@Nanatsaya77... I WAS born in Cuba, you just heard the propaganda. I saw the execution and imprisonment, the summary trials; the internments at UMAP and the drowned rafters. Maybe that type of government sits well with people like you but us Cubans call it tyranny.
People shit all over Fidel, but where would Cuba be without the embargo? If communism sucks so bad, why not let it fail on its own? Must we continue to sabotage it? Change will come eventually, hopefully it is not in the spirit of exploitation, but rather concern for profits and human development alike.
@airborne41f...I hope you are proud of that statement. It only proves you have a six grade level education and you are ignorant about Cuba related issues.
@naturalExistence... then it is settled! Give away all of your pride possessions; your right to freely speak, assemble, carry guns, protection against unreasonable searches, etc., and go live in Cuba as a Cuban not as a tourist. I bit the statistics you cited won't mean as much.
@lrodria1 actually,you are dead wrong,you cant carry guns in a lot of countries,you can speak,assemble,and those searches happen once in ,say 30-40 years.... but then again most people have never been to cuba so they dont know.... do they???
@NeutralExperience...in Cuba only government supporters are afforded advanced education. Rationed food means you owe your existance to the government. Three million Cubans have been exiled by Castro. No freedom of press, assembly, etc. How do you like those statistics?
@ryanrful please get of castro's dick, you're a dicgrace to society. your parents should be sent to jail for not teaching u about foreign politics correctly
@NeutralExistence... Castro supporters enjoy repeating Cuban government generated statistics intended for the gullible and naive. Unlike you, I was born and raised in Cuba and I experienced the horrors of communism...
@ProleteriatTakeover... Castro is an oppressor of Cubans of all races- look up Laura Pollan and The Ladies in White. Only in Harlem would a scum of the earth such as Castro gather an audience. Understand now?
Some of these measures were undertaken by Fidel Castro's government in the name of the program outlined in the Manifesto of the Sierra Maestra.[63] The government nationalized private property totaling about USD $25 billion,[64] of which American property made up around USD $1 billion.[64][65]
He is also an oppressor of "American" hegemony, which one do you think the U.S. government is more worried about, the Cuban people, or multiple billions worth of property etc..?
@campcurry... I am a "minority" in the U.S. and I don't agree with all U.S. foreign policy but the topic here is Castro not the U.S. Of all the countries you mentioned none has had a dictator or one party system for over half a century. Cuba has. Get the picture?
Cuba has a 99.8% literacy rate,[3][13] an infant death rate lower than some developed countries,[14] and an average life expectancy of 77.64.[3] In 2006, Cuba was the only nation in the world which met the WWF's definition of sustainable development; having an ecological footprint of less than 1.8 hectares per capita and a Human Development Index of over 0.8 for 2007. GDP (nominal) 2010 estimate Total $57.49 billion.
@redword2007... Is there a limit to your stupidity? You have never lived a day under communism, I have. Your family has not been imprisoned or shot. All of your facts come from reading communist propaganda in your momma"s basement. Dude, you have not experienced enough to have an opinion on Cuba. Get a life.
@lrodria1 Have you ever lived as a minority in this country? Or an citizen of Iraq, Afganistan, Panama or anywhere else the imperialists have invaded to keep their power and control? Look at the bigger picture and how fucked up American imperialism is and how we terrorize the planet.
@campcurry You are so delusional. Go to Cuba as a dissident and see how you like it there! You are defending a man who imprisons those who speak against his regime. How dare you criticize the United States and yet defend authoritarianism. We don't want you and your crazy fucking friends who cry "oppression, oppression" when there is little, and yet turn a blind eye when this oppression is real.
@VANITYBONET You are clearly someone who has grown up in an underprivileged area. Let me explain to you. Black people are NICE people. White People and Black People are the SAME at heart. As are Asians, Europeans, Indians, American-Indians and all races. The only difference is where a person lives, so they are indoctrinated more and their intelligences based on how they are educated. Many people in Afghanistan and the like are made to hate the west, through lies. This is why you hate Blacks.
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@Mek1234ify You are so delusional. Go to Cuba as a dissident and see how you like it there! You are defending a man who imprisons those who speak against his regime. How dare you criticize the United States and yet defend authoritarianism. We don't want you and your crazy fucking friends who cry "oppression, oppression" when there is little, and yet turn a blind eye when this oppression is real.
Under baptista's rule Black Cuban they were just like slaves they didn't have rights, but with Castro, more blacks in power and less of them they go to the exile.
@redword2007..I suggest that you read our 1941 Cuban constitution which was more liberal and employee friendly than that of the U.S. Furthermore, don't take my word for it, google Oscar Elias Biscet, Antunez, Zapata, the group of 75, the ladies in white and others so you can learn about Cuba's dissident movement. I wish you good luck and I hope someday you come to understand there are two sides to this issue.
If you are Cuban as you claim, then your ignorance of your own country is breathtaking. You really believe that life was better for Cuban people under Batista?
There was a brief period when he invested in social welfare, but that didn't last long. Under his dicatorship - in which he took state gangsterism to new heights through his links with the US mafia - universities became a battleground and students leaders were imprisoned, tortured and murdered.
There are plenty of critics of batista on the left for obvious reasons, but who do you think said this?
"I believe that there is no country in the world including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country’s policies during the Batista regime."
Of course you have no idea. It was John F Kennedy.
@redword2007 great Comment!!!! I do not agree with some things Fidel is at least said to have done, but he has done more to liberate Africa than any other nation in the world. I love him and will defend my "comrade" against anyone at anytime.
Thank you my friend and you are of course correct. I spent many 5 years in Southern Africa and was very fortunate to meet many brave and principled Cubans who fought tirelessly alongside African comrades to defeat imperialism. Fidel is a hero in many parts of Africa.
@redword2007 People in america could learn some from Fidel, Che, Mandela and others! Americans are on average selfish and place much on little. Fidel was an attorney; Che, a Doctor; Mandela, an attorney. These men may not have been rich in their lands, but they would have been better off than the people they fought for. The same goes for many black revolutionaries like Huey P Newton, Assatta Shakur and others who were in college,but chose to fight the power structure on behalf of others.
@redword2007...Again with the worn out health and free education statistics! Both of those necessities were free to Cubans before Castro; however, that is an inconvenient fact for you to accept because you do not know our history...
Wy at that time the fucking cubans from miami dint kill castro on american land because miami politic is bullshit just bla bla..........................
@redword2007.. Like a true communist, you insult me and my family without even ever meeting us. I can understand your support of the old Soviet Union; you and your ancestors have been enslaved ny a now dead monarchy and you are looking for a mew master. Still sore about 1776 and 1812?
Information about improvements in health and education in Cuba are available from the UN and other international bodies. This information may be inconvenient for your argument, but it happens to be true so you shouldn't ignore it.
You seem to be suggesting that I shouldn't express a view about Cuba because I haven't been there. I notice that you don't hesitate to comment on places and events that you haven't experienced directly, but then logic isn't one of your strengths.
@redword2007...You present an argument that you cannot support. You have never even visited Cuba and as a parrot, you repeat the propaganda that is fed to you by your communist counterparts. You do not know of Che's executions, the UMAP, Operacion Pedro Pan, Mariel and the many other crimes commited by Castro...
@redword2007...it is obvious you have lost the argument my leftist friend. My family was a typical Cuban family. We did not own properties, nor were we involved in politics. We do have a strong patriotic sense and a desire for freedom and that is why we opposed the totalirarian regime you support...
@redword2007...speaking of "blockades", how about the genocidal system England has pushed on the Irish and Scottish throughout the centuries? Were it not for the U.S. you'd be blogging in German.
The US only entered WWII when it was attacked. Compared to the Soviet Union, the US was bit part player in the defeat of fascism. The history that you learned from Hollywood is in fact untrue.
@redword2007 How quickly we forget! Were it not for that "bit" part played by courageous American boys who laid their lives throughout Europe, your "kingdom" would not have survived. I have always looked at Great Britain as an ally in an unfriendly world, but for people like you to take up sides with a deranged dictator such as Castro leaves a lot be desired.
I haven't forgotten the US role in WWII, but I do reject the popular myth that the US was primarily responsible for the defeat of fascism. The Soviet Union fought harder, longer and paid a much greater sacrifice than the US.
I consider the US to be the most ruthless and bloodthirsty regime since the Nazis. Do you have any idea how many countries the US has invaded or destablised since 1945? Or how many people have died as a result of US imperialism?
@redword2007 I kindly disagree. Do you have any idea how many countries your "kingdom" invaded, usurped or enslaved? You come from a nation that institutionalized slavery! Problem is, you would prefer to continue your hold on the old colonies and that time has come and gone. Your empire is now a "has-been" and I'm not surprised at the fact. Probably due to extremists such as you.
You said: "Do you have any idea how many countries your "kingdom" invaded, usurped or enslaved?"
As a matter of fact I do, because I have been activley involved in the struggle against British imperialism all my adult life. Do you know? Of course you don't.
The crimes of US imperialism are not deminished by a recounting of British crimes. Idiot.
