Fulgencio Batista - Cuba’s Mafia Backed Dictator Documentary

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[@PeopleProfiles]

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[@suryarai791]

Keep making more videos which give as knowledge of history.

[@MrBagpipes]

100%

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[@thejamaican67]

No revolution occurs because everyone is content……….the problem is everyone wants a Moses to sort it out but all leaders are human so history repeats

[@nyfinest017]

Awesome video. Have you ever considered doing one for Trujillo? The man probably mentored Batista.

[@josegarcia-hernandez3233]

Cuba never was a paradise,but it was much better before Castro

[@aregomez89]

It's refreshing to see that the narrator made an effort to get the names right, in Spanish. Very well done!

[@rocioaguilera3555]

But he said Jernán Cortés 😂. Not Hernán... H is soundless when is behind any vowels

[@lucasbrown2656]

@@rocioaguilera3555hence he said effort mate.

[@LordCommissarLex]

As someone born in Mariano Havana Cuba. I really appreciate this My family immigrated to the US early in my childhood and I never got a good understanding of Cuban history. They always just made him out to be another dictator. Which they weren't that far off but still contacts matters and I really like this video thank you.

[@doncunningham5242]

As Daytona born I am not well educated by who was there (here) and his son's lived here. I was born in 1952 & unwittingly parked my boat at his house & drank his wine c/o the company I was with (in the backyard). His wife who he left was there and my grandfather (mayor 1940) knew him

[@mariomm9080]

Americans are the cause of everything evil in the world

[@el-Cu9432]

I came to the US when I was 11 with my parents By that age we had already been fully taught Cuban history in school. I was born in El Cobre.

[@panfiloeschebarnaze2188]

@@doncunningham5242 I am Cuban born and a resident of Daytona now.. Would really love to see where they live. There’s a museum now here..

[@doncunningham5242]

That house is now an apartment complex.

[@clifforddriver9434]

This is exactly what fueled the Las Vegas that we have come to know and love to this very day.. Every American should watch this, this is history that you won't necessarily get the chance to learn in high school.

[@termsofusepolice]

Especially if you're currently attending high school in Florida.

[@clifforddriver9434]

@@termsofusepolice What does the price of tea in china have to do with Florida?

[@el-Cu9432]

​​@@clifforddriver9434outh Florida is majority Cubanos. There it is as if you are living in Cuba. Most of us either live or lived there and still have family ties en Florida.

[@clifforddriver9434]

@@el-Cu9432 What I care about Florida you simply wouldn't want to know.

[@coimbralaw]

Or they could just read about it in a book.

[@Tomatohater64]

Thank you, once again, for presenting a fair, honest, accurate, and factual biography on a most controversial political figure. 👍

[@kennethcharles1386]

Yes most definitely, because the United States played a significant role in the collapse of Cuba's Democracy as well as the different party fashions that made up the Cuban government.

[@Tomatohater64]

@@kennethcharles1386 But then again, the Castros have proven no less controversial.

[@kennethcharles1386]

@@Tomatohater64 that's a whole nother issue right there. That America has yet to face up too.

[@Tomatohater64]

@@kennethcharles1386 Agreed.

[@JustMe-em7hl]

People often talk about how bad Castro was, and pretend like Cuba was some sort or paradise before him. My great-grandfather fled Cuba to Mexico because of Batista.

[@lourdesgarcia5140]

Your great grandfather was lucky. With Castro’s communism Cubans have been risking their lives to escape that murderous chaos on anything that floats. The Florida straits hold many thousands that never made it.

[@vvieites001]

@@lourdesgarcia5140 it wasn’t any better before Castro. The only difference between Batista’a regime and Castro’s was that the former allowed a few people to get rich but so what? Like anywhere in the world, if you were rich in Cuba you could live well but most people didn’t. Batista ran a military dictatorship-a police state filled with organized crime. Cubans who glorify a time before Castro are either delusional, one of the few who were rich and owned land, or ignorant. Less than a third of houses had running water and human rights barely existed.

[@BostonsF1nest]

Both were horrible leaders in their own special way. Castros healthcare and education reforms targeted lower class citizens because he knew if he helped them, they would support him. Which was definitely more than Batista ever did for them, however those changes were not widespread throughout the island, it was mostly in the cities. Castro also killed thousands of innocent people during his reign- political opponents, homosexuals, religious groups, anyone who stepped out against him, or dared to make a change. Once communism started to decline in the 80’s, Cubas economy completely collapsed which made it a very difficult and rough place to live. The reason ppl tend to believe Cuba was better under Batista was because he was more favorable towards the US. But that doesn’t mean Castro was a great leader for Cuba either because he wasn’t.

