Fidel Castro - Comandante of Communist Cuba Documentary

[@PeopleProfiles]

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[@okellonjaramba6759]

In the whole world.okello N'jaramba Nairobi Kenya

[@okellonjaramba6759]

Fidel was a great leader of no e equal I'n the wholle wolrd.okello N'jaramba Nairobi Kenya

[@theotracey5370]

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[@sivadurban-sa2382]

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​@Okello N'Jaramba

[@605pilot]

My dad was in the 1945 Belen High School graduation class alongside Fidel Castro.

[@masemolasekwati9894]

How did he live his life as a teenager?

[@blueagle-di6is]

congratulations 🎉

[@brina6680]

@@blueagle-di6is are u usually this much of a douche or is it just online? ✌🏼

[@stacyr4768]

That’s awesome

[@clgraff76]

Love ❤️ Cuba 🇨🇺

[@JavierArveloCruzSantana]

The quality in these profiles is astonishing. The copy is exceptional. The stock photos, OK, but THE INFORMATION (which is what matters) is absolutely critical to the brilliance of this channel. Great job!

[@PeopleProfiles]

Thank you Javier!

[@fritzstehr]

Thank you for confirming the USA's propaganda has been a success for you Javier Arvelo-Cruz-Santana with your information comprehension confirmation.

[@WinstonJohnson-uo4eh]

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[@peacelovebrad]

This beats the hell out of Netflix's much longer documentary series on Cuba, which lets CIA employees (not behind-the-scenes conspiracy style, I mean right there in front of the camera) tell the story.

[@jupitercyclops6521]

Because Netflix is ran by the tyrants / establishment that gave us obama

[@Sabundy]

It's Netflix.....what do you expect

[@Glocktopus129]

It’s insane how stupid the state department thinks we are. The worst part is they’re right for the most part.

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

The Netflix documentary was pretty open about US imperialism towards Cuba, the Platt Amendment and so on.

[@farookkshah6344]

It was U S imperialism which gave birth to communist regime in Cuba .But the fact that Castro ensured basic necessities of health and education to Cubans should be appreciated.

[@brownhat1290]

Health? Cubans have to provide their own bedsheets, gowns and even the medicine when they go to the hospital. Only the ruling class (Castro and his henchmen) enjoy quality medical care.

[@ethancastillo6673]

@@brownhat1290not true ?? Lmao

[@coolman6139]

​@@ethancastillo6673100% true. Try actually living in cuba yourself

[@gokuetavinaeseria]

​@@ethancastillo6673that's definitely true (I'm cuban)

[@ethancastillo6673]

@@gokuetavinaeseria there’s a 60+ year embargo that the US has implemented on Cuba since the revolution. It is ongoing today, there are reasons for things that you purposely overlook. Come back when you read up on actually history.

[@clgraff76]

I wish they had documentaries this well done when I was in school. Might have learned something.

[@missangela6720]

You’re still in KZbin School

[@BierBart12]

@@missangela6720 Hell yeah, you never stop learning!

[@candicetenga1437]

​@@BierBart12 True statement!!!!!

[@marthaperdew]

Exactly!

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

@@BierBart12Auzgeichnen Spitzname!

[@mjmcg73]

His proudest moment as a father was when his son became Prime Minister of Canada

[@reedraikes7471]

Y'all would have a higher literacy rate

[@hotelworker812]

Hahahahaha!!!!

[@breelee4362]

😂😂😂

[@higherresolution4490]

You're literally correct. Klaus Schwab is also very proud of Castro's son as one of his young globalist leader's students.

[@INRamos13]

​@@reedraikes7471 Yeah and they wouldn't vote leftists like Castreau

[@AvinashNicholas]

This is yet another exceptional documentary from Peoples Profiles! I've listened to one each on George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, and now Fidel Castro thus far. I love the balanced presentations, the near-objectivity (no one can truly be objective) of these films, and the reliable information from them.

[@nattyphillips9792]

With the history of Cuba known, you propagandists for US imperialism can shut up now! Viva Fidel, el commandante.

[@claudiotavares9580]

@@harkinsh Where the hell did you get that Castro sentence more people to death than Pinochet? What is the source? Your @ss? Pinochet killed more that ten thousand people through his regime, Castro barely condemned one thousand people to death. People were condemned to capital punishment in Cuba only as a last resource if the person in question represents a huge risk to society and political stability.

[@harkinsh]

@@nattyphillips9792 You might as well wish Satan a long life.

[@al3xa723]

I would say he could definitely do more. It's very easy to slip in common opinions mistaking them as facts, as he did a few times. However, for a documentary length long video, it's a damn good job.

[@higherresolution4490]

Amen! I'm right with you. Listen to the one on Batista. It goes along very well with this video on Castro. So funny that one of the middle names of Castro's father was Batista.

[@Shairony]

For such a small island nation, Cuba's contributions to the Global south is nothing short of spectacular. While the current apartheid regime was both learning from and aiding South African apartheid, Cuba was helping ANC. I would take Madiba's word for it. RIP Comandante! 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@semdavidanger]

He,. Had soviet backing to do so,.

[@NOZZASLOADEDED]

Your videos would benefit greatly with more quotes and clips with sound to capture better the context of those moments in history

[@SharkMinnow]

agreed...kind of boring.

[@mauricio9564]

Say what you want about Fidel,but this man had balls.Fought againts a military dictatorship with 50 men at the beginning and won ,and faced the worlds strongest empire and survived its 600 assassination attempts ,freaking Chad.

[@BringbackgAmberleafns]

he certainly comes of as the most likeable/charismatic of the communist dictators. but im sure he probably made up a few of those assasination attempts to look more like a chad.

[@Rainhands22]

@@BringbackgAmberleafns Sure but to survive even one assassination attempt by the US let alone multiple is pretty hardcore.

[@loyertamara]

Balls? A killer?

