The Endless Batista vs. Castro War Rages in August of 2024

Batista ties to Florida Fueled His Cuban dictatorship.

     This WKMG-TV photo was posted today -- August 21st-2024 -- by the CBS Television Station, WKMG, in Orlando, Florida. In the 1940s and 1950s this was the home of Flugencio Batista when he was the dictator of Cuba. This Batista mansion was in Daytona Beach, Florida where Batista was a close neighbor to close friends such as Mafia kingpins like Meyer Lansky who were keys to Batista's rule as Cuba's greedy and brutal dictator.

     The two headlines and updates on Batista's Daytona Beach home were included in a huge article on August 21st-2024 by WKMG, the prime television station in Orlando, Florida.

    Since the 1950s the Cuban struggles that pitted Fulgencio Batista against Fidel Castro have contined into August of 2024 although Batista died at age 72 in Spain in 1973 and Castro died at age 90 in Havana in 2016. Their Cuban Revolution that raged from 1952 till 1959 ended with Castro's rebels chasing Batista off the island for good on the early morning of January 1st in 1959. Since then historians, journalists, pundits, and propagandists have expounded endlessly about the issues and the results, often with both sides mostly presenting biased pros and cons.

   It appears that the great writer T. J. English best chronicled the Batista vs. Castro Revolution in Cuba by explaining "How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution." Otherwise almost all of the other explanations have involved self-serving lies or distortions, which don't come close to explaining how a little peasant-fueled rebel revolution defeated a powerful Dictator, Batista, who was supported by the strongest nation in the whole world, the United States, and by the strongest criminal organization, the Mafia, in the whole world. "How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution" still remains an exciting, intriguing, and important phenomenom.

     How the Mafia-backed/US-backed Batista Dictatorsiip was overthrown by the Fidel Castro-led Cuban Revolution not only was interesting and intriguing but also important. To this day in August of 2024 it stil mightily affects the region...with billionaire/millionaire U. S. Cubans dominating Little Havana in Miami while Havana in Cuba has struggled for over six decades to keep its people from starving while the U. S. EMBARGO-Blockade is now in its 62nd year.

     The massive air-land-sea U. S. Bay of Pigs military attack on Cuba in 1961 was massively defended by Fidel Castro and his rebels. Then in 1962 the U. S. EMBARGO was imposed to starve, deprive, and make miserable the Cuban people to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. The EMBARGO more than six decades later still exists and is stronger than ever in August of 2024. The EMBARGO'S purposes haven't resulted in the overthrow of Cuba's rebel government but, for sure, it continues to starve, deprive, and make miserable another generation of Cubans on the encircled island.

     Back in the 1940s and 1950s in the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship there were many distinct spots of luxury fueled by Mafia enterprises and hugely rich U. S. companies raking in massive fortunes while providing gifts and financial kickbacks to the Batistiano leaders.

     Back in the 1950s in Batista's Cuba the island was "Best Friends" with the United States, making U. S. companies, the Mafia, and the Batistianos very, very rich thanks to U. S. tourism and vast amountS of U. S. money. But there was a little PROBLEM: neither the Batistianos nor the United States saw a need to toss the Cuban peasants a few crumbs in the form of food-shelter-education-medical needs, and therefore that greed and stupidity spawned a do-or-die Revolution.

     The greed and stupidity of Batista, the Mafia, and the United States in Cuba in the 1950s indeed spawned Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. Everyday non-Batistiano families were left with no food, no decent homes, no medical attention, and no education. Even non-peasant women revolted and when they complained Batista's goons murdered children to persuade their mothers not to resist. But history registers that Cuban mothers like the ones above did resist with brave protests reminding even the New York Times about the murders of "NUESTROS HIJOS"/"OUR CHILDREN" by the confident US/Mafia-backed Batista regime.

     "HOW THE MOB OWNED CUBA...AND THEN LOST IT TO THE REVOLUTION." For the 65 years since the triumph of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution over the greedy and brutal Batista REGIME in Cuba, it has mostly and conveniently been purposely distorted by demonizing Fidel Castro while sanitizing Fulgencio Batista. But at least T. J. English got it right in his classic book. ln other words, what preceded Fidel Castro was not a Mother Teresa-type Cuba. It was Batista and the Mafia ruling Cuba and so it is still important in late August of 2024 to know "HOW THE MOB OWNED CUBA...AND THEN LOST IT TO THE REVOLUTION." 

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