Some look back on Castro as a hero of the people, most see him as a criminal who stole the wealth of a nation in a revolution for the people and then gave it all back to himself. Convenient indeed. In rationalizing all this and discussing the various perceptions of Castros rise to power one online think tank debater stated regarding Senior Castro: Murdering those in power and stealing his country. From his point of view he liberated slave labor workers that toiled for American companies like Coca Cola, the sugar refineries, tobacco companies, making them millions while their own children went illiterate and unfed. It's simple a matter of perspective there, your either the dominating force enslaving the population or the liberating force freeing them. Castro was the liberator. Well one could say he started out that way perhaps, a Caesar Chavez style revolt, yet in the end he only used the Peasant revolt to serve his ends, rather than giving it to the people like he promised he set himself up as head master. Thus forget perception, he was a terrorist guerilla and then a criminal, not to mention a liar as well, misleading all those people and getting their hopes up and then taking their hard fought dream back away from them. That is not noble, that is not to be honored, that many and his sons should never have been allowed to do that. Those corporations provided jobs to the peasants; this is a good thing not evil. Some say Starbucks is evil for buying up plantations in Costa Rica, and hiring people rather than providing for the plantation workers like the Partone Method of so many generations, yet, are they really evil or is it simply a different way of doing business, which is not common to the folks there? I submit to you that none of these modern Corporations are evil whether it be run by Phil Knight or Howard Shultz. Providing jobs and income to overcome the $1.00 a day World Wide poverty barrier is a good thing not evil. Back to Castro the young wannabe lawyer educated in the USA; now then since I have ancestry on all sides of Kings, Conquerors, Revolutionaries, etc. I understand the total game, even if it is getting somewhat old. It really is time for the human race to move on. But the transition should not be one of more denial human nature and disruption great civilizations. Lets consider this in 2006. |