[@tdog1983-v6c]

Who the hells chad

[@musicaquecalma4134]

Mauricio, What a pity people living outside of Cuba give themselves to the task of repeating the words and ideas of a government that has been blaming "another" for its destruction and mismanagement for 60 years! Open your eyes! Please, do not repeat that the blockade is to blame for everything that happens in Cuba, NOO! In Cuba there is a blockade yes, but from the government itself to its people. Didn't they know!? It is the most logical, because from minute one, when Fidel Castro took power 63 years ago, he took on the task of confiscating: newspapers, magazines, television channels, radio stations, ministries and sectors of communications, culture, of education, of cinema, of the book... What came out, and comes out, of Cuba? Only praise and long live Fidel, "his" Revolution, the Communist Party and as many things as they need to strengthen in their favor to move international opinion to their side. On the contrary, what have they done to hide that they destroyed Cuba and that it is a war zone? Simple, with all the poison, manipulations and lies, they took on the task of looking for a credible enemy, to blame him for the collapse and destruction of a country that, when they took it, was one of the best economies in Latin America and of the world (look for information, please). Cuba has been and is, in the hands of criminals who have sucked its wealth to live as big capitalists, do millionaire deals with other nations, and subjugate the people through indoctrination, fear, abuse... and hunger, needs and misery as weapons of social control.

[@tembandebele6216]

Despite the dictatorial tendencies that marred the rule of Fidel Castro l still feel that he was a better ruler than Batista. Notable areas of improvement where in education and health care. I should think that dictatorship was the way to go for Cuba with the threat of the USA at its doorstep. If he had tried to be democratic he could have been easily overthrown.

[@brankobelfranin8815]

Have you ever been to cuba?

[@patrickpoulin3742]

It is a myth.

[@Peter_Kropotkin]

And he regretted and sort of made up for some of his mistakes, but we all know what kind of pressure he was under, and it was still a net success

[@brankobelfranin8815]

@@Peter_Kropotkin What? have you ever been to Cuba? Castro killed thousands.

[@johnhatchel9681]

Any Cuban would disagree with you

[@zonko0488]

Free education (educates some fine doctors), free health care, helped in liberation of Souther Africa. Castro will never be forgotten

[@SuperJasondennis]

He's rotting in hell

[@zonko0488]

@SuperJasondennis Hell is for those who did evil deeds, for those remembered for doing good, there is a place called paradise

[@higherresolution4490]

The biggest mistake the United States made with Cuba was sanctions. As is always the case around the world, America's sanctions only hurt children, mothers, working men and retirees. Sanctions destroy culture and the arts. They do nothing to harm or deter those in power. Cuba's communism would have failed just as it did in Russia if modern appliances, modern cars, iPhones and all of the modern material goods had been allowed for distribution and purchase.

[@jorgebroceta4044]

Are you ever been in Cuba? You don't know what you talking, it's the stupidest thing I ever hear!

[@SuperJasondennis]

@@zonko0488 yea and he ain't there

[@duggyfresh28]

Free health care and education is a great thing

[@cardinalRG]

Reckoned in isolation, then yes, it is. But consider that when health care becomes free at the same time it diminishes in quality, then both of those factors need to be weighed in the balance. Cuba was a regional, and even a world leader in medicine prior to Castro’s revolution, but Marxism effectively killed that edge, and not only stunted progress, but actually caused some retrogression. Before you say “embargo,” I’ll agree that the embargo has been a factor, but not the only one, and not the major one. Socialism underperforms research-wise as compared to free-markets, and Castro’s version of Marxism has an utterly paltry track record of medical achievement, apart from its single, admirable expansion of access. In short, health care for Cubans now is a larger piece of a much smaller pie than before.

[@D64nz]

@@cardinalRG Actaully capitalism is by far the inferior system when it comes to research. Under socialism all parties are free to share their work with each other, but under capitalism you have direct competition which demands double ups of research and often even 5 or 10 companies all trying to do the same research. It's pure wasted time and resources and even worse any breakthroughs are quickly patented to prevent anyone further developing those technologies. It's lust for competition makes capitalism by far the most inefficient and outright wasteful style of economy, which rewards artificial scarcity and punishes abundance with poverty. It's why the US has outrageous medical bills and why $3 of insulin can cost hundreds.

[@cardinalRG]

@@D64nz --No, friend. You are confusing theory with reality. The profit motive is the single most effective driver of innovation and advancement, and most of the modern miracles that surround you have come at the hands of capitalists, including the computer you’re using to read this. You are also confusing the free-market cost of medical advancements with the reason they exist at all, because they are separate issues. You may not like it, but the truth is that the research and development output of socialist countries is paltry compared to free-market countries.

[@fantastichound]

​@@cardinalRG fine, but a world leader in medicine prior to 1959 isn't it a huge overstatement ?

[@reedraikes7471]

​@@D64nz fucking brilliantly put

[@alicewangui3288]

Please make one about Che Guevara. Yours is great stuff.

[@danielalbani4866]

I think the U.S. failed in Cuba as in Vietnam for not taking into consideration nationalism and sovereignty issues in this small nations that will prefer anything (like comunism) to becoming once again a sad colony ruled by an outside power in humiliation terms.

[@reedraikes7471]

Cubas got free healthcare and a better literacy rate than us, if we didn't absolutely destroy their economy through sanctions they would be thriving

[@donatelalarosa9109]

I can say Cuba looks beautiful in this documentery like it used to be, not like that anymore.

[@rayBoogie77]

The healthcare system in Cuba is in shambles. Mainly for lack of equipment, medicines, and supplies. Imagine going to a state-of-the-art hospital where the best doctors are working only to find out they don’t have the medicine you need, or even the syringe to deliver it.

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Asclepius

[@TheBuba1212]

Several PBS broadcast on the early years after the revolution Castro expressed his desire for normal political relations with the US. He stated he wanted freedom for the Cubans, and open elections and a democratic nation. When he was rebuffed he turned to the Soviet Union . The nation of Cuba could be a heaven on earth if not for the economic sanctions and the embargo., You failed to show how miserable the average Cubans lived before the revolution. Castro was a visionary and would have made great strides if not for the might of the US government. His human rights was no worse than 90% of countries in this world .

