Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) is the most recent in a long
line of speakers at national political conventions to talk of
how their families came to America to escape Castro's Cuba.
Rubio's family, like most of the Cuban-American community, is
staunchly anti-Castro. After all, Castro seized private property
and went from revolutionary to dictator in short order. So,
their objections to the Castro regime seem very reasonable.
However, Cuba before Castro was not a nice place to live for
most people. Organized crime and American corporations took
advantage of US-backed puppet governments and treated the island
as their own private property. As a result, many people in Cuba
lived a lousy life. In fact, it was not much different than what
they have experienced under Castro. So, why did so many families
wait until Castro came to power to leave Cuba? Had they
benefited from the crime syndicates, corporations, and puppet
governments that controlled Cuba for decades? If so, perhaps the
Cuban-American community's outr