Despite the escalating violence, my father expected the political situation to stabilize as soon as Batista was out. “The consensus at that time was that one government comes in, steals enough to get rich, then leaves when another one takes over. Then that one gets rich and moves on. It’s the Latin American way, and we’d seen it with Grau, with Prío. Ever since Cuba was liberated from Spain it had been like that. We figured Batista had made enough money with the gambling that he’d go soon and then Fidel or whoever took over would make a deal with the Americans and let the rest of us keep
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