Ask a Cuban-American anything.

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>>72790208
Why did you guys have to fuck up the Bay of Pigs? You would have done a lot of good for the world if you beat Castro.

>>72790208
Are you white and arrogant?
Did Castro took you father's company because it exploited people?

>>72790298
At the time we just overthrew Batista. We were afraid a second Batista would come if USA won, but we were also skeptical of Castro as he pulled a 180 turn during the end of the Cuban Revolution and said " Hey faggots guess what? We're Communist now! " and some guys said " wtf? " and those guys got shot, Che Guverre just left.

>>72790374
No I'm not white-arrogant. I'm Hispanic and my uncle is black. Also my mother grew up in poverty and my father got some military general as a father who served with Castro so he was rich.

>>72790487
So your family conditions improved under Castro?
Was it worse under Batista

>>72790208
Do you live in Florida?
Did you move to America after the revolution?
Do you have stories from that time (scarface style)?

>>72790759
Only for my dad it improved. Also it's kinda complicated, so yeah many things improved like for example the crime. During Batista's rule the Mafia was basically at the edge of ruling over Cuba and they would often break into your neighbor's house to fill him of lead or rob him, but Cuban Revolution changed that. But Castro ruined the education system by kicking out the well educated American professors that brought English and Spanish. Now did Cuba improve under Castro's rule compared to Batista? Yes it did, and so did my family. But did it ruin some things that were important for raising your child? Yes. The education system was fucked up.

>>72790849
>Do you live in Florida?

Well actually I lived in Louisiana as I got a visa from the American Embassy so I decided Louisiana. Later I moved to Florida when a family member got cancer and a good factory was in Florida, so I love in Florida now.

>Did you move to America after the revolution?
Not RIGHT after the revolution, I wasn't even born yet when it ended. I moved to America in 2001 July 25th.

>Do you have stories from that time (scarface style)?

Only my grandfather and uncle has stories. My Grandfather was a Cuban revolution fighter that fought with Castro as a teen, he told me that he'd wait in the bushes and wait for some Cuban millitary soldiers to expose themselves by walking outside on a balcony. Once they were outside in the balcony he'd take a shot and rush over to the dead soldiers, he'd take their weapons and repeat the process. He has an entire book about his experience.

My uncle threw some guy off a balcony and broke his back cause he wouldn't pay up.

My father fought in Nicaragua as what I assume a volunteer Cuban division. He'd had a run in with some US aided military, he'd fight like how the ISIS militia fought. He'd take cover behind a car and reach his ak47 high and start taking random shots hoping to hit someone.

>>72791189
Sorry I mean't doctor not factory, and I also mean't live not love.

>>72791189
Really cool, thanks.

>>72790960
But more people knew how to write and read under Castro, right?
Also did your healthcare improved?

>>72791773
>But more people knew how to write and read under Castro, right?

That's because more people got access to the education, but the issue was the quality of the education that dropped when Castro took over. Once you passed high school than there's nothing really to do with it, you got no future. Doctors are paid less than taxi drivers so you might as well become a taxi driver. So the problem was that there wasn't much to do with your education to improve your life. That's the main reason I moved.

>Also did your healthcare improved?

I'm not sure too much about 1959-1990, I heard it was pretty great healthcare during between that time. But when 1990 came when Castro was still in power the healthcare quality dropped really bad, there were many people that needed many help and Doctors were underpaid. But it's getting better now under Ruel's rule.

>>72792227
Are there still refugees from the Cold War in Cuba?

>>72792798
I'm not sure, I never even heard of refugees from the cold war in Cuba. I never even met one. So I'm pretty sure no or rarely any.

Cuba would have been awesome during the 50s. Little blonde white Cuban girls working the brothels. They would look like Josie Canseco.

>Historian Neill Macaulay also recounted his time in Havana: "The whorehouses I visited ... The girls, all teenagers, were dressed in shorts and halters. All were white and several blonde, though their eyes were unmistakably Latin. It was a place where American high-school and college boys of the 1950s came to relieve their sexual tensions in surroundings that were not forbiddingly foreign." This must have been what John Sayles had in mind in his novel Los Gusanos (1991) when he wrote of the "Casa de Rock, "where boys from the University of Miami would come to fuck little blonde Cuban girls who spoke good English and wore ponytails and blue jeans just like the little blonde girls they were afraid to fuck back home."

>>72793036
Oh yeah but it was harsh on the natives and the Mafia was on the edge of ruling over it, would I love to live in the 1950s in Cuba as an American business man? Hell yeah! But as my ancestors? NOPE!

>>72790208
Did you travel outside of Cuba?

>>72793745
Yeah I went to Italy and Spain.

>>72794011
Is there colorism(preference of light skin over dark skin) in Cuba?

>>72795500
Yes, but most of the white went to Florida. Holguin still has plenty of white Cubans. Good place to go for white girls of you are a sex tourist.

>>72795730
So people love you more if you're whiter than someone?

Did your ancestors own slaves in colonial Cuba?

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>>72797323
Yes, and your family will be mad if you marry someone darker.

Pic: Miami Cubans.

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>>72790208
How do you see Cuba's future going after Raul Castro steps down/dies?

>>72793036
There's nothing good about that whatsoever. Just straight up exploitation in every sense. A mafia run hellhole for working class Cubans.

What do you think about Dominicans and Puerto Ricans

>>72790208
When are you going back?

>>72790208
>Also I'm a bit paranoid too
no shit

>>72790208
do you live in Florida ?

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>>72798340
The PRs like this they like; the NYC types not so much.

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>>72790208
El GusANO, señores

>>72797508
Wow...that's very bad.I didn't expect this coming from a leftist country.

What are some good Cuban dishes?

>>72799323
ropa vieja

Are Cubans white?

>>72800220
Only the rich ones, like every LatAm countries

what do you think of Spain?

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>>72800220
Some yes, like these, a typical Miami look. You also have black Cubans kicking ass in MMA like Hector Lombard and Yoel Romero.

Why the Cuban elite is all white?

>>72800104
>ropa vieja
>Cuban

>>72801116
Cuba was 80% Spanish before Castro chimped out

>>72802071
>What were slaves

>>72802093
Cuba was majority Spanish before Castro chimped out.Niggers and mulattos were just 20% of the population

>>72801116
They have always been in charge because they are descendants of the original Iberian settlers who first landed on Cuba. The blacks were brought to the island as slaves. The average brown Cuban is a mix of these.

>>72790208
What did you think of Castro's death.

>>72790208
i hate your isle and your people, kill yourself piece of shit.

Spaniards dont want to be associated with hispanics and you are like them m8

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>>72792227
>But when 1990 came when Castro was still in power the healthcare quality dropped really bad
...they lose all that aid money from Mother Russia.
>But it's getting better now under Ruel's rule.
Cuba is finally forced to open up to the outside world.

Cuba had like four prisons in the 50s. Now it has over 40.