By all accounts the Cuban people are far better under Fidel then Batista. No more is the country the highly segregated and oppressed land where the soldiers marched through the rural areas killing and burning at will. No more is the average citizen underfed and illiterate. Fidel introduced free education and free health care to all people, and gave the poor families children an education.
For every literate Cuban under Batista there is 3 Cuban DOCTORS under Fidel. Also, Cuba sends more doctors overseas to help with disaster relief then any other country, usually ten to twenty times as much as most Europian countrys and much more then USA’s number of 0. He also builds hospitals and sends medical supplies for them to use. The amount of Cuban doctors in Africa alone is staggering, and is the only reason that real progress is being made in the backward and damaging medical condition of their tribal areas.
Maybe that is why Fidel is a long- standing member of the UN’s Human Rights Commitee. That is something you can’t say about an American president. Not bad for an “evil dictator” under a 40 year trade embargo.
