American criticism of Cuba on human rights is total hypocrisy, given our history of terrorizing the island

Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro died this week at age 90. The former Cuban president, known as El Comandante, survived 10 U.S. presidential administrations — and reportedly also survived hundreds of assassination attempts by the CIA.

After he helped establish the Republic of Cuba in a 1959 revolution against a U.S.-backed right-wing dictatorship, many players in the U.S. government criticized the socialist leader and his new administration — and so it remained for decades.

Immediately after Castro’s death, President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter to dismiss Castro as a “brutal dictator”— days before he made the draconian proposal that Americans should lose their citizenship for burning the U.S. flag in protest (an activity protected by the Constitution)....
http://www.salon.com/2016/11/30/american-criticism-of-cuba-on-human-rights-is-total-hypocrisy-given-our-history-of-terrorizing-the-island/