3. Castro's revolutionaries While Castro is portrayed as a villain, known for mass murders and genocides, one must not forget the tragic story behind his villainous image.
He was a sufferer under Batista dictatorship. Batista was a tyrant who ruled Cuba with violence, intimidation, and murders.
In the last seven years of his reign, an estimated 20,000 men, women, and children were executed by barbaric police force acting with impunity.
The use of torture was frighteningly widespread.
Eyewitness accounts from the period report dedicated torture centers where Cuban nationalists and left-wingers had their arms cut off, their eyes gouged out, and their throats slit.
When Castro finally captured power, he continued the same brutal oppression against his political enemies.