[@gregrodriguez714]

Why are people fanatical? Cuba's history is truly a sad history. Not one Cuban government change has benefited the actual Cuban people since 1959..! The Cuban government has maintained power for over 60 years. They have indoctrinated their own population with forced education of their own views, yet their own population prefers to leave and immigrate to any available country, besides their own..? Please don't comment on this unless you have actually live under this regime. It's obvious that the Cuban people want change. Even the hierarchy of the Cuban Government have defected throughout the decades... Fidel's own family live in the United States. Have you ever even asked yourself, why that is..?

[@jameseverett4976]

The idiots of the world don't care. They love evil, and hate the privileges they've been given, and use them to show what spoiled ingrates will do with freedom. There's no fixing a rotten soul.

[@fairyalhutton287]

Because America must stay out of other countries business! As South Africans, we also want our Diamonds from Charles!

[@davidvalter1936]

Forgot to mention that the tourist parts are well kept. The rest is falling apart. People have no food. Health care is poor for common people. There is nothing there

[@patriciakoroma587]

My emotions are mixed when it comes to fidel Castro's life and achievements in Cuba and the world. However this documentary was great to listening to.

[@MrEverth007]

There should be no ambiguity about who this monster was, an evil man who ruined millions of people’s lives. Have you seen Cuba lately?

[@305jakec]

Achievements like misery and poverty to his own people?

[@jorgel.martinez2648]

He was the worst son Cuba gave to us…

[@reedraikes7471]

​@@jorgel.martinez2648 seems that he was better than Batista

[@jorgel.martinez2648]

@@reedraikes7471 no, Batista was a kid compared to him.

[@Yorkish8]

A nationalist patriotic mastermind who liberated his people. viva castro sending love from gambia.

[@afonsoloquila3173]

he is a legend

[@mensand5294]

A legend killer

[@chenzomutumbo9140]

@Men Sand if only cuba could have a kind gentle leader like batista 🙄

[@chenzomutumbo9140]

@Men Sand castro isn't even in a top 10 killer in 20th century Latin America... your problem seems to be that he didn't have US assistance while doing so, which in also why his regime killed less in 60years than many others did in 10.

[@tamimahmed7857]

Please do one on Saddam Hussein of Iraq.

[@kierank1982]

I went to Cuba when Castro was still alive as it was on my bucket list for when I finished university. I was disillusioned a little by the desperation of the average Cuban. Some wanted me to post letters for them, quite a few tried to con me but mostly they were very nice. Having said that, I've never quite been anywhere before where the citizens so clearly watch what they say. Bars in England (and elsewhere) have many locals cussing politicians but I don't think they'd dare in Cuba. A mate of mine had gone before and just said "whatever you do, don't wear a Che Guevara shirt!". Most people there do not have time for the naive idealism of people whom also enjoy the benefits of freedoms they did not have. Castro had a mixed legacy, and the Cuba I saw was similarly a mixed bag. Castro was such a big part of Cuban history but I felt that communism (a least the Cuban version) clearly wasn't working because human nature doesn't work that way. Whilst I felt a bit guilty being an affluent tourist there, I did see a certain level of greed, envy and con artistry amongst some of the citizens. Some were absolutely delightful though, and its them I remember most fondly.

[@zuni_9566]

Its kind of hard to allow great amounts of freedom of speech when the strongest nation holds propaganda campaigns against you aggressively after you killed the fascist dictator of cuba batista. Then you also have to understand how the embargo effected their trade. Cuba is one of the few successful commjnist countries. I mean they have a better average lifespan than us and better maternal mortality rate. Lol america is a joke

[@Autos_ena_miden]

Cubans live in a place where they have to endure an embargo for such a long time, which is at least a slow death by suffocation. So that is, maybe, the reason they don't like tourists wearing Che's or communist shirts. It's easy to put the blame on Fidel, Raul, Marx, Lenin, the communist ideology, forgetting the main reason why Cubans shuffer. That is called hypocrisy, mate.

[@robertdominiczak6523]

I have a tattoo on my back of che , spent 10 years working in Cuba no problem with the people no problem with the government, and Fidel was still with us then and the people loved them both. Its only the criminals that have the problem.

[@ModernHistory1]

Really? I was under the impression that the people were very humble and grateful for what little they had which Castro gave to them whether it was in the form of healthcare or even just being able to read, which was the doing of Castro

[@michaelpelzek8882]

@@ModernHistory1 glade they were able to go to the doctor about read not so good they were not allowed to leave or if they had any criticism they would be sent to "reeducation" and hopefully come back.

[@davidelms893]

You forgot to mention his relationship with the Trudeau's and his son Justin Castro 🤫

[@robertmartinez988]

I think you're so right

[@drstrangelove4998]

Indeed 🥳

[@luismoreno8337]

No comments.....

[@syourke3]

Don’t be such an idiot! Castro was a great leader who fought against imperialism. Trudeau is a puppet for the imperialists.

[@djdoolittle1315]

Castro GTX

[@TheMormonPower]

I'm from a heavily Republican family, however Castro has been one of my staunchest heroes since reading an interview he gave Playboy Magazine. His altruistic intentions were always to do everything possible to help the Cuban people,and to have the tenacity to stand up to American imperialism, and our governments over125attemots to assassinate him. No,not perfect, but a brave tenacious patriot to the Cuban people...We are the ones who decided to make enemies 😮

[@kingdomofgarvin3432]

Do one about DR Eric Williams from Trinidad and Tobago

[@marcrubin8844]

Great suggestion.

[@FrancisAmoah-r9v]

hes a hero, and may his soul continue ro rest in peace , we the people of Africa will forvever be grateful to him and Che.i like this documentary it has less propaganda.

[@INRamos13]

Africa is grateful to be rotting in abject poverty?

