By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--November 28, 2016
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Castro began his career as a revolutionary by toppling a U.S.-backed government, repelled a CIA-backed counter-revolutionary invasion at the Bay of Pigs in 1961, and faced off against President John F. Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis a year later. During 49 years in office, he crossed swords with ten U.S. presidents. And while he took a lower profile after officially retiring in 2008, Castro never stopped warning Cubans that the American government was not to be trusted. His younger brother never gave much ground to the Obama administration in terms of liberalizing Cuba's one party political system. But many Cubans reckon they could do with their late leader's charisma and way with words to counter Trump's bombast.
"With 'El Comandante' gone, I am a little fearful of what could happen because of Trump's way of thinking and acting," said Yaneisi Lara, a 36-year-old Havana street vendor and flower seller. "He could set back and block everything that's been going on, all the things Obama has done, and he did a lot, managing to get the U.S. closer to Cuba," she said, admitting she would consider moving to the United States herself.Now there may actually be Cubans who believe this, but if that's the case, Reuters commits journalistic malpratice by neglecting to tell us why they think this: Because the Cuban government doesn't let them read, watch or listen to any outside information that might contradict the propaganda of the communist regime. Obviously there are Cubans who have figured out they're being lied to, which is why they're constantly trying to escape their island prison. But I'm sure that in such a controlled society, there are also people who have bought the rhetoric and really think Trump is some sort of fiend, while Castro was a hero. Then again, if they did get exposure to the U.S. media, they might not hear anything all that different than what they get from the government's propaganda.
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