Is Castro A Hero Or A Dictator Or Both? This Makes Him Look Good. Turner Broadcasting Propaganda?

Fidel Castro was seen by some when I was growing up in the 1950s as a hero. By the time I became a professional and began to talk to Cubans who had moved to Miami and other places around the USA, I saw him as an evil dictator. Then in the late 1980s, my team got a job from Turner Broadcasting, from Ted Turner himself, to do a "portrait of Cuba" as part of his series titled Portraits of America. Because Cuba isn't in the USA and we didn't really know why he wanted us to make this but he gave us a chance to visit a place few had gone and to get taken around (mostly by Castro's people) to see what we saw.
We saw some amazing things and we loved the Cuban people we met. There were many things we couldn't say. They would let us. But we flew out of the country with more than 200 reels of 16mm film and audio and from it, made a 2 hour special for Turner Broadcasting. This is a clip from that television two-part series. There are some scenes in it which had never been recorded before and certainly not shown outside of Cuba. And most people that were interviewed by us, wouldn't say a word about Fidel. To me that said something. Nonetheless, we made the documentary and Turner broadcast it and later, we found out that his reason was that he wanted to set up some kind of a Turner Broadcasting style cable system in Cuba. I don't know if that was ever done.
Go here for part 2 of this series - • Here Is What Cuba Was ... .
What made some see Fidel Castro as a hero?
Anti-imperialism and Cuban sovereignty: Castro's revolution in Cuba was a direct response to decades of U.S. influence and intervention in Cuban affairs. By standing up to a global superpower, he became a symbol of resistance to imperialism and a champion of national sovereignty for many people in Cuba and around the world.
Social and economic reforms: After the Cuban Revolution, Castro's government implemented numerous social and economic reforms, such as nationalizing industries, implementing land reforms, and providing free healthcare and education to all Cubans. These policies were aimed at reducing social and economic inequality, and they are still regarded as significant achievements by many people.
Literacy and education: One of Castro's most significant achievements was the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign, which effectively eradicated illiteracy in the country within a year. This campaign provided education to thousands of previously illiterate citizens and established a foundation for the country's strong emphasis on education.
Healthcare system: Castro's government invested heavily in the healthcare system, leading to significant improvements in health outcomes for the Cuban population. Cuba has a well-regarded healthcare system with a high life expectancy and low infant mortality rates, and the country is known for training many skilled doctors who provide medical services around the world.
International solidarity: Castro's Cuba provided support to liberation movements and left-wing governments in Africa and Latin America. Many people in these regions admire Castro for his commitment to their struggles against colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism.
It is important to mention that opinions on Castro vary greatly and many people around the world view him as a tyrant and a dictator rather than a hero. His rule was marked by significant human rights abuses, including censorship, political repression and the imprisonment of dissidents. The way one perceives Castro often depends on their political beliefs and personal experiences.

[@TheGeeCube]

Alternate Title: Mufasa narrates Cuba under Castro

[@el_bizcocho6916]

Better title: Lord Vader narrates Cuba under Castro

[@DoughBoy45]

@@el_bizcocho6916 all I hear is Vader

[@ricanredru4760]

The king of Zamunda narrates Cuba under Castor

[@scorpion-dh5kb]

Thulsa doom

[@JudithSanchez-ht6jn]

Yes Castro took out Bautista and replace with him. Through out more than million fleet out to differents. After all this actor Fidel was worst than the government he replace. Only the Cuban can says the true. Some Cubans say Fidel was bad but do something good.

[@mustangmike8515]

Dath Vader´s voice narrates Cuban history.

[@MrAllmightyCornholioz]

The man has such a gifted voice.

[@tysonwilliams1885]

James Earl Jones. Great actor.

[@aceboog4546]

Someone should dub heavy breathing over the documentary

[@crispylineslim5041]

And his name is James Earl Jones

[@areguapiri]

He WAS the voice of Darth Vader.

[@MultiPetercool]

Now you know why Tom and Ray Magliozzi of NPR’s “Car Talk” spoke so highly of Cuban mechanics and machinists!

[@seamikki6510]

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[@kinky_Z]

I loved those guys on Car Talk... listened to them throughout the Eighties. So funny.

[@Jonathan.D]

There are a lot of Cubans in the neighborhood where I grew up. I remember them fixing their cars with new parts while talking about how they had rebuilt broken parts when they were still in Cuba. The one that always sticks in my mind is how they used to make their own brake pads with asbestos. From what I've heard this was still being done long after asbestos was banned in the US.

[@user-zd8te3qu5d]

@@Jonathan.D דרר

[@Jonathan.D]

@@user-zd8te3qu5d sorry I don't speak Hebrew?

[@videosuperhighway7655]

Older Cubans are some of the coolest folks.

[@chenzomutumbo9140]

Older Cubans yes.... older cuban Americans, well it depends when they came here.

[@amramjose]

Gracias! =)

[@edisinmedicine5512]

My buddy Nelson was born in Cuba came to US before the moon landing in 69. Says he saw his fathers business get taken away by the government back home. He’s been here ever since and just moved out to Texas with his son to retire.

[@jefferymoore1749]

Sounds like a Gusano.

[@slickrick2420]

*most racist

[@ruoazquara6070]

This is what everyone should be watching not random tiktok of fools

[@bayousmackerdixford3389]

Si ezactly...but 90% of fucking airhead below 25 don't care..don't want too they just want to remain in their little bubbles .true but you're very spot on

[@anemaldemomusic8182]

Que wey?

[@youvandal411vm]

TikTok is CIA brainwashing crap if you ask me.

[@vn773]

@@bayousmackerdixford3389 i read this with a cuban accent

[@bayousmackerdixford3389]

@@vn773 Si may bueno thank you@@

[@MrSchelling]

Who can be a better commentator of Cuban history than Dart Vader?

[@idoh4788]

I'm not sure, but is he the real voice of Darth Vader?

[@crisyorke1328]

Communist Darth vader

[@Andyhoffman98]

@@idoh4788 yes sir

[@joecollins176]

I think he is sounds like it

[@honeyhernandez91]

@@joecollins176 that's because he Is

[@Nairuulagch]

Cuba was likely old time large sugar cane supplier country to eastern block countries until 1990. During early through late 1980s North Korea was kind of powerful economy that they supplied and traded all kinds of consumer goods throughout eastern block countries. I remember using not so bad stuffs from North Korea and there were multiple kinds of foods imported from North Korea into Mongolia.

[@jackieollij7434]

The Soviet Union bought the cuban sugar at inflated prices just to help them and to defy the american embargo, soviet sugar had better quality.

[@JohnDoe-fs6lz]

Cuba was once the envy of the 🇺🇸

[@jackieollij7434]

@Jack Ferghana What country are you from? My grand parents were soviet citizens, I personally know Cuba, Ukraine and Russia, you wont teach me about soviet or cuban sugar.

[@jackieollij7434]

@Jack Ferghana You are a liar from the first statement, the soviets bought cuban sugar at inflated prices just to shame the americans. Just for your evolution, Putin meet Rastro in the year 2000, as he was planning his revenge on the West after the humilliating defeat in the Cold War, he went to all the countries that received subsidies and economic help from the extinct soviet union to askt hem for the money they received. Castro said to Putin he had nothing to pay for, as he had send all the sugar cane production in the last decades, Putin oppened his calculator, made numbers and showed them to castro, he told him "even if you send me all the cuban sugar in the next 3000 years it wont be enough to pay for the million rubles you received every week during the cold war from us", Castro said he had no money, and Putin remembered him about the many accounts he owns in Switzerland from the money he made during the wars in Afria, sacking diamonds, exotic skins, marble and preciouds woods, Castro said "that is my family's money" then Putin ordered the retirement of the last russians who remained in service in the island.

[@wizzerd229]

@@user-hu9nj1do1t you misunderstand, because there was no profit motive, no exploitation

[@ricardodiazcollado813]

The USSR collapsed and along with that, Cuba's economy collapsed as well. The 90's were especially horrible for the Cuban people. A lot has changed honestly. It’s a lot worse nowadays.

[@AleWestQ]

Cuban here, atm the 90's were a walk in the park compared to us having to wake up at 5 am to get to a queue in hopes to buying a chicken that is overpriced. Guess what? - many of us walk home empty-handed because there is not enough chicken for everyone. And that's even without Cyclones that are coming this season.

