I think we should discuss both.  Fidel does not get a free pass because his hands are somewhat less bloody.  Well he's ok because he only had 15,000 Cubans shot. This is praise-worthy?   We have human rights investigations all over Latin America for such behavior.  Where is the investigation into Cuba?  All the justifications people want to give that "Fidel wasn't as bad" are pathetic.  The true measure is how many people wanted to leave Cuba, and how hard the regime worked to prevent that.  As in every Marxist-Leninist state, people are a possession of the state, and the slaves are not allowed to leave the plantation or criticize the master under threat of severe punishment for doing so.  Jump all over the behavior of the Guatemalan government of the time, they deserve that, but don't look away when Cuba gets mentioned in the same breath.