Let's face it...when it comes to Castro...Americans hate him worse than they did Hitler...this does not lend itself to objectivity...

Canada has, ontheotherhand, maintained a relationship with Cuba ( and the old Soviet Union ) from the beginnings of the cold war right up to present day...

If facts mean anything, the revolution was not communistic, that was a later development...in 1960 when Fidel spoke to the UN he as much said so...

prior to the revolution Cuba was as bad as Bangledesh...sickness and poverty was widespread, despite US corporations were profiting to the tune of billions in agriculture, property holdings, and mining specifically...

when Castro cut rents in half...that was the first volly...then he charged a 25% export tax on mining products ( which before there was none )...the second volly...
then...he confiscated land to be parcelled for farming...the US Government and Corporations with interests in Cuba demanded full immediate payment for the land...Castro said that wasn't possible, the Country was broke, all the money the US corpotrations were making in Cuba was not staying in Cuba...nothing was being contributed to the infrastucture of the Country...but he offered to pay over a 20 year period anyways...the US Government and said Corporations refused the compromise and demanded their money up front...

that's when things went to hell in a handbasket.

Eg