[@ricardodiazcollado813]

@@AleWestQ entiendo que la cosa está bien difícil, y sufro por nuestros hermanos caribeños en la isla. Mi punto era sobre como desde los 90s las cosas allá se han puesto extremadamente difíciles en comparación con las décadas anteriores. O sea que el video muestra una Cuba en mejores condiciones, por así decirlo, que la Cuba de un par de años después y que la Cuba que ha venido después de eso. ✌🏻 y 🧡 desde Puerto Rico 🇵🇷!

[@videosuperhighway7655]

Where Batista failed is he did not throw a bone to the people. Tip for dictators, only steal 25% and distribute the rest to the people. That 25% is plenty of millions. When the folks have full stomachs, shelter and entertainment they wont care if you become presidente for life.

[@rohitnautiyal7090]

Not only Cuba suffered lots of other country suffered.

[@AleWestQ]

@@rohitnautiyal7090 What's that even mean? We are speaking about Cuba u dumbo.

[@yandychang3631]

I grew up in Cuba around the time this documentary was filmed. I idolized these baseball players, Javier Mendez, Pedro Luiz Rodriguez, German Mesa, Omar Linares. This documentary brings back lots of memories.

[@purpleblastoise]

¡Viva la Revolución y el Che! ¡Viva el socialismo! ¡Yo soy Fidel! 🇨🇺☭

[@strfltcmnd.9925]

@@purpleblastoise Communism always appeals to the lazy

[@yatosan3524]

@@strfltcmnd.9925 Lazy people are the most peaceful ones

[@chairlesnicol672]

Who's the black narrator?

[@dellingson4833]

@@chairlesnicol672 Think Darth Vader's voice and you have the icon James Earl Jones.

[@scar623]

“A liberal speaks of democracy in general; but a Marxist never forgets to ask, for what class?” -Lenin

[@arniekando6846]

I think the track record for socialism and communism is very clear. If you can read history and dont understand what communism brought to the table you are are as ignorant as soil.......100 million people dead......killing off there own people like its a sport, anyone that disagree with the doctrine get killed and its usually the more intellectual, the entrepreneurs .....and its so easy to disagree because the doctrine is so flawed........Marxism has more power classes than any democracy, ask anyone that survived and lived in a country driven by Marxism...............You socialist wants to trade a slightly flawed system that can still provide food and dignity for one of Tyranny, death and hunger....100% of the time.

[@elmersbalm5219]

@@arniekando6846 you’re talking a lot of double-speak from colonial powers that have long history of doing much worse than you allege

[@franzengold]

Yeah they ask and promise and even put word "democratic" in names of countries they captured, but in the end for some reason it turns out to be basic dictatorship killing people with different opinion. So do a favour take this Lenin's quotes and stick it up your ass

[@elmersbalm5219]

@Riorozen those are all countries under economic siege. Britain was doing worse during the German air war.

[@stabbymcsharp5737]

@@elmersbalm5219 Colonialisn is part of nature. Strong always overtakes weak. Colonizers were smart and innovative and in accordance with nature?, they overtake the stupid iindigenous people who are too simple and dazzled by the superior firepower and technological prowess of the colonizers. If everyone goes back far enough, they will find that their ancestors were colonizers themselves. The native American tribes didn't colonize, they overtook and slaughtered any previous tribes. Colonizers are more humane due to their morally superior natures!

[@iliashornung3178]

Operation Condor , Operation Mongoose , Operation Northwoods.

[@bootkillerrr891]

@Kirby Quinn our favorite

[@pangeaplay8938]

I'm Latino an I say: Fuck Communism

[@InevitableTruth247]

Pangea Play I can’t believe Cuba still has the Gitmo concentration camp. Very few people leave enscathed

[@dengxiaopinggaming5500]

@@pangeaplay8938 I am also Latino and say: Communism is awesome

[@lubu2960]

@@dengxiaopinggaming5500 ok, go to communist countries

[@coviddelusionb1172]

Love from the Caribbean We all love our Cuban family

[@corredor305]

No you don’t

[@Loudes012]

No PaPa, Castro made deals with the Soviet Union. Don't make that deal!

[@zvbx]

The greatest voice in the history of Hollywood.

[@loganstroganoff1284]

Close race with Morgan freeman

[@tonyrandall3146]

Keith David?

[@Tbraves111]

James Earl Jones.

[@aarondigby5054]

@@tonyrandall3146 Paul Winfield, he does City Confudential.

[@aarondigby5054]

@@loganstroganoff1284 Paul Winfield, he does City Confidential.

[@jonrevere7446]

This is epic a Fidel Castro documentary narrated by Darth Vader!

[@Long-Ball-Larry]

This is HRH King Jaffe Joffer, Ruler of Zamunda. He just gave Darth Vader his voice.

[@imeakpan]

From the frame of American imperialism.

[@marklisiecki5790]

God bless Cuban doctors, for helping sick Russian children !!!Respect from Poland!!!❤❤❤

[@TheMechas56]

@@weneedcriticalthinking Respect ✊ from New york 🗽 👍🏼👍🏼

[@Heldorardo]

Lmao the 2 states giving respects are loser states. Sincerely a Puerto Rican

[@TheMechas56]

@@Heldorardo And what 😮 about your state?? how you describe it ?? Saludos mr 🥂🍹Quintero🖖

[@Heldorardo]

@@TheMechas56 we dont lick commie boots to start. Makes us 1000 times better just for that

[@grimhunter2223]

Those Poor Doctors are forced to go to foreign countries and work as Slaves by the Cuban government. Imagine being forced to work without being able to see your family for 8 years. The Cuban government also keeps 80% of the salary they work for.

[@LastRelNigaAlive]

I absolutely love this so far. The maker is at least attempting to offer a balanced unbias look at Cuba and the Castro regime and it's relationship with America.

[@chenzomutumbo9140]

Incredibly rare in American media.

[@CommanderLongJohn]

@strongman1488 and no matter how "balanced & unbias" this look is it still doesn't show the whole picture, the God awful health care system, starvation, random execution of "dissidents" and so on...

[@jonnyhatter35]

Cuban here. I came to the US thanks to America's asylum to dissidents. My dad was put in forced labor camps as a young man of 20. His crime? Listening to american rock and roll and having long hair. This was in the early days of the regime. He also rounded up gay kids, asians, 7th day adventists, and others who were different. They were rounded up by a youth organization of pro regime thugs. Sound familiar? Think Hitler Youth. Castro was the worst villain to rule our island.

[@CommanderLongJohn]

@@jonnyhatter35 Well the Hitler Youth was nothing like that, not in the slightest bit.. A much more accurate analogy would be the Young Communist League from the Soviet Union, kids who were taught to actively spy on their parents/friends etc etc and report them to the authorities whenever appropriate-even for simply complaining about having to wait hours in line for rock hard bread... And now we have President Alzheimer in office who refuses to accept any Cuban 'dissidents', literally the only refugees being refused entrance, because they know the overwhelming amount of Cuban's coming over sure as fuck won't vote for Democrat, and that's ALL these people give a damn about.

[@mmassehs3251]

@@jonnyhatter35 Batista would brag about bringing 15 year old girls to his house picked up from the street..Castro Turned the brothels into school and nursing school, mobster Lucky Luciaanos country club was turned into medical research institute, al capones old house into a dental school, he turned the casinos into hospitals and schools

[@SDBOGLE]

This lady had a lot of farms so much that she don't remember,, bless her, but what she didn't say how many peasant she had working on that farm yet dirt poor and who only receive vouchers to get food for the shop belonging to the fruit companies.

[@1rider3bluee31]

How tf don't you know it wasn't a family farm . ? Exactly stfu

[@alg8818]

What you should ask is how the Cuban communist have the country and slaves and how they do not keep anything they Farm

[@Libertyjack1]

@@1rider3bluee31 3 of them?

[@cyberpozo]

As Fidel Castro Family did, Fidel did the same to all of Cuba, he learned well from his dad.

[@1rider3bluee31]

@@schreineinAV what r u talking bout u can own many farms and there still family farms cousins and what not they purposely use to have like 12 kids to work them stfu

[@corazoncubano5372]

This is a very fair and very accurate documentary. I have family members who fought in Angola.

[@tonyperez6744]

Your family fought in Angola for what .To now starve in Cuba ?

