January 1959 and the destruction of Cuba

It’s another January and a time to celebrate a new year but also remember a few weeks in 1959.

No one understood years ago what it all meant. We certainly had no idea that a communist dictatorship was coming.  At least, my parents did not.

Within months, Cuba began to change, i.e. the mass executions, the mock trials, the political prisons, the attacks on the press and the radicalization of the regime. 

Elections never came and Castro quickly started to blame the US to distract Cubans from all the failed promises.

We were the fortunate ones. We got to grow up in the US.  Some were not so unfortunate.  They had to stay in Cuba or saw their fathers executed or spend time in a political prison.

A sad anniversary for Cubans, and for truth and freedom.  It turned out to be a terrible month for the people of Cuba.

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