Why is it the US hates Fidel Castro just because he wants nothing to do with this country?

Answer 1

It doesn't matter. He lived perfectly well without USA. Besides, I think USA hate Castro, because USA have economic interests in Cuba and Castro didn't want anything with capitalistic USA.

P.S: In my country everybody say: We must go to Cuba for a holiday while Castro is alive. When he will die Americans will totally change Cuba. Than Cuba will be boring.

Answer 2

To elaborate;

Castro was never in co-horts with the CIA or FBI as we know it, he did overthrow the Democratic government of Cuba after attempting and failing once - he used a Mexican guerrilla army to do so.

Once established Kennedy attempted to overthrow his government, but it was a failed attempted (called Bay of Pigs) - and the USA was ridiculed by everyone in the world for attempting something so paranoid/stupid/childish, etc. Basically, although Cuba was now Communist, it was an internal revolution to the country, and the people had every right do what they did. But the US didn't want that, so they stuck their nose in it, failed miserably and... people made fun of us.

That's how the fearmongering began: we started telling people that Cuba was fascist, and thye killed thousands of their own people. We made comics and articles and passed it through the media about how Castro ate babies and was inhumane and a monster. All the while Cubans were happy with him.

We stopped trading with Cuba: we made it illegal for the US and any US affiliates (read: other southern american countries that do not want to lose trade with the US) to trade with Cuba. Cuba became poor, had all sorts of money but no one to buy things from because the US said that no one could trade with Cuba.

People began to die of starvation, the US said told us in the States it was Castros fault while it told the rest of the world that it would not lift the ban until they agreed to hundreds of things that would make them another "little US goblin" like all the rest of the central american countries.

Cubans refused to do so, that's why they overthrew the government in the first place, they wanted to be CUBA and not another country that made no money b/c it gave it all to the states. (El Salvador, my home country for example, no longer has a national currency, and instead just uses the dollar. How shameful is that?)

In the end, this is where we stand. Everyone in the states thinks Cuban people are sad (no, they're not - just go over there and you'll see it with your own eyes) - that Castro is a monster (no, people really like him over there, and other countries see him as a beacon of steadfast light against the oppression of latin america from the US) - and the rest of the world has finally pressured the US enough to let them trade, etc, so that not everyone dies of starvation.

There's a side to every story that you will never know in America. Specially if you eat what you read in the news, unfortunately.

Answer 3

He nationalized US-owned property and terminated US contracts (as for gambling casinos and hotels) that made money for certain American firms.

He also stuck his finger in the eye of a number of US presidents, and cozied up to the USSR with missiles, etc.

Then there were Bay of Pigs, Mariel, etc.

The US never forgets, never forgives a slight. Except for Vietnam, where the US wanted MIA/PoWs back, and also its military industrial complex realized there were no dominoes in Vietnam after all, and a lot of money could be had there. It's the only case I can think of where before the scabs on the skin of US soldiers had fallen off, the US reopened its embassy and did business as usual.

Of course in the case of Cuba so many Cubans came to America and became active politically that no change of policy was possible. But the hostility, and non-recognition (such as it is) was personal to Castro. There is no reason to think that his successor, Commonist though he may be, will not be able to open an embassy in Washington if he cares to do so.

Of course the successor may be corruptible (not that Castro isn't corrupt, but he's corrupt in a political and moral sense, not in a bribery one) and US firms may move there en masse. I would doubt that the Miami Cubans will get rich or politically significant they way they dream of: more likely is a new generation of Cuban nouveau riches like the Russian kleptocratic billionaires on a smaller scale.

Answer 4

Well, for starters after he took over Cuba, he stole all the land and property of all foriegn investors, mostly American sugar and oil companies. If he wanted good will with the USA, he could give it back or compensate for it.

He nearly had the Soviets firing nukes at the US back in 1962!
Whe his prisons get filled up, he lets all the murders and rapists leave on a boat to Florida
He won't let his own people freely migrate, he keeps them locked on the island

But after he dies, the whole country will be a club med
Professional baseball team, casinos
It will be Vegas in the Caribean
In 10 years Castro will be a boogieman

Answer 5

No one hates Castro. We just recognize that he teams up with larger Communist countries to maintain his power over the Cuban people. He welcomed nuclear warhead missiles from Russia that could have reached and destroyed Washington D.C.

Anyone who was permitted to leave Cuba under the Castro regime left with nothing but a suitcase of clothing.

Answer 6

The USA does not hate Fidel. We're trying to keep him around as the last Communist Dictator-Supreme Leader for Life, they're an endangered species nowadays. Sort of like a "Why Communism Doesn't Work" reality show.

Answer 7

Luke is an idiot. Castro is a Cuban. We do not hate Castro because he wants nothing to do with the USA (which he does).

Castro was a major league baseball player who played spring training games, and was going to start in the regular season. Problems at home forced him to return, wherein he becamse the tyrant that he is today.

Fidel starves and tortures anyone who does not share his vision of the "glorious revolution". He embraces tyranny, and makes everyone poor rather than investing in his nation's infrastructure. He pointed nukes at our nation and threatened to launch them.

Like Napolean, he betrayed the revolution that founded his new nation state. Like Stalin, he runs gulags that imprision anyone who disagrees with him. Like Breshnev he lends his army to mercenary causes across the world, and has helped in genocial wars in Angola and other parts of the pacific and Africa..

The world will be a better place when he dies.

Answer 8

It might be that the private capitalism is a terrible thing as well as the pure state capitalism. Both are dying, fading away as people will not accept them. More and more educated US citizen realize that and want to have a change in the political system and those who ride on the private capitalism is afraid to lose what the have stolen from the people anywhere in the world in slavery.

Answer 9

He is a communist tirant that has killed thousands of his own people and continue to do so to this day.The people who leave cuba,if they are sent back,they are tortured for many years in prision..,the lucky ones get shot in the head.Lucky meaning not having to endure years of torture.If cuba was such a lovely place why do people from that country risk their lives making make shift boats to get over here.Talk to a cuban will tell you all about your wonder Fidel.

Answer 10

I do not think it has to do with him not wanting to have anything to do with the US, I think it has to do with the way he treats his own people and how he controls them.

The US is against any country that is Communist or has a Dictator as a leader.