Isaw a lot of socialist experiments in Latin America and the results weren't pretty.

If Americans want to see how badly socialism works, they don't have to go far. Beginning with Cuba's Fidel Castro in 1959, socialism has a dismal history of failure throughout this hemisphere. While socialist revolutionaries came to power by focusing on real problems of poverty and corruption, they often hid their goal of completely taking over the economy.

Castro appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" during a visit to the U.S. in April 1959, months after seizing power during the Cuban Revolution.

"I am not communism. I am not agree with communism," Castro said.

That was a lie. In short order, Castro wiped out all opposition, socialized the entire economy, and forced Cuba's once vigorous business comm

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