[@__D10S__]

@@tonyperez6744 do you know where angola is? lmao. they fought in solidarity with the colonized and helped end apartheid in south africa while america supported it. also, no one is starving in cuba. there are not dozens of options to choose from, but everyone gets food. www.globalhungerindex.org/cuba.html "With a score of under 5, Cuba has a level of hunger that is low"

[@Karniveron]

@EL YEYO D'CUBA Sounds like what the US did with high school kids and Vietnam

[@__D10S__]

@EL YEYO D'CUBA this is the problem with cubans who hate "communism" or whatever. They miss the forest for the trees. Yes, i'm sure life in cuba wasn't ideal. After all, you are an island nation cutoff from world trade dependent on 2 major industries. Now, you say this is all as a result of "castro's regime". What you fail to realize is that Haiti, a country in a similar situation as Cuba besides the economic structure of the economy is doing much worse. Literacy rates, infant mortality, hunger, all these factors are much, much worse in Haiti. Now you may have not studied america's history in south america so you may be naive enough to think that Cuba could have a viable "liberal democracy". Yea. that's a fantasy. The two, and only two options these countries have is 1. take loans from the imf, privitize industries (which always hurts the average citizen), and invariably not be able to pay back the loan and in time, you are owned by united states corporations. The other option, 2. is deny US imperialism and face the wrath of the biggest empire on the planet. Now, you can't have freedom of press because if you did, the united states would put millions into fomenting discontent amongst the population. This happened in Chile, guatemala, panama, etc. Freedom of press, all of a sudden becomes paradoxical. It's only free for US corporate interests. Conscription or forced military service is not ideal. But why do they have it? Is it because their neighbors, the most powerful superpower in history is perpetually waging war on cuba? Do you have the same energy when south korea, or israel forces military service? Are they, in your mind, as bad as cuba? I believe castro said a quote along the lines of 'The people who strangle us criticize how we breathe". Everything you deem bad about cuba, starts with the US. From their less than ideal economy, to their compulsory service. Every single thing. Don't get mad at cuba, they tried tiime and time again to negotiate with the US but we froze them out. We tried to invade their shores, and starve their citizens, but somehow that's cuba's fault? You can be from Cuba, doesn't change the fact that you don't have a full understanding of US foreign policy history to understand the entire pitcure. It's also funny how anti imperialism is somehow a bad thing bc of compulsory service. Do you keep the same energy up for US compulsory service attacking nations trying to self determine? No, that's okay for you right? Any criticism you make against cuba can be made 100x over for the US.

[@dengxiaopinggaming5500]

@@tonyperez6744 Cuba has an above average standard of living than most of Latin America and much of the world

[@idesdjurdja]

"Several transmissions were beamed from Sierra Maestra. I want to know what happened to the plans Castro sent you. "

[@seamikki6510]

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[@edwinpillay1409]

As an South African, we know what it means to have a Friend. Thanks again for your support Cuba. I will come to your Island to show my graduate. GOD Protect CUBA Forever.

[@tiago310]

The only thing you will see in Cuba is suffering, repression, and starvation thats the only thing a Cuban on the island has ever known

[@franktrautman2092]

Cubans love old American muscle cars from the 50s and 60s, can’t afford food but love their automobiles LOL

[@gordonilaoa1275]

@@franktrautman2092 probably because that’s all they’ll see on the island lol

[@sgtfluffy718]

@@franktrautman2092 they don't love those cars. That's all that's allowed at this time so the mechanics have to keep those same cars running

[@kinky_Z]

@@tiago310 That's TRUE! THANKS TO THE HATEFUL STIFLING, ILLEGAL DAMN 62 year long EMBARGO OF THE NEOCON thieving, psychopathic "exceptionalist" A-HOLES IN WASHINGTON, DC!! [def: Imperialism is an economic system aimed at kneecapping countries, stealing their resources, making them poor and weak in order to enrich Wall St and the City of London and maintain Western hegemony]. Exactly what our motives are now in Ukraine.

[@michaelhart5087]

Hey look. Its Justin Trudeaus real father!

[@emilianozapata2530]

Oh yeah..but his son is definetely not worth of his father..

[@billastell3753]

Ya but Dad was a Doctor. Son was a kindergarten teacher.

[@skellurip]

i hope he's more like his father

[@billastell3753]

@@skellurip Doesn't look that way to me. He acts childish, irresponsible and scatter brained in my opinion.

[@sadiedavenport]

I adore this narrator. He has such a gorgeous voice, and speaks with so much gravity. He's a joy to listen to.

[@WestIndianAK]

You do know who he is, don't you? That's James Earl Jones, man! You know-the voice of Darth Vader? LOL

[@sadiedavenport]

@@WestIndianAK I should've seen it! I just googled him and, unsurprisingly, he's insanely famous.

[@fritzlewis1124]

@Johanna Bisceglia: Also he has come a long way. As a child, it was reported, he had a speech impediment issues.

[@edwinpillay1409]

Enlighteing having James Earl Jones narrating.God Bless Cuba.

[@RicardoMartinez-jy5lo]

There are also cigar manufacturing readers in the Dominican Republic.

[@benperkins9237]

It,s Darth Vader

[@suyesh]

Close your eyes and pretend you are Simba and you are being taught about Cuba by Mufasa.

[@claytonjean6385]

Or luke being taught by vader

[@loganstroganoff1284]

This was obviously filmed before the fall of the soviet union,times were still relatively good. These poor people had no idea what was right around the corner. I wonder how many have since changed their views,how many of the young ones made a run for the u.s.

[@kyriedacrybaby1938]

I don’t know about that, by the looks of the bare shelves in the stores it sure looks like they were feeling the full force of a floundering Soviet Union especially by 89-90.

[@kinky_Z]

Wow... if you define "GOOD", as the theft of your island, mafia takeover and corruption, then I guess those fascist Batista days were good. The small group of corrupt right-wing evildoers who fled to Miami, were embraced by our right-wing US neocon fascists. The true Cuban patriots, i.e., the 99% of the proud people of Cuba, stayed with Castro determined to build a strong and sovereign Cuba that sadly has suffered destruction incrementally by years of U.S. embargoes, Imperialism, exceptionalism, neocon hegemony and barbarism.

[@WestIndianAK]

@@kyriedacrybaby1938 I think that was just the result of the general shortages that plagued the Cuban economy under communism, even while it was still propped up by the USSR. It got even worse after the Soviet Union collapsed for good in 1991.

[@destubae3271]

@@WestIndianAK Yep, a boneless economy supported by another boneless one. The US embargo being the cause of their failures is an excuse

[@allanchino35]

The main guy is wearing a 1996 Olympics shirt tho

[@_steamfunk_2271]

Didn't know Darth Vader was interested in politics, even though he doesn't understand it

[@fullsend8738]

Did this doco paint Castro out to be a courageous, honourable revolutionary who refused to let the US molest his countries people and resources? Or did it paint him out to be a psychopathic, murderous lunatic who propped up a communist regime to fill his own ego and desires? I haven’t watched it and cbf. Thankyou

[@bulldog03leatherneck91]

How do you know that?

[@CrashSeven]

@@fullsend8738 suprisingly both

[@SandfordSmythe]

Out of fantasy world?

[@Libertyjack1]

Obviously, neither do you.

[@rosesprog1722]

If the Americans say they want to help you, RUN, you are in grave danger!

[@trevorgittens1993]

😂🇨🇺🇺🇸

[@kayvan671]

But they helped Western Europe, South Korea and Taiwan.

[@vivicohen199]

Roses & Prog: This makes me smile .... 'Many a true word is spoken in jest'.

[@rosesprog1722]

@@kayvan671 The US involvement in world war one completely shattered the natural balance of power in Europe directly leading to facism, communism, nazism, the second world war, the cold war, the nuclear escalation, millions of lives lost and financial costs beyond anyone's wildest dreams. If the Germans had won WW1, Britain would have lost her empire, but none of what followed would have happened. The true reason for US involvement was that Wall Street had lent so much money to Britain and France, the only way to secure payment back was to make sure they would win, nothing else. As to South Korea, these people have been asking the Americans to leave and to let them reunite their country since the very beginning. And Taiwan was part of China before 1949, it was with US backing that Chiang Kai-sheck, one of the most corrupt leaders ever fled there after having lost to the communists on the mainland and declared it was the only true China, to which the US agreed, leaving mainland China out of the communities of nations until 1979. Today the US uses small countries like Taiwan and the Ukraine to harrass those it considers its enemies because of their economic power and political influence throughout the world. There is a saying that goes: "An empire has no friends, it has subserviant states."

[@kayvan671]

@@rosesprog1722 The people of South Korea and Taiwan disagree with you. Its clear you have never even visited these Countries before. Troll somewhere else!

[@heidi3645]

Thank you for this video. For a Cuban it means a lot. Viva Cuba libre!!!