[@gregb6469]

One big difference between Batista and Castro is that under the former, if someone wanted to leave Cuba he was free to go openly, while under the latter emmigration was illegal for almost everyone, and those wanting to emmigrate had to risk their lives to sneak out (and we will never know how many thousands died attempting to do so).

[@EvilHomer101]

Lol and if the Cuban politicos who were opposed to batista had taken a hold of the corruption perhaps the island nation could have been spared both batista's military dictatorship and Castrol repressive regime.

[@brandongreen5884]

Power tends to corrupt,. Absolute power corrupts absolutely!

[@JoseMaria-fy1lm]

Lo dices por el camarada Fidel, supongo

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Your content is always topnotch! Thanks for this!

[@arlosmith2784]

Problem with Batista: He was not a Francisco Franco - a dictator with long range future plans. Franco carefully avoided joining the Axis in World War 2, then took advantage of the Cold War to get US investment and bases. He set the groundwork for Spain to become a constitutional monarchy after his death. Batista did not practice similar long term planning, so ended up like Ferdinand Marcos Sr. of the Phillipines - in exile though rich.👎

[@brianhu9700]

Even Castro has a lot more in common with Franco than Batista with Franco.

[@arlosmith2784]

@@brianhu9700 I agree that Castro was a wiser dictator than Batista, as were Francisco Franco and Portugal's Antonio Salazar

[@luitxi0116]

Wow, I never knew this about Batista. I was always brought up to believe he was a member of the Spanish elite, friend of the American bourgeosie. But learning now that he was part black African, part native American, part Chinese and only 1/4 white Spaniard... quite a new discovery of Cuban history, to me

[@cripbk2147]

Hes a mestizo

[@johndorilag4129]

I don't know about the Chinese part...it's a long stretch

[@selcukcilek555]

And how much of importance are Batista's ethnic roots to The Cuban History? A brutal dictator who was kept in power by the USA, the self declared biggest "democracy". That's what you should have in your memory and not Batista's ethnicity.

[@morenitomoreno1282]

What difference does it make? He was a puppet of the US government and much worse than whatever they accuse Fidel of

[@rosenunez4328]

@@johndorilag4129 there is a Cuban saying that we all have part Spaniard, part Afro and Part Chinese due to the large amount of those ethnicity that migrated to Cuba way back then!

[@susanwaldron6831]

Thank you. Always good to learn something new.

[@heathcliffearnshaw1403]

Excellent presentation. When asked , at the end of it, what I thought of Batista, I thought of Shakespeare’s Macbeth : the great hero in Act One, but tempted to take a short cut to power , in Act 2.

[@BLOCKBOI3RD]

Short cuts to power always turn out dangerous no matter how good your intentions are

[@jillburk8847]

A very good history of events. I do wish you would have mentioned that the first thing Fidel Castro did after taking power was to ask the US government for help. On refusal from the US , he was forced to go to the Soviet Union.

[@xavierrivera9597]

I was wondering why this wasn't mentioned, but after watching the video, did he really ask for help or was the whole help thing , a total bs fallacy made up by Castro and his supporters. I remember reading about something where he came to the US for help to realize his cause/agenda , but that was before. 🤔 ... Watching this video shows that he was a communist before he even started ... He was against the US from the beginning, bc he was bittered by the US controlling things in Cuba, what he failed to understand as any smart would've, is that the US and the other world power Soviet Union both do the same, just use different tactics; and now you can add China to that list. Now you see Cuba again looking for support where they shouldn't be, same with the rest of the Caribbean, and Latin America. They'll be paying a dear price for doing so.

[@mervinmark656]

Interesting

[@rogermenendez4052]

If you believe this obvious bid of Castro propaganda, you should educate yourself better.

[@musicaquecalma4134]

jillburk, But, well, obviously the US had to refuse! Do you seem to have forgotten that the shameless Fidel Castro seized, confiscated, expropriated, stole or whatever you want to call it, ALL the properties of hundreds of thousands of families, among them, many were North American. Do you forget that the United States is the example country? respect for private property? We say hundreds of thousands, if not millions...Because he even stole (everything happened into HIS hands) small businesses, such as limbiabota stands, magazine and newspaper sellers, etc, etc!

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Informative ,fairly biography introduced the modern history of Cuba 🇨🇺 through this great biography of Batista....thanks (the people profile) channel

[@AmiVider]

Most historians describe Batista as a cruel dictator. This clip brings in many details which are as relevant to the acceptance of Castro as the great leader. Yet Cuba was corrupt for decades with the Castro revolution just another step in the long saga of Cuban sad tragedy. Good story telling.

