When we were in cuba in 2000, people on the streets were thrilled to see Americans, tho of course there were tourists there from other countries as well. Several Cubans told us that the people hated Castro and would have kicked him out within the first five years of his regime IF THEIR GUNS HADN’T BEEN CONFISCATED.
And there you have the REAL reason liberals want "gun control." To protect their false god the government and its priests (bureaucrats)
There were several hundred peasants that heroically fought for several years (1960-1966) a guerrilla war against the communist regime in the Escambray Mountains. The Cuban exiles supplied the freedom fighters arms and munitions from Florida until the second betrayal of John F Kennedy. During the Bay of Pig invasion the Cuban freedom fighters were betrayed by Kennedy who denied them the promised air support. The second great betrayal was during the October Missile Crisis when Kennedy was check mated by Khrushchev. In order to get the missiles from Cuba, United States retired its missiles in Italy and Turkey. Even worse, JFK promised that U.S. will become the guarantor of the security of the Castro regime no allowing any attack not only from U.S. soil, but from any other point in this hemisphere. The result was that the exiles could not send anymore military aid to the guerrillas fighting in Cuba who were annihilated by the much superior forces of the Stalinist regime. The Kennedy/Khrushchev accord abrogated de facto the Monroe Doctrine by allowing an extra-hemispheric potency to maintain a permanent enemy base at 90 miles of Florida.