[@tmajec]

Born and raised in Cuba? If so, what are your impressions from the video?

[@heidi3645]

@@tmajec like I said I was there that day in the La plaza de la revolución when Fidel spoke. I was only 12 years old

[@tmajec]

Kool to hear, that was a major event in history regardless of ones political predilections. Thanks!

[@REVOLVER_NOIR]

Cubans are beautiful people.

[@al-hakimbi-amrallah5404]

@@heidi3645 how come? Heidi is more of a german name and u don't look very latina

[@josiahwyncott7519]

Bravo, bravo, bravo! Almost as thorough as the reporting about the Soviet Socialist Republic and their wonders. But I have not watched part 2 yet.

[@TheAngelicRider]

@Bernie Zanders Just stop paying rent Bernie. Get kicked out or evicted. Get fired for losing your home. Then get exiled by family for not being able to afford housing and maintaining a minimum wage job. You don't need to go to Cuba. You wouldn't fit in. I doubt you would take advantage of the free education.

[@kuba2ve]

Yeah, bravo, what a beautiful oppression!

[@seamikki6510]

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[@kuba2ve]

@@seamikki6510 There you go. I am Cuban and I can confirm these guys are telling like it is. And, I am not even a right winger to start with, but in this case I have to give 100% credit to these guys.

[@dengxiaopinggaming5500]

@@seamikki6510 Charlie Kirk is a grifter. Opinion discarded

[@Grimloxz]

That old white Cuban at 5:26, she listed everything on that plantation except the “workers”, LOLOLOL. Ok, I’m sure her family did all that work by themselves… Yeah, I know a grip of Cubans too who tell a much different story, but even if you don’t, there’s a lot of good research that points to the horrid conditions and virtual slavery that has existed in Cuba since America took it over after the Spanish American War in 1898 and certainly under the Spaniards from far before.

[@DavidPerez-mr3cs]

Go live in the "socialist paradise" like an average Cuban for a month and tell me how you like it

[@emera1750]

acere está gente están comiendo tremenda pinga El embargo no silencia la opinión política y el embargo no manda al gobierno a someterle al pueblo que encarcelen a su propia gente get di fock outta here wit tha socialist shit burro de mierda

[@flores4074]

@@ea11111 What are you talking about. How can we "politicize" this if everything about this is absolutely political. Politics are the way we levy change and power through a state apparatus. Anything involving a state and government is going to be political.

[@flores4074]

She definitely was not self aware. 1700 acres on one of several farms alone isn't a small family business. She was filthy rich. I have my criticisms of the current Cuban government but that woman was not being completely honest

[@Grimloxz]

@@flores4074 EXACTLY. Finally someone picks up on it. Poor her - it must of hurt so much to leave her sugar plantation behind... O_o Yeah, no sympathy. I'll see about responding to those oh so well reasoned and deeply ahistorical rants above later...

[@eXtremeFX2010]

Could he just say in his Vader voice "Castro, I find your lack of faith disturbing"

[@Grimloxz]

Interestingly enough, Darth Vader uttering that line as attack dog for the Emperor and the Empire but also the United States' position towards Cuba is actually the right call.

[@borninvincible]

@@Grimloxz economic warfare is the right call?

[@Grimloxz]

@@borninvincible Of course not, only equating the fictional Darth Vader as servant of the Empire with the United States as *ACTUAL* empire..

[@luisenrique9015]

Funny thing is those same cars are still running

[@everfragoso5945]

Lol

[@ChazMcGutter]

@@Tomekkplk because of America's illegal embargo

[@luisenrique9015]

@@Tomekkplk Government won’t let them afford new cars

[@conorbyrne3348]

@@ChazMcGutter based america

[@emera1750]

@@ChazMcGutter 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@Theoxuesu]

As someone born in 1999 this is extremely surreal to see

[@MM-hg7dg]

Would love to know what became of francisco ramirez and his family!

[@robertoguille2224]

Voting for Trump...

[@kuba2ve]

They probably live like decent human beings, without having to spend the whole day to find something to eat.

[@LastRelNigaAlive]

@@kuba2ve Thank goodness for Wendy's 4 for 4 and McDonald's .99 cent menu, we all eat so well.

[@kuba2ve]

@@LastRelNigaAlive I'll take the .99 cent burger over plain air, empty stomach.

[@seamikki6510]

Here you go... kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqqro3hno9l6r68

[@LeahFGCameron]

Hi David, Are rights to these clips available for commercial use?

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Yes. Write [e-mail]. David Hoffman Filmmaker

[@michaelhenderson2236]

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker America let the slave move Down the street and pay rent told him he was free

[@chenzomutumbo9140]

She literally can't even remember how much she had because she was so rich.... how did your family treat the workers on those 3 massive farms? Do you think the answer to that question may answer why all those "employees" joined Fidel?

[@82zerox]

shut the fuck up! they just believed to communist lies.... it happened frequently......

[@sitdowndogbreath]

I hear you man the struggle goes on today

[@erikgraph3276]

@@82zerox So what exactly is a lie here? That the workers were exploited?

[@Angel_Gomez]

Wow, they went from oppression and poverty to an even worse oppression and poverty

[@erikgraph3276]

@@Angel_Gomez You can blame the sixty years of American embargo, maybe?

[@damianhoratiu2287]

Very fine transition from the balcony where the American youngman meets his relatives in Cuba to the pan on the street; from the private story to the public history. A very good documentary indeed. Should be played in schools for all students to understand the Cuban affair. And the end, on the sea shore- has a very special cinematic quality.

[@jamesduclos2545]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKuZh32BaNKGZpo

[@Phan-Xu]

Yeah It reminds me of Kung Fu Theater From the 1980’s Lol

[@angelacreaturo8725]

@@Phan-Xu Something to my only

[@friasmarty]

You can’t be serious. This is all propaganda. What a fool.

[@ericiman2591]

I spent 2 years in Mongolia in the Peace Corps and the prevailing sentiment amongst the older working class was that the "freedom" of capitalism was fine and dandy, but having steady work and food under communism was preferable. The few winners within capitalism create the narrative, and the US has made sure that Western hemisphere apostates are severely punished and crippled for trying to subvert the capitalist hegemony. Cuba can count on 2 things to happen once the US regains imperial dominance over the island: a drop in life expectancy, and destruction of terrestrial and marine environments. I'm surprised that the corporate entertainment media allowed any sentimental and positive depictions of Castro and the revolution.

[@Arimont4]

Lmao simp harder for an authorization regime that commits atrocious human rights violations

[@tribinaaux4043]

@@Arimont4 he is right. I live in a post-socialist country so i know both systems. Socialism is better and western MSM are lying to you

[@Big_AlMC]

@@tribinaaux4043 main stream MSM is lying about the goodness of communism. Death to all Communists!

[@lochlannblack7699]

@@Big_AlMC ok tough guy so cringe

[@rickb3650]

@@lochlannblack7699 I always imagine that these are all 10 year old boys who just came off a 10 hour COD binge. I know the truth is much more depressing.

[@salty-as-heck9915]

What was like to be in Cuba in 1991? A mixed bag of goods. I was there as a young Cuban child in 1991. The people are great and the island is beautiful, but the government is repressive and human rights are non-existent. I visited again last year. Not a lot has changed.

[@kimobrien.]

You can bet on the Human Rights in Cuba looking very good to those living in Haiti or the Dominican Republic capitalist slums. All you want is the human right to open a coca cola franchise in Cuba and be a rich capitalist boss.

[@222sundae]

No homelessness like 97% literacy being able to eat a meal every day even if its not exactly what you’d want and clinics and hospitals everywhere Now Cuba before socialism The brothel of Western Hemisphere rampant slavery horrible working conditions is that what you desire of Cuba a land of slavery, dying and prostitution Castro was a fucking saint compared to the American imperialist dictatorship you seem desire

[@salty-as-heck9915]

@@222sundae I'm not denying there were problems in pre 1959 Cuba...I'd say there were lots of them including another brutal dictatorship prior to Castro's brutal dictatorship. But don't feed me BS about what Cuba was like then or is now. I was born there and spent the first years of my life there, and I have been back since then and seen it for myself as it is now. There's the propaganda the communist regime sells to the international public, which is a stark difference to the reality of living there. If it wasn't for the exile Cuban community in the US sending money to their families in Cuba to support them, many of them would be starving to death right now. The Cuban regime is expert in keeping the population at just below subsistence level and then marking up the price of goods they import from China at astronomical prices so they can sell them to the Cubans using the dollars they get from their relatives in the US. Which is why a Cuban making $20 a month has to beg their relatives in the US to send them $1,000 to buy a Chinese fridge from a government-owned store that only costs $200 in the US or anywhere else in the world. And don't tell me it's the embargo, because there's no embargo between China and Cuba..or the rest of the world. It's called keeping your relatives as hostages over there so they can get money off of you. And it's also why the Cuban government makes you pay $1,000 for the privilege of being able to visit your own country and seeing your own family (the Cuban Passport is the most expensive passport in the world to maintain.) It's just another scam to fleece people of their money by using their relatives as hostages. And what do the Cuban population get in return, garbage! My own father died in a filthy run down Cuban hospital with no medication... While only a few blocks away there was a nice clean hospital for tourists full of the latest medicine and gadgets. But if you're a Cuban over there you can't use any of it.

