Castro in Central Park

[Skrubzero]

Castro's civil rights contributions? Ask a Tampa Cuban some time how they feel about that.

[mikeprather]

Good art moves people. Maybe in a positive or negative way. The impact of clay formed by a human being into an object that moves people to this extent has accomplished what all art/artists set out to do: move the viewer in an emotional way.

[mikeprather]

Good art moves people. Maybe in a positive or negative way. The impact of clay formed by a human being into an object that moves people to this extent has accomplished what all art/artists set out to do: move the viewer in an emotional way.

[Elizajane41]

Listen to this idiot on the video! What a misinformed liberal nut! Unfreakinbelievable! Maybe he should go to Cuba and do sculptures in Casrto's jails! That whole hotel story is so false! Thare are MANY interpretations of what happened and why he ended up in Harlem. Maybe because Castro is a Mster Manipulator??? DUH!!!!!

[jimmy59ca]

I went to cuba and the people told me they would rather live in poverty with out corruption than die in the streets of miami

[Leonidus82]

What a dumbass! Its amazing how ignorant people are to history and what Castro did to the Cuban people. What he did to my family.

[adlermathi]

Gusanos!

[malscott]

ya sure is how amazing people are ignorant to history. segragation, near genocide of native americans, the KKK, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Douglas Macarther, man, isnt it time you got your head out of your ass and learn some history or remember it?

[Leonidus82]

Um, yeah. So what exactly does this have anything to do with what I said? And what makes you think I am ignorant of American History? The most watered down history books teach everything you just mentioned. Oh, and there was no near genocide of Native Americans. The diseases tha the Colonists brought with them where responsible for wiping out almost all the Native Americans.

[malscott]

what i was trying to project. wasyou seemed to be singling out castro as being a bad leader. i think america has done more damge than cuba. of course theres other far worse baddies like pol pot and adolf hitler. and ya it was europeans that brought the disease that i refer to as a near genocide. i guess you think of the disease as an unfortuneate accident. ok i suppose it was

[malscott]

but there were also mant deliberate acts to kill all the native population

[NaujAKAJuan]

MY TEACHER IS THIS GUY'S BROTHER! He actually does this work to cause controversy in the media.

[Ninelon]

COMRADES! If you communist go to site nameofrussia . ru and choose Lenin or Stalin please! You may vote many time, so please do it! Communistic's party don't forget this!

[Ianpbx]

Give it a rest, you idiot. Stupid Russian communist Party want Orthodox church to canonise Stalin, for God's sake, so they can worship him! Pack of idiots. Stalin isn't worth one of Castro's discarded cigars.

[NEWYORKLIBRE]

Castro is a bouguise!

Why don't you do a sculpture of Hitler in a Jewish town?

[willpum]

Dan.. You amaze me. I cant beleive you are doing all these so called controversial sculptures. You are brilliant. You will do anything to be a famous sculptor. I beleive your heart is in the craftmanship of your work and not subject matter. Absolutely brilliant way to keep the publics interest by pursuing pop culture. In a sense..I guess thats what all notable artists have done.

We miss you in Indiana. xoxo

[DoubleEagle32]

Fidel Castro, Raul Castro & Che Guevara were and are, and will always remain the heads of a criminal syndicate of murderers, thieves and terrorists who stole a nation and turned it into a prison with 9 million inmates. Che murdered unarmed civilians in cold blood with his pistol & ordered executions without trial. Castro suspended the 1940 constitution, and consolidated 3 branches of government under the Executive and ERASED Cuban civil rights jailing and killing with impunity. NOT a hero.

[loko5555]

fuck you capitalist retarded, CASTRO RULES!!

1940 constitution :)lol

[Ianpbx]

Prat. Cuba has better health care than the USA, and better state education than the USA. That's REAL human rights. And if you want to talk about syndicates of murdering gangsters, look no further than the U.S. government, who have sacrificed American soldiers' lives for a war where American big business is making billions of dollars and raking of tax revenues to boot.

