Analyzing Castro's Journey To Power

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The central idea of this passage is that Fidel Castro wasn’t a good person and put Cuba in jeopardy. The author develops this central idea by talking about how many people left after he admitted to holding 15,000 people as political prisoners. The author also talks about the choices he made that put Cuba in jeopardy. The author also mentions how he put gay people in camps to “re-educate” them. Those are some ways the author developed the central idea the Fidel Castro wasn’t a good person.
The section of the article that I found most interesting was “Castro’s Journey to Power.” I found that most interesting because it talks about what he did before he became Cuba’s leader. That section also talks some of the choices he made

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