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Question:Badista was just a pawn of Uncle Sam,at least Castro has done a lot more for the people of Cuba by doing things like free education and a second to none health care system(life expentency is actually higher than the U.S's), Makes U wonder who is really the better of 2 evils? Doesn't mean I really like Castro,it's just a matter comparing whom to whom being in such a relativstic world we live in as we do.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Badista was just a pawn of Uncle Sam,at least Castro has done a lot more for the people of Cuba by doing things like free education and a second to none health care system(life expentency is actually higher than the U.S's), Makes U wonder who is really the better of 2 evils? Doesn't mean I really like Castro,it's just a matter comparing whom to whom being in such a relativstic world we live in as we do.

Batista was a thug who provided a safe haven for the mob and was handsomely paid off to permit gambling, prostitution and narcotics distribution. Corruption was endemic.
Castro cleaned the country up and as you say, provided Cuba with education and health services which are among the best in the Americas, despite the modest resources of his country. And although it is an authoritarian regime, Cuba is less repressive than other countries with which the US enjoys such good relations, those shining beacons of democracy and freedom, China and Saudi Arabia for example.

batista was as bad as castro in all the ways that castro is bad, but most people in cuba were better off under castro.
this in no way of course condones the terrible abuses of freedom that take place under the castro's administration

I agree with you. Castro actually cared for his people.