[ComradeMartin]

I'm sure he was THREATENED by Miami's mafioso terrorists, rather than PERSUADED!

[xxyya]

this video and daniel's art takes us to the fulcrum. once there we must decide on what side we are on.

[fercsus]

viva fidel gringos putos

[ivetthugewomanoj]

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[rakovsky]

actually the artist sounded more realistic, interesting, and understanding than I thought, and it made me think putting the sculpture in Harlem was more appropropriate for commonly held sentiments. For example, the respect for Harlem blacks of Castro, and because the artist viewed Castro similar to his grandfather who was a "tough cookie", but who was kind in another way.

[Cuban20]

Really alaumudir? And just who do you support? What about the United States that Murdered 10 Million Natives in Genocide? Or the fact that they go around Overthrowing Democratically Elected Governments and replacing them with Dictatorships?

[alaumudir]

Cuban20 you are trying to polarize the subject. I never mentioned the US. That is the game you people always play. You polarize. I am not about polarizing. I thing people that polarize have the worst of intentions no matter what side. I won't play your game even if you'd like me to. Get off the time tunnel. This is the XXI century!

[Cuban20]

Now answer me this, is Fidel doing anything of the sort? Is he Arming Rogue Governments with Weapons of Mass Destruction? No, on a scale of 1 through a Million the USA makes Castro look like a kitten. And don't forget there never would've been a Castro or a Batista for that matter if they had never taken over Cuba and supported Militarist Dictatorships.

[Cuban20]

and now they have stolen all of the lands that belonged to the people and have used it to grow Opium Poppies which are currently being sold on the Black Market and the Money is being used to buy Nuclear Weapons from the former USSR. They obviously don't care about protecting the world from Weapons of Mass Destruction and they obviously don't care about the Drug trade since they ally themselves with Drug Dealers

[Cuban20]

Haiti and then replaced him with War Criminals from Former Regimes before him. I am not a Stalinist, nor do I like Castro, but at least he doesn't Overthrow Democratic Governments around the World like the USA does. He minds his own Business. But now back to Afghanistan, they put those Bloodthirsty War Lords back into Power and now they are tearing the Country in half like they did before the Taliban

[Cuban20]

Countries up? No! In fact he supplies more Humanitarian relief to War torn Countries than anywhere else. Like Haiti, another Country the USA Fucked over with Military Coups  for Years and then drove out President Jean Beltran-Aristide the first Democratically Elected leader in

[Cuban20]

from the Northern Alliance. So then they Overthrow the Taliban Militia, the same Regime that they had supported for years, helping them to beat up and Rape Women who couldn't wear the veils required of them and persecuted and killed Christian Converts in the Region, and Censored Freedom of Speech. This Amigo, is the fruit of Capitalism. Does Fidel go around the world Fucking other

[Cuban20]

The USA not only created Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, but they were working with both groups until the USA started screwing over the Saudi people. And then they worked with the Taliban despite several Complaints from Human Rights Organizations all over the World right up until 9/11 when the Taliban didn't want to give up Bin Laden because they needed his Influence to Fight the War Lords

[Cuban20]

Well since you obviously are Polarzing the subject yourself because you are making it  sound like Cuba is the only Nation under Tyranny, let us talk about what the USA is now doing in the XXI shall we? Fact:

[Cuban20]

People like you constantly repeat History. What you have said is no better than someone who would go up to a Jew and say "Forget the Holocaust we're in XXI Century." Or to tell the Natives "Forget that your Continent was Stolen by Illegal White European Invaders this is the XXI Century." and so and so Fourth.

[Cuban20]

I am suddenly reminded of the great Puerto Rican University Professor George Santayana who said : "Those who do not  learn from History are doomed to repeat it."

