Cuba’s Failed Communism Led to Protests Commentary Thousands of Cubans protested against Cuba’s communist regime in the largest demonstrations to erupt on the island country since its founding revolution 60 years ago. Despite Fidel Castro’s promise of a communist paradise at the start of his reign in the 1960s, Cubans today are hungry from food shortages, suffering from a lack of medicines, and angry at their central government for its mismanagement. As countless communist experiments revealed in the 20th century, dictators drop their ideals in the face of power and luxury, leaving their people hungry, poor, and protesting. When these founding dictators die, the citizens of their countries remain to pick up the pieces of reckless communist experiments.