[Magdalen] RIP Fidel Castro, 90.

[Bob Rea]

On Saturday, November 26, 2016 12:10:33 PM Jay Weigel wrote:
> I remember very well when Fidel won in Cuba. I was a freshman in high
> school, taking Spanish !, and my teacher was very up on Central and South
> American politics. IIRC, her fiancee was half Cuban. Anyway, she was pretty
> pleased when Castro came in. I knew from my parents' point of view that
> Batista was a nasty piece of work, supported by the right-wing faction of
> the CIA and the Mafia. I've since read more on the subject and he was
> indeed all that and more, but it's complicated, as was Fidel. Fidel himself
> was mostly a socialist and would probably not have cozied up to Russia at
> all, had not Eisenhower and then Kennedy been persuaded by that same
> right-wing faction (damn you, John Foster and Allen Dulles!) that he was
> "of of those dirty Commies!" Read Harry Truman on the subject.....in Merle
> Miller's book "Plain Speaking" he had a lot to say about it, and I think he
> was right.
> 
> Anyway, R.I.P.  Fidel.

And I remember being told by the US Consul in Kunming during WW II that Mao 
asked for US assistance so that he didn't have to go to Stalin for help. He 
was turned down, probably by the same people and for the same reasons.

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