For Cuban exiles, the leftist "social justice" movement in the U.S. looks all too familiar. They saw how the communist Castro dictatorship used what they called "justice" to gain perpetual power and destroy all freedoms in Cuba. Vicente Echerri explains in Diario de Cuba: Cuba: the commitments of freedom 'The Cuban Revolution; that is, the
'The Cuban Revolution; that is, the long tyranny of Castro and his henchmen and their successors, was made possible, among other things, by their cunning emphasis on pitting justice again freedom'.