@redword2007..the UN vote count is nothing but a farse. The UN cares little about human rights abuses in Cuba and despots from throughout the world make a mockery of that system...
@redword2007..it is quite obvious you are not Cuban. To begin with, the U.S. has an economic embargo not a "blockade" against Fidel Castro's dictatorial regime. Cuba is free to trade with every other country; however, since Castro cares little about foreign debt, few countries will extend loans to Cuba....
@redword2007 I believe the embargo and the Helms-Burton Act hurt the Cuban people and I'm not in agreement with either one. I do know that you fail to see the big picture here which is that the Castro brothers imposed a totalitarian, ungodly government on a cultured island and have managed to destroy every aspect of that society. The embargo is just another excuse for the Castro brothers to continue to violate human rights and to prevent the inevitable death of communism.
You said: "Cuba is free to trade with every other country." I pointed out that the US has attempted to prevent Cuba trading with third parties. Now you say you don't agree with that. That's fine, but let's not gloss over the fact that your original statement was wrong.
@redword2007 Your ignorance and arrogance are based on the fact that you have never lived under a totalitarian regime. The solution to your problem is quite easy! Give up all your belongings to your neighbors and travel to Cuba to live as a Cuban not as a tourist. Once there, you will not be able to blog, because THAT is prohibited and you will be issued your food ration card. Two weeks later, you will be crying in front of the British embassy hoping for a one way ticket to London! Cheers mate.
As for you saying that the Cuban revolution has: "destroy[ed] every aspect of that society", a first year undergraduate would wince at such a sweeping statement. Apparently you are unaware of the progress Cuba has made in health and education. Black Cubans on average live longer than African Americans and literacy rates amongst Cubans is better than African Americans. You call that destruction?
@redword2007 Unlike you, who has enjoyed all of the virtues of a democratic society throughout his life, I was born in Cuba and I saw first hand the abuses committed by the Castro regime. A totalitarian government that destroyed everything and everyone who stood in its way. The right to own property, free press, free speech, religion, and freedom to assemble were its first casualties. Then came the summary trials, the executions, political imprisonment and slave camps...
Of course the pimps, the gangsters and the plantation owners who has ruthlessly exploited the people for generations lost their property. Which category did your family fit into?
I have pointed out the progress that Cuba has made in health and education. Yet you ignorantly repeat the same old anti-communist propaganda - they "destroyed everything." Of course you're not capable of making an argument, you just repeat the same old lies.
@redword2007 What part of Cuba is your family from? My family and friends know first hand the evil of Fidel Castro. Stop drinking the Kool-Aid and Im sure you werent told the truth about the dictator from your communist brainwashers.
I'm not Cuban, I'm British. Are you really ignorant of the impact of the US blockade of Cuba? Do you even know that the UN routinely condemns the blockade? The last vote in the General Assembly for example condemned it by 187 votes to 2.
@vincemcneal600 There is such a thing as diplomatic immunity... The headquarters for the United Nations happens to be in New York and it would be unjust for the US to murder leaders of UN member states when they attend UN meetings, even if they are perceived to be dictators in the eyes of the US. If they would do that, then the UN would be forced to move its headquarters, because the US cannot be trusted in that case.
Ignorance is bliss! Castro ships doctors to different countries to generate goodwill and that makes him a great man? For 52 years Castro the dictator has oppressed Cuba and its citizens. There are 2 million cubans living in exile to escape prison and hunger! Look up Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, the Ladies in While and hundreds of other dissidents who struggle for liberty every day.
fidel castro is a goog man.cuba has the best doctors and there people dont pay 4 health care.Fuck what people say this man is truly great person for what he done 4 his people.
Anyone who dares not to play ball with America or Europe suffers-just look at Hati-Maybe Fidel has done some bad things but real change isn't without pain
@antihowish I know Mexico has terrible problems with crime but I have traveled there numerous times and people are free to assemble, to protest government decisions or working conditions. Cubans are forced to live under one political system under threat of imprisonment or exile. You have your problems, we have ours.
Are Afro-Cubans any less important than Afro-Americans? Zapata died in a hunger strike one year ago. Antunez a peaceful blind dissident is beaten by government officials. Dr. Elias Biscet is jailed for his political stance. The Ladies in White are jailed and beaten. True heroes, all blacks and victims of Castro's communist government. Viva Cuba! Down with Fidel!
@lrodria1 come to mexico to see what a real execution and disappearances and corruption by a corrupt and pro-American overplays challenge you to come and live with the money earned by more than 8 hours of shit and Mexican earn insecurity they have if not kill the drug cartels kill soldiers ... do not know what I mean when you say that in Cuba there repression..........and in Mexico the government is pro-American capitalist
These Cubans are forced to go on these trips to Africa to spreed communism. He's no hero he is a menace. The people of Cuban can't vote nor speak freely about the government. Black Cuban make up a large population yet they are underrepresented in the government.
There is no free press. The Cuban people are suffering and you people are blinded by this guy's charm and ego. He is a terror!
PS the translator was horrible and ruined his joke.
First of all, you faggot, Castro said himself,that it is a problem,that black Cubans are underrepresented in the Government and still this numbers are a joke compared to Batistas "i am a US-whore" -regime.
There is less free speach,because the USA is permanentely doing propaganda and terrorist acts against Cuba. We all know what happens in the US,when something like that happens ,right? Internment camps for the Japanese Americans? Or the Patriot Act and Free speech zones?
@shurednichso Really and Castro's Iam a Soviet-whore Regime. You my friend are what they call a useful idiot. You complain about free speech in the USA, however the very discussion we are having right now would be prohibited in Cuba.
Second, Batista was half black you dumby.
USA is doing propaganda against Cuba, atleast we don't have anti-communist/Cuba billboards all over the country like Cuba does.
Oh my god, you fucking joke. You dont know about the "free speech zones" in the US,which are a violation of the Constitutional rights of Americans,because the CUT these,you dumbfuck!
And that Batista was half black doesnt made the black population any wealthier ,healthier or more educated.
Castro has black people in his governemnt,still he complains about the low precentage of black Cubans in the government,you fool!
@shurednichso The entire country of Cuba is a free speech violation. Cubans cannot speak freely, how can you compare. This very conversation would put your job at jeopardy or even prison time.
Yes the fact that Bastista was half black doesn't make the black population any better off, however it does show that black were able to rise to power.
What has Castro done for blacks in Cuba beside talk about how he wants equality. Name one afro Cuban official or a afro Cuban revolutionary.
@shurednichso Youtube JAMA PANFILO.....Cuba has become a haven for cheap sex. Tourist flock from Europe and Canada for the cheap sex. Black Cuban woman for more likely to become prostitutes.
@shurednichso Name 1 afro Cuban official all of them are old white Cuban revolutionary. He doesn't even allow younger Cubans to obtain high position for fear that they would change the status quo
I even met one of the people working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. And guess what,he was pretty dark.
Besides that you talk all bull obviously. The standart of life in Cuba under Fidel is better for the huge part of the population then in any other Latin American country. Unpayed healthcare and education of firsts world standarts. They have a even lower infant deathquote then the fucking US.
And compared to Batistas Cuba..lets say, to even compare is a joke of its own.
@shurednichso I don't deny that Castro provide Cubans a good education and healthcare. However, this does not make it ok for him to deny them freedom of speech, the freedom to leave the country freely, the freedom to even move around Cuba freely.
Tell me if Cuba is so great why do so many Cuba flee. If Cuba is a so great way does Fidel have travel rescrictions for his people. If Cuba is so create why is Yoani Sanchez write her blog. If Cuba is so great why can there be democracy!!
@Perezr919 and it easy to provide healthcare and education when that pretty much all you provide. Wheres the SSI, Welfare, food stamp, Section 8 housing, public transportation, sanitation, proper plumbing and electricity.
The lights go off in Cuba all the time at night the streets are dark. plumbing is unreliable, roads are unreliable and public transportation is almost non existant. These are the basic things that are sacrified in Cuba in order to have "free" healthcare and education.
@shurednichso This is not an issue of Capitalism or Socialism. This is an issue of Democracy or Dictatorship. The Castros need to step down. If you support Castro you are supporting a Dictator.
@Perezr919 at the same time while that statement is true. I would not argue that democracy is not the ideal way of governance...but even in a country where voting rights are excercised..and interests are not properly represented..over looked or even ignored...where politicians act on their own desires...its a legal form of dictatorship...alot of democratic countries have dictators for governements..the only reason people dislike castro his governance isnt "legal" its not politically correct!
@ThePreepree democracy is opposite of a dictatorship. What you describe is not a democracy but a perverted versions of it. They arent real democracy they say they are just so they dont appear as dictators.
@shurednichso and it easy to provide healthcare and education when that pretty much all you provide. Wheres the SSI, Welfare, food stamp, Section 8 housing, public transportation, sanitation, proper plumbing and electricity.
The lights go off in Cuba all the time at night the streets are dark. plumbing is unreliable, roads are unreliable and public transportation is almost non existant. These are the basic things that are sacrified in Cuba in order to have "free" healthcare and education.
WOW, you isolate the country totally by force, threaten the country,try to kill the government and you set a standart ,that isnt there for the majority of the Latin Americans.
