Time to reimpose the embargo! This time, it’ll work. Yeah, that’s it.
It’s about time for this bogeyman to be gone.
He’s one of very few revolutionary leaders of this century who could not be corrupted.
Can’t say as I’ll miss that old buzzard one bit. He destroyed countless lives in his quest to remake Cuban society into his perfect vision.
Ok. He was a socialist dictator that this country could never support because he nationalized American businesses and imprisoned and killed many of his opponents. On the other hand, the American government had no problem propping up Fulgencio Batista with military and economic aid, the previous corrupt dictator who suspended the 1940 constitution, revoked most civil liberties, ended the union right to strike, allied himself with American sugar interests and imprisoned and killed up to 20,000 of his opponents. And when Batista fled the country in 1959 he was an obscenely rich man who left a nation with a much wider split between rich and poor and little of a middle class than when he assumed power in 1952.
Sounds to me our government did not serve America’s interests by actively supporting the former while trying to assassinate and depose the latter. Batista could never be persuaded to not be corrupt, but a carrot approach to Castro, the promise of free trade and an enhanced Cuban middle class just may have made him a non ally of the Soviet Union… and just may have made the catastrophic risk associated with the Cuban missile crisis unnecessary.
Was a time, when I was young, where some of us admired Castro and his revolution, because they had expelled the Mafia and it’s gambling and prostitution trade, which had made 1950’s Cuba the expensive bordello of the Caribbean.
That was before he and his regime’s mismanaged economy could only produce salaries of less than $100 a week for honest employment. And, in order to generate hard foreign currency, he tolerated, for decades, the illegal prostitution of ever increasing to what has become scandalously massive numbers of women and men to the sex tourism trade, dwarfing anything the Mafia ever had going. This report is by NACLA, not some rabid anti-Castro group Colonization of the Cuban Body: The Growth of Male Sex Work in Havana . This blog is by a Nuevo Herald (Miami Herald Spanish version, I assume) reporter and contains allegations of children being prostituted for foreign tourists. Cuba Advisory: Hotel Guests Complain of Prostitution. You can also find numerous videos on Youtube about sex tourism in Cuba and the sex workers who cater to all gender preferences.
And in the end, Castro’s cupidity was no different from Fulgencio Batista’s, Anastasio Somoza’s, Baby Doc Duvalier’s or Francisco Franco’s. The Guardian, 2013 Review of La Vie Cachee de Fidel Castro, by former bodyguard Juan Reinaldo Sanchez
They may impose one on us until we can demonstrate a commitment to open and aboveboard elections.
Heard a radio piece on Cuban Ă©migrĂ©s in Florida once that said if anything proves the inefficacy of SanterĂa it’s the countless chickens sacrificed over decades in an effort to curse him.
Trump has no brothers. I guess we are stuck with Donald Jr he gets old (-:
Dammit 2016, why you gotta take all the good – wait. Oh. Well. I guess even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Has Trump taken credit for Castro’s death yet?
Guess this means we will see Elian Gonzales’ Miami relatives on the teevee machine again.
Now that Fidel’s dead, and so far Trump is silent, I’m wondering if he’s too busy negotiating a uuuuge Trump hotel/golf course?
ThanK You TrumP for Making Castro dead By the Sheer force of Your wlll. Something ohBUmmer never did because He wanted to appease communists, best friend oF Putin, and trying to make socialistic utopiary in USA. Making America GrEat again already!!!1!!!1!!one!!!1!!!
i doubt many people are capable of judging this man…especially if they go only by what the american media has told them.
i wonder if the cuban people would have better off…if our policy was geared toward reaching out and having as normal a relationship as possible with castro…surely such influence would have been good for cubas people…and besides…do we not presently and during the entire castro era…maintain cordial relations with countries that treat their people worse than anything castro did?
do we as a country have the right to throw stones when we invade /destroy/bomb…anyplace on the planet with reckless abandon?
these are not minor points…and they dont excuse what castro was/did that were not in the interests of the cuban people.
try to imagine what…say …trump would be.if he had the power he thinks he does…or better yet…try and imagine what the PEOPLE of this country would allow/act out towards their fellow citizen… if trump COULD allow it…
lol…then come back in 6 months and tell me again why castro was so bad.
funny you should make this your point…when was the last time you took a look out the window of your car…say on the streets of ft. lauderdale?
and…prostitution is legal in parts of this country…does THAT make it ok ?
why not?
and sadly…i KNOW you dont believe child sex is limited only to cuba?
i commend you for bringing this issue up…but…i think it is hard to maintain the high ground…if the thing you argue against is happening in your own back yard…so to speak…
one final point…are you familiar with the Franklin Coverup?
Actually, there have been rumors from the very beginning of the Revolution that his success and ongoing survival were due to the efficacy of his very active participation in Santeria. His irreverent nickname was El Caballo and apparently it had a Santeria meaning as well as whatever other meanings it might have had.
With typical Trump-tweet disrespectful response: “Fidel Castro is dead!” Sad.
Trump and family are pondering political implications for the country, while at the same time, business opportunities for the Trump Organization. Crooked Hillary??
Thanks Obama.