Cuba and South Africa Are Friends, Because Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela Were
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Cuba under Castro aided decolonising countries in Africa towards their independence. In the case of places like Rhodesia, which had legally enshrined racism that carried on after it declared independence from the UK, white minority rule might have continued had it not been for Cuba's policy of intervention. The aid of communists in Africa helped deliver equality, where the capitalists of Britain wore badges saying "hang Mandela" well into the 90s, and Americans were conspicuously quiet.
This is worth remembering at a time in history where the way we see the world is being distorted by echo chambers and demagogues the world over.
Are all the political assassinations committed by Fidel's regime a product of the American narrative?
Is Cuba's direct participation in the Angolan civil war just propaganda?
Is Cuba's oppressive and castrating regime just tales from disgruntled americans?
...or is it something else?
Cuba supported countries in Africa and elsewhere that were decolonising. This sometimes got messy, just as American (+ friends) interventions in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan have recently created disasters. Most informed commentators say we created ISIS. America has a long history of intervening, renditioning (that's "kidnapping and torturing people who haven't been convicted of a crime"), coups - even in democracies! - and assassinations. So I'd say simply that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
The fact is that Cuba was probably not significantly more morally broken than anywhere else. The reason we are taught to hate is because they rejected capitalism.