Anglicanpolitics123 OP t1_ix5b2vk wrote on November 20, 2022 at 9:26 PM

Reply to comment by redditmademeregister in The trials of the Cuban revolution. Interesting facts about them as well as the roles of Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, Che Guevara and the historical forces that drove these events. by Anglicanpolitics123

(i)Yes. Cuba isn't a democracy and the source referenced was someone who did come from the Cuban Ministry of Justice. At the same time it is still an important source precisely because of the fact that its the archives of Cuba's Ministry of Justice that contains the relevant information on these cases in the first place.

(ii)No one is denying that Che Guevara wasn't himself ruthless. The point being though is that compared to Fidel Castro Che was much more likely to hear appeals and take them seriously based off the hard evidence that we have.

(iii)What evidence do you have that Jon Lee Anderson is being disingenous? Anderson is a respected scholar when it comes to Cuban History and the history of Latin America itself. It was in fact his biography of Che that played an important role in Cuban and Argentine anthropologists being able to locate Che Guevara's body in the fields of Bolivia 30 years after his execution. So we are speaking about someone with an enormous amount of credibility in the field.

redditmademeregister t1_ix6fyg7 wrote on November 21, 2022 at 2:33 AM

I’m saying that you’re being disingenuous and playing fast and loose with the truth.

Anglicanpolitics123 OP t1_ix6rpe3 wrote on November 21, 2022 at 4:14 AM

umm I'm not playing fast and loose with the truth. You only think I'm doing that because you have a clear ideological bias. You do realise that I couldn't quote every single aspect of the sources mentioned because reddit has a limit in terms of how much content you can place in an OP right? I had to be selective in terms of what I quoted out of the vast information I was reading on the topic. And the things I quoted were in line with the facts of the situation.