| Theres some interesting parallels here: Cuba was run by a corrupt dictatorship that worked with a mafia and oligarchs. When Castro wanted to overthrow them, he went to his neighbour America and asked them for help. Unfortunately, the dictator, mafia and oligarchs were seen as more useful allies by the US government than the people of Cuba, so they took their side. Cuba then had to look further for help in what many observers saw as a just cause. Possibly the USSR only got involved to annoy the US, but I'd like to hope they at least partly were motivated by some sense of justice abd it wasnt totally black and white. And on the American side, JFK, generally positively reviewed by the American people but hated by some, was elected in part due to his father's mafia ties. The same mafia that ran Cuba. (In this very stretched metaphor, Haiti could be Cechnya?) |