Basic things are btw. Food,education and healthcare. That 2 last ones Cuba does provide better then even the US does for the large part.
@shurednichso yeaaaa right there arnt even street lights in havana dumbass and the light go out at random. Only people who live near resort have good plumbing because they are connected to the plumbing that the resort pay for. Cubans are accustomed to taking fast showers because of they dont know when the waters gonna stop, trust me i know.
BTW the rest of latin didnt have NUCLEAR BOMBS pointed at the USA so STFU.
@shurednichso Cubans are accustomed to taking fast showers for fear that the water will stop flowing. There are no street lights in Havana. Lights go out regularly. However if you fortunate enough to live in an area where electricity and plumbing runs to resort you wont have this problem.
Iam not in favor of the embargo however I dont believe it is what ales Cuba.
The Cuban revolution also imprisons thousands of political prisoners and deprives citizens of their basic rights. Look up Dr. Elias Bisset, and Antunes, both Afro-Cubans who are imprisoned for standing up for dignity and freedom. Would you support a tyrant in power for 50 years? Check out how many Afro-Cubans occupy high positions in Castro's government! You have been fooled by a sadistic propagandist. Denounce him for what he is! A thug!
He is the saviour of the people! His shit smells like flowers. His asshole is perfect. The imperialist are afraid of his breath because it can make mountains fall. Great Leader Fidel's dickhead is more powerful than the false weapons of the evil americans. Fidel is Jesus! Fidel is the greatest being of all human history!
@RadioFreeWisconsin No, instead of giving military assistance Khrushchev wanted to put nuclear weapons in Cuba. Cuba had no other choice than to allow it, because the US kicked them out of the OAS and maximised the economic blockade and planned for an invasion, which Cuba could not have prevented otherwise.
@Isoik Yes, he did ask Kruschev to nuke USA. The decision to place bombs was probably Kruschev's decision, but Castro also discussed the possibility of nuking the US. He complains that US, "invaded Cuba" but what he leaves out is that within a few months of seizing power he had invaded Panama and Dominican Republic, and was trying to help Communist militias overthrow the democratically elected government in Venezuela. He declared war on all of the Americas, we responded in kind.
@RadioFreeWisconsin There isn't a single proof to verify your statements. Cuba has always been very positive towards international laws and has only helped other revolutionary organizations that aimed to free their country from colonial suppression and corruption. The aim of Cuba was and still is to defend the Cuban revolution and not to eradicate other populations or invade other countries, as falsely claimed by the US propaganda.
@RadioFreeWisconsin Does WOMD in Iraq ring a bell? Or maybe: Iran planning to develop nuclear weapons? The US just needs a good reason to invade Cuba, bomb the entire country to pieces to finally get what they've been longing for, without having to worry about international opposition.
@RadioFreeWisconsin Do some more research and read some books from independent writers who actually have visited Cuba or interviewed those that experienced the Cuban revolution. I could recommend a few but unfortunately they are in Dutch.
@Isoik You should read, "Cuba: Castroism to Communism." It describes how Castro hijacked a democratic revolution and turned it into a Leninist one party state. You say that Cuba only helps other countries free themselves from colonial opression? Venezuela in the 60's had a democratic government, and Castro helped a small group of Communists in their attempts to overthrow it. This is undeniable. Perhaps it is YOU who needs to do some studying?
@RadioFreeWisconsin Note that the revolution in Venezuela in the 60's was a decision by Che Quevara alone and also executed by him alone. I'll have a look at the documentary. Thanks.
A diabolical man. A tyrant and anti-democratic man. Castro hates the Cuban people and has shown it for 52 long years. He probably has charisma, but no heart, neither brain to do good. His only accomplishment has been the destruction he has caused to the beautiful Cuba, to the people of that nation. The cruelest control of a man over the lives of every citizen, every sector, institution and moment, but that control has been exercised for destruction and to cause pain. A miserable human being.
@PureSoapCleans Fuxk you, gusano! This is a GREAT MAN and I lovde him! The Cuban revolution is the best thing after the American revolution, followed by an imperialist counterrevolution! Respects for Dinkins, too!
@PureSoapCleans I hate Castro because I would love to go to Cuba and Havana. As an American their is an embargo. I could travel to Cuba but cant spend money. I hear the people are nice and the beaches are pretty. Castro is a survivior though. He survived 11 US presidents, numerous assasination attempts, and I think plane crashes. But He is now old and sick and his brother is old and get sick. Maybe they will then have a democracy. I am 51 and in my lifetime I want to see Cuba.
@MrJim12341121 , yes, he old, decrepit and sick, but that doesn't make him less evil. Every body wants to visit Cuba because Cuba is famous for the beautiful beaches, climate, people, music, etc., but that nation has been suffering the cruelest tyrannies ever in this continent. He has practically destroyed the country and there is no freedom whatsoever for that country. I hope to see soon a free Cuba with all these criminal communists gone, no more dictatorship, no more censorship, but freedom.
Castro is a man who has lived with all the luxuries Capitalism can buy, and he has benefitted his family and his allies with those awesome benefits too. And of course, he has benefitted all of the people of Cuba with such assets too hahahaha. Communists are the scum of the world.
@alen209 Castro fought in the jungles 50 years ago. Since then he has lived the life of a millionaire while the people he rules over are all eating shit, and working extra hours in order to afford the most basics of needs like toilet paper. Except of course for his political allies, communists(opportunists) who are also benefitted by the Power and wealth that come from being leaders of the Revolution.
@castlevamp They are just like Capitalism then :). "They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?" - Our mate Fidel
Fidel helped mandela and the ANC communist take the land from the Afrikaners. now, today look how bad SA is doing, high crime, screwed up economy, etc. like zimbabwe, a basket case.
How much freedom do these folks think they would have living in Cuba? Cuba has more jailed journalist next to China. Not all socialist are righteous freedom fighters folks!
@CrowdPleeza Thank You crowdpleeza, you are a fine person with great intelligence unlike the people on here trying to tell me it's somehow beneficial to live in Cuba. America is great if you want to work. More work equals more pay and more success. Maybe these people that are posting positive things about Cuba just want to lay around. I don't know.
everyone that thinks this is a great man! they all should go to cuba and live there,stay there for a year you be runninig back to the states like speedy gonzales,and thats when you guys going to appritiate freedom .and then yoll see and reilize that USA,its the greatest country ever to live in,
Here's a tip...try traveling outside of America and see Canada, France, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand for yourself.
Cuba was economically strained and thus a democratic Cuba would have looked like Columbia, or even worse, Haiti. Yet, Cubans almost share the same life expectancy as the average American, despite being economically strangled by the U.S. embargo. I don't support Castro's politics, but as a pragmatist, Castro's Cuba > pre-Castro Cuba.
this man has more integrity in his little finger than any us politician that there has ever been .....how many doctors and nurses or how much medical aid did the yanks send to the tsunami hit regions...how many to iran....how many to hiatti....castro offered bush 15000 doctors and nurses when katrina hit new orleans .this the sign of a true humanitarian who can rise above the propaganda and bullshit ...a man with dignity and class...something american politicians lack in mass quantities
@hoppterr He did that because he wanted something. He is hurting, he wants the embargo lifted, thats why he threw his own country under the bus by saying Castro government doesn't work. He later recanted, but Castro is in need of some money. Has been for years, so he is willing to make sacrifices to get the US on his side in anyway he can. He judges success of his country by one thing: his own survival. He knew it wouldn't work since the revolution in 1959.
@itsjustme2919 are you on drugs.every country .every regime needs to evolve castro has said for years..americans are welcome in cuba ...its the american goverment that stops them comming . it is costing the usa 300 million in revenue cuba has survived for 5o yrs and it always will.cuba doesnt need the usa..it needs the embargo lifted so it can do business with others ..go look at the conditions of the us embargo regarding the rest of the world and them trding with cuba
@solimiansky Yay Castro! A man that only cares about himself! Yay let's root for him! He takes away peoples rights and makes them work for him! Yay! No hopes! No dreams! mmm I love it so much I want to live in poverty and hoplessness in Cuba! I think I might do that! Because Communism has always worked. Let's see it worked in Russia, Venezuela, China. Wait...wait a minute but it kina crumbled...I thought...oh well. Capitalism works for those that work.
@solimiansky a small tiny island kicks the ass of the worlds super power ...how sweet is that ...america holding a grudge that has lasted 50 yrs....here is to another 50 yrs ...go castro ..go castro ...go castro
@itsjustme2919 ..lets look at america...mass unemployment ..millions with no health cover..1 million kids dropping out of school every yr...45 schools in detriot clased last yr...drugs..whores ..mafia...mass homelessness..2 million in your jails..cia/fbi/nsa/ tapping your phones..reading your e mails..looking at your bank accounts ..100`s on death row ..gang wars..yes america really is paradise ..all back up by the assholes o`reiily and glen beck ..way to go usa ha ha ha
@itsjustme2919 while you asswipes didnt abolish colour segregation tillate 60`s cuba was fighting aparthied ...he went to harlem because he connected with thier struggle ..he understood back in the 60`s the suffering they were going thru..he fought for their rights ..while your white fat lard asses fucked them over big time ..try learning your history and you will stop embarassing yourself
@hoppterr Oh no I learned my history. What Castro did was end segregation by treating EVERYBODY like shit! Some desegregation huh? While in America we did it because we wanted equality and hopes and dreams for everyone, not servitude to an evil dictator.try learning your history and you will stop embarassing yourself.