[@anthonystramella7018]

Cuba is such a rich island manifested by its diverse people and resources that it never achieved its greatness due to its corrupt rulers bleeding it dry

[@LTrotsky21stCentury]

Stupid and absurd. Cuba made terrific social and technological advances during the socialist period, unlike anything in Cuba's past - and would have made even more progress but for the U.S. embargo. Full literacy, food and medical care for everyone, longer life expectancies than in the U.S., and technological products which even the U.S. can't produce and try to suppress (such as the lung cancer vaccine).

[@BostonsF1nest]

@@LTrotsky21stCentury Cuba was a fuckin mess under Castro. It was not a pleasant place to live. Ppl wanted out.

[@joetrey215]

" In 1950, Cuba ranked seventh in per capita GDP in (the 47 countries of) Latin America (and Caribbean). The order was Venezuela, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, and (nearly tied for sixth place) Cuba. If a nation is represented by its per capita GDP ranking, Cuba was thus highly ranked in Latin America... A half century later, in 2001, Cuba was the third poorest country in Latin America as measured by per capita GDP. Only Nicaragua and poorest-of-the-poor Haiti ranked lower."

[@chrisfreebairn870]

​@@LTrotsky21stCentury sadly, largely because of Soviet subsidies for sugar, the loss of which after the cold war showed that Cuba had been living well beyond its means, as a potemkin-like showpiece of Soviet success, ie a fake, a facade. One could say though that it demonstrated what could be achieved with proper investment in its ppl; showing how capitalism could do better by adjusting it's priorities.

[@BMC-hl2uh]

Another great informative post. Thank you.

[@allanhansen8740]

If Batista had addressed the issues of poverty, health care, illiteracy and kept his hands out of the public coffers, Castro never could have come to power. It must be recognized that what became a major impetus when the US invasion at the Bay of Pigs was attempted, was the fact that the Castro government made a special attempt at improving the three above items mentioned, which gave those people, who were among the poorest in Cuba, a great incentive to battle any invaders of their country. They preferred to keep what they had gained under Castro rather than return to some feudal existence.

[@ibreu8922]

I would LOVE to see you make a people profile on Rafael Trujillo (Famed former dictator of the Dominican Republic)...

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Cuban restaurant

[@johnallen7807]

A very interesting video, thank you for increasing my knowledge.

[@Cadence733]

Fantastic video, very well- rounded and fair, really helped me understand Cuban history especially building up to the Communist Coup. I wanted to ask, could we also have a video on Salazar please?

[@Sabundy]

It was not a coup. It was a revolution. A coup is an unlawful seizure of power. But in order for it to be unlawful the government needs to be not a dictatorship (which Batista was) and not a puppet vassal state of a foreign power (which Batista was to the US). A government needs to be elected or somehow put in power according to the will of most people for it to be a legal government. So the Batista government was not what would be deemed legal by any reasonable measure. Therefore it's overthrow was not a coup. You are implying that Batista's government was somehow legitimate by calling it that.

[@Cadence733]

@@Sabundy I stand corrected.

[@user-ln3zw3cz8u]

I feel for the people who had to flee their homes and countries, it's a great crime when such atrocities take place but an even greater crime when the world sits back and does nothing. Peace to all the Innocents who either died or fled with their lives from dictators, corrupt regimes and guided missiles dropped from planes.

[@hejla4524]

Excellent, crammed with information...thank you.

[@abhijitmukherjee720]

Nice documentation, Brilliant approach, Excellent Presentation ❤

[@dagramirez]

Excelente documentary. A poor man that became Sargent, President and dictator is uniquely shocking! But what We can from this is that power corrupts good intentions. 70 years and Cubans still living in misery and lack of freedoms.

[@rosenunez4328]

lack of everything! unfortunately

[@philipmaldonado9249]

@@rosenunez4328 Gee wiz,I wonder why?

[@rosenunez4328]

@@philipmaldonado9249 because of the abuse of power of a Communist Dictator and its followers! The fooled the people and took our every freedom and slaved a country

[@estanislaoalmendarez9303]

Blaming the USA block 😂😂😂

[@ruggerodalmonte9898]

@@philipmaldonado9249porque el comunismo dolo deja miseria y calamidad por donde pasa. La teoría es muy bonita y equa, la realidad nos ha enseñado a base de golpes que no existe política más hipócrita que la comunista. Eso si, lo de ka propaganda se les da muy bien.

[@KonradAdenauerJr]

This is a more nuanced take on modern Cuban history. Thank you for highlighting Batista’s mixed-race background. By contrast, the Castro brothers were white (sons of Spanish immigrants). The reign of terror that the Castros and sidekick Che Guevara unleashed after 1959 makes Batista look like a choirboy.

