re: #88 Unshaken Defiance

I just personally think his motives at the time cynical enough that I don’t really buy that either. Pretensions of justice. But correct of course to say so I can’t disagree there.

I’m not celebrating his end, but his country would have been better off without him long long ago. And that counterproductive embargo. Empowered him and hurt the people needlessly.

His motives may have been driven by politics, but the fact is that far too many US politicians worked to perpetuate apartheid. Castro was on the right side of this one issue, regardless of his motives, but the Republican Party was driven purely by racism and money, and it was a shameful episode in our politics.