Oh please, Cuba has better healthcare,education and lower infant deathrate then the most powerful country on earth - with the embargo on their heads.
And dont come to us with "dictatorship". The US overthrows elected leaders all over the world,kills civilians,spys on their own citizens and has catastrophic education,as it has healthcare.
Oh and PLEASE "in America..equality and hopes and dreams.." ???
@shurednichso Move to Cuba then. Go there. Bye. I prefer freedom of choice. I don't like someone telling when and where I can go places or where I can work and what to do with my life. I am sorry but the American Dream comes with work too. Castro is a dictator. Will always be one. Thats what he is. A communist dictator. Besides, a school may be shut down but then they send you to another one. You learn there. You make do. You survive. No one is going to hand you anything, thats not capitalism.
@itsjustme2919 One last thing.Congressman Diaz-Balart is the newphew of Fidel Castro. His aunt was Mierta. Why would he leave his own uncle's country, unless it was bad? He is an outspoken critic of Castro. Why would he want to live in the US and why would Castro's and Mierta's own family flee Cuba? If its such a great place to live...
@the famous diaz balart....now tell me again wasnt he just investigated for fraud ...the guy is just so full of bullshit ....poor nephew is a bit upset cause he doesnt have any power ...so he goes to the usa and like a parasite sucks the cubans in miami dry ..plays on their emotions ,...if people want to listen to an asshole....they should just fart ...at least it will make more sense ...god your scraping the barrel now ...your argument is getting desperate
@hoppterr whoa whoa this isn't about him, its about him being a US congressman when his own uncle is the leader of this supposedly great Cuba. Why if it's so great did his family flee and why does he hate it so much he had to become a congressman and preach against Cuba? BTW, he was a kid when he went to US, so Im sure he wasn't thinking about Cuba. His parents brought him here.
@itsjustme2919 the reason the diaz family are pissed ..is because when castro took control of cuba ..hegave away his fathers lands ..he gave it to the people ...those who had nowhere to live or grow crops ...thats why he is pissed with castro he see`s his inheritence been given away...how can a person who was a boy when he left cuba have any concept of what was going on there when he was what 5 yrs old ..obvisously his parents have told him bullshit just like the other idiots down in miami ..
@itsjustme2919 from the age of 5 diaz has known nothing but the greedy american way ...the cancer that is capitalism...what does he want to do ...go back to cuba and be the new leader ...be a hero....its easy to shout your mouth off when your 90 mles away...id like to see him face to face with fidel...fidel would eat him alive ...its a disgrace these people who are born in america and claim to be cuban dont know their own countries history .ask them about bastita and they say .....who?
@hoppterr He doesn't want to be in power in Cuba. Why would Fidel's own sister in law escape the country? If he wanted power all he had to do would be swear allegiance to Castro and move back when he was old enough. It's because he knows the truth and that is Castro is awful. 5 year olds don't think up those things. 5 year olds don't want to run a country, mainly because they have no idea what one is. The points in your argruments are about as short as the list of benefits of communism. short.
@itsjustme2919 are you really that stupid or do you practice very day..he was 5 when he left cuba and now he wants to be a hero ...the guy is a corrupt cocksucker..all he knows is the shit his parents have told him ...his sister in law couldnt take the fact that castro gave away the family inheritence to the poor people in cuba ...she is one greedy bitch ...so fuck her and fuck diaz..they are all cowards ..you need to educate yourself and stop being a dickhead
@Nanatsaya77... I WAS born in Cuba, you just heard the propaganda. I saw the execution and imprisonment, the summary trials; the internments at UMAP and the drowned rafters. Maybe that type of government sits well with people like you but us Cubans call it tyranny.
lrodria1 3 weeks ago
People shit all over Fidel, but where would Cuba be without the embargo? If communism sucks so bad, why not let it fail on its own? Must we continue to sabotage it? Change will come eventually, hopefully it is not in the spirit of exploitation, but rather concern for profits and human development alike.
squarecracker 1 month ago
@airborne41f...I hope you are proud of that statement. It only proves you have a six grade level education and you are ignorant about Cuba related issues.
ryanrful 1 month ago
@airborne41f...seems to be that the one sitting on Castro's lap is you little communist slave.
lrodria1 1 month ago
@naturalExistence... then it is settled! Give away all of your pride possessions; your right to freely speak, assemble, carry guns, protection against unreasonable searches, etc., and go live in Cuba as a Cuban not as a tourist. I bit the statistics you cited won't mean as much.
lrodria1 1 month ago
@lrodria1 actually,you are dead wrong,you cant carry guns in a lot of countries,you can speak,assemble,and those searches happen once in ,say 30-40 years.... but then again most people have never been to cuba so they dont know.... do they???
Nanatsaya77 1 month ago
@NeutralExperience...in Cuba only government supporters are afforded advanced education. Rationed food means you owe your existance to the government. Three million Cubans have been exiled by Castro. No freedom of press, assembly, etc. How do you like those statistics?
ryanrful 1 month ago
@ryanrful please get of castro's dick, you're a dicgrace to society. your parents should be sent to jail for not teaching u about foreign politics correctly
airborne4lf 1 month ago
@NeutralExistence... Castro supporters enjoy repeating Cuban government generated statistics intended for the gullible and naive. Unlike you, I was born and raised in Cuba and I experienced the horrors of communism...
ryanrful 1 month ago
fidel asecinoooooooooooooo naciiiiiiii
baba7812 2 months ago in playlist Histórico discurso de Fidel Castro en Harlem 1995
Meus parabens grande Fidel Castro !!!
spancerx 2 months ago in playlist Discursos De Fidel Castro
VIVA FIDEL
deadgodgirl 2 months ago
@ProleteriatTakeover... Castro is an oppressor of Cubans of all races- look up Laura Pollan and The Ladies in White. Only in Harlem would a scum of the earth such as Castro gather an audience. Understand now?
ryanrful 3 months ago
@ryanrful
Some of these measures were undertaken by Fidel Castro's government in the name of the program outlined in the Manifesto of the Sierra Maestra.[63] The government nationalized private property totaling about USD $25 billion,[64] of which American property made up around USD $1 billion.[64][65]
He is also an oppressor of "American" hegemony, which one do you think the U.S. government is more worried about, the Cuban people, or multiple billions worth of property etc..?
NeutralExistence 1 month ago
@campcurry... I am a "minority" in the U.S. and I don't agree with all U.S. foreign policy but the topic here is Castro not the U.S. Of all the countries you mentioned none has had a dictator or one party system for over half a century. Cuba has. Get the picture?
lrodria1 3 months ago
@lrodria1 Your point is?
ProletarianTakeover 3 months ago
@lrodria1
Cuba has a 99.8% literacy rate,[3][13] an infant death rate lower than some developed countries,[14] and an average life expectancy of 77.64.[3] In 2006, Cuba was the only nation in the world which met the WWF's definition of sustainable development; having an ecological footprint of less than 1.8 hectares per capita and a Human Development Index of over 0.8 for 2007. GDP (nominal) 2010 estimate Total $57.49 billion.
Sure seems like they are doing really well...
NeutralExistence 1 month ago
@redword2007... Is there a limit to your stupidity? You have never lived a day under communism, I have. Your family has not been imprisoned or shot. All of your facts come from reading communist propaganda in your momma"s basement. Dude, you have not experienced enough to have an opinion on Cuba. Get a life.
lrodria1 3 months ago
@lrodria1 Have you ever lived as a minority in this country? Or an citizen of Iraq, Afganistan, Panama or anywhere else the imperialists have invaded to keep their power and control? Look at the bigger picture and how fucked up American imperialism is and how we terrorize the planet.
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@campcurry You are so delusional. Go to Cuba as a dissident and see how you like it there! You are defending a man who imprisons those who speak against his regime. How dare you criticize the United States and yet defend authoritarianism. We don't want you and your crazy fucking friends who cry "oppression, oppression" when there is little, and yet turn a blind eye when this oppression is real.
njchampnj 1 month ago
@VANITYBONET You are clearly someone who has grown up in an underprivileged area. Let me explain to you. Black people are NICE people. White People and Black People are the SAME at heart. As are Asians, Europeans, Indians, American-Indians and all races. The only difference is where a person lives, so they are indoctrinated more and their intelligences based on how they are educated. Many people in Afghanistan and the like are made to hate the west, through lies. This is why you hate Blacks.
15GamingGuy 3 months ago 3
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diegomoraable 3 months ago
QUE VIVAN LAS RESISTENCIAS DEL MUNDO!!! QUE VIVA HARLEM NEGRA Y REBELDE!!!!! QUE VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN!!!!!!!!
cpthen007 4 months ago
17:17
whotaughtyou 4 months ago
is this at the Nation of Islam?