[@rosenunez4328]

agree

[@dvdortiz9031]

In USA, Spaniards are considered " non anglo-whites" under-rated, that is, Catholics by defect!!!

[@helengabr5743]

Excellent factual documentary condensing history in easily digestible form. Thank you! ☺️

[@tomshaw661]

excellently done!

[@PeopleProfiles]

Thank you kindly!

[@trwsandford]

That was an excellent summary of this critical period of Cuban history.

[@me0101001000]

I have to admire the effort going into the pronunciations. Overall, not bad.

[@postscript5549]

Thank you very much! Very educational.

[@Joy3269]

Thank You For This Video. It was really very Nice & Infotmative. All must watch & appreciate. Thank You. ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉💐💐💐🌺🌺🌺🌹🌹🌹.

[@clintongraves8806]

Enjoyed the doc on Batista. I remember a large book about him published in the late 1940’s. It had shown some of those reforms.

[@MaribelQueen-fz3yx]

Democracy for Cuba!!!!!!!

[@maritza5808]

I appreciate this. I too never understood why batista was bad. I just knew my dad was a captain in the Cuban army trying to overthrow him. The last thing he imagined was that overthrowing Batista would give them Castro.

[@stevenminor2241]

GREAT HISTORY LESSON APPRECIATE THE CONTENT....

[@RichieDigs]

Well produced and informative as always. Thanks.

[@foxyfoxington2651]

I heard he walked for miles inside a pit of danger... That he walked alone.

[@magicmole9887]

Quality 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@karljensen893]

Thanks...impressive details

[@1FATBOY114]

Interesting, he was complex. I learned a lot of facts I wasn't aware of. Great documentary keep up the good work. I see him in a new light, thanx.

[@clintongraves8806]

There are two biographies about Batista but,they never cover the years between 1952 to his death in 1973.

[@doncunningham5242]

I understand Batista lived on the river but left his wife here and lived at The Waldorf in New York City. Anyway, he used to come to my granddad's house and my father told me that he could remember that near Main Street on the Halifax Lagoon.

[@user-jm3tu5ru1e]

@@doncunningham5242 Ишь ты!

[@robertp411]

Batista was a horror show yet after having visited Cuba a dozen times during the Castro regime and thereafter, the people have suffered miserably

[@SPACEMONKEY288]

The people love Castro in cuba, he is a hero to the Cuban people, him and the peasants together fought and liberate the masses of people in cuba, gave them all education, healthcare, housing, food, water etc. Social change like that under the nose of the most powerful imperialist state on the planet was a slap in the face, sense such things are deemed “utopian” by the capitalist class, or they were before people fought to prove it was possible. The imperialist have made cuba suffer for years. Long love the Cuban revolution ✊🚩🚩 solidarity to my people in Cuba.

[@rosenunez4328]

the people and the country have been degraded!

[@rosenunez4328]

@@SPACEMONKEY288 the idea was false, the only ones that have food and any basic hygiene needs etc. is the Political upper-class Castro did not fix anything. He destroyed a country. Made slaves out of its people. Why do you think so many people risk their lives fleeing th hell hole the Castro regine hs created! the ideology is not the reality

[@dvdortiz9031]

@@rosenunez4328 by the USA

[@user9xyz836]

​@@SPACEMONKEY288you probably don't live in Cuba.

[@goldenageflash5924]

Excellent biography Thanks for sharing

[@jean-paulpotet1988]

Il n'empêche que les Cubains étaient plus heureux sous Bautista que sous les Castro, qui ont fait de leur île prospère un pays du Tiers-Monde.

[@ericsabourin7661]

Vous rêvez en couleurs pour affirmer cela! 90 pour cent d'analphabétisme et cela enrayé en une année d'alphabétisation intensive. Para conocer hay que estudiar. Toujours des opinions à l'emporte-pièce dans l'Hexagone débitées avec de grands airs seigneuriaux.

[@5kehhn]

His bad deeds far outweiged his good deeds.

[@christophercarpenter2740]

Thanks so much.

[@jeorjiekwe7197]

Thank you for this video which feel my gap of the Batista reign

[@Zelielz1]

Cuba’s history is quite tragic, from Batista to Castro. Damn

[@johnmaldonado2397]

This is an excellent documentary on a political figure that has affected millions of lives.

[@albertobattisti.6327]

Excelente documental,felicitaciones.

[@Maria63756]

Very interesting info

[@jpdavis6042]

He certainly was somewhat enigmatic to a degree. Just found your interesting channel. New Sub.

