[ihm]

Castro led a revolution that abolished an essentially colonial regime of sugar plantation labor. Under Batista "most of the sugar industry was in U.S. hands, and foreigners owned 70% of the arable land"[^0]. Rural men endured hard labor in poor conditions, for extremely low wages for half the year for the harvest and were left to languish without work for the rest of the year. Rural women were bound to their homes as domestic servants. There was no hope of a life beyond this for either. The revolution abolished this precarious existence, provided universal free healthcare, and gave everyone the opportunity to education through university. And that's just the effect of the revolution on rural life.

Cheney was a war profiteer who engineered wars that killed at least hundreds of thousands and probably over a million people.

I'd say the assessments are accurate. [^0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista

[theultdev]

Your history of Castro is extremely whitewashed.

You forgot the mention the political prisoners, torture, executions, and the authoritarian regime overall.

Thousands have risked their lives trying to escape it.

The juxtaposition of the comments between Welch and Castro is appalling.

Cheney and Castro are closer in terms that they both caused unnecessary death, but one gets praise upon death, and the other condemnation.