For those who don't follow b-ball, the Denver nuggets are about to play the Miami heat

Link bc I'm not a lib https://www.reddit.com/r/denvernuggets/comments/13wtjxk/upvote_to_scare_heat_fans/

  • Wheaties [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    can someone explain?

    Miami is well known for having a ton of Cubans, and the first wave were wealthy land owners in Cuba up until the Cuban Revolution nationalized and redistributed large property (fun fact: including the Castro family's own property. Fidel's sister was so pissed at losing out she went CIA agent over it). This first wave set the basis for the culture and politics of Miami Cubans, and even non-Cubans later on, for whom Castro is almost literally a devil-like creature.

    wtf, I actually learned something from reddit?

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      The Castro family was one of the larger sugarcane families in Cuba and at one point Fidel and Raul's father had over 400 Haitian "workers" (slaves). I should also point out that Ángel Castro, the father, collaborated with the United Fruit Company to gain much of his wealth, the same company that instigated the American backed coup in Guatemala.

      Fidel and Raul Castro were correct to give up their family's land.