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Because they are descendants of the middle and upper classes who benefited from the previous regime and lost everything when Castro came to power.

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All of them? There was no poverty in cuba after Castro? Those that spoke out were capitalist pigs and deserved their punishment?

Right after obama came to cuba there was a large influx of cubans who made the journey through the carribean to the us to gain the guarenteed citizenship [0]. Why would people risk their lives to leave? Are these individuals also upper class escaping slaughter?

[0] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/08/05/cuban-immigr...

They are actually descendants of the people who had a good life under the dictatorship of Batista.

Cuban Revolution was not for a wimp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista

Not sure your point. The claims here indicate that most plantations were american owned and that likely frustrated cubans to the point a revolution was intreresting. But immigration from cuba isnt just 1 time. There has been a consistant flood of migrants that risk their lives to escape. Back in the 90's there was the Emilio Gonzolez contreversey where the mom died to get her son to the US.

In every colonial system, the resources were owned by the foreign power, but the management of these resources were made by a privileged class of locals which constituted a local elite. This elite lives a very comfortable life, gives a "local face" to the regime for the population, but ultimately answers to the foreign power who retains the bulk of the profits sent overseas.

It's important to note that even if this elite is the "1%" of the country, this 1% amounts to a significant number of people.

I would say everyone other than those in the government of Cuba or associate with its members lost out.

Ah yes they lost everything because they supported the previous dictatorship. Then when they may have been in danger as others were when they were living the high life they fled the country.

So his exiling of over a million cubans is acceptable, then?

Yes.

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