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Fidel Castro, Longtime Dictator of Cuba, Has Died

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Sweden said:
Cuba remains a Communist dictatorship. Oppression has worsend under Raul Castro according to human rights watch. So why should the US "take cuba under its wing"?
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Maybe they can be swayed away from communism now that castro is gone..
 
United States, in spite of our hostile relationship with Castro, managed to keep and operate a military base in Cuba throughout his more than fifty year regime. Do you think an enormous undercurrent of strategic military strategy exists that sustains a tenuous balance of power and world order? Spend an hour or so researching the take over of Diego Garcia by British Intelligence and the U.S. Military.
I love the United States. I understand it's culture and systems better than those of any other country. That stated, I also recognize our Government does not posses an inherent moral and intellectual superiority over all the other countries of the world. No, our Government, instead, holds an established military superiority over all other countries, thus maintaining over 1000 military bases on foreign soil. Don't kid yourself about why we involve ourselves in other countries. Take Puerto Rico and Jamaica, two of the other Caribbean Islands, as examples. I have family in Puerto Rico and I began taking trips into Jamaica in the 1970s. I personally find Jamaica far more charming and enjoyable than Puerto Rico. For the few of you who might not know, Puerto Rico enjoys status as a U.S. territory with an option of statehood.. an option which the people of Puerto Rico have repeatedly rejected.
 
Sherman123 said:
It is my pleasure to share the news that Fidel Castro has at last given up the ghost. May the thousands he murdered, and the many more who he imprisoned and tortured, haunt him.

Cuba's Fidel Castro, former president, dies aged 90 - BBC News
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Here's a quote apropos the occasion:

If this were a just world, 13 facts would be etched on Castro’s tombstone and highlighted in every obituary, as bullet points — a fitting metaphor for someone who used firing squads to murder thousands of his own people.

●He turned Cuba into a colony of the Soviet Union and nearly caused a nuclear holocaust.

●He sponsored terrorism wherever he could and allied himself with many of the worst dictators on earth.

●He was responsible for so many thousands of executions and disappearances in Cuba that a precise number is hard to reckon.

●He brooked no dissent and built concentration camps and prisons at an unprecedented rate, filling them to capacity, incarcerating a higher percentage of his own people than most other modern dictators, including Stalin.

●He condoned and encouraged torture and extrajudicial killings.

●He forced nearly 20 percent of his people into exile, and prompted thousands to meet their deaths at sea, unseen and uncounted, while fleeing from him in crude vessels.

●He claimed all property for himself and his henchmen, strangled food production and impoverished the vast majority of his people.

●He outlawed private enterprise and labor unions, wiped out Cuba’s large middle class and turned Cubans into slaves of the state.

●He persecuted gay people and tried to eradicate religion.
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Tangmo said:
That's good to hear, especially if that is what you mean to say.

Cause he forgot Franco, Pinochet, Chavez, Samosa, Kim I and Kim II, Marcos, Tito, Mussolini and a slew of others on the fascist right or very close to being there. (Needn't mention Hitler of course.)

Castro was a dictator. He did some socialism things but he always did dictator things in the absolute.

Russia and China learned long ago to stay away from him and his place 90 miles off the coast of the United States. Good lesson that Fidel became in these respects. Yes indeed.
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Thus speaks a fraudulent "officer."
 
Aristaeus said:
A god time for him to leave us: having seen the utter humiliation of the US resulting from the election of Trump.
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The US humiliation was Obama going there to kiss Raul's ass.

I am sure the Castro's were scared what was next with Trump.

He will not fall for their bull****.
 
sanman said:
You can do that in any poor country - including Mexico
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Really? Since I live here in Mexico please tell me where this is happening.

I haven't heard about any of this in my almost 20 years here.

If you get caught messing with a minor, the penalties are severe.
 
Jack Hays said:
I will not speak ill of the dead, so I will pause to remember the thousands who died at sea fleeing Cuban tyranny.
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What about the Batista tyranny? Cuba was a brutal dictatorship before Castro (without the improved healthcare and education).
 
apdst said:
I just heard the great news! I hope the bastard died slow and suffered. Too bad he didn't get planted 60 years ago.
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Exactly.