[@mervinmark656]

Wow! Very thorough and revealing of one who I didn't know much of. He turns out to have been a very dirty and corrupt leader. It also seems that the Cuban people have always suffered from repressive and or corrupt leaders. Poverty has been the lot of the masses from inception to now. It would be great to see some favorable changes.

[@reinfeddedewolff5565]

THANK YOU VERY "MUCH"😊 FOR THIS/ HISTORY OF CUBA "COMPILATION"/ PARTICULARLY THE ROLE OF "FULGENCIO BATISTA"/ FOR THE CUBAN "NATION"/ A SPECIAL EXPERIENCE AS "SUCH"😊/ FURTHERMORE/ WITH CENTURIES OF HISTORY PILING UP/ AN "ACCUMULATION"/CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS/ "FORMULATION".

[@MaribelQueen-fz3yx]

We want to be free and have democracy and food and so many things than Cuba needs even in 2023 Cuba is worse than in 1959

[@estheraguiar5801]

Este hombre F Batista comparado con Castro y sus 60 años de sangrienta dictadura…… es un angelito , nuestra economía , desarrollo, auto sostén , nuestra libre empresa, nivel de educación etc etc hablan por sí solas . Pobre Cuba , muchos años necesitará para superar la ruina y miseria en la que mal vive no por Batista sino por los Castros . Lo muy malo que hizo Batista fue perdonarle la vida a Castro cuando atacó al hospital del Moncada , ya era un asesino desde joven hasta su muerte

[@estheraguiar5801]

Falta mucho más por decir ….. mafia, corrupción de Batista ? Pues ahora toda cuba es un prostíbulo de niñas y niños por un dollar o un euro para poder comer , mientras la nueva clase de los castristas viven como reyes y sin carencias

[@MetalBansheeX]

La brutalidad y corrupción de Batista es lo que llevó a Castro al poder. Basta de comparaciones ridículas.

[@markmcnaught3390]

Absolutely fantastic documentary. I teach US foreign policy, and this will greatly enrich my teaching.

[@dvdortiz9031]

It would be very interesting to know " What you teach"!!!! Naughty!!!

[@classicalbest2830]

Do your own research!

[@RCSVirginia]

If anyone wants to read what President Fulgencio Batista has to say in his own words, one of his books is available in PDF form on the Internet. Just look up "latin american studies the growth and decline of the cuban republic fulgencio batista pdf."

[@gregrodriguez714]

Where can I find out about the decline of the cuban republic after Fidel Castro and the Revolution..?

[@RCSVirginia]

@@gregrodriguez714 It is not easy to find that many books that cover the initial stages of the revolution after the fall of Bastista. There is an excellent book that details what led up to the toppling of Batista. It is entitled "The Fourth Floor" and is by US Ambassador Earl Smith. It details how the US backed putting Fidel Castro into power with the full knowledge that he was a communist. It is out of print, but can be found through interlibrary loan. It is worth a read. Humberto Fontava, who despises the Castro regime with good reason, has written two books that highlight its shortcomings: "Exposing the Real Che Guevara" and "Fidel: Hollywood's Favourite Tyrant." One can, also, read the personal recollections of Fidel's chief bodyguard, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez: "The Double Life of Fidel." There are several books that I have yet to read, but that are on my Cuba-to-Read List: "And the Russians Stayed" by Nestor T. Carbonell, "The Losers" by Paul D. Bethell and "Cuba: The Disaster of Castro's Revolution" by Andres J. Solares. I hope that this helps.

[@sylviagonzalez3811]

This is a really good documentary!

[@3cardmonty602]

My friend survived the farm work programs that Castro put in place, even though his Father was a Doctor. My friend, who was 12 at the time, talked back to the military official at the farm. He was placed in a ground pit overnight with a locked cage top. He said snakes & bugs came into the pit, which was flooded with water chest high. Can you imagine such torture on a child? They left Cuba on a boat ASAP.

[@PMMagro]

Cuba never had democracy or real indipendence. Yet. After the Castros you will though :)

[@bigtimepimpin666]

And Cuba was one of the least hellish communist dictatorships. As a kid i remember there were a lot of Cuban revolutionaries who left the island disillusioned.

[@selcukcilek555]

@@bigtimepimpin666 The reasons which led to the victory of Castro's revolution are very easy overlooked and we are supplied with stories like the above. Long live the Cuban Revolution.

[@bigtimepimpin666]

@@selcukcilek555 i was a revolutionary child. And stellar party members. But there are some issues with the regime.

[@rosenunez4328]

MY family left Cuba in 1969 and my sister 12 years old had to go to the mountains to pick CAFE. One of her classmates never came back from going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. MY father would go every weekend to ck on her and bring her food.