[@salty-as-heck9915]

@@pabloherrera7210 not surprised. If you want to see more traditional values, you have to go to the interior of the island. Even back in 1994-1995 I found Havana to be an ugly cesspit. Dirty, run down, and the people more loud and vulgar than the people I grew up around in central Cuba.

[@guillermoramos9788]

@@salty-as-heck9915 and the guy on the airplane was a political informer or commissar, this beautiful island was hijacked by the ruthless communist dictatorship, Education system is just a mere indoctrination of young students, I don´t like socialist or communist regime, they´re ruthless. Sorry for my English.

[@alvarez6487]

4:50 "Fidel Castro took my slaves and slave plantations."

[@choppa3358]

Yeah.. i was thinking the same myself. Who was working those farms, huh? Couldn't just have been her and her family.

[@dogguy8603]

@@choppa3358 yes because all farm laborers are slaves. . .stfu

[@alvarez6487]

@@choppa3358 Cuba didn’t abolish slavery until 1886, and the revolution occurred in 1959. The revolution occurred 3 generations after the abolishment of slavery. People who were once enslaved were still alive. And the slave owners and the whites owned most of the property and wealth in Cuba.

[@tiberio1352]

@@choppa3358 the PEONES that were NOT considered human beings, of course.

[@kevinsandow5354]

@@dogguy8603 if you know nothing stfu, why do you think the revolution succedded? People joined fidel and Che because they wanted something better than the slave like conditions they lived in.

[@MyMainMan756]

Nice, I am glad to catch this, and the perks of being subscribed!

[@GUNROCKS1990]

And also reminded me something my family escape from Vietnam during end of the war.

[@jennygibbons1258]

Interesting 🤔 Shows Playa Giron but no mention that Cubans are not allowed to use their beach resorts or their resort hotels nor visit guests for entertainment/dining out etc. The doctor did not mention her low wages and a two-tier healthcare system that nobody speaks about. I also doubt she lives on beans and rice - but many people do, despite her claims that everyone has enough to eat now. I too would never know these things if my friend, a highly qualified doctor, hadn’t shown me reality of his life. His monthly income was the same amount as the cost of one pair of children’s shoes - so he worked as a doctor and a tour guide. He has 3 children and must provide. He and many other Cubans showed me a different side and not the public face of propaganda. Every country has its public face and private reality and Cuba is no exception.

[@randallmooreao9950]

How about a video about life in Cuba under Battista and the Mafia?

[@jeanchartrand2519]

No kidding, I did many Aid missions in Cuba,mostly for Widows, and heard of The Horrors of Baptista and US Mafia By the Elder Cuban people

[@sonylo7267]

@@jeanchartrand2519 Batista, not baptista, fool

[@marilyndorn8741]

That’s too far backwards, not relevant for today and short lived.

[@enlightened4845]

People forget that the American government supported the apartheid regime in South Africa. It was US intelligence, provided to the apartheid South African government, that led to the arrest and imprisonment of Nelson Mandela. The defeat of the South African forces at the hands of largely Cuban volunteer troops in 1988 in Angola paved way for the release of Mandela and the downfall of the South African apartheid regime. No government contributed more to the overthrow of apartheid than that of revolutionary Cuba. In the words of Nelson Mandela, “the defeat of the racist army at Cuito Cuanavale [Angola] has made it possible for me to be here today.” He goes on to challenge, “what other country can point to a record of greater selflessness than Cuba has displayed in its relations with Africa?” “Some imperialists ask themselves why the Cubans are helping the Angolans; what our interests are. They are accustomed to thinking that a country does something only in search of oil, diamonds, copper, or other natural resources. No, our interests are not materialistic and it is only logical that the imperialists can’t understand that. Their criteria are based solely on chauvinistic, nationalistic, and egotistic reasons. We are carrying out our international duty in helping the people of Angola.” - Fidel Castro

[@vivicohen199]

Cygnus_A: Thank you for the trouble taken to include these quotes. Too many White people in South Africa (and no doubt elsewhere in the world) love to make their 'Madiba this and Madiba that' proclamations but blithely ignore his statements on Cuba and Palestine.

[@migueltrujillo5932]

Brother, because the forces of anti-apartheid were infiltrated by communists. But I hope you know that.

[@Jonathan.D]

Now that's what I call propaganda! 100% Bs

[@nathaniarounce-ih2gi]

As a Cuban Jamaican I'm learning a lot of things

[@JackyTMusic]

Old lady: I had so much disposable wealth and property that I cant even recount what I owned. Proletariat: Yes, you DID.

[@Shinobi33]

God I'd love to know how Francisco and his family are doing now 30+ years later. His mom and grandma have probably passed. He'll likely have a family of his own. Probably a grandad now

[@jigrodrigues]

After 1991 things got really really worse.

[@rosaliasierra4956]

1991???? ...lol since 1959🤣🤣

[@jjmendez4267]

Didn’t they run out of gasoline like immediately after the USSR collapsed????

[@guyincognito7979]

@@rosaliasierra4956 you idiot the living standards after 1959 improved by every possible metric

[@tiago310]

@@rosaliasierra4956 😂🤣

[@rosaliasierra4956]

@@guyincognito7979 LMAO who's the idiot? You lived in Cuba eating pan con azucar or pan con aceite?... I bet you haven't

[@geneclemetson4779]

"We are free as the air!" Like the air on the shelves at the store.

[@arniekando6846]

Ahaha good one. I hope the wannabe american socialist read you comment, maybe they cannot grasp what you actually saying......

[@mmassehs3251]

Colombia has same probleom

[@jonnyhatter35]

@@mmassehs3251 sos Columbia y sos Cuba. Que viva la cumbia y la salsa, carajo!

[@kylesavy6250]

perhaps, but more and more of us in the west cant afford the stuff on the "filled shelves"

[@hibye7385]

Cuba while under economic siege is still able to provide healthcare for its citizens at large. Meanwhile American citizens suffer from a system that supposedly makes them very rich while unable to provide for their basic needs such as healthcare. There is a recent story of a young girl selling lemonade to finance a brain surgery, does that not at all seem unjust to you. Meanwhile most of your nation's wealth is given to a minority few that bleeds the rest of the working population for their imperialist ambitions. The war on terror as resulted in disastrous events that helped make immense profit while causing horrendous suffering of average people. You tell me what is freedom after all that has happened in the past 20 years alone. Keep in mind that it is the US that supports torture on the island of Cuba itself with Guantanamo Bay not the socialist government.

[@enigma3383]

when she started giving him the Café Bustelo to give to the family in Cuba, I felt that

[@swifthpat]

There are some of the best doctor's in the world there.

[@kayvan671]

In the world? *Laughs in German*

[@manjelos]

@@barockobummer2448 Embargo is only from US and have some reason. Give seized property back and embargo will be lifted, so simple. What would Putin or Chinese do if somebody just seize their property? And this vaccine is only for palliative treatment, just extend life for some months more when the battle is lost. Same is done today with chemo therapy. Well, what is difficult there is more lack of money as famous "embargo", also in research, but there are investors from China and else where

[@kxkxkxkx]

No medicine tho LOL

[@aniquinstark4347]

I was not expecting James Earl Jones but it's certainly a happy surprise.

[@CMA418]

At 27:27 the boy is wearing(pretty sure) a t-shirt from the 1996 Centennial Olympics in Atlanta. But in the description you state that this was made "back in 1991". Am I missing something?

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

I'd say you are missing something but I don't know what. The film was made when I said. David Hoffman filmmaker

[@CMA418]

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker The thing is, I was a part of the opening ceremonies in 1996. The only reason I brought it up is because I remembered that logo(the colored stars) that's on his shirt. Perhaps they were on sale already in '91? Also, please understand, I appreciate the work you've done. So this isn't meant to "troll" you.

