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Fidel Castro, Longtime Dictator of Cuba, Has Died

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The Castroit regime has a universal health care system. It is a state monopoly where private health care services are prohibited. Because of it, regular Cubans have to wait a long time for treatment and have a hard time getting necessary prescriptions. Many services and the latest technologies are available only to foreigners paying in dollars, to the party elite and the higher ranks in the military at excellent health facilities built for that purpose. But regular Cubans are not allowed to use those facilities.

The regular Cuban when admitted to a hospital for the common people, have to bring their own bed sheets, blankets, food and others basic necessities. As we can see the wonder of the socialized medicine are not equally experienced. The dysfunctional health care system is due to the failure of the Castros regime economic and political system, and it is aggravated by diverting the meager health resources to fulfill the needs of foreign patients and the regime elite.
 
Look to me that Progressives are usefully idiot who don’t want see the reality of what the Castroit dictatorship have done to the Cuban people. They are like a horse with blinders. All they see are the images projected by the propaganda machine of the regime. Please, take out the blinders and you will see the current state of the Cuban people staring you in the face.
 
Fact # 12 - He turned Cuba into a labyrinth of ruins and established an apartheid society in which millions of foreign visitors enjoyed rights and privileges forbidden to his people.

This video shows the city of Hiroshima 65 years after the atomic blast obliterated the city, and through images compares it to the city of La Habana nowadays. It teaches us that in the long run the consequences of the Castroit regime are more devastating that the weapons of mass destruction.

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On March 2, 2012, Fidel Castro met with some of the Japanese survivors of Hiroshima nuclear attack, part of a group in support of peace and ban of nuclear weapons. If they would have the opportunity to tour the city of La Habana, for sure they would experience horrible nightmares since the devastation of it would bring to memory the devastation of Hiroshima.
 
Theodore Dalrymple writes of the ruins of Havana in his article about the dilapidated city falling apart.
The city is like a great set of Bach variations on the theme of urban decay. The stucco has given way to mold; roofs have gone, replaced by corrugated iron; shutters have crumbled into sawdust; paint is a phenomenon of the past; staircases end in precipices; windows lack glass; doors are off their hinges; interior walls have collapsed; wooden props support, though not with any degree of assurance, all kinds of structures; ancient electrical wiring emerges from walls, like worms from cheese; wrought ironwork balconies crumble into rust; plaster peels as in a malignant skin disease; flagstones are mined for other purposes. Every grand and beautifully proportioned room—visible through the windows or in some places through the walls that have crumbled away—has been subdivided by plywood partitions into smaller spaces, in which entire families now live. Washing hangs from the windows of what were once palaces. Every entranceway is dark, and at night the electric lights glimmer rather than shine. No ruination is too great to render a building unfit for habitation: Havana is like a city that has been struck by an earthquake and its population forced to survive among the wreckage until relief arrives.
 
“This is how people live in Cuba”: Video captures critical housing situation on the island

Posted by Pedazos de la Isla on March 14, 2013

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The video, filmed and edited inside of Cuba by members of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), capture the current housing and living conditions in the country, providing various testimonies of everyday citizens from the Eastern region as well as images which display the conditions in which they live- homes without roofs, underage children working the land to not die of hunger, unemployed and unassisted people, etc. Towards the end of the video, the homes of everyday citizens are compares with those of communist functionaries. See the difference for yourselves.

The 2002 census data show that of the new housing units built between 1990 and 2002, close to 50,000 were bohíos and adobe structures, similar to the one shown in the picture. The bohío is a primitive dwellings with palm bark walls, earthen floors and palm leave roofs; adobe, mud bricks walls, earthen floors and palm leave roofs. Those can’t be classified as adequate housing.
 

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Fidel Castro and Donald Trump were controlled by Vladimir Putin.

Castro, Trump, and Putin should go to HELL after they die !
 
