re: #60 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Yeah it came off as “Well people in Cuba supported Castro because of the literacy program.” I mean it’s easy to act like every Cuban exile was a former beneficiary of the Batista corruption but it also ignores that a lot of Cuban refugees are people who participated in the revolution and then turned against Fidel and his brother as it became more autocratic.

Anything like that is going to be complicated. If he was initially treating people better that what had come before, then of course they’re going to support him. But I suspect it waned after a while, because the initial results weren’t being sustained.