Was Fidel Castro a bad guy?

[Greater Miami Shores]

I feel like this is a discussion that's happened before but needs to happen again. If there's one dictator all people of the Americas know well and are acquainted with

Curiously enough, I would have thought it would have been Pinochet or Galtieri or Videla or Vargas.

No, I strongly agree with Rojava, the best well know Dictator and supported by many persons, VIPs and world leaders of nations was Fidel Castro Ruz of Cuba, my native nation.

[East Gondwana]

Castro absolutely did some bad things, that are inexcusable.

However, his leadership was easily a net positive for Cuba, without question.

Though I think it's important to remember when assessing world leaders that virtually none of them are innocent and virtually none of them have clean hands, Fidel is in the upper half of "least awful".

That said obviously, crimes are crimes, and though his have been greatly exaggerated in most cases, he certainly is guilty of doing some terrible things (some of which he even apologised for later in life, which even though that is the bare minimum, is more than can be said for most politicians).