It would be interesting to compare life in Cuba since 1959 compared to life in other poor Latin American countries nearby. Mentioned this before, but I worked in 1961 with a Cuban exile who told me, "I hate Castro, but the US got what it deserved in Cuba." Check our history vis-a-vis Cuba since the Spanish American war, or simply watch Godfather II for a bit of the picture. Cuba was a rebellious child, whose rebellion the US couldn't stomach. There was detente with the Soviets, outreach to China, both which were brutal dictatorships that killed millions, but we wouldn't even allow our people to visit a country in our neighborhood. We accepted any Cuban who could make it here, but Reagan blockaded Haiti for a while, not allowing anyone to leave when political persecution was at its worst, with US forces acting like firemen carrying escapees back into a burning building.

And bad as he was, with long prison sentences for dissent, Fidel never managed to match some of the sadism shown by the fascists in Argentina and Chile in the 1970s.
 
And bad as he was, with long prison sentences for dissent, Fidel never managed to match some of the sadism shown by the fascists in Argentina and Chile in the 1970s.

Fidel was doing it this century.
 
Fidel was doing it this century.
Really? When did Fidel - in this century or last - imprison pregnant women without charge, wait til their kids were born, then kill them with no trial, giving their babies to his military, as was done in Argentina?
 
Really? When did Fidel - in this century or last - imprison pregnant women without charge, wait til their kids were born, then kill them with no trial, giving their babies to his military, as was done in Argentina?

Fidel faked hospital records to hide mother and infant mortality rates. He imprisoned, permanently, whistle-blowers.
 
Fidel faked hospital records to hide mother and infant mortality rates. He imprisoned, permanently, whistle-blowers.
Sounds like something Trump would have liked to try. But nothing like the monstrosity in Argentina. Look, the guy was a tyrant whom the US would have gleefully supported had he been a right wing dictator like some of those Reagan did. I suppose I would have been a dissident in Cuba under Fidel, but tho imprisoned, I doubt my entire family would have been killed, their mutilated bodies left out in public. He had his wars with the Catholic Church, but how many bishops, priests and nuns did he kill? At any rate, it's useless to get into atrocity contests, except to say that US outrage at Cuba and outreach to China/Soviet Union is hypocritical to say the least.
 
At any rate, it's useless to get into atrocity contests, except to say that US outrage at Cuba and outreach to China/Soviet Union is hypocritical to say the least.

Life is full of priorities with many factors and we do what we can where we can. Let's not be childish about it.
 
“This is how people live in Cuba”: Video captures critical housing situation on the island
Posted by Pedazos de la Isla on March 14, 2013

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The video, filmed and edited inside of Cuba by members of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), capture the current housing and living conditions in the country, providing various testimonies of everyday citizens from the Eastern region as well as images which display the conditions in which they live- homes without roofs, underage children working the land to not die of hunger, unemployed and unassisted people, etc. Towards the end of the video, the homes of everyday citizens are compares with those of communist functionaries. See the difference for yourselves.

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The 2002 census data show that of the new housing units built between 1990 and 2002, close to 50,000 were bohíos and adobe structures, similar to the one shown in the picture. The bohío is a primitive dwellings with palm bark walls, earthen floors and palm leave roofs; adobe, mud bricks walls, earthen floors and palm leave roofs. Those can’t be classified as adequate housing.
 
House deficit is estimated in 1.7 million units. 75% of the units in existence are over 45 years old, and 60% of the total is in bad or average condition according to the Cuban National Housing Institute. During the last 50 years the construction of new houses has been dismal. The regime statistics in the construction of new houses are cooked. This suspicion is validated by Former Vice-Minister Carlos Lage who near the beginning of 2009 revealed that less than half of the 111,300 housing units claimed built in 2006 were in fact built.
 
On December 2009, Vice President Ramiro Valdes in an address to the National Assembly said: “Some 58 percent of the water pumped by Cuba’s aqueducts is lost due to the distribution network’s poor condition.” And what the regime is doing about it?

From 1962 to 1990 the Castro regime received about five billion dollars per year in subsidies from the Soviet Union. The embargo was a nonissue during those years. During that period the resources dedicated to the construction of houses, transportation and the infrastructure were minimal.

The bulk of the money did not benefit the Cuban people since most of it was used to pay the cost of the wars in Africa, the subversion against the democratic governments of Latin America, the huge military force, and the repressive apparatus of the Department of the Interior.
 