J45USER 4 months ago
VIVA FIDELLLLL POR SIEMPRE!!
83alejsantana 5 months ago 2
and now they help Haiti!!!!! Viva Cuba
vivascargill1 5 months ago
A GREAT HERO INDEED, VIVA CASTRO!
Mek1234ify 6 months ago 10
@Mek1234ify You are so delusional. Go to Cuba as a dissident and see how you like it there! You are defending a man who imprisons those who speak against his regime. How dare you criticize the United States and yet defend authoritarianism. We don't want you and your crazy fucking friends who cry "oppression, oppression" when there is little, and yet turn a blind eye when this oppression is real.
njchampnj 1 month ago
Blacks love communism because it means they don't have to produce anything and can still eat.
VANITYBONET 6 months ago
@VANITYBONET Oh wow. You must be a scholar. How many articles have you published to spread your innovative and valid theory?
durancm 5 months ago
@VANITYBONET
What the fuck you call slavery enforced by the white man? Dickhead!
FEBword09 3 months ago
@VANITYBONET Holy shit!!!!!!! WOW! Not every black person is like that, but goddamn I've never heard it put so well.
squarecracker 1 month ago
Under baptista's rule Black Cuban they were just like slaves they didn't have rights, but with Castro, more blacks in power and less of them they go to the exile.
matondo03 6 months ago
@matondo03 You are correct!!! I am black from america and I will defend Fidel against anyone at anytime!
REASONINFUSION 6 months ago
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can you all just shut up!!
vivascargill1 6 months ago
Viva la revolution!!
myestery01 7 months ago
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@Irodria1
You long for a return to gangsterism and exploitation. Your views are reactionary and vile and you are an enemy of the Cuban people.
redword2007 7 months ago
@redword2007..I suggest that you read our 1941 Cuban constitution which was more liberal and employee friendly than that of the U.S. Furthermore, don't take my word for it, google Oscar Elias Biscet, Antunez, Zapata, the group of 75, the ladies in white and others so you can learn about Cuba's dissident movement. I wish you good luck and I hope someday you come to understand there are two sides to this issue.
lrodria1 7 months ago
@lrodria1
If you are Cuban as you claim, then your ignorance of your own country is breathtaking. You really believe that life was better for Cuban people under Batista?
There was a brief period when he invested in social welfare, but that didn't last long. Under his dicatorship - in which he took state gangsterism to new heights through his links with the US mafia - universities became a battleground and students leaders were imprisoned, tortured and murdered.
redword2007 7 months ago
@lrodria1
There are plenty of critics of batista on the left for obvious reasons, but who do you think said this?
"I believe that there is no country in the world including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country’s policies during the Batista regime."
Of course you have no idea. It was John F Kennedy.
redword2007 7 months ago
@redword2007 Nice quote. I'll have to remember that one
ccsmiley2 6 months ago
@redword2007 great Comment!!!! I do not agree with some things Fidel is at least said to have done, but he has done more to liberate Africa than any other nation in the world. I love him and will defend my "comrade" against anyone at anytime.
REASONINFUSION 6 months ago
@REASONINFUSION
Thank you my friend and you are of course correct. I spent many 5 years in Southern Africa and was very fortunate to meet many brave and principled Cubans who fought tirelessly alongside African comrades to defeat imperialism. Fidel is a hero in many parts of Africa.
redword2007 6 months ago
@redword2007 People in america could learn some from Fidel, Che, Mandela and others! Americans are on average selfish and place much on little. Fidel was an attorney; Che, a Doctor; Mandela, an attorney. These men may not have been rich in their lands, but they would have been better off than the people they fought for. The same goes for many black revolutionaries like Huey P Newton, Assatta Shakur and others who were in college,but chose to fight the power structure on behalf of others.
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redword2007 7 months ago
@redword2007...Again with the worn out health and free education statistics! Both of those necessities were free to Cubans before Castro; however, that is an inconvenient fact for you to accept because you do not know our history...
lrodria1 7 months ago
Wy at that time the fucking cubans from miami dint kill castro on american land because miami politic is bullshit just bla bla..........................
tochalache 7 months ago in playlist Histórico discurso de Fidel Castro en Harlem 1995
@redword2007.. Like a true communist, you insult me and my family without even ever meeting us. I can understand your support of the old Soviet Union; you and your ancestors have been enslaved ny a now dead monarchy and you are looking for a mew master. Still sore about 1776 and 1812?
lrodria1 7 months ago
@lrodria1
Information about improvements in health and education in Cuba are available from the UN and other international bodies. This information may be inconvenient for your argument, but it happens to be true so you shouldn't ignore it.
You seem to be suggesting that I shouldn't express a view about Cuba because I haven't been there. I notice that you don't hesitate to comment on places and events that you haven't experienced directly, but then logic isn't one of your strengths.
redword2007 7 months ago
@redword2007...You present an argument that you cannot support. You have never even visited Cuba and as a parrot, you repeat the propaganda that is fed to you by your communist counterparts. You do not know of Che's executions, the UMAP, Operacion Pedro Pan, Mariel and the many other crimes commited by Castro...
lrodria1 7 months ago
@redword2007...it is obvious you have lost the argument my leftist friend. My family was a typical Cuban family. We did not own properties, nor were we involved in politics. We do have a strong patriotic sense and a desire for freedom and that is why we opposed the totalirarian regime you support...
lrodria1 7 months ago
@lrodria1
You said that Cuba is free to trade with any country.
I pointed out that in fact the US attempts to prevent Cuba trading with third parties through the Helms-Burton Act.
You then say I have "lost the argument." lol
redword2007 7 months ago
@redword2007...speaking of "blockades", how about the genocidal system England has pushed on the Irish and Scottish throughout the centuries? Were it not for the U.S. you'd be blogging in German.
lrodria1 7 months ago
@lrodria1
The US only entered WWII when it was attacked. Compared to the Soviet Union, the US was bit part player in the defeat of fascism. The history that you learned from Hollywood is in fact untrue.
redword2007 7 months ago
@redword2007 How quickly we forget! Were it not for that "bit" part played by courageous American boys who laid their lives throughout Europe, your "kingdom" would not have survived. I have always looked at Great Britain as an ally in an unfriendly world, but for people like you to take up sides with a deranged dictator such as Castro leaves a lot be desired.
lrodria1 7 months ago
@lrodria1
I haven't forgotten the US role in WWII, but I do reject the popular myth that the US was primarily responsible for the defeat of fascism. The Soviet Union fought harder, longer and paid a much greater sacrifice than the US.
I consider the US to be the most ruthless and bloodthirsty regime since the Nazis. Do you have any idea how many countries the US has invaded or destablised since 1945? Or how many people have died as a result of US imperialism?
redword2007 7 months ago
@redword2007 I kindly disagree. Do you have any idea how many countries your "kingdom" invaded, usurped or enslaved? You come from a nation that institutionalized slavery! Problem is, you would prefer to continue your hold on the old colonies and that time has come and gone. Your empire is now a "has-been" and I'm not surprised at the fact. Probably due to extremists such as you.
lrodria1 7 months ago
@lrodria1
You said: "Do you have any idea how many countries your "kingdom" invaded, usurped or enslaved?"
As a matter of fact I do, because I have been activley involved in the struggle against British imperialism all my adult life. Do you know? Of course you don't.
The crimes of US imperialism are not deminished by a recounting of British crimes. Idiot.
redword2007 7 months ago
@redword2007..the UN vote count is nothing but a farse. The UN cares little about human rights abuses in Cuba and despots from throughout the world make a mockery of that system...
lrodria1 7 months ago
@redword2007..it is quite obvious you are not Cuban. To begin with, the U.S. has an economic embargo not a "blockade" against Fidel Castro's dictatorial regime. Cuba is free to trade with every other country; however, since Castro cares little about foreign debt, few countries will extend loans to Cuba....
lrodria1 7 months ago
@lrodria1
Ever heard of the Helms-Burton Act? The US has tried to prevent anyone from doing business with Cuba.
Of course you dismiss the international community. What a shame that so many Americans ape the arrogance of their leaders.