[@krishnantampi5665]

Great Revolutionary and great leader of cuba, but much might be said on both sides great and split splash lecture sir u are equally great sir great lecture splendid day. ❤❤❤

[@avengersprime5431]

"Great Revolutionary and great leader of cuba" LOL is that supposed to be a joke?

[@MilutinVasic]

​@@avengersprime5431Fidel is the reason why you can even read or write! Are you even AWARE OF THAT!?

[@switzjon8405]

@@MilutinVasicThat was a positive. Unlike Descendants of enslaved Blacks who were killed just attempting to read and write and had to be self-taught. You see those results today.

[@nellie0903]

@@MilutinVasic I'd rather be illiterate and live in freedom than literate living under oppressive socialism.

[@MilutinVasic]

@@nellie0903 I would rather live in socialist country rather in ,,democratic", because Westen democracy is actually a REAL IMPERIALIST DICTATORSHIP, LGBT (Gays, Lesbians, Transgenders-HELL ON EARTH), GLOBALISM AND THEREFORE, YOU CUBANS SHOULD EVEN THANK GOD FOR LIVING IN YOUR COUNTRY! AND I SWEAR IF YOU DARE TO WRITE ANOTHER COMMENT WHICH WILL INSULT ME, YOU WILL ALL BE REPORTED TO KZbin AND CUBAN GOVERNMENT!!!

[@boBsGOODdaze]

There's no way a country with an economy that struggles to feed it citizens that has quality free healthcare. ~boB

[@JC-tu6hc]

"For a country that claims to believe in freedom, they sure do love imposing trade restrictions and embargoes on states they don't agree with economically." - me rn

[@boBsGOODdaze]

@@JC-tu6hc You obviously don't have any idea how economics work. If you are or know a tradesmen then he/she will appreciate tariffs. ~boB

[@JC-tu6hc]

@boBsGOODdaze You don't know the difference between tariffs and sanctions/embargo? Of course, taxes are necessary.

[@boBsGOODdaze]

@@JC-tu6hc You're ignorance is showing. I never mentioned taxes, but I did specifically mention tariffs. I'm not sure what point you're trying to argue but there is no way you're going to invalidate my initial statement that it's ridiculous to expect free healthcare from ANY government. NOTHING IS FREE! Not to mention tariffs and embargoes if applied correctly are necessary. Good day God bless ~boB ~boB

[@JC-tu6hc]

@boBsGOODdaze They are being used maliciously by the US to STUNT any economic growth from Cuba. It's insane that you don't recognize that as fact. Of course shit isn't free, but Cuba isn't allowed to participate. You fr don't know anything.

[@charlesmangani3174]

He was the greatman who didnt want imperialists to dictate the future of Cuba ...

[@petercroves8562]

you forgot he's going to Canada in 2000 for the state funeral of P E T, IT was noted in national media

[@hannibalbrown]

He's Justin Trudeau's real father just look at the two

[@sailor123ize]

Cuba today could have been the "Monaco" of the Caribbean. A place where all Cubans would have benefited. Instead it is what it is. A country where people would rather risk their life at sea than live in oppression. My family left Cuba in the 60's when Castro declared it a communist state.

[@musicaquecalma4134]

sailor 123ize, You're right. I add, Fidel Castro destroyed Cuba and enslaved 11 million Cubans; he deceived the citizens of the world with his easy verb, he deluded everyone inside and outside the country. But, his manipulations and lies have been transmitted without control. Let the world know that Fidel did HURT to Cuba and the Cubans!!!!!

[@osepjodep7620]

Cuba would be even more hardcore capitalist then US with lesser rules. Yes with higher GDP a slim portion of wealthy and mass of really poor...

[@semdavidanger]

Oh,. My,.

[@Untitled-sb4ft]

Lol Monaco’s a place where the average joe thrives. The best they could hope for in that scenario is be wage slaves to the ultra rich

[@Sabundy]

Good grief. It was not a paradise before Castro. It was a deeply corrupt American colony where most Cubans were poor and it was ruled by a one party military dictatorship. How on earth you think that means it would have been the Monaco of anything is beyond me. It would most likely just be like Puerto Rico or The Dominican republic. Little more than an American vassal state where a small elite are rich and well off while most people are poor.

[@iamwesterncanadian570]

Justin is so proud of his daddy

[@Outlaw_j84]

Bro you are going through this story way too fast.

[@ClarkGable-cm5zv]

Castro was a nationalist patriot who Liberated the Cuban people from an oppressive dictatorial regime. American administration since 1959 acted criminally against Castro and Cupa's people through several coup d'etat attempts as well as by imposing sanctions on Cupa's population to create chaos and famine that will lead to the people revolting but the people did not do that but they protected their country Cupa through to protect revolotion leader Castro and his comrades. the people are aware that without Castro's revolution, Cupa would have been a colony and a big brothel for Americans.

[@autodidact537]

He was nothing more than a political Mafioso.

[@krististigall7464]

I’m a HUGE fan of your channel but I have one tiny complaint. I’ve lived in Texas my whole life and have been around Latin people to know that a double L ALWAYS sounds like a Y.

[@marie_h1104]

While that's true for those of Mexican descent, it may not be in Cuban communities. It's quite fascinating!

[@lucas07700]

that depends on the accent of the person speaking.

[@rafaelrodriguez8028]

@@marie_h1104no, doble L still sounds “like” Y for Cubans. No other Hispanic countries use double L like in English this is an absolute rule of the language unless the Argentinians and Chileans for example. Which mention Doble L and Y like Ch or Sh

[@Joshua-fi4ji]

​@@rafaelrodriguez8028closer to a "YJ" sound tbh. In mainland Spain anyway. Non Spanish speakers pronouncing it as a Y won't be a problem though.