“This is how people live in Cuba”: Video captures critical housing situation on the island

Posted by Pedazos de la Isla on March 14, 2013

[video] [/video]

The video, filmed and edited inside of Cuba by members of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), capture the current housing and living conditions in the country, providing various testimonies of everyday citizens from the Eastern region as well as images which display the conditions in which they live- homes without roofs, underage children working the land to not die of hunger, unemployed and unassisted people, etc. Towards the end of the video, the homes of everyday citizens are compares with those of communist functionaries. See the difference for yourselves.

The 2002 census data show that of the new housing units built between 1990 and 2002, close to 50,000 were bohíos and adobe structures, similar to the one shown in the picture. The bohío is a primitive dwellings with palm bark walls, earthen floors and palm leave roofs; adobe, mud bricks walls, earthen floors and palm leave roofs. Those can’t be classified as adequate housing.


“This is how people live in Cuba”:

This us how people end up living under every communist dictatorship.

This is Bernie Sanders and AOC's model of Utopia.
 
“This is how people live in Cuba”:

This us how people end up living under every communist dictatorship.

This is Bernie Sanders and AOC's model of Utopia.
Among many other problems affecting the population is the state of neglect of aqueducts that cause those large amounts of water losses. Estimates by the Cuban National Institute of Water Resources (INRH) is that “4,000 km of aqueduct distributions lines, equivalent to 37% of the network, are in great need of repair. Because of this near to two million people, mostly in Havana, are afflicted with water shortage.”

Fidel Castro and his “experts” didn’t have to reinvent the wheel to expand the distribution system and repair the leakage of the existing infrastructure. Not only are they incapable of producing and creating, but neither can they successfully copy or learn from designs and longstanding technologies and operating experiences.
 
Everything in Cuba is in need of repair. I was there 10 years ago (I assume not much has changed), and the entire country needs a good coat of paint. The thing that amazed me was the utter lack of obvious commerce (shops, bakeries, etc.), and that everybody seemed to be just hanging around without much to do.
 
Everything in Cuba is in need of repair. I was there 10 years ago (I assume not much has changed), and the entire country needs a good coat of paint. The thing that amazed me was the utter lack of obvious commerce (shops, bakeries, etc.), and that everybody seemed to be just hanging around without much to do.
You are right on target. In Cuba the regime pretend to pay the people and they pretend to work. People just sit around or walk around. You do not see people doing much of anything. They just do enough to survive.
 
Castro's death was a sad day for liberals everywhere.
 
Fact # 13 - He never apologized for any of his crimes and never stood trial for them.

In the earliest days of Fidel Castro’s regime, summary executions established a culture of fear that quickly eliminated most resistance. In the decades that followed, inhumane prison conditions often leading to death, unspeakable torture and privation were enough to keep Cubans intimidated.

According to the Cuba Archives around 5,600 Cubans have died in front of firing squads and another 1,200 in "extrajudicial assassination. Of the 94 minors whose deaths have been documented by Cuba Archive, 22 died by firing squad and 32 in extrajudicial assassinations, and has documented 219 female deaths including 11 firing squad executions and 20 extrajudicial assassinations.

Thousands of Cubans have died indirectly as a result of Fidel Castro's collectivist policies, unspeakable privations, malnutrition, and the general desolation of a once more prosperous island.
 
Fact # 13 - He never apologized for any of his crimes and never stood trial for them.

In the earliest days of Fidel Castro’s regime, summary executions established a culture of fear that quickly eliminated most resistance. In the decades that followed, inhumane prison conditions often leading to death, unspeakable torture and privation were enough to keep Cubans intimidated.

According to the Cuba Archives around 5,600 Cubans have died in front of firing squads and another 1,200 in "extrajudicial assassination. Of the 94 minors whose deaths have been documented by Cuba Archive, 22 died by firing squad and 32 in extrajudicial assassinations, and has documented 219 female deaths including 11 firing squad executions and 20 extrajudicial assassinations.

Thousands of Cubans have died indirectly as a result of Fidel Castro's collectivist policies, unspeakable privations, malnutrition, and the general desolation of a once more prosperous island.

And his biological son is the PM of Canada (ok, that's conspiracy stuff, but the resemblance is uncanny if you look at their pictures at the same age).
 
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