I have been in favour of a united Ireland all my adult life. I leave the principal of 'my country right or wrong' to opportunists like you.
redword2007 7 months ago
@redword2007 I believe the embargo and the Helms-Burton Act hurt the Cuban people and I'm not in agreement with either one. I do know that you fail to see the big picture here which is that the Castro brothers imposed a totalitarian, ungodly government on a cultured island and have managed to destroy every aspect of that society. The embargo is just another excuse for the Castro brothers to continue to violate human rights and to prevent the inevitable death of communism.
lrodria1 7 months ago
@lrodria1
You said: "Cuba is free to trade with every other country." I pointed out that the US has attempted to prevent Cuba trading with third parties. Now you say you don't agree with that. That's fine, but let's not gloss over the fact that your original statement was wrong.
redword2007 7 months ago
@redword2007 Your ignorance and arrogance are based on the fact that you have never lived under a totalitarian regime. The solution to your problem is quite easy! Give up all your belongings to your neighbors and travel to Cuba to live as a Cuban not as a tourist. Once there, you will not be able to blog, because THAT is prohibited and you will be issued your food ration card. Two weeks later, you will be crying in front of the British embassy hoping for a one way ticket to London! Cheers mate.
lrodria1 7 months ago
@lrodria1
As for you saying that the Cuban revolution has: "destroy[ed] every aspect of that society", a first year undergraduate would wince at such a sweeping statement. Apparently you are unaware of the progress Cuba has made in health and education. Black Cubans on average live longer than African Americans and literacy rates amongst Cubans is better than African Americans. You call that destruction?
redword2007 7 months ago
@redword2007 Unlike you, who has enjoyed all of the virtues of a democratic society throughout his life, I was born in Cuba and I saw first hand the abuses committed by the Castro regime. A totalitarian government that destroyed everything and everyone who stood in its way. The right to own property, free press, free speech, religion, and freedom to assemble were its first casualties. Then came the summary trials, the executions, political imprisonment and slave camps...
lrodria1 7 months ago
@lrodria1
Of course the pimps, the gangsters and the plantation owners who has ruthlessly exploited the people for generations lost their property. Which category did your family fit into?
I have pointed out the progress that Cuba has made in health and education. Yet you ignorantly repeat the same old anti-communist propaganda - they "destroyed everything." Of course you're not capable of making an argument, you just repeat the same old lies.
redword2007 7 months ago
How about some videos of the Cuban people who had to flee Castro's murderous regime in Cuba?
nytmstr 7 months ago
@nytmstr
They fled the consequences of the US blockade. They don't tell you that on Fox News.
redword2007 7 months ago
@redword2007 What part of Cuba is your family from? My family and friends know first hand the evil of Fidel Castro. Stop drinking the Kool-Aid and Im sure you werent told the truth about the dictator from your communist brainwashers.
nytmstr 7 months ago
@nytmstr
I'm not Cuban, I'm British. Are you really ignorant of the impact of the US blockade of Cuba? Do you even know that the UN routinely condemns the blockade? The last vote in the General Assembly for example condemned it by 187 votes to 2.
redword2007 7 months ago
WTF? HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? HE'S ALLOWED TO TRAVEL TO USA? SOMEONE REPLY!!!!
vincemcneal600 8 months ago
@vincemcneal600 There is such a thing as diplomatic immunity... The headquarters for the United Nations happens to be in New York and it would be unjust for the US to murder leaders of UN member states when they attend UN meetings, even if they are perceived to be dictators in the eyes of the US. If they would do that, then the UN would be forced to move its headquarters, because the US cannot be trusted in that case.
arhainofulthuan 8 months ago
Ignorance is bliss! Castro ships doctors to different countries to generate goodwill and that makes him a great man? For 52 years Castro the dictator has oppressed Cuba and its citizens. There are 2 million cubans living in exile to escape prison and hunger! Look up Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, the Ladies in While and hundreds of other dissidents who struggle for liberty every day.
lrodria1 8 months ago
VIVA CUBA
VIVA FIDEL
#1 RESPECTED POLITICIAN IN DA WORLD
521i 8 months ago
VIVA FIDEL!!!!
MegaBobsquare 9 months ago 17
as I said what a wonderful man
vivascargill1 9 months ago
what a wonderful man!!
vivascargill1 9 months ago
fidel castro is a goog man.cuba has the best doctors and there people dont pay 4 health care.Fuck what people say this man is truly great person for what he done 4 his people.
PuertoRockPuro718 9 months ago
Castro begins at 5:28
Xero 9 months ago 2
The peoples president has outlive all his enemies
TheJayster571 9 months ago
Anyone who dares not to play ball with America or Europe suffers-just look at Hati-Maybe Fidel has done some bad things but real change isn't without pain
jacksok2 10 months ago
@antihowish I know Mexico has terrible problems with crime but I have traveled there numerous times and people are free to assemble, to protest government decisions or working conditions. Cubans are forced to live under one political system under threat of imprisonment or exile. You have your problems, we have ours.
lrodria1 10 months ago
Are Afro-Cubans any less important than Afro-Americans? Zapata died in a hunger strike one year ago. Antunez a peaceful blind dissident is beaten by government officials. Dr. Elias Biscet is jailed for his political stance. The Ladies in White are jailed and beaten. True heroes, all blacks and victims of Castro's communist government. Viva Cuba! Down with Fidel!
lrodria1 11 months ago
@lrodria1 come to mexico to see what a real execution and disappearances and corruption by a corrupt and pro-American overplays challenge you to come and live with the money earned by more than 8 hours of shit and Mexican earn insecurity they have if not kill the drug cartels kill soldiers ... do not know what I mean when you say that in Cuba there repression..........and in Mexico the government is pro-American capitalist
antihowish 10 months ago
I love Che, Fidel, Raul, and of course, CUBA!
washingtonboy09 11 months ago
El Presidente al que hace referencia es a Echeverria, el asesino del 68 y de los 70.
medicobrujo74 11 months ago
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Perezr919 11 months ago
These Cubans are forced to go on these trips to Africa to spreed communism. He's no hero he is a menace. The people of Cuban can't vote nor speak freely about the government. Black Cuban make up a large population yet they are underrepresented in the government.
There is no free press. The Cuban people are suffering and you people are blinded by this guy's charm and ego. He is a terror!
PS the translator was horrible and ruined his joke.
Perezr919 1 year ago
@Perezr919
First of all, you faggot, Castro said himself,that it is a problem,that black Cubans are underrepresented in the Government and still this numbers are a joke compared to Batistas "i am a US-whore" -regime.
There is less free speach,because the USA is permanentely doing propaganda and terrorist acts against Cuba. We all know what happens in the US,when something like that happens ,right? Internment camps for the Japanese Americans? Or the Patriot Act and Free speech zones?
shurednichso 11 months ago
@shurednichso Really and Castro's Iam a Soviet-whore Regime. You my friend are what they call a useful idiot. You complain about free speech in the USA, however the very discussion we are having right now would be prohibited in Cuba.
Second, Batista was half black you dumby.
USA is doing propaganda against Cuba, atleast we don't have anti-communist/Cuba billboards all over the country like Cuba does.
........Faggot
Perezr919 11 months ago
@Perezr919
Oh my god, you fucking joke. You dont know about the "free speech zones" in the US,which are a violation of the Constitutional rights of Americans,because the CUT these,you dumbfuck!
And that Batista was half black doesnt made the black population any wealthier ,healthier or more educated.
Castro has black people in his governemnt,still he complains about the low precentage of black Cubans in the government,you fool!
Go fuck yourself,you ingorant faggot. TY!
shurednichso 11 months ago
@shurednichso The entire country of Cuba is a free speech violation. Cubans cannot speak freely, how can you compare. This very conversation would put your job at jeopardy or even prison time.
Yes the fact that Bastista was half black doesn't make the black population any better off, however it does show that black were able to rise to power.
What has Castro done for blacks in Cuba beside talk about how he wants equality. Name one afro Cuban official or a afro Cuban revolutionary.
Perezr919 11 months ago
@shurednichso Youtube JAMA PANFILO.....Cuba has become a haven for cheap sex. Tourist flock from Europe and Canada for the cheap sex. Black Cuban woman for more likely to become prostitutes.
Perezr919 11 months ago
@shurednichso Free speech zones wtf are you talking about. I've never been to a place in the USA where I could be jailed for speaking my mind.
Perezr919 11 months ago
@shurednichso Name 1 afro Cuban official all of them are old white Cuban revolutionary. He doesn't even allow younger Cubans to obtain high position for fear that they would change the status quo
Perezr919 11 months ago
@Perezr919
I even met one of the people working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. And guess what,he was pretty dark.
Besides that you talk all bull obviously. The standart of life in Cuba under Fidel is better for the huge part of the population then in any other Latin American country. Unpayed healthcare and education of firsts world standarts. They have a even lower infant deathquote then the fucking US.
And compared to Batistas Cuba..lets say, to even compare is a joke of its own.
shurednichso 11 months ago
@shurednichso I don't deny that Castro provide Cubans a good education and healthcare. However, this does not make it ok for him to deny them freedom of speech, the freedom to leave the country freely, the freedom to even move around Cuba freely.
Tell me if Cuba is so great why do so many Cuba flee. If Cuba is a so great way does Fidel have travel rescrictions for his people. If Cuba is so create why is Yoani Sanchez write her blog. If Cuba is so great why can there be democracy!!
Perezr919 11 months ago
@Perezr919 and it easy to provide healthcare and education when that pretty much all you provide. Wheres the SSI, Welfare, food stamp, Section 8 housing, public transportation, sanitation, proper plumbing and electricity.
The lights go off in Cuba all the time at night the streets are dark. plumbing is unreliable, roads are unreliable and public transportation is almost non existant. These are the basic things that are sacrified in Cuba in order to have "free" healthcare and education.
Perezr919 11 months ago
@shurednichso This is not an issue of Capitalism or Socialism. This is an issue of Democracy or Dictatorship. The Castros need to step down. If you support Castro you are supporting a Dictator.