[alaumudir]

Blah blah blah. Basura que polariza. O Cuba o EEUU. No, ni uno ni lo otro. No me convence ninguno. Dejen de lavarle el cerebro a la gente mezclando los tantos, ustedes son la misma mierda. No convencen a nadie pero siguen intentando, que falta de respeto.

[Cuban20]

Basura que Polariza? Y ustedes los Cubanos Republicanos Fanaticos que se pasan la vida haciendo eso tienen la verguenza de decirme eso? Hypocrita.

[alaumudir]

Si, basura. No soy cubana, ni fanatica. Soy canadiense nacida en latinoamerica, pero nunca he puesto un pie en Cuba, y menos mientras este Castro. Ahi esta el problema de ustedes, no saben lo que es el verdadero socialismo, solo teorizan y terrorizan, Canada es un perfecto ejemplo de socialismo. Si, basura fanatica y polarizante la de ustedes, y de ambos lados. Ni EEUU ni Castro. Se puede, y es fantastico no estar alineado con ninguno de ustedes.

[Louieboy23]

Si..yo e vivido en canada y un pais socialista no esplota a la gente ingigena de ese pais..yo eh visto como canada tiene viviendo a los nativos..porfavor ridicula.,.ponte a estudiar para que aprendas que es el socialismo de verdad..PORQUE CANADA NO ES

[alaumudir]

"e vivido" mmmm... lindo castellano...! Que bruto, debe ser la educacion...

Sabes que no te creo que hayas vivido en Canada?! Sonas defensivo, como capaz de decir que viviste en TODO pais, con tal de retrucar y hablar bobadas. Si hubieras vivido en Canada (visitas el Niagara? Hahahahaha! Mentiroso!!!) conocerias quE ocurrio recientemente con los indigenas.

No me quieras convencer, you are below my intellect, you are crass, and you are not going to convince me.

[alaumudir]

Canada, Scandinavia,Australia = true socialism

Cuba = Castro bros dictatorship, utopian communism (when was the last election?)

Che Guevara, Castro = guerrilla, put guns to people head if they don't think alike, blah blah discourse, anachronic

Louieboy23 = fanatic, lives in his own world, distors history

Get it in your empty head: stop kicking in the water, you WILL NOT convinve anybody but your "class", you WILL NOT convince me, so keep killing your self trying, you make me laugh!

[Louieboy23]

I did live in canada..edmonton alberta..and i dont have to proove shit to u..and too convince wak ass people like u..that carry history and politics at an illeterate stage. u know nothin about socialism..how can the better of the workin peasants be fanatice..its scholar shit bitch..go to school..educate urself stupid fuck..and ur dismissed

[alaumudir]

"ur dismissed"

You are thinking like Castro, ordering people around. Guess what! I live in the free world and I keep posting until I want to. Interesting how all Castro's kiss asses that have written here do not live in Cuban liking Castro's ass. Instead they enjoy liberties that Cubans in the island do not because Castro forbides them, like free expression on the internet. Ridiculous! And hey, thank you for the biotch compliment, that is what

[alaumudir]

... little (tiiiiiny if you know what I mean), macho man who boss around their looser women like them say of intelligent women smarter than them when we strike a nerve and we make you uncomfortable. To this intellect battle you've come disarmed and I pity you and your crass talking full of spelling errors. Your insults do not reach me, yet they talk about your lack of class and education. You are beneath me, I'll say when I'll stop posting...

[Cuban20]

Remember that the Cuban Revolution only happened because of US support for Military Dictators in Cuba. We have Statues of Mass Murderers like Washington all over the Country which is Offensive to all of the Victims of the USA and I dont see you being outraged.

[MiamiSweetness305]

oye gusbozzetti mira bete para la pinga castro viva mi culo lo que viva es cuba y mi gente!