[@Norm475]

People in Cuba had it a lot better with a Mafia-backed dictator than they did with a Communist-backed dictator. Under Batista people were moving to Cuba, under Castro people were dying to leave Cuba. The mob wanted gambling and prostitution, which is the same thing the mob wanted in Vegas. They didn't get the prostitution in Vegas, at least not legally but they had their hooks in the gambling.

[@katherinecollins4685]

Great documentary

[@pablosadelmundo]

From October 24, 1492 until today, Cuba has only known conquerors, colonialists and dictators.

[@dvdortiz9031]

USA the worst!!!

[@pablosadelmundo]

@@dvdortiz9031 The genocide and annihilation of the Natives by the Spanish, perhaps has no match in barbarity. Personally, and having lived a total of 6 months on the island, I can vouch for the horrible and relentless dictatorship of the Castro family (also of Spanish origin) and their collaborators.

[@martaacosta4415]

People who make comments like “the annihilation of the native people … perhaps has no match in barbarity” love to sound as if they take the higher moral ground, especially when speaking about people who lived 500 or more years ago. Yes, of course, today we are so superior to those people from the past! If one looks at history with thoughtfulness and perspective, one understands that most people alive at the historical moment referred to, held the same views, for compelling cultural reasons of the day. Any of us alive today, had we been alive in 1500 in Cuba, would have participated in events considered ethical and even heroic and patriotic at that time. Including you. Today, in 2023, we are so noble and idealistic that we have dismembered and otherwise destroyed millions and millions of children in their mothers’ wombs. But we call this women’s healthcare because we are so very advanced.

[@pablosadelmundo]

@@martaacosta4415 Although I am tired of responding to the comments of illiterates, far-right, religious, naive and idiots or all of them together, I emphasize that the brutality of the Spanish against the natives of Cuba has been recorded since then (eg historian Bartolomé de las Casas) and more later (see historians Jeffrey Ostler, Andrés Reséndez, etc.).

[@lltipsy]

@@pablosadelmundoand u have mexico who is ruled by Natives had freedom and still is a shitty country, if it wasnt for the european system world wouldn’t advance as much as it has

[@lewisbensted7161]

Any chance you could do Juan Peron?

[@stddisclaimer8020]

@lewisbensted7161 Many have _done_ Juan Peron. But they were women without YT channels.

[@davidhart7313]

that was good bro.

[@sylviarichardson8759]

Interesting documentary

[@stevesmoyer3330]

Is it true the USA agreed to never invade Cuba if the Soviet missiles were removed?

[@robowens4352]

Yes.

[@GracielaCatasus]

Not necessarily; loopholes in the treaty would have made it unenforceable Graciela Catasus

[@anthonyC214]

Another example of how the US Department of State is so inept and the workers and staff of the State Department are stupid. The State Department must be reformed and the Ivy League establishment within should be terminated.

[@Soul_Flow_]

Why do you say that? Tell me what US Department of State should have done

[@sabin97]

@@Soul_Flow_ maybe not allow the brutal economic blockade against the cuban people to be implemented?

[@Soul_Flow_]

@sabin97 , go one step back, why did US do the blockade?

[@sabin97]

@@Soul_Flow_ batista stole huge amounts of land and gave them to certain rich usakistanis, so they woudl become even richer. and they did. once the cuban people kicked him out, they recovered those stolen lands. the rich usakistanis were furious. and the usakistani government resorted to the blockade as retaliation for not kowtowing.

[@anthonyC214]

@@Soul_Flow_ should not had supporter a loser. We always back a horse that comes in last

[@KKevinnnn]

My favorite wrestler

[@stephenholmes1036]

A decent and fair film.

[@thomasjordan5578]

In my life I have observed that systemic corruption may be enmeshed with functionality. A Machiavellian mindset doesn’t make anything better but it probably could avoid making things worse. Hard thing is to accept the greed and arrogance of fat cats living high on the hog while others are stuck in a rut of deprivation as the fruits of their labors are siphoned off.

[@dvdortiz9031]

You have observed that, But you have not been able to identify who manipulates all that!!! Have you???

[@nicolasmathurin5557]

For the record, The colonial communities went to Haiti for support of their independence ie: Miranda and Bolivar obtained arms, and munitions from free Haiti in 1806 and the years after. This part was convenientely ommitted.

[@jackperson3626]

Thanks!

[@PeopleProfiles]

Thanks Jack!

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting and informative. A lot of historical events happened there. Remember part 2 of the god father movie. Just another chapter of its ever changing history.

