brought Cuba to the stone age 😮
Castro brought Cuba to the stone age; he was an ideologue whom history has proven worse than his predecessor, and somehow leftists aren't ashamed.
@wisetibetanmonkey. It really is the stoneage there, really!
People in Cuba had it a lot better with a Mafia-backed dictator than they did with a Communist-backed dictator. Under Batista people were moving to Cuba, under Castro people were dying to leave Cuba. The mob wanted gambling and prostitution, which is the same thing the mob wanted in Vegas. They didn't get the prostitution in Vegas, at least not legally but they had their hooks in the gambling.
that was good bro.
"I'VE NEVER HEARD OF A LOVED AND SUCCESSFUL DICTATOR."
The problem with dictators is that despite their cause may be honest and well intentioned, you will always have opposition in politics. The moment you start repression, you become a tyrant, the more you kill and censure the opposition, the more opposition grows, and soon you find yourself forcing people to obey your policies, and instigate the reign of fear, and you get paranoid of who could betray you and spies, and corruption. It is never good. Cuba revolution started with a good intention, but soon enough they became the problem, and they were not willing to let go, making the people to pay for it.
I mean you could probably consider Castro and to some extent Stalin that due to both their political successes and cults of personality which form around more strong-man type leaders.
Great documentary
As bad as it was, the pictures of Havana in the 50s look better than all the decades before.
The fish rots from the head down.
One dictator was overthrown in favor of another.
I wonder which one was more of a tyrant.
Sadly not an uncommon occurrence in the world.
@@garymckee8857 ,Castro.
Batista was strongman mafia puppet
Castro was benevolent dictator free education free healthcare Cuba has slightly higher life expectancy that USA
@@imyourdaddy5822 This all courtesy of the US Government.
Very well done awesome!
I appreciate this. I too never understood why batista was bad. I just knew my dad was a captain in the Cuban army trying to overthrow him. The last thing he imagined was that overthrowing Batista would give them Castro.
Who was worse, Castro or Batista?
batista. a million times.
he stole huge amounts of lands and gave it to certain rich usakistanis so they would be richer.
he turned cuba into a super poor colony of usakistan.
and when those stolen lands were recovered usakistan was livid.....and implemented a brutal economic blockade that is STILL keeping cubans in misery.
but even with the blockade fidel managed to make the cuban literacy rate almost 100%, and make them a medical world power.
Cuba would be a lovely place to
Live had the Americans not imposed
The economic embargo.
America imposing it's. Revenge.
@@sabin97Castro, a million times.
After Castro won the Cuban civil war, he put the elites into a coliseum and killed them in mass. Something Batista never did even if he was a dictator.
@@sabin97 pour another drink, comrade.
Talk to people who fled Cuba in the 60's to the US.
Usakistan?
How childish.
@@brianjones7660
they fled becaus eof the brutal economic(notice i said economic and nor military, whyte folks tend to confuse those two words) blockade that you imposed on the cuban people.
look up something you call "export control". once you understand the rules, you will understand the terrible reach of the blockade
usakistan is the most accurate label as you have been slowly but surely implementing christian sharia.
Cuando Cuba era libre, cuando todos tenían que comer, cuando entraban y salían del país libremente.
Raul and Ernesto were pink as flamingos before they ever got on the boat.
Fidel was a Fidelista before his voice cracked back on the farm.
But he didn't go looking for another dance partner till the White House offered to let him mow the grass.
He was crazy but he wasn't stupid. We could have worked the problem.
But we don't do uncertainty and enlightened self-interest never makes it past the receptionist.
Instead, we only compromise with the irredeemably compromised, trumpet our leavening influence and pocket the difference.
Interesting documentary
Batista was a benevolent dictator and a boy scout when compared to the Castro brothers.
Lol complete bullshit
Still better than what came later.
Literally false Cubans were illiterate and had no healthcare.
@Ramiro Garcia no it wasn't they were both trash. The only people who think that are white Cubans.
F.D.R. refered too Batista as a bastard but our bastard. What does that say about American politics at that time?😮😮
My father was in Cuba at the time of the revolution..he witnessed Che and Fidel arriving in Havana..he was an avowed anti Communist all his life but even he said how moved he was about the joy and happiness that the Cuban people showed that day.. Batista was truly hated..if only the Americans had embraced Castro instead of driving him into the arms of the Communists.
agreed
they did
Interesting and informative. A lot of historical events happened there. Remember part 2 of the god father movie. Just another chapter of its ever changing history.
I never really knew anything about Batista, yet always saw him as a sympathetic character…. A victim of the communists. I had no idea that he kind of was one. It interesting to see how cavalier and unashamed the U.S was about regime change, even back then. I will enjoy learning a lot from this channel. You have a new subscriber (Whoopi!)
Batista was not a communist at all he was a capitalist dictator. Huge difference.
Communism is created by the people, it’s a grassroots movement.
Communist are common people who aim to overthrow the ruling class and establish a free society ruled by the people for the people. It’s a classless society of workers only. There is no ruling class in a communist society.
People either work alone or work together in a communist society. There are no private owners everything is done either alone or in common for the betterment of the community as a whole.
@@SPACEMONKEY288 liked your comments. The operative description is "ruling class" and what comes with it and which end of the "rule stick" you fall under especially when you consider the historical experience from Spanish colonial rule until...
@@SPACEMONKEY288*In theory.* in practice we know communism means a dictator rules all, benefits from everybody else.
In regards to Batista, he was no different than China is today.
@@LynxStarAuto no the world knows only 2 different theory’s of communism, Leninism (the Soviet Cold War era) an anchro-communism the Spanish revolution and Ukraine revolution. That George Orwell an others fought in.
The only flaw in the Soviet era communist experiment is that they did not have a People’s jury that held the vanguard party accountable to the will of the people, that was a crucial element to the structure of the communist model that was not added in, and I believe it wasn’t added in on purpose, because the Vanguard did not wanna be judged or held accountable to the will of the people.. they felt that they were above the people and could do it without the people holding the accountable or publicly checking them.
And that led to a betrayal of the people eventually when those vanguard members became corrupted with their own personal interests, which is a divorce from the common peoples interest.
everyone that followed the Soviets system of having an authoritarian vanguard opposed to a democratic one and did not implement a People’s jury, faced the same kinds issues of vanguard members adopting bourgeois interests and corrupting the solidarity of the system.
Bastisa is a right wing reactionary dictator. He is different from China.
Xi is a progressive dictator.
China today is a capitalist state owned society. There hoping to transition into socialism by 2050. They had to reform to allow access into the world market and now that there almost the super power of the world there gonna try to lift as much of the 3rd world out of poverty as possible which will destroy the exploitation of the west of the global south leading to the fall of the dollar and our system which is taking place right now. Which is why we’re creating propaganda of war with China.
@@SPACEMONKEY288 Found the college drop out with no tangible world experience and no self awareness.
Fulgencio Batista, presidente constitucional de Cuba, cuando era libre.
Always comparing between the bad and the worse !! Is there something else?