All those bullets flying around, and not one of them found him.

What are the odds?
 
Jack Hays said:
That is why the US imposed an arms embargo on the Batista regime.
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Err... the Batista dictatorship received financial and military aid from America.
 
Renae said:
My wife grew up in Berlin, she tells stories, harrowing stories really, of the difference between East and West Germany. They would cross the border, (with soldiers with AK's pointing them at the car) and the East side, where one could shop, was... bleak is the best description. I've heard much of Cuba is the same way, aside the enclaves of the ruling party and the tourist traps to prop up their lifestyles.
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East Germany was the best of the former Communist states, and that was a scary **** hole.

I wish the clueless who speak about Cuba and other Commi ****holes as if they're some type of civil society would go to these countries even now...a couple decades since they had a chance to improve things.

They'd change their song damn quick.
 
Aristaeus said:
Err... the Batista dictatorship received financial and military aid from America.
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"An embargo was first imposed by the United States on sale of arms to Cuba on the 14[SUP]th[/SUP] of March 1958, during the Fulgencio Batista regime."

United States embargo against Cuba - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_Cuba


United States embargo against Cuba. ... Again on October 19, 1960 (almost two years after the Batista regime was deposed by the Cuban Revolution) the U.S. placed an embargo on exports to Cuba except for food and medicine after Cuba nationalized American-owned Cuban oil refineries without compensation.
 
AtlantaAdonis said:
RIP to a great leader who defended a country from western financial and cultural imperialism for decades.
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Aren't you one of the people that think their cultural views should imposed on the people through government force? So what, you're for government forcing cultural changes through government force, but not if they do so outside of their borders?
 
Orly? said:
Maybe they can be swayed away from communism now that castro is gone..
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These people aren't "swayed"... they have everything to lose... and will hold onto it with all their might.
 
Tangmo said:
That's good to hear, especially if that is what you mean to say.

Cause he forgot Franco, Pinochet, Chavez, Samosa, Kim I and Kim II, Marcos, Tito, Mussolini and a slew of others on the fascist right or very close to being there. (Needn't mention Hitler of course.)

Castro was a dictator. He did some socialism things but he always did dictator things in the absolute.

Russia and China learned long ago to stay away from him and his place 90 miles off the coast of the United States. Good lesson that Fidel became in these respects. Yes indeed.
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Socialism requires coercion.
 
zimmer said:
Their identity has been stolen... their freedom has been stolen... their dignity has been stolen.
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Given that Cuba was a brutal dictatorship under Batista (minus the improved healthcare, education) would you care to explain how Castro stole their freedom?
 
Jack Hays said:
"An embargo was first imposed by the United States on sale of arms to Cuba on the 14[SUP]th[/SUP] of March 1958, during the Fulgencio Batista regime."

United States embargo against Cuba - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_Cuba


United States embargo against Cuba. ... Again on October 19, 1960 (almost two years after the Batista regime was deposed by the Cuban Revolution) the U.S. placed an embargo on exports to Cuba except for food and medicine after Cuba nationalized American-owned Cuban oil refineries without compensation.
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And between '52 and '58 the US provided financial and military aid to Batista's brutal dictatorship as I pointed out.
 
Aristaeus said:
Given that Cuba was a brutal dictatorship under Batista (minus the improved healthcare, education) would you care to explain how Castro stole their freedom?
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And yet over one million Cubans fled Castro. Why do you suppose they left? No similar exodus occurred under Batista.
 
Aristaeus said:
Given that Cuba was a brutal dictatorship under Batista (minus the improved healthcare, education) would you care to explain how Castro stole their freedom?
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He didn't liberate them... did he?

He did not allow them their inalienable rights... did he?

He is the scum found at the bottom of a latrine.
 
I was in Cuba 5 1/2 years ago, and what I saw was equality of poverty. Downtown Havana was full of people, not on the go as in Western cities, but just hanging around with no apparent purpose. There were almost no shops, or anything else that indicated the existence of enterprise. I also saw Moscow and Leningrad in the months just before the fall of the USSR in 1991, and even they had more going for them than the Cubans (except for the climate of course).
 
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