[@nhialbenyihok417]

Oh, my gosh! I have been searching for years for a fair documentary about Batista and here I got it. Very informative! I’m Fidel’s supporter and have been wanting to understand Cuban’s life before Fidel

[@Noitartst]

Don't see why you're Fidel's supporter. On balance, he was bad for both the US and Cuba, as this documentary essentially admits. If you cannot admit that, I really can't see you as much more than a leftist ideologue. In the fifties I'd have supported Batista as a necessary evil; people like you now defend Castro despite his record, and that record justifies my pragmatic support of men like Batista, for lack of better alternatives. The left Bashes Batista for not having elections, yet still celebrates Castro despite never delivering on that gripe about elections. As such, if that gripe were genuine, they would feel betrayed by Castro, and yet they do not.

[@user9xyz836]

You certainly don't live in Cuba.

[@Noitartst]

@@user9xyz836 And you did? Do you honestly think Fidel made things better? The rallying cry for Batista's critics was elections, and he never gave them so the critics of Batista's should have been upset with Castro but we're not. They are liars, and need to be called out.

[@paulmcelroy9038]

Very informative

[@victortan9086]

Commenting to feed the algorithm

[@MaribelQueen-fz3yx]

Freedom for Cuba please!!!!!!!

[@duongthienbao8782]

Slavery for Cuba, that's what you mean?

[@garrysekelli6776]

The computer voice is super annoying. Sounds very real at first but then i zoned out.

[@TheCdecisneros]

The fish rots from the head down.

[@TheCdecisneros]

I knew a Cuban business man who told me he had to include the bribe when calculating your price.

[@ekesandras1481]

nothing changed

[@richbrockmeier3922]

That happens in most countries, including the USA. Kickbacks are king.

[@wisetibetanmonkey1624]

His own coup in 52 fueled the discontent and ultimately a rebellion that brought Cuba to the stone age 😮

[@Noitartst]

Castro brought Cuba to the stone age; he was an ideologue whom history has proven worse than his predecessor, and somehow leftists aren't ashamed.

[@user-iq2ls1eg5g]

@wisetibetanmonkey. It really is the stoneage there, really!

[@kidmohair8151]

I think Batista needed to be ousted by the Cuban people in the 1950s. That he was kept in power by the US, specifically the Dulles brothers, with their rabid "anti-communist" cold war myopia, made the victory of Castro, or someone very like him, only more likely. The US, by then imposing a cruel, punishing *and unnecessary* embargo has ensured that the average Cuban is in only slightly better circumstances than they were before 1959. This has been the story, unfortunately, of US foreign policy almost everywhere in the 20th and 21st centuries. It is far past the time for that unnecessary embargo to be lifted. And for the US to climb down from its support for autocrats in the interests of humanity.

[@F1Hopeful]

Hate to burst the bubble. The embargo has had ZERO impact on the quality of life of the wonderful Cuban people. Cuba is free to trade with any other nation on the planet. The core issue is that totalitarian communist rule does not work, period. All you have to do is analyze Cuban agrarian production values from 1959 to the present and you will see that the nation is dysfunctional and much more corrupt than in any previous government. It is now one of the central drug trafficking jump off points of Central America and the country exists largely based on the European and Canadian tourism that flows into “foreigners only” beach “and other”resorts….fill in the last one with your imagination. The tragedy is that the regime’s propaganda apparatus makes anything from their New York counterparts look like kindergarten child play. The truth will most likely never be widely disseminated. It’s like pushing a rope. But some of us that lives through that time in history know the intricate and important details. Your videos are always excellent but in this one, critical missteps were unknowingly made. All good. Better to get most of the story out than none at all. Health and prosperity to all.

[@sabin97]

@@F1Hopeful parece que nunca has trabajado para una empresa multinacional yanqui. el bloqueo(no es embargo, es bloqueo) tiene un impacto enorme en la vida del pueblo cubano. es la razon por la que el gobierno tienen que racionar la comida(si no lo hacen los ricos acaparan todo y los pobres literalmente mueren de hambre). cuando un pais no puede comerciar casi nada con casi nadie, no progresa.

[@slowjamsliver7006]

@@F1Hopeful The USA the most powerful country in both military and economy places an embargo, and you think that an embargo from the USA doesn't effect the average citizen of a country... Either you do not understand today's economy or you're living a fantasy.

[@F1Hopeful]

@@slowjamsliver7006 You are most likely correct; I do not understand the current global economy AND I am living in a fantasy world. The future will divulge the truth. Fare well.

[@jayrosen6663]

Kid Mohair, neither extreme form of government, left, or right is good for the great mass of citizens!!!