[@rocioaguilera3555]

​@@lucas07700 No. It doesn't. Yo hablo perfecto español

[@aarondemiri486]

A man who lived through exciting times to be sure and history shall judge him

[@aarondemiri486]

@Priapis Rex .......oh I gave him a read and yeah after watching the video yeah not a favourable view will be given i guess

[@musicaquecalma4134]

I would say, a scoundrel, hypocrite, self-centered, liar and manipulator; but intelligent enough to live off the hardships of a country, and as a great capitalist; while he forced his people to live in the misery that communism gives.

[@deidradahl2802]

@@musicaquecalma4134-- Maybe he had to have those houses, and the bulletproof limo, the CIA tried dozens of times to kill him, and he outlived them all. Anyway he deserves everything he had. look what he did for his people, free healthcare 100% literacy, no drug addicts no homelessness, I saw a woman pushed out of a NY hospital in hospital clothes, because her healthcare had run out, democracy in the USA, is homelessness, kids graduating from high school unable to read, violent gun crimes, evictions, if you are 2 weeks late with the rent. all those trillions the USA is spending on undermining other countries, and stupid drug wars should be better spent ,taking care of the needy. With so little, look what Cuba has done ,while under decades of sanctions which was lifted by Obama, and reinstated by Trump. Long live the memory of Fidel Castro, long live Cuba

[@musicaquecalma4134]

@@deidradahl2802 You are Cuban? And if you are, do you now live in Cuba?

[@deidradahl2802]

@@musicaquecalma4134-- My father and all my uncles were born in Havana Cuba, my mother siblings and I were all born in Jamaica, so we are half and half. We go back and forth with relatives, we live between Europe and Jamaica

[@ArianiMauve999]

The Greatest of Modern Latin American Leaders.

[@jupiterjazznba4220]

You’re an idiot

[@jupiterjazznba4220]

You clearly can’t think

[@claudiotavares9580]

The third world and specially latin america will always be grateful for what you did for us, commander Castro! Thanks for trying to help us here in Brazil against the military dictatorship, the families that fled political persecution here and find refuge in Cuba will never forget and will always be grateful. ETERNAL GLORY TO YOUR MEMORY, COMANDANTE CASTO! (And thanks to all cubans for sending us your doctors too, those men saved the lives of millions in my country that haven't access to proper medical treatment).

[@possumverde]

I find it interesting that Castro thought Puerto Rico was being prevented from gaining statehood. They've constantly chosen not to become a state. Under their current situation, they get many benefits but without much of the responsibilities that come with statehood. Sounds like Castro was just looking for additional excuses to dislike the US at that point.

[@charlesfarquharson2563]

You may want to educate yourself more on the conditions of the poorer Cubans who were being exploited by the US based mafia along with all the other US corporations that were courted by a corrupt, greedy, and murderous Batista regime.. Batista took over quarter of a billion dollars which he stole from the country when he left to Don Rep. There is a more in depth documentary on that era in Cuba history also on KZbin, titled "How Fidel Castro Came to Power - Secrets of War" on the Timeline Documentary channel. This one offers greater insight into the struggles of the country that led to its nationalist political agenda, of which Castro became the most prominent proponent..

[@sebidelpi8491]

Back then it was different! Todays global capitalist economy makes workers compit on a world economy. Beeing part if the us is evidently a plus for the puertorican worker .

[@johnathan5252]

Dont make it sound so glamorous, he was right, the place might as well be called a U.S. colony

[@nomeyodomar]

What benefits? They have to pay to study and pay health insurance. Assimilated not to want independence

[@gloriag1888]

The forever remembered El Commandante & Che Guevara ✌🏿✌🏿

[@mashilokgosana7866]

we thank Castro for his gallantness. against all odds he stil made Cuba, we draw enormous inspiration from him

[@goldito62]

People who never lived under regimes like these always romanticize them but never take the plunge to actually live out their Utopian dreams and experience the realities. As for me, I know people that actually survived this regime, be my guest and fulfill your curiosity.

[@donatelalarosa9109]

Fidel Castro didn't make Cuba, he destroyed it, I invite every body that admire Fidel Castro, to go and visit the island and see for yourself.

[@goldito62]

Your contribution was crucial in the movie The Matrix, when Morpheus was explaining the worth of humans in the Matrix. I believe your stage name was "DURACELL"

[@mashilokgosana7866]

@@goldito62 tell us about them. What was your experience

[@edwinvillalobos7159]

@@goldito62the world romanticizes stories like these, because the world inherently understands the inherent contradictions in capitalism, it’s not like we don’t know these guys did evil things, but no resistance is perfect right? Besides capitalisms kill count throughout world history is far higher than that of communism

[@grantgerson2492]

Fidel Castro, is the Greatest Caribbean Islands Regional leader! He is my hero! I am from Saint Lucia 🇱🇨!

[@marcaslane230]

What about che?

[@nathanielavoures1596]

More movies about this need to be made!

[@arnaldogomez9146]

Yes horror movie

[@Nheath400]

I hope people take this as a lesson commuism bad dictatorship bad no 1 person should ever have that much power

[@salieue.nyassi]

Fidel was a man of dignity who stood by his words by refusing military dictatorship of Uncle Sam.

[@intihumala9087]

By becoming a dictator himself?

[@mosesmtonga3013]

The world has really tried to paint his man bad. One of the greatest leaders. The fact that he never bowed to the American demands and decided the course his country would take.

[@intihumala9087]

Africans are the only idiots on this earth that have really convinced themselves that the son of a slave owner was a great person.

[@josue1234568]

Grande FIDEL ❤

[@zlatanzakaris3959]

😂😂😂

[@isaackinyua5756]

Fidel Castro, a man to remember and honor. The Cuban doctors worked in Kenya at some point in the second term of the 4th President H.E Uhuru Kenyatta and there was praise for the doctors. One thing I love about Castro, is that he did the unthinkable to protect and safeguard his nation. We should ask the hard question, why the USA and allies still maintain sanctions or embargo on Cuba?

[@jeremybenoit759]

I saw the picture on the video link and thought that was Justin Trudeau

[@tonyjemz777]

Free Cuba 🇨🇺 Cuba Libre!!

