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I find it interesting that so many leaders in former Communist countries happen to end up as millionaires and billionaires. Well in Fidel's case 900 million dollars with 20 properties and a private island all his own. Why are so many Socialist such hypocrites? It's always about the money and power being cloaked behind it all being for the people crap. Castro was very careful to hide his wealth from his fellow Cubans, always telling them he had no use for the trappings of wealth or power, he was one of them. He stole hundreds of millions just like his brother is doing now as well.
What a hypocrite, careful to hide his private island, his 20 properties around Cuba. Don't forget he sent a letter to FDR asking for a ten dollar bill, because he never held one. Always about the money. And here is another fact he lied in that letter about his age. Shaved two years off it to make himself younger and I guess more needy of the ten bucks.
The bleeding hearts, including our President will wax poetically all this week how the world has lost such a great leader, such a steady force in the late Cuban dictator. They will refuse to even admit that he had hundreds or thousands killed or imprisoned. It must be nice to see nothing but good in a Socialist, Communist, Dictator, Sociopath. Funny they have nothing but hatred for any conservative.
They will never admit he was a massive lie. Remember the 100,000 refuges he "allowed" to leave in the Mariel boat lift. Poor Jimmy Carter thought he was getting the weak, the poor, the desperate out of Cuba, to save them. Castro emptied the prisons and mental hospital. What Carter got was the violent prisoners, the mental hospital residents, the worst that Castro could dump on us. Castro dumped his biggest problem on us and kept the political prisoners, who were supposed to be allowed to go. Jimmy Carter outsmarted again. Go figure. Carter invented Obamacare first.
I think the temperature in Hell had to go up a few degrees today as they had to put an extra log on the fires of Hell for him. Roast in Hell and my your brother be not far behind you. The US controls finances around the world. Where can Castro store the "stolen money"? In the bedside table? I beg your pardon, I can't see the point of your writing
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Here's the Forbes Report documenting Castro's wealth that anyone can find with a little bit of searching. http://www.therealcuba.com/?page_id=74
The 2nd Amendment IS an unalienable right.
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You guys get Trump, we get Derek Zoolander. HA! If a dictator gives lip service to capitalism the left accurately paints him as a sociopath. If a dictator gives lip service to socialism they paint him as a slightly flawed saint. So the left uses only the professed economic system preference of dictators to judge them. Certainly that is a cynical choice for a group that views itself as always occupying the high moral ground. Kind of makes them a bunch self-righteous hypocrites, one of their favorite accusations to throw at us.
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Some great fishing around the coast of Cuba though. Lagopus.....
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C'mon. Don't be sore losers. I checked on Cuba's progress last year, from my days there during the revolution. Living standards had raised relatively far beyond US and Canada best efforts over 50 years. Look it up.
And the US could have kept Cuba under its control with its sanctioned dictatorships and the Mafia at Bay of Pigs---if only the USN with aircraft carrier and jets hadn't arrived an hour late. It didn't set its watches to the correct time zone.
A reasonable person comparing pre-Castro conditions and what's there now couldn't imagine a country needing a revolution more. The Vatican position is if the Church waits 100 years for the revolution to become a Christian one, it's worth waiting for.
The Church had done nothing to lift the misery the preceding 400 years. I heard Castro tell the Church it had two options: it could continue to promote the faith but if it didn't work for the people he would send all of its priests back to Spain.
It wasn't a benign dictatorship at any time. It was regressive in protecting its revolutionary ideals, surrounded by adversaries, including the world's most powerful country, pledged to bring it down.
Canada supported it from the beginning, refused to cut it off. Fidel and our prime minister's father Pierre were friends. Cuba today has better or comparative education and health standards than in many regions of the US.
I couldn't rejoice in anyone's death and, remembering in the blind this morning where Cuba was and is today, I couldn't think of a single living leader who had done more than Fidel for the men and women and children of their country.
Fire away!
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Yep. You've got to be right about all that, because you say so. But then ................. why do thousands flee to the USA, risking their lives to do so? Living conditions must just be too good there, eh?
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ANY statistics from a country ruled by a dictator are subject to be pencil whipped - into what the dictator wants to see. So any statistics from Cuba showing "improved living conditions", "top flight health care", etc... are in fact what the Castro brothers wanted them to be.
In The Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn wrote that each level of Communist bureaucrat lied about the grain harvests. When the local apparatchik realized his harvest numbers were horribly sub-plan he lied and certified them to be on target, then the next level did the same, and then the next level did the same, and so on and so on. They did this because they knew if they told the truth they would be fired, imprisoned, and maybe killed. So Stalin, along with the entire country, was taken by surprise. The coverup of the gross grain shortage exacerbated the horrible famine that ensued.
Data issued by dictatorial governments only has value if the paper it is printed on is then recycled.
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Eighteen years ago, While taking a 43 Bertam from Florida to Baja through the ditch, we declared a "Maritime Emergency" and made port in Cuba. We stayed eleven days, avoided big cities, and just wandered and mingled. We ate, worked, visited, partied and discussed with the people. We had a lot of contact with Cuban Army and cops, mostly young guys. Curious, more than anything..wanted to talk about cars, baseball, women...Just like young guys do. We were never hassled, or asked for papers or money. We saw no one starving, and no one who had much of anything. People were, I think a good word would be "resigned" to their situation. Was it a wonderful way to live...NO. Was it horrible...NO..Somewhere in between. Most of the people would rather have been elsewhere, I am sure. Were they "desperate to leave? No. We had a great bon voyage party, and made some good friends. I wonder what will happen now? FYI: We took the Bertam down that way, instead of shipping it, because we wanted to, and we could.
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King, Castro was a murderer. That he was friends with Trudeau is just further evidence of what poor judgement Trudeau had in one more area.
All Caribbean countries have improved over the last 60 years. So what. If you get on the ground, in Cuba today, and have the trust of the common man, you find out what a revolting and soul destroying place it is. How is this for an example. A doctor (female), married to another doctor, propositions my ex BIL in order to gain some hard currency.
When you talk about the workers' paradise you think Cuba now is, it is without contact with the actual people.
NO ONE there is happy with the regime unless they are part of the select few who ARE the regime.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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Well, there's the word from a guy who has obviously spent a lot of time in Cuba...
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