......... a union protestor in Madison, Wisconsin, caught on camera saying he wants to vote for Castro and his clone, Che Guevara.
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Heres a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) report on Cuba circa 1957:
One feature of the Cuban social structure is a large middle class. Cuban workers are more unionized [proportional to the population] than U.S. workers. The average wage for an 8-hour day in Cuba in 1957 is higher than for workers in Belgium, Denmark, France and Germany. Cuban labor receives 66.6 per cent of gross national income. In the U.S. the figure is 70 per cent, in Switzerland 64 per cent. 44 per cent of Cubans are covered by Social legislation, a higher percentage than in the U.S.
In 1958, Cuba had a higher per capita income than Austria or Japan and Cuban industrial workers had the eighth-highest wages in the world. In the 1950s, Cuban stevedores earned more per hour than their counterparts in New Orleans and San Francisco.
Thousands of these took up arms against Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. The MRP (Movimiento Revolucionario del Pueblo) was among these Cuban resistance groups of mostly laborers.
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In a TV speech on June 26, 1961, when Che Guevara was Cubas Minister of Industries, he proclaimed: The Cuban workers have to start being used to live in a collectivist regimen, and by no means can they go on strike!
This no strike provision was unacceptable to Cuban laborers many of whom took up arms in protest, along with Cubas enraged campesinos who rose in arms by the thousands when Castro and Che started stealing their land to build Soviet Kolkhozes.
This rebellion, involving ten times the number of rebels, ten times the number of casualties, and lasting twice as long as the puerile skirmish against Batista, found no reporter anywhere near Cubas hills. The Cuban campesinos bloody rebellion against Castro-Stalinism lasted from late 1959 to 1966. Tens of thousands of troops, scores of Soviet advisors, and squadrons of Soviet tanks, helicopters, and flame-throwers finally extinguished the lonely Cuban freedom-fight.
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According to the scholars and researchers at the Cuba Archive, the Castro regimes total death toll from torture, prison beatings, firing squads, machine gunning of escapees, drownings, etc. approaches 100,000. Cubas population in 1960 was 6.4 million. According to the human rights group Freedom House, 500,000 Cubans (young and old, male and female) have passed through Castros prisons and forced-labor camps. This puts Castro and Ches political incarceration rate right up there with their hero Stalins.
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Castros nationalist revolution saw many of Stalins own henchmen directing the murder, torture and destitution of millions of native Cubans.
Among the first to go were labor leaders.