Cubans take to the streets for the biggest anti-government protests in decades

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23. It's a reflexive reaction to the right

They hate the Castros and the revolution, therefore we must support it, regardless of the fact that it is an oppressive police state that many liberals would run screaming from.

This does not diminish the objective of the Revolution, or those who fought so valiantly to rid the island of Batista and his thugs. But it was never the intention of the majority of those revolutionaries to replace one caudillo with another, hence why most of them ended up jailed, executed, or in exile.

Aside from the Cuban people themselves, there are no clean hands in what has transpired there for the past 60+ years. The left has done itself no favors by abandoning our liberal brothers and sisters in defense of a tyrant none of us would have tolerated living under ourselves. Let's hope the Cuban people get to independently decide their fate and finally bring to fruition the original intent of the revolution.