[@tonyjemz777]

@@VERCINGET0RIX you're the Gringo, and los fidelistas are pigs.

[@musicaquecalma4134]

Tony Jemz, Long live Cuba free from the Castro-communist government. The people of Cuba have been under the boot of the military for 63 years. Fidel made the world believe that the Cuban people lived in paradise; but, nothing is true. The Cuban people have been in communist-Castro hell for 63 years

[@buttercupj6208]

Cuba 🇨🇺 🙂

[@gustavothespaniard9689]

The worst decision Cuba ever made was listening to Marti and breaking away from Spain. The choice of independence from Spain was backed by land owners in Cuba who refused to pay taxes to the Spanish crown and was also backed by American industrialists who wanted a Cuba independent of Spain so they could take advantage of Cubas resources. Cuba would have been better off today had it never broken away from Spain. This was the research I’ve worked on indecently for the last 30 years.

[@cedricliggins7528]

RIP El Commandante

[@antonioregueiro7392]

The praise for the Cuban healthcare system is far from the actual reality for the Cubans. The are shortages in everything including medications. However blaming the US so called embargo for all the hardships in Cuba is a simplistic and naive view of the failures of the Cuban revolution.

[@nomeyodomar]

It's all embargo's fault

[@Bob-zd4od]

Fidel’s son is living in Canada he is now the prime minister of Canada. We Canadians want Justin to return to Cuba and leave us alone as we hate dictatorship.

[@lovezone128]

Dumbest comment ever on the internet

[@donald8354]

I don’t think he wants to be a dictator. Best wishes.

[@KillerWhale99]

lmfao Fidel's son is a maricone lol

[@lilamayoral1031]

Fidelito killed him self

[@davenoel4592]

Definitely

[@luchianomontero2171]

Abajo la dictadura!

[@FormulaPunRacer]

Ever thought of doing Fulgencio Batista, Che Guevara, Juan Peron, Antonio Salazar, & Enver Hoxha?

[@wendyHew]

Enver Hoxa would be good, I visited the historical bunker and museum in Tirana and it was very interesting.

[@UmQasaann]

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

[@luistpuig]

English: castro, another dictator of history, no different than mao or stalin, people with a bad soul... castro for example was a thug in his youth in the province of Oriente, and leashed on to communism as a way to gain power... result? cuba ended up in one of the worse dictatorships on the planet... I am glad I escaped. I was 15 years old during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift Cuban American escapee here, was a Pionero (communist youth) in the Cuban communist school system... I remember it all, and will never forget... Castellano: castro, otro dictador de la historia, no diferente a mao o stalin, gente con el alma mala ... castro por ejemplo fue un matón en su juventud en la provincia de Oriente, y se aferró al comunismo como una forma de ganar poder ... resultado? Cuba terminó en una de las peores dictaduras del planeta ... Me alegro de haberme escapado. Yo tenía 15 años durante el Mariel Boatlift de 1980 aquí, fui un Pionero (juventud comunista) en el sistema escolar comunista cubano ... Lo recuerdo todo, y nunca lo olvidaré ...

[@pedroharth6920]

The medical system in Cuba sucks.

[@eddieparker945]

Fidel was on EVERYONE'S hit list!! God 🙏 decide when it was time for he go & he out lived all those who wanted him dead

[@INRamos13]

Yerba mala nunca muere.

[@feddi7693]

Who god bless no man curse💯

[@howardfoster4740]

Uic jamaica is the solution to Jamaica 🇯🇲 problems. Please share and support. Uic jamaica is the 3rd largest political movement in Jamaica 🇯🇲. Uic is a pancaribbean organization

[@gary6133]

Why is it that people around the world love Castro except for actual Cubans?

[@loyertamara]

They are directly influenced by his TYRANNY

[@gregrodriguez714]

@@J.Quesada So Cubans born during the "Revolution" and indoctrinated under the Cuban government's Socialists Ideals are "Miami Cubans"..? Cuban nationals demonstrated in the streets of Havana and many other cities throughout Cuba during July of 2021. Demanding FREEDOM! These were not Cubans from Miami my friend...! There is no future for young Cubans living on the island. That is why they "Flee" or migrate to whatever country they can. Over 130,000 Cuban Citizens have migrated, just in 2022. Yet you believe that the majority of Cubans still believe in the "Revolution"..? Batista was never in power for six plus decades..! The Cuban people want FREEDOM. Freedom from their own repressive Cuban government, otherwise they would never abandon their own country..!!!

[@musicaquecalma4134]

@@J.Quesada No, almost no Cuban loves neither Fidel, nor Che, nor the revolution. Do you know why? Because because of Fidel Castro, Cuba, which before Fidel was VERY prosperous and to which the only thing Fidel had to do (he promised) was to get the humble class out of misery, since the vast majority were middle class and a minimum was upper class; Well, Cuba was destroyed, it was looted by that elite headed by the main scoundrel and liar Fidel; elite of generals, absolute heads of the communist party and of the ministries of the country. Fidel tied up the people with countless absurd and abusive laws; In this way, he sowed hunger, necessities from medicines, clothes, shoes... even soap, sheets, etc, etc, and general misery to EVERYONE (doctors, architects, engineers, gardeners, cooks, etc, etc, etc). ). Fidel used this misery of the people as weapons of social control. But, not being enough for him, he repressed them all the time and blackmailed them asking for their efforts to work for them for free or underpaid.