Perezr919 11 months ago
@Perezr919 at the same time while that statement is true. I would not argue that democracy is not the ideal way of governance...but even in a country where voting rights are excercised..and interests are not properly represented..over looked or even ignored...where politicians act on their own desires...its a legal form of dictatorship...alot of democratic countries have dictators for governements..the only reason people dislike castro his governance isnt "legal" its not politically correct!
ThePreepree 11 months ago
@ThePreepree democracy is opposite of a dictatorship. What you describe is not a democracy but a perverted versions of it. They arent real democracy they say they are just so they dont appear as dictators.
Perezr919 11 months ago
@shurednichso and it easy to provide healthcare and education when that pretty much all you provide. Wheres the SSI, Welfare, food stamp, Section 8 housing, public transportation, sanitation, proper plumbing and electricity.
The lights go off in Cuba all the time at night the streets are dark. plumbing is unreliable, roads are unreliable and public transportation is almost non existant. These are the basic things that are sacrified in Cuba in order to have "free" healthcare and education.
Perezr919 11 months ago
@Perezr919
WOW, you isolate the country totally by force, threaten the country,try to kill the government and you set a standart ,that isnt there for the majority of the Latin Americans.
Basic things are btw. Food,education and healthcare. That 2 last ones Cuba does provide better then even the US does for the large part.
shurednichso 11 months ago
@shurednichso yeaaaa right there arnt even street lights in havana dumbass and the light go out at random. Only people who live near resort have good plumbing because they are connected to the plumbing that the resort pay for. Cubans are accustomed to taking fast showers because of they dont know when the waters gonna stop, trust me i know.
BTW the rest of latin didnt have NUCLEAR BOMBS pointed at the USA so STFU.
Perezr919 11 months ago
@shurednichso Cubans are accustomed to taking fast showers for fear that the water will stop flowing. There are no street lights in Havana. Lights go out regularly. However if you fortunate enough to live in an area where electricity and plumbing runs to resort you wont have this problem.
Iam not in favor of the embargo however I dont believe it is what ales Cuba.
Perezr919 11 months ago
Long live the cuban people, long live socialism!
MazdakTV 1 year ago
@MazdakTV How. Are you going to send some money for the families suffering for 52 years this criminal dictatorship.
azalori 1 year ago
The Cuban revolution also imprisons thousands of political prisoners and deprives citizens of their basic rights. Look up Dr. Elias Bisset, and Antunes, both Afro-Cubans who are imprisoned for standing up for dignity and freedom. Would you support a tyrant in power for 50 years? Check out how many Afro-Cubans occupy high positions in Castro's government! You have been fooled by a sadistic propagandist. Denounce him for what he is! A thug!
ryanrful 1 year ago
Hail to the Great Leader Fidel!
He is the saviour of the people! His shit smells like flowers. His asshole is perfect. The imperialist are afraid of his breath because it can make mountains fall. Great Leader Fidel's dickhead is more powerful than the false weapons of the evil americans. Fidel is Jesus! Fidel is the greatest being of all human history!
adamfaramir 1 year ago
Your cheering on a man who asked Kruschev to nuke your asses in 1962. Dumb shits.
RadioFreeWisconsin 1 year ago
@RadioFreeWisconsin No, instead of giving military assistance Khrushchev wanted to put nuclear weapons in Cuba. Cuba had no other choice than to allow it, because the US kicked them out of the OAS and maximised the economic blockade and planned for an invasion, which Cuba could not have prevented otherwise.
Isoik 1 year ago
@Isoik Yes, he did ask Kruschev to nuke USA. The decision to place bombs was probably Kruschev's decision, but Castro also discussed the possibility of nuking the US. He complains that US, "invaded Cuba" but what he leaves out is that within a few months of seizing power he had invaded Panama and Dominican Republic, and was trying to help Communist militias overthrow the democratically elected government in Venezuela. He declared war on all of the Americas, we responded in kind.
RadioFreeWisconsin 1 year ago
@RadioFreeWisconsin There isn't a single proof to verify your statements. Cuba has always been very positive towards international laws and has only helped other revolutionary organizations that aimed to free their country from colonial suppression and corruption. The aim of Cuba was and still is to defend the Cuban revolution and not to eradicate other populations or invade other countries, as falsely claimed by the US propaganda.
Isoik 1 year ago
@RadioFreeWisconsin Does WOMD in Iraq ring a bell? Or maybe: Iran planning to develop nuclear weapons? The US just needs a good reason to invade Cuba, bomb the entire country to pieces to finally get what they've been longing for, without having to worry about international opposition.
Isoik 1 year ago
@RadioFreeWisconsin Do some more research and read some books from independent writers who actually have visited Cuba or interviewed those that experienced the Cuban revolution. I could recommend a few but unfortunately they are in Dutch.
Isoik 1 year ago
@Isoik You should read, "Cuba: Castroism to Communism." It describes how Castro hijacked a democratic revolution and turned it into a Leninist one party state. You say that Cuba only helps other countries free themselves from colonial opression? Venezuela in the 60's had a democratic government, and Castro helped a small group of Communists in their attempts to overthrow it. This is undeniable. Perhaps it is YOU who needs to do some studying?
RadioFreeWisconsin 1 year ago
@Isoik I would also encourage you to watch the documentary Nadie Escuchaba, "Nobody Listened." It's available here on youtube.
RadioFreeWisconsin 1 year ago
@RadioFreeWisconsin Note that the revolution in Venezuela in the 60's was a decision by Che Quevara alone and also executed by him alone. I'll have a look at the documentary. Thanks.
Isoik 1 year ago
FIDEL THE BEST
Luiscesarx 1 year ago
great man ! long live fidel
BROCKLANDERS93 1 year ago 21
If che guevara was still alive he would still be anit-fidel castro.
che guevara was a real revoulutionary castro is a dictator.
ac3sn1p5r 1 year ago
A diabolical man. A tyrant and anti-democratic man. Castro hates the Cuban people and has shown it for 52 long years. He probably has charisma, but no heart, neither brain to do good. His only accomplishment has been the destruction he has caused to the beautiful Cuba, to the people of that nation. The cruelest control of a man over the lives of every citizen, every sector, institution and moment, but that control has been exercised for destruction and to cause pain. A miserable human being.
PureSoapCleans 1 year ago
@PureSoapCleans Fuxk you, gusano! This is a GREAT MAN and I lovde him! The Cuban revolution is the best thing after the American revolution, followed by an imperialist counterrevolution! Respects for Dinkins, too!
radurambo 1 year ago
@PureSoapCleans I hate Castro because I would love to go to Cuba and Havana. As an American their is an embargo. I could travel to Cuba but cant spend money. I hear the people are nice and the beaches are pretty. Castro is a survivior though. He survived 11 US presidents, numerous assasination attempts, and I think plane crashes. But He is now old and sick and his brother is old and get sick. Maybe they will then have a democracy. I am 51 and in my lifetime I want to see Cuba.
MrJim12341121 1 year ago
@MrJim12341121 , yes, he old, decrepit and sick, but that doesn't make him less evil. Every body wants to visit Cuba because Cuba is famous for the beautiful beaches, climate, people, music, etc., but that nation has been suffering the cruelest tyrannies ever in this continent. He has practically destroyed the country and there is no freedom whatsoever for that country. I hope to see soon a free Cuba with all these criminal communists gone, no more dictatorship, no more censorship, but freedom.
PureSoapCleans 1 year ago
Castro is a man who has lived with all the luxuries Capitalism can buy, and he has benefitted his family and his allies with those awesome benefits too. And of course, he has benefitted all of the people of Cuba with such assets too hahahaha. Communists are the scum of the world.
mm2008nin 1 year ago
@mm2008nin yeah he lived in luxuries fighting in the jungles , moron. Do you see obama fighting on the grounds to claim his country? .
alen209 1 year ago
@alen209 Castro fought in the jungles 50 years ago. Since then he has lived the life of a millionaire while the people he rules over are all eating shit, and working extra hours in order to afford the most basics of needs like toilet paper. Except of course for his political allies, communists(opportunists) who are also benefitted by the Power and wealth that come from being leaders of the Revolution.
mm2008nin 1 year ago
Communism and Socialism are the same thing and when written on paper are beautiful theories! Once put foward into reality well........... no comment!
castlevamp 1 year ago
@castlevamp They are just like Capitalism then :). "They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?" - Our mate Fidel
Wolfbite09 1 year ago
@Wolfbite09 Fidel is an evil genius!
castlevamp 1 year ago
fidel castro is gonna be on call of duty black ops
Legacytokill 1 year ago
Fidel helped mandela and the ANC communist take the land from the Afrikaners. now, today look how bad SA is doing, high crime, screwed up economy, etc. like zimbabwe, a basket case.
Rico8458 1 year ago
good grief! u guys r mean and hatefu, damnl. clearly you don't agree w/one another, however, u should always respect your opponents argument.
3guysANDadiva 1 year ago
35,000 pussys he has beat up
miketysoncantpunch 1 year ago
How much freedom do these folks think they would have living in Cuba? Cuba has more jailed journalist next to China. Not all socialist are righteous freedom fighters folks!
