Fidel Castro – After decades of ruling over Cuba with an iron fist, borrowing tactics from minds like Hitler and Stalin, Fidel Castro passed away. Technically he wasn’t in power as he passed presidential duties over to his brother in 2006. The death of Fidel Castro has been taken in two very different ways from Little Havana in Florida, US to the real Havana, Cuba.
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While Cuban nationals in America flood the streets with a joyous celebration, Cubans on the island are mourning the loss of their beloved leader. In the past years, Castro has remained more tame than previous times in history (1960-2000) it is easy to forget why the Socialist revolutionary leader was feared by so many. This man has ordered multiple atrocities that are immense violations of basic human rights. From mass murders to the execution of small children, Fidel Castro and his cohorts are not to be idolized for what they’ve left behind.
Fidel Castro has left an innumerable death toll in his wake and has shown very little remorse for these innocent lives lost. He set up work camps much like those in the Holocaust and restricted all movement of Cuban people. Fidel Castro was a tyrant that should be remembered as such.
13. The Overall Death Count
Fidel Castro has killed or ordered the deaths of so many people that there isn’t even an exact death toll. The number can only be guessed and is said to be in the high thousands. Professor Armando Lago believes that this number could be in the 10,000s but is more likely to be closer to 100,000. Armando Lago is a Harvard-trained economist who spent many years studying exactly what the revolution cost the Cuban people.
Lago equated that 78,000 people died trying to flee dictatorship while 5300 are known to have lost their lives fighting for communism in the Bay of Pigs and Escambray Mountains. Adding onto these already astronomical numbers, 14,000 were killed in Fidel Castro’s revolutionary adventures abroad and he ordered 50,000 soldiers to fight alongside a 1980s Soviet-backed regime in Angola. Despite these huge numbers people are still mourning the death of Fidel Castro, their reason is understandably complicated.
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