Well, that's a part of the story. And the only part of the story that you have been able to encounter in the American media since the 1950's.
The story is much broader than that. Fidel was also the liberator of his country from a military dictatorship which had sold Cuban casinos to the Mafia [0] and swaths of Cuban agricultural land to the United Fruit Company. [1]
In that context, Castro was certainly not the tyrant.
The story is much broader than that. Fidel was also the liberator of his country from a military dictatorship which had sold Cuban casinos to the Mafia [0] and swaths of Cuban agricultural land to the United Fruit Company. [1]
In that context, Castro was certainly not the tyrant.
History is nuanced. Look below the surface.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lansky#Cuba
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company#Cuba