CrowdPleeza 1 year ago
@CrowdPleeza Thank You crowdpleeza, you are a fine person with great intelligence unlike the people on here trying to tell me it's somehow beneficial to live in Cuba. America is great if you want to work. More work equals more pay and more success. Maybe these people that are posting positive things about Cuba just want to lay around. I don't know.
itsjustme2919 1 year ago
@itsjustme2919
I hear ya :)
CrowdPleeza 1 year ago
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Well Fidel Castro has recently acknowledged that communism doesn't work. Raul Castro has implemented some capitalist reforms.
CrowdPleeza 1 year ago
@CrowdPleeza some commununist flagged down
grengerx 1 year ago
everyone that thinks this is a great man! they all should go to cuba and live there,stay there for a year you be runninig back to the states like speedy gonzales,and thats when you guys going to appritiate freedom .and then yoll see and reilize that USA,its the greatest country ever to live in,
jusainheker 1 year ago
@jusainheker Dude, it's quite unfair to compare a 3rd world country to a 1st world country.
Compare Cuba to Haiti and tell me where you'd rather live.
Btw U.S. is not the greatest country to live in, Canada, France, Sweden, Norway, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, and Finland are much better.
andyx1205 1 year ago
Here's a tip...try traveling outside of America and see Canada, France, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand for yourself.
Cuba was economically strained and thus a democratic Cuba would have looked like Columbia, or even worse, Haiti. Yet, Cubans almost share the same life expectancy as the average American, despite being economically strangled by the U.S. embargo. I don't support Castro's politics, but as a pragmatist, Castro's Cuba > pre-Castro Cuba.
andyx1205 1 year ago
VIVA FIDEL Y VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN CUBANA!!!!
CUBA SI BLOQUEO NO!!!
revolucionario187 1 year ago
this man has more integrity in his little finger than any us politician that there has ever been .....how many doctors and nurses or how much medical aid did the yanks send to the tsunami hit regions...how many to iran....how many to hiatti....castro offered bush 15000 doctors and nurses when katrina hit new orleans .this the sign of a true humanitarian who can rise above the propaganda and bullshit ...a man with dignity and class...something american politicians lack in mass quantities
hoppterr 1 year ago
@hoppterr He did that because he wanted something. He is hurting, he wants the embargo lifted, thats why he threw his own country under the bus by saying Castro government doesn't work. He later recanted, but Castro is in need of some money. Has been for years, so he is willing to make sacrifices to get the US on his side in anyway he can. He judges success of his country by one thing: his own survival. He knew it wouldn't work since the revolution in 1959.
itsjustme2919 1 year ago
@itsjustme2919 are you on drugs.every country .every regime needs to evolve castro has said for years..americans are welcome in cuba ...its the american goverment that stops them comming . it is costing the usa 300 million in revenue cuba has survived for 5o yrs and it always will.cuba doesnt need the usa..it needs the embargo lifted so it can do business with others ..go look at the conditions of the us embargo regarding the rest of the world and them trding with cuba
hoppterr 1 year ago
hmmm Harlem invites Castro...shows their agenda and perhaps old Barry's too. Treason honestly.
itsjustme2919 1 year ago
@itsjustme2919 ur stupid go watch glenn beck cracker
solimiansky 1 year ago
@solimiansky Yay Castro! A man that only cares about himself! Yay let's root for him! He takes away peoples rights and makes them work for him! Yay! No hopes! No dreams! mmm I love it so much I want to live in poverty and hoplessness in Cuba! I think I might do that! Because Communism has always worked. Let's see it worked in Russia, Venezuela, China. Wait...wait a minute but it kina crumbled...I thought...oh well. Capitalism works for those that work.
itsjustme2919 1 year ago
@itsjustme2919 again go watch fox news cracker
solimiansky 1 year ago
@solimiansky Just because Im white with common sense doesn't mean I watch Fox news, nigger.
itsjustme2919 1 year ago
@itsjustme2919 again go watch ur redneck christian news
solimiansky 1 year ago
@solimiansky a small tiny island kicks the ass of the worlds super power ...how sweet is that ...america holding a grudge that has lasted 50 yrs....here is to another 50 yrs ...go castro ..go castro ...go castro
hoppterr 1 year ago
@itsjustme2919 ..lets look at america...mass unemployment ..millions with no health cover..1 million kids dropping out of school every yr...45 schools in detriot clased last yr...drugs..whores ..mafia...mass homelessness..2 million in your jails..cia/fbi/nsa/ tapping your phones..reading your e mails..looking at your bank accounts ..100`s on death row ..gang wars..yes america really is paradise ..all back up by the assholes o`reiily and glen beck ..way to go usa ha ha ha
hoppterr 1 year ago
@solimiansky Go and suck on a watermelon ,nigger
grengerx 1 year ago
@itsjustme2919 while you asswipes didnt abolish colour segregation tillate 60`s cuba was fighting aparthied ...he went to harlem because he connected with thier struggle ..he understood back in the 60`s the suffering they were going thru..he fought for their rights ..while your white fat lard asses fucked them over big time ..try learning your history and you will stop embarassing yourself
hoppterr 1 year ago
@hoppterr Oh no I learned my history. What Castro did was end segregation by treating EVERYBODY like shit! Some desegregation huh? While in America we did it because we wanted equality and hopes and dreams for everyone, not servitude to an evil dictator.try learning your history and you will stop embarassing yourself.
itsjustme2919 1 year ago
@itsjustme2919
Oh please, Cuba has better healthcare,education and lower infant deathrate then the most powerful country on earth - with the embargo on their heads.
And dont come to us with "dictatorship". The US overthrows elected leaders all over the world,kills civilians,spys on their own citizens and has catastrophic education,as it has healthcare.
Oh and PLEASE "in America..equality and hopes and dreams.." ???
You so didnt learn your history .
shurednichso 1 year ago
@shurednichso how quaickly the american dream becomes the nightmare
hoppterr 1 year ago
@shurednichso Move to Cuba then. Go there. Bye. I prefer freedom of choice. I don't like someone telling when and where I can go places or where I can work and what to do with my life. I am sorry but the American Dream comes with work too. Castro is a dictator. Will always be one. Thats what he is. A communist dictator. Besides, a school may be shut down but then they send you to another one. You learn there. You make do. You survive. No one is going to hand you anything, thats not capitalism.
itsjustme2919 1 year ago
@itsjustme2919 One last thing.Congressman Diaz-Balart is the newphew of Fidel Castro. His aunt was Mierta. Why would he leave his own uncle's country, unless it was bad? He is an outspoken critic of Castro. Why would he want to live in the US and why would Castro's and Mierta's own family flee Cuba? If its such a great place to live...
itsjustme2919 1 year ago
@the famous diaz balart....now tell me again wasnt he just investigated for fraud ...the guy is just so full of bullshit ....poor nephew is a bit upset cause he doesnt have any power ...so he goes to the usa and like a parasite sucks the cubans in miami dry ..plays on their emotions ,...if people want to listen to an asshole....they should just fart ...at least it will make more sense ...god your scraping the barrel now ...your argument is getting desperate
hoppterr 1 year ago
@hoppterr whoa whoa this isn't about him, its about him being a US congressman when his own uncle is the leader of this supposedly great Cuba. Why if it's so great did his family flee and why does he hate it so much he had to become a congressman and preach against Cuba? BTW, he was a kid when he went to US, so Im sure he wasn't thinking about Cuba. His parents brought him here.
itsjustme2919 1 year ago
@itsjustme2919 the reason the diaz family are pissed ..is because when castro took control of cuba ..hegave away his fathers lands ..he gave it to the people ...those who had nowhere to live or grow crops ...thats why he is pissed with castro he see`s his inheritence been given away...how can a person who was a boy when he left cuba have any concept of what was going on there when he was what 5 yrs old ..obvisously his parents have told him bullshit just like the other idiots down in miami ..
hoppterr 1 year ago
@itsjustme2919 from the age of 5 diaz has known nothing but the greedy american way ...the cancer that is capitalism...what does he want to do ...go back to cuba and be the new leader ...be a hero....its easy to shout your mouth off when your 90 mles away...id like to see him face to face with fidel...fidel would eat him alive ...its a disgrace these people who are born in america and claim to be cuban dont know their own countries history .ask them about bastita and they say .....who?
hoppterr 1 year ago
@hoppterr He doesn't want to be in power in Cuba. Why would Fidel's own sister in law escape the country? If he wanted power all he had to do would be swear allegiance to Castro and move back when he was old enough. It's because he knows the truth and that is Castro is awful. 5 year olds don't think up those things. 5 year olds don't want to run a country, mainly because they have no idea what one is. The points in your argruments are about as short as the list of benefits of communism. short.
itsjustme2919 1 year ago
@itsjustme2919 are you really that stupid or do you practice very day..he was 5 when he left cuba and now he wants to be a hero ...the guy is a corrupt cocksucker..all he knows is the shit his parents have told him ...his sister in law couldnt take the fact that castro gave away the family inheritence to the poor people in cuba ...she is one greedy bitch ...so fuck her and fuck diaz..they are all cowards ..you need to educate yourself and stop being a dickhead
hoppterr 1 year ago