[@rickb3650]

@@CMA418 I lived in Atlanta then and yes, you could buy Olympic Paraphernalia at least a year before the games. I still have a black on black Olympic sweatshirt that was considered cool back then.

[@ermahgawd3889]

2024 Olympic merchandise is being sold now. I'd guess that since the young man was living in Atlanta, that merchandise may have been available.

[@alejandromacias7609]

@47:23 the narrator describes Cuba as, "free". 😆 🤣 😂

[@edwinpillay1409]

Last but not least a Big Up to David Hoffman.

[@davismarrero6301]

have to be very careful Who you talk to on Those flights Sometimes they have people flying who work for the government in Cuba

[@e5205]

Like Parenti said, you don't judge a country based on your utopian idea of what it should be. You judge it based on where it came from. Before the revolution, Cuba had a

[@vivicohen199]

E, you are a voice of reason.

[@jevonbrown1778]

Very balanced non bias documentary as usual...GREAT DOCUMENTARY.

[@kevinsandow5354]

Wtf it's so biased. The fact that you don't notice says a lot

[@fiddlefarts]

@@kevinsandow5354 I know, its amazing.

[@CarlosFernandez-sv4lb]

You call that balanced and non-bias? Really? Its pure propaganda complete crap. The truth is that Cuba is a failed state, has always been a failed state, an will be a fail state in the future.

[@Lee-qw7uz]

@@kevinsandow5354 yea that’s kinda scary actually.

[@kuba2ve]

@@CarlosFernandez-sv4lb I am Cuban and I can confirm.

[@jabbahursty]

oh, man, those cars . real tribute to them for keeping those cars up so many decades. i guess what they say about necessity being the mother of invention

[@barbaradarragh5337]

When Castro arrived in the United States his dreams were to play baseball he arrived and met my father both then very young my father worked at a hotdog stand New York New York he offered Castro a job my father lived in a boarding house were there were many rooms and one bathroom Castro was taken to daddy‘s room there he stayed for two weeks dad said he went to work was very quiet and when he came home to the wrong he spent all night reading books dad did not know if he could read them they were in English but he did spend the night reading books after two weeks when Castro got his paycheck he told. My dad he was leaving they walk to Central Park it was snowing and took two pictures I have those two pictures you can see where they threw snow at each other dad said he took the money and bought a couch and a Hat after the picture they said their goodbyes and dad never thought twice about those pictures till later on in life he was embarrassed to only order have anything to do with Castro at the time but time for change and he brought the pictures out and gave them to me

[@barbaradarragh5337]

Castro returned later with his new wife to n ew York lived a lavish lifestyle for a while in N Y Then he started meeting political people that opened up his destiny

[@strongcurrents2488]

Great story wonderful history

I'd love to see those pictures Barbara!

[@jacklesmithda3rd502]

Source: trust me bro

[@jennifergongora9727]

Wow,,,You should enlist your pictures for History purposes of tracking Fidel Castro's early life ..THANK YOU FOR SHARING !! IT INTRIGUES ME .

[@kadadriancottman1266]

Off topic but question. What kind of cameras/film would be used to get this style?

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

16mm film. Several cameras. David Hoffman filmmaker

[@kadadriancottman1266]

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker thank you!!!

[@kadadriancottman1266]

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker holy shit!!! David Hoffman, I love your work. Thank you!

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

@@kadadriancottman1266 And thank you. For your comment, and your support if you click the thanks button under the screen on the right side of any of my videos. David Hoffman filmmaker

[@fun3000able]

James Earl Jones for ever !

[@FUNeRaLPyR3]

That kid sitting next to his helmet was high as fuck lol

[@anemaldemomusic8182]

lol what mark

[@tribblebooth1224]

Long live Cuba!

[@androidbox3571]

I worked in Angola and the Congo in the late 70's and early 80's and on occasions met some of the Cuban troops, very nice people and not political, or anti Western, just doing a job. In n

[@sojiiro109]

This documentary is worthy of a sequel. One filmed today and with a tally that shows ho many of the ones depicted talking crap about the U.S currently reside there, enjoying capitalism and freedom, or asking their relatives in the U.S to send them things.

[@epicphailure88]

Freedom is relative. Majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Rampant homeless. Many die because of no healthcare.

[@gubigubigubigubi]

48:47 They have been drilling for 36 hours straight No they fucking havn't lol

[@1911dawg]

Lol that’s the dumbest looking excuse for a military I’ve ever seen.

[@seamikki6510]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqqro3hno9l6r68

[@PurePessimism]

@@seamikki6510 >Charlie Kirk

[@thastayapongsak4422]

@@1911dawg Those aren't military. Those are armed local militias, as is said in the video.

[@zambimaru]

Very well made.

[@seamikki6510]

Then you'll like this one too...kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqqro3hno9l6r68

[@MrNedsaabdickerson]

The world pre 1991 seems to be a harder world, yet a better people! Today everything is easy, but the people are nasty.

[@sitdowndogbreath]

You've got that right fucked up isn't it

[@yegfreethinker]

I agree. I don't like the rudeness we've allowed to creep in especially considering how much kinder the world can be :'(

[@sitdowndogbreath]

@@yegfreethinker we gotta turn it around.

[@MitchellElder]

your work is amazing! love it

[@leslierodricks2701]

Love and greetings from Mumbai-India. I REALLY love to visit Cuba. It's my dream!

[@harrynunez736]

Make sure to have toilet paper in your backpack.

[@heyhey3603]

No one knows for sure if Cuba would fall or prosper from their form of communism. The US wont allow their political experiment to work with all the sanctions imposed on their government. Just because we have different political ideas, should not mean generations of people should have to starve. China does horrible things to their people but the US has allowed them to be communist with out the same economic sanctions that Cuba has faced. They have been surviving with 50 year old technology. Who's not to say that their form of communism won't work, we wont know until the sanctions are lifted.

[@marianotorrespico2975]

YOU ANSWERED YOUR QUESTION. | Coloured people see the white-saviour Murican as he DOES NOT see himself; thus, your statement: "but the US has ALLOWED them [the Chinese] to be Communist" summarises the RACIST and ANTI-IMPERIALIST point that Cubans tell foreigners about why they like being and remaining Cuban, rather than an anglophone "Cuban-American". In U.S. society, a colonised people are dehumanised into a hyphenated-American, because the hyphen indicates second-class citizen; ask the women of the U.S.

[@brianjones7660]

what sanctions? Take your Cuban pesos to the EU or trudeau in Canada and they will sell you all you need. Milk,oil, wheat whatever. oh wait...dollars? Real money? now we see the problem.......marxist economics never work, and they wont next time we visit Cuba.....

[@allensneed7062]

If the embargo hasn’t ended Communist control over the island than what’s even the point? Cuba deserves a free and fair democracy but this ineffective embargo seems to only increase the suffering of the Cuban people.

[@ti2218]

I think the proper title would be: "Here is Cuba under crippling US sanctions and constant assassination attempts once the imperial United States lost control over the nation after Fidel's revolution"

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Tino. That's a little long for KZbin. Really five words is the best, sometimes six. David Hoffman filmmaker

[@ti2218]

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker lmao good point but my rhetoric remains the same

[@snowflakemelter1172]

You're complaining that America won't trade with Cuba after Cuba chose to align itself with the communist bloc, the No.1 enemy of America, Cuba choose the loosing side in the cold war, who's fault is that ?

[@brianjones7660]

@@ti2218 yes it remains tired and foolish. Go to Canada or the EU. They are wide open to your exports, but.....the currency is literally unusable internationally. They wont sell you anything you need except for $$. No embargo exists today in any way that isnt easily circumvented.

[@jomama5186]

Such a beautiful country and people. I wish things could be so different and we could visit Cuba and that they could love in a democracy and be able to govern themselves. They are good, kind, loving, hard working people and my heart and prayers are with them all.

[@JamesWhite-fz3et]

Tell America to end the embargo

[@shea086]

@JO MAMA They do Govern themselves and quite successfully too, despite the constant Interference (to put it mildly) from the US over the decades.

