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In reply to the discussion: Fidel Castro celebrates 90th birthday, criticises Obama in public letter [View all]Judi Lynn
(161,959 posts)looking for leftists?
What do you call Batista's death squads, who had leftists dig their own graves, then shot them when they were finished?
What do you call death squads which put leftists in gunny sacks, poured gasoline over them, and set them on fire?
What do you call Batista's killers, some of them called "Tigres," "Masferrer's Tigers" who took young people and quartered them, hanging limbs, etc. from trees, to strike fear into the citizens of their towns, and pressure them to fear Batista too much to rebel, they hoped?
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Mothers of murdered young men who were tortured and murdered, some hung from trees in Santiago de Cuba.
Some mothers trying to reach US ambassador Earl Smith
to beseech him to try to influence to stop murdering their
sons, getting hosed down with fire hoses for their efforts. [/center]
Men hanging from lampposts?
People thrown out of Tigres' cars into the streets after being tortured to death. What would you call that?
Masferrer went and hid in South Florida after the Revolution, but he didn't hide well enough, as someone murdered him back there.
Why has none of this happened after the people's revolution? Not even our dirtiest propagandists have dared accuse the revolutionary government of these formerly US approved tactics under Batista.
Just keep on trying. People learn to recognize the truth when they hear it, and they learn to be able to tell if people are truthful who write it, too. Character counts.