that is was U.S. sanctions that were largely responsible for plunging Cuba into economic ruin. Am I wrong?

although many will say you are, even here.

Although, admittedly, the US provided an excuse for the Castro dictatorship's failures for a very long time but again chavismo came to Venezuela and demonstrated that its quite possible to royally screw one's country up while maintaining heavy trade with the US.

The US and Colombia are Venezuela's largest trading partners while simultaneously being the two countries Venezuela blames for the country failing.

Brazilians.

considering what the fuck has happened to them in every goddamned country in the Americas, and the Caribbean, and discuss it with the African descendants of kidnapped slaves who were brought to do ALL the work for fat-assed thieves and thugs from Europe who wanted to steal their lives from them, give them NOTHING back but fear and suffering for their lifetimes of despair, hopelessness, and pain.

The largest African population outside Africa is Brazil. The other American countries also gobbled up the lives of African people, as well as the lives of enslaved to tortured, tormented, despised indigenous people throughout the contenient, and through Central America, and through North America.

Oh, my ####ing God, could you use an education.

Break down, spend some time doing your homework on American history, and American current affairs. Get to know about the hemisphere where you are drawing air, and the very decent people who have suffered here all their lives because of racial hatred and grotesque abuse by Europeans' shabby, greedy, amoral spawn.

Like all societies, not one is perfect.

I was wrong in the one thing I thought negative about Fidel Castro. I said he had a part in the death of Che......HE DID NOT....as usual the hand of the CIA was in that mix. Che left Castros revolution because he needed to keep the revolutionary spirit in him moving after the successful ouster of the dictator Batista and the american mafia.. Che's asthma kept him from sitting around to long......otherwise Castro did a lot of good for Cubans and for race relations. Medical care and education for his people......here you pay through the nose for both.....if you aren't lucky to have a good job with benefits and rich family.