[@jorgeluna9777]

@@JamesWhite-fz3et tell the communist to let the people be free and the US will end the embargo. BTW only a few countries actually adhere to the embargo. All of Europe does business with Cuba. Canada Mexico most countries do business with Cuba. Communism doesn't work

[@grahamzvi3293]

Democracy is communism when you consider democracy means people power and bolshevik means the majority which won control from the mensheviks (which literally means minority) within the social democratic russian political party. This sort of tells us all how we have been duped into believing in the polar opposite between the left and the right never being connected when obviously how is a bird or any living creature going to be able to move forward without either the left and the right. Where is the centre of time then ?

[@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq]

Go to Cuba, I did and brought simple things like tooth brushes and I gave them away, people loved it.

[@MrEverth007]

And then he empowered Cuba like never before.

[@dwood8721]

He didn’t do crap what are you talking about?

[@commander_expendable]

@@dwood8721 oh yes of course, those loarge amount of tracks and asphalt roads and the large amount medical supplies and healthcare system which ties into a welfare system with more availability of local buisness

[@biniyameshetu2025]

@@commander_expendable all bad and rationed

[@lunapasquale]

@@dwood8721 empowered He PRISONED THE PEOPLE CUBANS HAVE NO FREEDOM CALLED COMMUNISM WAKE UP

[@snowflakemelter1172]

Yes the massive economic power of Cuba and flood of people begging to immigrate to utopia. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@kimberlyk2530]

Blue jeans are not essential. Wise words

[@kinky_Z]

18:18 What James Earl Jones is saying here is that the horrors of Haiti is what happens in end-stage Capitalism. In contrast, Cuba looked pretty darn good (except for the US hellbent on destroying it). Imagine how fantastic Cuba could be if the US wasn't hellbent on keeping it poor and struggling...

[@edydon]

Imagine how incredible Cuba would be with democracy.

[@georgefoster1468]

the INTERNAL blockade by the PCC does more harm than any other cause

[@marianotorrespico2975]

@@edydon --- MEANWHILE, IN THE VOLCANO HEADQUARTERS. | They Cubans already had capitalist "democracy", featuring freedom for white people from the U.S. to abuse any Cuban and Cubana, that is why THE CUBAN PEOPLE backed Fidel. Are you new to politics or being daring and provocativo?

[@edydon]

@@marianotorrespico2975 So what, at one point the Germans backed Hitler. If the Cuban government had the support of the people, they'd have an election. Are you a Fidelista dog who sold your soul for extra rations?

[@luistpuig]

the problem of Cuba has always been....Cuba. Many countries trade with Cuba, but the single political part totalitarianism, the communism the castro regime hold on the Cubans is the problem.... ex-communist Cuban Pionero here, escaped in 1980 on boat with other vomiting refugees....

[@robd8577]

Healthcare, it's a thing. Imagine if the embargo had been lifted.

[@snowflakemelter1172]

Cuba chose communism and the communist bloc, you can't have it both ways and except capitalist countries to bale you out.

[@robd8577]

@@snowflakemelter1172 firstly "choosing" is a pretty loose description of the what the population did, secondly it was over 60 years ago, thirdly lifting an embargo isn't a handout - it's allowing a country to trade. Plenty of trade with China is allowed - a communist country. If you are trying to look ignorant its working.

[@maynardcapellan1969]

free &quality Education is 2nd thing..

[@sabirzain5053]

@@snowflakemelter1172 > Bail you out > lift an embargo are you intentionally stupid?

[@lenini056]

@@snowflakemelter1172 And this is why people die from famine made by embargoes. YOU'RE EVIL!

[@stevecaldwell8740]

This has a different context now…

[@ericsuarez834]

Still about USA invading other countries

[@markgonza8477]

@@ericsuarez834 something is not right ...my family came from El Salvador many storys of USA has been doing bad things all over South America....and only thing Castro was doing is defending...I belive that ...he was not a dictor

[@ericsuarez834]

@@markgonza8477 I'm from the area as well, I know very well that your dad is right

[@markgonza8477]

@@ericsuarez834 actually its my moms side ..I had gotten fired from my work due 2 unpaid bills ..different story...but it lead me 2 a much needed vacation and would talk with my Mom ..more and more and did a little web investigation ..and this multiplton of our news .history alot of what we think ...is not true and now alot is becoming more and more obvious than ever we are in danger and we either don wana look dumb tellin others or not caring 2 think and realize just how bad the next generation will have it if we don share atlest thoughts and askin questions...its the reason Erich Burn im texting you back all this...much love and respect from Northern Cali ..Central Coast Salinas ....!!!!!

[@chadjazeera9960]

VIVA CUBA LIBRE!!!!!! ✊🏾

[@paullangton-rogers2390]

What Cuba has done to help the children of Ukraine poisoned by the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster is very touching. Admirable and quite remarkable that a small poor country like Cuba is pioneering healthcare and taking in cancer children patients from the Soviet Union.

[@jorgeluna9777]

Too bad their own citizens can't get decent health care

[@reggie69.]

@@jorgeluna9777 what do you mean they literally can

[@jorgeluna9777]

@@reggie69. you really have no idea. For Cubans their is no medicines available. They are now suffering from dengue fever and the government has nothing for them. I know because Family members in the US have to send medicine to the island. The government is a joke. One day the cuban people will have had enough and take back their country from the communist

[@jorgeluna9777]

@@purpleblastoise you have no idea what you are talking about. No medication available. Patients have to take their own bedding. The communist have ruined that island

[@livionian9142]

I'm not left wing, but you have to respect the attitude of Javier Méndez towards wages in elite sport and admire his passion for playing the game rather than merely using it as a vehicle to earn money

[@luinomrkt2111]

It tooks a longtyme to see the Castro ruling overall.

[@leslierodricks2701]

I wish I can vizit Cuba. It's my dream!!

[@Diego-fd3we]

If you are please don’t go to the hotels visit the real Cuba

[@frelmes05]

I'm a Cuban and it's better if you have family there you can stay at there house even though if I remember it's illegal there but nothing ever happens

[@Abby-jl1zb]

if you ever do come to cuba please don’t stay at hotels, you’d be paying the horrible government to build more hotels while their people starve to death

[@ani589]

@@Abby-jl1zb where can a normal tourist live?

[@Abby-jl1zb]

@@barockobummer2448 are you mentally ok? Cuba STARVES their people ESPECIALLY children.

[@Joe-ij6of]

16:28 When James Earl Jones says "Baseball" I'm thinking "you're not in trouble; you're dead where you stand"

[@shipaskof8371]

I admire Cuba for its health education medical discoveries despite american embargos. He did more good than mistakes. Priorities right health education.

[@jorgeluna9777]

Education system is good but the health care is a joke. Family in the states have to send supplies to family members.

[@musicaquecalma4134]

Michelle Ryan, NOTHING that Fidel exported to world opinion is true. Everything is a LIE, legends and myths, that on a tiny real basis, he raised the scaffolding of lies, to enhance his figure, expand his damn ideology and seek followers around the world. Both Cuban education and health (like everything that Fidel "touched") are a disaster. People do NOT know written or oral expression; his spelling is AWFUL; schools and universities are dirty, dark, with their bathrooms broken or without water, full of garbage; the tables and chairs are mostly broken; the blackboards are almost visible. As for hospitals and clinics, nothing is different; because they are also dirty, dark, faded, full of cockroaches, they lack the minimum conditions; In most cases, to be able to arrange for the doctor to see you when you need him and not when they give you the appointment (perhaps, for months later), you have to bring him a little gift (when there is nothing there). Ambulances are almost extinct, and the few that exist are in poor condition. But, the government has ALWAYS had money for the police cars and for all their congresses, communist meetings and for the construction of new hotels.

[@musicaquecalma4134]

@@jorgeluna9777 Tampoco es bueno el sistema educativo. Las escuelas y universidades son un desastre, oscuras, sucias, con sus mesas y sillas rotas, viejas. La gente tiene malísisma expresión oral, peor expresión escrita; los errores de ortografía son descomunales; leen muy mal. Desde que Fidel metió sus manazas directamente sobre la educación( primeras décadas) hasta ahí sirvió la educación; pues venía con el sistema, los libros y la infraestructura, incluso, los profesores y maestros del gobierno anterior. Pero, no, él se creyó Dios; es que se metía además de, con los maestros, con los ingenieros, los arquitectos, los médicos, etc, en sus reuniones y sistemas para que estos hicieran lo que él manadaba y no lo que era lo lógico. Comenzó a realizar congresos pedagógicos presideidos por él y les fue guitando objetivos y contenidos importantes a los planes de estudio; fue exigiendo más y más contenidos políticos( adoctrinamiento), en los que había que resaltar su figura, los supuestos "logros de su revolución"; hablar según él, de "lo malo que eran Estados Unidos y Batista", "el trabajo del partido comunista", bla, bla, bla etc, etc. Agréguese que él hablaba casi todas las semanas( discursos de más de 4 horas) y tenía orientado que los alumnos y profesores debeían estudiar sus discursos; pero, cuando el discursos era en la provincia, todas las escuelas debían mandar a TODOS sus alumnos, profesores y trabajadores al lugar para llenar las plazas y calles. ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Fidel exportó MENTIRAS!!!!! ¡¡¡¡¡Fidel es el causante de todos los males del pueblo cubano!!!!!!!

