Originally posted by FORMBY
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You said:
Fidel Castro was a good man.
HIS CRIME? He was naďve.
You used the word "crime", singular, meaning his only crime was, in your word, naiveté.
So, having looked at my link, you didn't find the following to be of any significance, apparently:
"thousands of Cubans were incarcerated in abysmal prisons, thousands more were harassed and intimidated, and entire generations were denied basic political freedoms."
“Over more than five decades documenting the state of human rights in Cuba, Amnesty [International] has recorded a relentless campaign against those who dare to speak out against the Cuban government’s policies and practices”
Upon establishing his provisional government in 1959, Castro organized trials of members of the previous government that resulted in hundreds of summary executions. In response to an international outcry and amid accusations that many of the trials were unfair, Castro responded:
"Revolutionary justice is not based on legal precepts, but on moral conviction... we are not executing innocent people or political opponents. We are executing murderers and they deserve it."
“Over more than five decades documenting the state of human rights in Cuba, Amnesty [International] has recorded a relentless campaign against those who dare to speak out against the Cuban government’s policies and practices”
Upon establishing his provisional government in 1959, Castro organized trials of members of the previous government that resulted in hundreds of summary executions. In response to an international outcry and amid accusations that many of the trials were unfair, Castro responded:
"Revolutionary justice is not based on legal precepts, but on moral conviction... we are not executing innocent people or political opponents. We are executing murderers and they deserve it."
But, presumably to justify all that, you added the caveat of "The strain was great, of course, and Fidel had to make some drastic decisions that might not have always been the best ones to make"
So, drastic decisions..."might" not have always been the best ones to make...like hundreds of summary executions? "Might"?
I can do this all day long.
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