I was researching Nicaragua and he noticed Daniel Ortega on my screen and said “when I lived in Nicaragua we weren’t allowed to talk about him” I said “he’s done good stuff for Nicaragua and he said “he’s corrupt and pays people to run against him and lose,” “he supports Russia pillaging Ukraine” “my American family member had more freedom than us, so we moved to the here,” then I annoyedly did a bunch of research to prove him wrong (and Wikipedia is a terrible source on it) then I didn’t have any time to tell him anything more. (Btw of course he’s white, white people only make up 17% of the Nicaraguan population) IDK if gusanos can be non-Cuban, but if they can then that he is.
Works really for any global south country reactionaries flee from.
More like global south countries that have had decently successful socialist movement since most of them say something like “I fled a “dictator””
Doesn’t have to even be socialist, or progressive, just that they appeal to the West by trashing their home countries and blame the poor living conditions on the people rather than the Imperialists who are exploiting them.
Not really, because then that would apply to many third world immigrants who are legitimately fleeing poverty, violence or lack of opportunities, but who are also apolitical due to lack of education, and who might have had legitimately bad capitalist comprador regimes back at home.