[alaumudir]

Muera Castro, dictador, tirano que a todo aquel que no coincide con el le pone un tiro en la cabeza y persigue su familia. Ha mantenido a Cuba en un estado de pobreza bajo pretexto de socialismo. Lo suyo es una DICTADURA!!! Socialismo es lo que hay en Escandinavia, Canada y Australia. Lo de Cuba es TIRANIA Y DICTADURA. Si tanto te gusta Cuba GusBozzetti, andate a vivir a Cuba y despues contas que tal boludo! Si estuvieras en Cuba no podrias conectarte a YouTube. Imbeciles que hablan sin pensar.

[JockerCrow]

y q prefieres q tu dictador este este bajo el poder de E.U., algun imbecil como Fulgencio Batista, q no respete los derechos humanos y trate al pueblo de Cuba con la punta del pie, mas aparte se viva un estado de violencia por la falta de educacion y nula equidad en el trabajo y economia, q el poder y el dinero se divida en unos cuantos q nisiquieran son Cubanos deajado al pueblo con aun mas hambre, es eso lo q quieres?

VIVA CASTRO!!!, VIVA CUBA, LATINOAMERICA!!!

[alaumudir]

no, eso lo decis vos. Ustedes tienen ese discurso acusador, poniendo palabras que uno no dice en uno. Por supuesto que no quiero falta de educacion y hambre: IMBECIL! No me acuses que quiero eso! NO TE ATREVAS! BASTA DE DISCURSO POLARIZADO: NI CASTRO NI BUSH. LATINOAMERICA SIN POLARIZACION ESTUPIDA DE DISCURSO DE DERECHA VS IZQUIERDA. Eso es anacronico y obsoleto. Eso no conduce mas que a mas idiotez y violencia de ambos lados. MUERAN LOS DICTADORES! VIVA LATINOAMERICA!

[alaumudir]

Que derechos humanos les da Castro a los opositores que tortura y fusila? Vaaaaaamos! Saquemonos las caretas! Derechos humanos PARA TODOS, no para los chupamedias! Detesto a los gobiernos que toquetean estos temas polarizandolos en un discurso vacio tanto de uno como otro lado. Estamos en el siglo 21. La humanidad merece mejores gobiernos que estos crapulas!

[alaumudir]

Detesto tiranos que tienen familias separadas y prisioneras a su antojo, sin dejarles salir de la isla. Vivan los cubanos! Muera Castro, y con el tanta idiotez polarizada que ya no tiene mas cabida en una futura humanidad mas digna y merecedora de mejores cosas para TODOS.

[thornik64]

This guy must be insane. Honor Castro for Human Rights contributions? Wonder what all those political prisoners languishing in the Cuban Gulag would think of this? Typical liberal insanity. What's next? A status for Mao or Hitler? Maybe a Stalin's face in flowers and peace signs?

Another Useful Idiot.

[loueye]

I think you were missing the point. The whole thing was sarcasm right from the beginning.... very very subtle sarcasm..

[KungFu17]

I'm sick of simply demonizing people. I'm sure Castro did some good things - just like Mao or Hitler or Stalin...these people still have support, and it's interesting to attempt to figure out why. He's not saying Castro didn't do anything bad - rather, portraying an interesting story and perspective. That's the job of art. He's not a politician himself, after all, so why would he have to be PC? Being PC is liberal insanity.

[alaumudir]

Another idiot (the so called "artist") that thinks art is stirring the worst emotions in people and sickly enjoys it. Being PC to you obviously is a discourse. Say that to the people and their families that suffered a lifetime at the hands of Castro, Mao, Stalin and Hitler. You are parading your stupidity when you want to stir a reaction by writing about these creeps' "good things".

[lynnesha]

does anyone else notice that the cameraman could care less about what edwards is saying? he'd rather focus on britney spears naked ass...

[lynnesha]

does anyone else notice that the cameraman could care less about what edwards is saying? he'd rather focus on britney spears naked ass...

[gusbozzetti]

VIVA CASTRO!

[Sailor473]

This sculptor did the right thing. Went to Miami and listen to our side of the story....which was powerful.