What a great loss.
Castro changed Cuba and the world for the better.
The Southern African region is especially indebted to Fidel Castro for his major role in defeating the CIA and Mossad.
What a great loss.
Castro changed Cuba and the world for the better.
The Southern African region is especially indebted to Fidel Castro for his major role in defeating the CIA and Mossad.
R.I.P
Hasta siempre comandante!
El viejo es muerto
RIP compañero
El viejo está muerto.
Viva la Revolucion! wrote:
What a great loss.
Castro changed Cuba and the world for the better.
The Southern African region is especially indebted to Fidel Castro for his major role in defeating the CIA and Mossad.
Yes, tyrants and liberals and murderers and others who hate freedom join you in your grief.
Read this from The Nation. No mention of the brutality of his regime.
Crooked Hillary wrote:
Viva la Revolucion! wrote:What a great loss.
Castro changed Cuba and the world for the better.
The Southern African region is especially indebted to Fidel Castro for his major role in defeating the CIA and Mossad.
Yes, tyrants and liberals and murderers and others who hate freedom join you in your grief.
Meanwhile, DJ Trump only wants alliances with peace-loving, democratically supported leaders like Vladimir Putin and Assad... OK, buddy. Keep eating up the propaganda.
US News Media: Assad good, Fidel bad... Got it...
Having actually spent extensive time in Cuba, I know that Castro was a Putin-style dictator, but also that day to day life in Cuba is a good deal better than in the other large Caribbean countries like Jamaica, Haiti, etc.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Murder Dubs wrote:
Crooked Hillary wrote:Yes, tyrants and liberals and murderers and others who hate freedom join you in your grief.
Meanwhile, DJ Trump only wants alliances with peace-loving, democratically supported leaders like Vladimir Putin and Assad... OK, buddy. Keep eating up the propaganda.
US News Media: Assad good, Fidel bad... Got it...
Having actually spent extensive time in Cuba, I know that Castro was a Putin-style dictator, but also that day to day life in Cuba is a good deal better than in the other large Caribbean countries like Jamaica, Haiti, etc.
Oh, well then. I'd better rethink it. I'll disregard the murders and the torture and the imprisonment of opponents since YOU spent time there and life was so awesome for you.
Castro killed tens of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands. Many children were killed by firing squads.
Remember that time the greatest army in the world of the most powerful nation attempted to take over Cuba?
Pocine memories wrote:
Remember that time the greatest army in the world of the most powerful nation attempted to take over Cuba?
It was Cubans who attempted to overthrow the Cuban government, not the army of the US. They had, however, been trained by the US government.
South Florida Republican Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said the death of the ‘tyrant’ was the start of a new chapter for Cuba.
Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado described Castro’s death as a “victory,†while Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez said this was “something that we've been waiting for,†according to NBC Miami.
Polly Plumper wrote:
Pocine memories wrote:Remember that time the greatest army in the world of the most powerful nation attempted to take over Cuba?
It was Cubans who attempted to overthrow the Cuban government, not the army of the US. They had, however, been trained by the US government.
What does that tell you? The US was too scared.
Pocine memories wrote:
Remember that time the greatest army in the world of the most powerful nation attempted to take over Cuba?
I don't remember that time because it didn't happen. Have you ever read a history book, or do you just talk out of your rear end? But don't let actual facts get in the way of your story.
And all the homosexuals in Cuba driven to exile are now rejoicing. Well, except those who were shot & thrown in the Atlantic. Castro was a ruthless tyrant towards gays, especially gay artists in Cuba.
Crooked Hillary wrote:
Murder Dubs wrote:Meanwhile, DJ Trump only wants alliances with peace-loving, democratically supported leaders like Vladimir Putin and Assad... OK, buddy. Keep eating up the propaganda.
US News Media: Assad good, Fidel bad... Got it...
Having actually spent extensive time in Cuba, I know that Castro was a Putin-style dictator, but also that day to day life in Cuba is a good deal better than in the other large Caribbean countries like Jamaica, Haiti, etc.
Oh, well then. I'd better rethink it. I'll disregard the murders and the torture and the imprisonment of opponents since YOU spent time there and life was so awesome for you.
What do you have to say about the U.S. government's support of the numerous Latin American and Caribbean dictatorships that ruled before and after Castro? Why don't you (or the American people generally) have a problem with them? I could name you several off the top of my head where the body count is several times that of Castro's regime.
Why don't you have a problem with the fact that the U.S. gov't supports dictatorships that have killed people by the hundreds of thousands? Are you aware that the U.S. gov't supported and funded Saddam Hussein? What about Saudi Arabia? What about apartheid South Africa? What about Pinochet? Batista? Samoza? Are you aware that we will soon be tacitly in support of Assad's bombing of his own people in Syria?
Tell me what was uniquely terrible about Castro.
My time in Cuba was not an experience of paradise. Cuba is a VERY difficult place to live with many problems imposed by its Castro-led history of communism and by the U.S.'s retaliatory embargo. It is a dictatorship.
But I know that it being a dictatorship is NOT why the U.S. gov't has been hostile toward it.
But because I have also spent time in other parts of the Caribbean, I, unlike most Americans, have a valid point of regional comparison. The Cuban gov't is probably less corrupt than those of other Caribbean countries. There is no epidemic of malnutrition, nor of out of control drug violence, both of which are regular features of neighboring countries like Jamaica and Haiti (plus there's AC in the buildings in Havana), which is why Jamaicans and Haitians immigrate to what you consider a hell hole of a country.
And Cubans risk their lives by coming to the US on a raft
Coach wrote:
And Cubans risk their lives by coming to the US on a raft
True. And so do Jamaicans, Bahamians, Dominicans, Haitians, etc. People in the Caribbean are poor; the U.S. is rich. They come here.
I know many people from all these countries, as well as Vietnam and Mexico and the Middle East who've come to America for a better life. My point is not that the Cuban dictatorship was/is good. I am not setting up a simplistic good/bad binary; that's what Castro and Castro's fiercest opponents do. But the suffering of the Cuban people can't be understood in a vacuum. It is part and parcel of a very long and complicated history. There was tremendous suffering in Cuba before Castro, under Batista, under the Spanish crown, under slavery... These abuses led to Castro's rise. Making Castro out to be the devil implies that what he replaced was somehow better, which it was not.
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