[@uncgrad1076]

My only criticism about this video is that they say after taking control of Cuba, Castro "immediately" aligned his administration with the USSR. This did eventually happen but the timing is inaccurate. It took approx. one year for them to decide to align with the USSR. Cuba made overtures to the USA first but was outright rejected. Our reaction toward his takeover helped push him toward the Soviets. Also, Che Guevara was the rabid Marxist, not Fidel-at least not at the beginning.

[@mikepierce1724]

Very well done awesome!

[@saturninoaviles5068]

Cuando Cuba era libre, cuando todos tenían que comer, cuando entraban y salían del país libremente.

[@Vegnarr]

PATRIA Y VIDA !!! CUBA LIBERTAD!!!

[@jamesroad316]

I want marius the great aka the guy who took on barbarian army after another

[@ecparker]

Always comparing between the bad and the worse !! Is there something else?

[@user-rr8mz3hl9m]

Thanks for the excellent portrayal of the man about whom I never read or saw anything anywhere. It was just the corrupt, brutal Batista regime that the good and glorious Castro kicked out.

[@owentaylor5622]

Who was worse, Castro or Batista?

[@sabin97]

batista. a million times. he stole huge amounts of lands and gave it to certain rich usakistanis so they would be richer. he turned cuba into a super poor colony of usakistan. and when those stolen lands were recovered usakistan was livid.....and implemented a brutal economic blockade that is STILL keeping cubans in misery. but even with the blockade fidel managed to make the cuban literacy rate almost 100%, and make them a medical world power.

[@joedias7946]

Cuba would be a lovely place to Live had the Americans not imposed The economic embargo. America imposing it's. Revenge.

[@MrDude826]

@@sabin97Castro, a million times. After Castro won the Cuban civil war, he put the elites into a coliseum and killed them in mass. Something Batista never did even if he was a dictator.

[@annechildress2721]

My late dad went to Tennessee Military Institute with a kid of Baptista. Said he was arrogant. Dad was class of 57.

[@rayarena879]

The documentary is thorough and surprisingly accurate in many ways, for instance, it avoids the pitfalls of depicting Batista as the caricature right winged dictator Fidel Castro's propaganda machine has made him out to be. Batista was more complicated than that and as you accurately point out, he was at one time in his life allied to the communist party and was, also, popular and democratically elected during one administration. You, also, point out how progressive the Constitution of 1940 was. This is so refreshing in light of the extreme way Cuba has been depicted by scholars who fall for the lies of the Castro propaganda machinery. However, I think that it is misleading to continue to show videos of present-day Cuba full of dilapidated and derelict buildings. Pre-Castro Cuba for all of its flaws [especially Havana] was quite beautiful and was in no way falling apart as it is today. Havana was for instance was full of broad avenues full of manicured trees, beautiful buildings in splendid condition and it had a vibrant civil society with the largest middle-class per capita in Latin America and smartly dressed people not the bedraggled masses one sees today. I have, also, noticed that at times you splice in videos from other Latin American countries. This is misleading as it does not accurately portray the full contrast of pre-Castro Cuba to the present-day mess it is today, instead it creates confusion by visually blending both periods.

[@JT-wn7wb]

Well as the saying goes careful what you wish for he was a saint compared to the Castros. History speaks for itself, 60+ years of slavery.

[@wisetibetanmonkey1624]

Castro ran his own mafia. El padrino 🤣

[@renechang2406]

Yup.

[@hugodavila6904]

History is valuable when is told appropriately and accurate, to my surprise and after I watched this documentary's introduction I realized some footage from Antigua Guatemala's city are shown!!! This makes less serious your channel!

[@psychesoap]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@anthonymeyers3184]

As bad as it was, the pictures of Havana in the 50s look better than all the decades before.

[@mikealvarez2322]

My entire extended family fled Cuba in the late 60s. Batista was a brutal dictator but Castro's communism is a totalitarian hellish nightmare.

[@7basement]

My work colleague got out and speaks rarely of the hell he left behind under Castro. He is sure USA and Canada of today are heading same direction

[@dvdortiz9031]

@Jm Mac Freemasonry created modern republic, democracy and capitalism; as well as socialism and communion, they have presented those as opposite; no matter who rules, they are always high behind, pulling strings...every government is their puppet

[@migueluribe4249]

Castro was pushed to turn Cuba to what it became due to the US. As always, the US loves to impose its will to other nations. Castro had to fight back and this pushed him to join the USSR. It would had being very diferent if the US would really had a culture of freedom.

[@MaribelQueen-fz3yx]

We need help because people in Cuba don't have any weapons for fight back, a solution could be the militaries going against the government