[@musicaquecalma4134]

@@J.QuesadaI don't have time either, but lies have to be faced. Enough of deception!!! Either you're from state security or you're really indoctrinated to the core. Ah! Well, it may be that you were born when Fidel had been in power for many years and of course, NOTHING was left of the past. Those of us who were born in the first 10 years of the Revolution were able to witness everything that happened before the disaster called Fidel. I will cite some examples: every two blocks there was a warehouse loaded with free food (these were for the poor, their prices were minimal); in almost every block also, there were private cafeterias with different types of ice cream, assorted sweets, bread with a variety of things, bottled soft drinks, candies, coffee, treganiquels music, etc; also in almost every block there was a butcher's shop; the paddocks were full of cows, horses or even goats; every day the trucks that cleaned the streets and sidewalks with jets of water passed through the streets; there were buses and trains constantly passing through the same route (that is, on all routes); the mountains could be seen in all the provinces where you went; You could choose to spend your vacations between hotels from expensive to very cheap. For example, in preschools (Kindergater) there were rooms full of toys for children to play at recess; As for the circuses, there were from the most expensive and luxurious to the poorest; everywhere there was a shoeshine; At all hours a seller of tamales or bread of glory passed by, or an ice cream cart. That is, there was everything for the rich or the poor, as was the case with my family. What did Fidel do? He outlawed everything, he removed everything, he banned everything, he disrupted everything... and he began to instill that the past was completely a disaster, when the disaster was made by him. Why did so much of the town support him? Because all he had to do was raise the standard of living for the dispossessed; but, no, he dispossessed EVERYONE, took it over and then banned everything. So, what had ceased to exist before, what used to work stopped working... like that... until the complete disaster.

[@jonathanstewart8106]

@@J.Quesada fairly certain you have to be pro communism in communism countries. The alternative results in 'Re-education'

[@dougfrench8231]

Justin Trudeau's father .

[@MathiangNgong-d6b]

How true is this

[@birdman1843]

❤Fidel Castro was a great man❤

[@SharkVshore]

For some people yes

[@birdman1843]

@@SharkVshore there are countries that have streets on his name , and images of him . He helped Namibia fight for independency from South Africa . He also educated many doctors to treat the poor and helpless in Brazil . It’s just the Miami Cubans that hate him .

[@josiepataueg28]

He was another dictator. Power is highly intoxicating. In order to keep power one may sacrifice everything and anything just to be in power

[@minix7295]

Estuvo interesante todo la investigación saludos desde Nicaragua

[@annabelleceguera1116]

I think one’s opinion of Castro and his regime will be colored by one’s political biases. To me, he did what he believed to be what was best for his country. He may have saved his country, even, in some ways (universal healthcare, high quality education, etc). His pivot towards the Communist bloc was a necessity, as he would not have survived if he had not.

[@EvilHomer101]

Lol universal Healthcare with low standards of cleanliness and political indoctrination in the guise of higher education is not worth gulags or the killing and repression of minority groups that Guevara did under castro's rule. But sure keep the lefty tradition of excusing authoritarianism as long as it's aims sound flowery.

[@hoya1178]

Having several big mansions and no real free speech in the press is the best for the country? lol And that is just mention a few, the people of Cuba can't even vote for their leader.

[@musicaquecalma4134]

Annabelle, Obviously you don't know that Fidel Castro destroyed a Cuba that fell into his hands very prosperous, with the largest number of middle to upper-middle class population; a percent was humble and a good percent was upper class. Cuba had a lot of food, stores of all kinds full of food for all existing classes, crowded markets, theaters, cinemas, transportation of all kinds, countless television channels, radio stations, clean rivers, fields planted or with beautiful grass on which grazed abundant herds of cows, horses, goats, etc. What did Fidel do? EVERYTHING passed into his hands, he was sucking it and extinguishing it; he did not build anything new, he did not repair (on the contrary, he forbade building and repairing buildings and private houses. Well, it makes one want to cry to know about that island-prison.

[@drillerfromdeeprockgalacti1434]

Every violent dictator believes they did what was best for their country. You knob

[@DrewskiTheLegend]

Sounds like communist apologetics. Big yikes.

[@ajh6354]

No mention of Fidel's lovechild, Justin Trudeau?

[@ericlavoie4697]

Cuban people would of had better life without a dictator I truly believe that I just visited Cuba for the frist time so many buildings run down barely anyone out on streets that place must of been beautiful place back in it’s hay day the Cuban need to be let free as I see it there being treated like farm animals and I feel bad for going and supporting there regime

[@israellopez959]

I feel that the US government influenced the developments occurring in Cuba before the Cuban leftist revolution, during and it will continue to excert influence on this island whether is good or bad.

[@dalesmith4778]

Say what you want but I'm not giving 60% or more of my paycheck so the lazy can have healthcare. What little I've spent on hospital and Dr visits in my 45 years doesn't equal to what I would have paid in taxes.

[@ufkun20]

If you listen to his speeches you get the impression that he's a very compassionate and intelligent man (and I think that is still true to some degree especially after having learnt that he introduced the CUC system), but I really wonder why he did not prepare his country for the post-Soviet era; the downfall of the entire Eastern bloc had been evident for quite a few years and definitely obvious after Chernobyl, why did he rely so much on Soviet help and aid instead of asking them for raw materials, engineers and know-how to build up Cuba's industry?

[@sergiovaldez9864]

Cuba has engineers, and some resources, bus does not have the whole chain of production in the island. No country has it. Even today.

[@Sabundy]

​@@sergiovaldez9864China does

[@autodidact537]

@ufkun20, What the heck are you smoking?

[@wadejameskennedy4495]

All dictators are equal. Some are just more dictatorial than others.

[@СветланаАбрамова-и6м]

No pasarán! Viva la Сuba!

[@DawnDooley-yq1ih]

Fidel castro was my grandfather who was widely informed who took care of his country and always was his goal to protect and serve Cuba. That's just what he did protect his people and serve our country Cuba. I don't lie so whosever confined in me shall overcome their obstacles.

[@unilockcosmith4397]

He held his country bac by 30 years!!!

[@adamdavid9443]

the country still only have 5 things in their supermarkets... Socialism rocks!!

[@jorgel.martinez2648]

64

[@rickswineberg]

Do one about Pancho Villa of Mexico.

[@dannyk847]

Pancho villa was a 1900s narco. Glorified. Zapata was the real doc we should get.

