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My grandfather bought 150 acres in Clintondale NY in 1899. Cultivated it for 20 years with apple orchards that still stand today. By the 50s he had saved enough $$$ farming to buy 450 acres in Cuba on a lake there. He would drive to Miami and charter a DC-3, fly to Cuba and fly migrant workers over to Miami and then drive them to NY to pick his apples each year. Their descendants still live in the Hudson Valley region there. And they HATE AND DESPISE anything and everything Castro and socialism.
Castro stole that land and shot 2 of my grandfathers business partners with another fruit company there.
That is what they really want here. Why else would a union thug beat up an old woman wanting to work?
Because that old woman was stealing his job?
Oh, I'm sure the people who got out, the wealthy and the boot-lickers hate Castro.
But you guys have thrown everything you have at Castro, and he's still there. We've spent 50 years punishing Cuba for flipping us off, and they still are.
But let's listen to what a Great American said about Cuba..
"I believe that there is no country in the world including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my countryÂ’s policies during the Batista regime. I approved the proclamation which Fidel Castro made in the Sierra Maestra, when he justifiably called for justice and especially yearned to rid Cuba of corruption. I will even go further: to some extent it is as though Batista was the incarnation of a number of sins on the part of the United States. Now we shall have to pay for those sins. In the matter of the Batista regime, I am in agreement with the first Cuban revolutionaries. That is perfectly clear."
— U.S. President John F. Kennedy, interview with Jean Daniel, 24 October 1963[11]
Fuckin' Commie JFK. Doesn't he know the Cubans were all happy living in slums while Corporations owned all their land?