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Here is an article dealing with President Kennedy's initial support of Fidel Castro. It would explain why Rafael Cruz Sr, a teenager at the time, would want to support Castro. This has been posted before. Do I expect you to hear it this time? I doubt it. Again, you can't say you don't know why.

Dr. Néstor García Iturbe (*) in his article "Cuba – Estados Unidos - Kennedy," written 49 years ago and published October 19, 2012, presents a long excerpt from the French journalist’s interview with Kennedy, in which the President acknowledges U.S. responsibility for the Batista dictatorship and the humiliating economic colonization of Cuba in the 1950’s.
"I believe that there is no country in the world including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country’s policies during the Batista regime.
"I approved of the proclamation which Fidel Castro made in the Sierra Maestra, when he justifiably called for justice and especially yearned to rid Cuba of corruption. I will even go further: to some extent it is as though Batista was the incarnation of a number of sins on the part of the United States. Now we shall have to pay for those sins.
"In the matter of the Batista regime, I am in agreement with the first Cuban revolutionaries. That is perfectly clear." http://www.granma.cu/ingles/international-i/30may-Kennedy.html

You are picking out a few raisins and imagining that you have the whole cake. Ten minutes on Google is not a substitute for an informed viewpoint - especially when the source it gives you is Granma, the official communist news organ of the Castro regime.

You don’t know the background or the trajectory of this chapter of Cuban history. Everything Kennedy said was wrong - he was a complete ignoramous - the opposite was true - he was being fed disinformation by a left-leaning State Dept. - the men on the Cuba Desk had been over the top pro-Castro and working in collusion with him since the mid 1950s.

Since the 1930s, Cuba had been a leader in every front of modernism of Latin America - including progressive social services - the 1930s through the 1950s was the golden age of the Cuban business, literature, music, and painting. Which is one of the reasons that Cuba had a huge flow of immigration from Europe. (Oddly, the terrible Batista dictatorship did not generate flotillas of boat people escaping the island).

Furthermore, everyone in Cuba knew what you have yet to learn - that Castro and his revolutionary movement were infamous domestic terrorists - he had been arrested in 1953 for attacking an army barracks - and had had a public trial at which he had declared “History will absolve me.” There was no one in Cuba - not one person over the age of ten - who did not know this. And in 1958, Eisenhower’s own ambassador to Cuba went to Washington to warn Ike that Castro was a communist - his reward for this was to be removed from his post.

If the U.S. had sins in relation to Cuba, it was in ignoring these and other warnings to support - financially as well as politically a known communist with a public history of thuggery and terrorism.

Anyone allied with Castro’s march to power would have had to have been a thug, placing bombs in public transportation and movie theaters, kidnapping and assassinating politicians and businessmen, blowing up voting places during elections.