[@yolamontalvan9502]

He should do one of Alberto Fujimori. *ALBERTO FUJIMORI, THE BEST PRESIDENT OF PERU.*

[@allandeverythingatonce]

The average minimum wage in Cuba comes to around $87 (2,100 Cuban pesos) per month for a 44-hour workweek, although its rate varies by occupation.

[@vsaharc]

Just came from Cuba, have met a college professor, who teaches for 14 days straight and have 2 days off, then does another 14 days, etc... Makes $29 a month. Exchange rate was 1 USD = 160-170 pesos

[@NorceCodine]

And yet they pay $10K for a Lada. The hidden economy is huge in Cuba.

[@hannibalbrown]

Cuba libre!!!

[@musicaquecalma4134]

hannibalbrown, Free Cuba from the communist government!!! The Cuban people have spent 63 years of misery and repression, under the boot of Fidel and his high-ranking military elite.

[@scramjet4610]

This video completely just jumps Castro's long armed struggle to his victory, omitting how he actually beat the Cuban military. So, although there is alot of interesting and useful information in this video, cutting out most of the details of his armed struggle is a bit disappointing.

[@spaniardsrk5108]

He won with propaganda, there was no prolonged civil war.

[@goldito62]

As well as all the innocent people that have died and suffered under his regime

[@saltyleaf6002]

​@@goldito62weird way of saying Fascists, slavers and American puppets.

[@marianotorrespico2975]

@@goldito62 --- INNOCENT!? . . . Sure. Figure out that treason is a negative, some how. Try. You can think. Think yourself out of that lie and reconcile that lie with the facts of Communist Cuba and Cuban Communism and Cubans liking their Communist Cuba better than your COLONIAL Cuba.

[@charlesfarquharson2563]

@@goldito62I guess no Cubans died under Batista's regime then?

[@brianazmy3156]

No mention of the 1983 Grenada involvement. I deployed there on 25 October with the 82nd Airborne division as part of Operation URGENT FURY and thousands of Cuban documents were recovered as well as weapons in Cuban registered containers. Several Cuban military personnel were captured and killed in the battle at point Salines airstrip.

[@kimobrien.]

Yep the betrayal of Grenada revolution with the murder of Maurice Bishop opened the door for the invasion. It's documented in the Second Assassination of Marcie Bishop.

[@emmanuelsenkoko9421]

This man was a great powerful leader

[@samitube1223]

the west can say what ever they won't we love fiedel castro from Ethiopia.

[@intihumala9087]

You're coddling a colonizer who doesn't even see you as a human being

[@tylerloveless3080]

Aren't yall starving to death and your country is ran by pirates?? Let's simmer down there.

[@reasoningthroughlife1277]

I love Cuban history, excellent job on this biography.

[@eduardoperezverdecia3961]

Clearly you do not know anything about the history of Cuba.

[@victoriaohlendorf7525]

@@eduardoperezverdecia3961 you can watch those movies and realise yourself, make your own research... VPO.. TY!

[@51Sable]

The way Fiderl managed to hold Cuba together in 90is is amazing. Cuba was of the few surviving socialist countries in those days.

[@BroadSideBricks]

Could you do one on Salazar from Portugal?

[@ElenaGarcia-og5ml]

Excelente informacion de las dificultades. Pero lo principal vendria siendo las causas de estas. Los pueblos son atacados y destruidos y la ironia es q se tratan de refugiar o van al pais que origina sus tragedias!

[@josenawade]

He was the best prime minister and the best president Cuba ever had. He was necessary to play the revolutionary role. A man who never pretended no matter what..

[@RKELS69]

A TOTAL DESPOT WHAT A CURSE FOR CUBA TO HAVE HAD SUCH A DICTATOR.

[@vernonmccormack360]

Hail that Man 🕊️ ✨🙏🏾✨👊🏾✨👊🏾 Castro a man for his people, at home and abroad.. a international hero of our times...thanks for sharing...

[@MilahanPhilosophersCorner]

Fascinating.

[@adrianagt123]

Envidiable health care system? Public hospitals in Cuba are falling apart some without water, beds or other basic necessities. Doctors when they are able to flee the dictatorship face the harsh reality that medical education in Cuba is way behind as they lack the technology needed. You can read on how some of this doctors that defected while working (as slaves) at of some of Latam countries had to go back to school to pass the medical exam needed to homologate their degrees

[@victoriabryan8448]

Meanwhile in the hospitals don’t even have antibiotics, insulin and have to “sanitize” needles from the 90s over and over again to draw blood… el Pueblo Cubano merece mucho mejor

[@nomeyodomar]

The best in the world. Namely ophtalmology. I was treated there myself coming from Europe

[@christianleitner8201]

Yeah,thanks to the us and world bank Embargo.

[@ThePapad1972]

I liked that view of him .see the bigger picture see both sides. I love the way it gives both sides ❤

[@ligayamatira2164]

Can you do a feature video about President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines

[@nemesiomercado7948]

Yes and the title the best president in the world

[@masterartform]

@@nemesiomercado7948 I hope for the sake of human decency that this was a joke.

[@nemesiomercado7948]

@@masterartform what why?

[@masterartform]

@@nemesiomercado7948 I think we should have a high standard in judging our world leaders. I can't think much of anything positive about his administration. His economic measures created instability that is still felt today, he lied about his military service to get elected, he was brutal against any opposition. We can forgive mistakes, but it is quite obvious that he was only for self. And when shit hit the fan, did he stay and try to help the people? No, he was granted safe passage to live in Hawaii. Many Filipinos lost their life and land, but it seems his family made out really well. So humbly I say to you, "No, this person does not deserve such a title as 'world's best president'.

[@nemesiomercado7948]

@@masterartform no it's just a propaganda Marcos was a true hero if he not declared martial law the Philippine was under the Communist regime

[@getanehdelnessahou4726]

Fidel Castro was a nationalist patriot who did great to his country but who had no choice but to be a bit harsh when it comes to the way he was towards sertain issues because of the unnecessary sanctions and interface of the US gov.