[@staffy73]

The teenaged boy doesn’t understand or whatever why his family is sending so much coffee or whatever to the people or his family or whatever. He doesn’t understand or whatever the things that are happening over there. But whatever it is, it’s nice his mother or whatever cares so much❤️

[@vnorm2907]

I don't understand why they are sending coffee, as Cuba grows coffee and never had a shortage of coffee.

[@donald8354]

Cofre is probably ration and don’t receive enough. Best wishes.

[@gorkivalenzuela6940]

I lived in Castro's Cuba for more than ten years and my experience was that whatever he would talk about he wouldn't ever do. For example, what we wrote in his manifesto "LA HISTORIA ME ABSOLVERA" he never intended to do it, contrary to Hitler with his "Mein Kampf". And his associates who gave him unconditional loyalty, he never hesiteted to betray them. The higher their position of them, the more they were spied on by the same personal guard that were assigned to protect them. When Fidel and his brother were caught dealing with drugs they blamed General Arnaldo Ochoa and shot him. Fanatism is not the bar to measure the Castro's Dictatorship.

[@zendean5207]

Yeah cuz American politicians always do what they promise and they don't deal in drugs and they don't assassinate each other. Lol.

[@lamonticus583]

@@zendean5207 whataboutisms

[@axiomist4488]

@@zendean5207 Thats a fine opinion . So why dont you back it up with action and go live in Cuba, the Mecca of world freedom ?

[@DieForDethklok11]

@Zen Dean youre awful old to not realize the world is shades of grey

[@larrydugan1441]

@@zendean5207 I too have lived in Cuba. The people are terrified of the government and police state that socialism always creates.

[@wtfhellas]

Cubans like the vietnamese weren't really communist and didn't have mass support of the ideology, but during the colonial period, the communists were the best option because they were the only ones at the time who were fighting for independence of their countries. Even Vietnam had rich elites who supported ho chi Minh and the viet Minh movement. How it turned out for them as a society that's something else. I think people liked Castro and ho chi Minh not because they were communist sympathizers but they were underdogs and everyone likes to support the underdog. Like David and Goliath story, standing up to the big bully

[@musicaquecalma4134]

wtfhellas, The people of Cuba believed in Fidel, in the first five years, perhaps; But, later he learned to keep quiet or speak softly where no one would give him away, because he knew how shameless that abuser, manipulator and hypocrite was.

[@ignitespark9293]

This channel is the opposite of the Corbett Report. If out of context was a channel.

[@mistermister1072]

Who is running to immigrate to Cuba?

[@Diego-fd3we]

Almost half of them are from socialist countries like Cuba

[@Abyssus93]

the real question here is who has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world? Cuba or America?

[@mistermister1072]

@@Abyssus93 The USA has the highest incarceration rate.. What's your point?

[@Abyssus93]

@@mistermister1072 what about the fact that the constitution allows slavery to happen on prisoners is that just a random thing too

[@mistermister1072]

@@Abyssus93 what does this have to do with my initial post?

[@willhatchet3594]

Was he actually a tyrant or did he just oppose imperialism

[@clarkhull7546]

Tyrant, dictator, racist

[@anthonyakator6181]

He was both.

[@marianotorrespico2975]

@@anthonyakator6181 --- WELL . . . THAT DEPENDS: Are You Communist or Are You a GUSANO? | Fidel was "a tyrant" if your business was EXPLOITING people, like on farms that end at the horizon, brothels, casinos, factories, restaurants etc.; Fidel was a Man of the People if you were one of the millions of men and women and children and old folk exploited by the gusanos.

[@user-bx7vu5cs8p]

You know it's the second if the west hates him

[@marianotorrespico2975]

@@anthonyakator6181 -- SURE.

[@Queenie-the-genie]

I knew a Cuban artist when I was in my mid 20’s in New York & was working in a textile design studio. I asked him why he left Cuba. He said that it was because he did not want be doing state art posters even though he felt that everything was better for most people after the revolution. His family had money so he came here. So there he was designing Raggedy-Ann women’s wear. 🤡 He was a very nice man and I hope he did well. When I worked at that company and mentioned unions one day, the others in my studio said I better not talk about that if I wanted to remain ‘mobile” so to speak. I was curious as my children were attending a day care center for low income families that was run by social justice minded people. I was getting some info there, had painted 2 murals at the center and had participated in some demonstrations. The other (highly skilled) artists in the studio were always complaining about the low wages they were being paid. Actually, things were better then as everyone one got a paid vacation and full medical insurance. Now, I think it’s more like 6 vacation/sick days a year and zero medical insurance for many who are on the lower rungs. That’s what I got in the 90’s when I was hired as a manager/graphic designer of a high end Craft gallery. I was also supposed to get a percentage of the gallery owners at the end of the year but they reneged on that. They know how difficult it is for you to sue for it so they cheat and lie.

[@Eusantdac]

Thank You very much for sharing this!

[@TheImperiumAction]

As a Spaniard when I was learning this in history class, we saw videos like this that the American teachers cannot show this kind of videos to their own students.

[@TwoPyramid]

Oh yeah, because American public schools are soooooo conservative.

[@TheImperiumAction]

@@TwoPyramid it’s ok buddy, it’s ok

[@seamikki6510]

Here's a great one... kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqqro3hno9l6r68

[@TwoPyramid]

@@seamikki6510 that video is the reality

[@seamikki6510]

@@TwoPyramid exactly.

[@jesuschristsaves392]

🙏“Padre, sé que he violado tus leyes y mis pecados me han separado de ti. Realmente lo siento, y ahora quiero alejarme de mi vida pecaminosa pasada hacia ti. Perdóname y ayúdame a evitar volver a pecar. Creo que su hijo, Jesucristo, murió por mis pecados, resucitó de entre los muertos, está vivo y escucha mi oración. Invito a Jesús a convertirse en el Señor de mi vida, a gobernar y reinar en mi corazón desde este día en adelante. Por favor envía tu Espíritu Santo para ayudarme a obedecerte y hacer tu voluntad por el resto de mi vida. En el nombre de Jesús oro, Amén "

[@Vatoxido]

Que satanás te bendiga. Ave Satani!

[@java8381]

Que tiene que ver la oracion que usted escribio con el video?

[@AryaputraGemilang]

Jesus is not god And read 1 Samuel 15 3

[@fobos9289]

Dios te bendiga y te llene de Paz Hijo de Cristo. Amén…

[@goedelite]

The narrator here is not an historian by profession but an actor. He is speaking a script. The people who wrote that script are not revealed in the video or in David Hoffman's introduction. The subject of Cuba is a politically charged one in the US because our Presidents are elected, state by state, by winner-take-all balloting. In Florida, the community of Cuban exiles (post Batista) are politically powerful because they can "swing" the State. For that reason, one must guard against propaganda by powerful interests. Such interests nearly brought a nuclear war upon us during the presidency of JFK. The US is an imperial state and seeks to dominate world politics. It has a long history since the end of WWII of toppling other governments, invading other countries, and supporting brutal dictatorships that cooperate with US geopolitical ambitions. Cuba, under Fidel Castro and today, seeks to make its own choices without direction from my country, the US. Any significant country that does that, whether communist, socialist, or capitalist will find that the US will try to overthrow its government. By significant, I mean a country that has resources the US wants or is strategically located, controlling a channel or canal or seaway. One must take care not to swallow the US line about fighting terrorism or encouraging democracy or improving the lives of people in other countries. These are deceptions. If the US had such fine motivations, it could begin in the US where many of our people live without adequate housing, medical care, education, even clean water. Don't be deceived by the propaganda of my country!

[@snowflakemelter1172]

Well done comrade, extra rice for you this week.

[@NAVYABHAN]

@ 32:42 Cubas' World Champion Volley Ball Team dare not say "NO!" I had known someone that went there,and as part of the program or whatever, he was required to work in the Sugar Cane Field's as part of his visit.