fidel castro is not the solution for the world problems, he himself kill the revolution for personal ambitions like the rest of the dictators lake him.
Cuba has a 99.8% literacy rate, an infant death rate lower than some developed countries, and an average life expectancy of 77.64. 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.
I think you are full of bullshit, no way they are starving with these stats.
I love that day when those capitalists of the United Fruit Company lost their property in Cuba. Castro became a reformist Stalinist, but he did a good job in destroying capitalism. Unfortunately win out workers democracy, the Cuban economy became inefficient and to bureaucratic.
A planned economy needs democracy, otherwise you get a bureaucratic deformed planned economy.
@xMxiMusx... You my friend are not Cuban and you have never spent a day in Havana. You present an image of Cuba as a whorehouse; however, you were never there to see it. Castro has ruled Cuba for 52 years now, in the process he has shot, jailed, exiled and deprived all Cuban citizens of their liberty. Cuban exiles are not thugs they are the victims of a mad man. Get your facts straight.
Cuba on Monday said it is laying off nearly half a million workers, an eye-popping figure in any country, but especially in a nation where the government so totally dominates the economy.
The way I see it if Cuba is such a socialist utopia, such great healthcare, such great education, and so much food for all and the people are so healthy, and have true social justice. I'm sure they all have there human rights, and support from all the other socialist countries that are there to help. A country with free elections so they say, no need to replace Castro and his little brother for 51 years, Then why would anyone jump on a inner-tube and paddle north in shark infested waters? Why?
@ENCOMAN Because they are deluded into thinking the US is the 'promised land' with freedom for all and streets paved with 100 dollar bills. Woo hoo..that dream will die fast. Instead they will end up slaving for big business and have NO health care and crappy education.
@Brenda2OOO You were misinformed. I came to the U.S. the "promised land" were I have freedom to speak my mind, I got public and privet education also. I then worked hard for the big bad Corporations.I own my home(property) I have good healthcare, I'm also free to travel. You were told the streets are paved in $100 sorry babe.The streets are really paved with "Opportunity" to earn your keep. Never had time to sit and wait for a Government hand out. One time I did find $20 bucks on the street.
@ENCOMAN because they are buying the the same "American Scheme" bullshitt u buy,and i hope they make it nothing like a dose of reality, to "Un-Fukk" yourself.cause we know how many job's and opportunities are waiting for them don't we???.and opportunity in america is spelled "Depression" the u.s dollar is Not worth the paper it's printed on.well at least they will get health care for all the shark bites,Ooops were getting rid of that,too many poor people,getting health care,the american dream.
Bulls.. communist propaganda. Nothing is said about the thousands of innocent Cubans and Americans murdered by the totalitarian regime or what has happened to Cuba's former wealth after 50 years.
Robots, keep following. New programs are coming new liders to shape your world and make slaves of you all. Wake up mankind from your slumber the time has come. Rise sleeper of earth and take back your planet.
que ignorante fidel no sabe negociar para el pueblo si solo para el y sus intereses se cogio toda esas inversiones y el pais se puso en mas malas como nunca que genio fidel si que sabe cojer al malo y hacerlo peor el pueblo si lo apoyo y ahora todavia se lo estan chupando ha ha ha ha
only the capitalist king u.s has killed millions, the CIA has killed 6 million since 1950, they killed 15 million natives cus they said it was their minifiest destiny, they have nuked 2 cities, they have bunrned hundread of thousands of kids and women in drezden burning them alive!, they killed millions in ww1,ww2 and millions in vietnam and hrundread thousands in iraq and they keep killing, now add all the people other democratic countries have killed it would be more the 100 millions way more!
abajo fidel!!!!! abajo raul!!!!! abajo che!!!!! abajo con el communismo!!! abajo con el socialismo!!!!!! Que Viva Miami!!!!! Volveremos Fidel!!!!!!! Communista De Mierda!!!!
@USAHavana usa hypocrocy is selling ,mass producing cuban flags and other merchandise with che`s name and face on ....you cant get bigger hypocrocy than that...and yes i laugh my ass of that one man ,one country can scare the shit out of the yanks....for all your oil,capitalism,corruption, freedom ...you cant bear the thought that the little island 90 miles away is the one you just couldnt beat...with all your super power,intelligence,weapons ....HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE......
HOP You must be the arithmetic man; you add stupidity, subtract pleasure, divide attention, and multiply ignorance. What an ignorant limey. Why do they BEG for US loans?An end to the EMGARGO? THEY BEG FOR US CAPITALISM? America was founded on an idea, rather than conquest
America did away with monarchy
Americans founded the freest country in the world.
America kicked ass in WW2 and emerged as the only superpower
You're an ignorant communist ideologue. Must be nice to be a communist in a NON communist country...HYPOCRITE! Any YOUTUBE IN CUBA? You are a joke. LONG LIVE DEAD CHE IN THE 6th CIRCLE OF HELL...asswipe. LMAO!
A true communist doesn't like or use the internet, the greatest capitalist invention of all times! The Internet allows the free exchange of ideas, communism kills ideas. There is a contradiction here. I think you should move to Cuba and renounce access to the internet if you want to defend totalitarianism from a solid base.
There are similarities with Fidel Castro & FDR, both men were born with a silver spoon & yet both turned against their own class because they wanted to do the right thing serving the people & spread fairness & equality. Another person who rebelled against his upper class status was actor Humphrey Bogart & he was labeled a communist in 1947 when he led a group of actors to Washington to protest & support fellow actors, directors being questioned & interrogated by the McCarthy "witchhunt".
@WINGGULLSEAGULL Um I think the biggest difference is that FDR was elected Democratically and left after his term ended instead of submiting a whole nation into Poverty and Comunist Regime
@Scarer101st well scary that too is another LIE,he was Secretly Assassinated,by poison there was a attempted coup against him before that,even the communist's Knew this.scary in the future try not to get all your data from the "Nightly LYING Azz News" or the "HiS-Story" channell.
@WINGGULLSEAGULL There are differences also. FDR and Humphrey Bogart loved the USA and its citizens and neither murdered, imprisoned, or exiled millions of Americans. Castro did it to Cubans in Cuba. If Castro's Cuba is a paradise how come nine out of ten Cubans would rather migrate than live in that hell hole? People must be free to choose their own government without fear of being branded as "worms" by government officials. The Castro brothers have run out of excuses. It is time for change.
You're not understanding the isssue.. Before Castro Cuba was a corporate whorehouse.. 9 out of 10 want to leave because it's a poor country mainly because of sanctions.. Not his fault.. The "exiles" are usually anti-Castro US sponsored gangsters to undermine his regime and put in a US puppet.
@WINGGULLSEAGULL FDR nedeed to get the US back on track in the horrible great depression..FDR didn t destroy net wealth..Fidel has destroyed the Cuban economy,made Havanna a ruin..the suger plantations are dilipidated and the cuban middle class fled. Fidel still lives with a huge silverspoon in contrast to his impoverished people.
That's because the last country to attack the U.S. was Japan. Two atomic bombs and hundreds of thousands of innocent people murdered sounds like a good reason not to challenge the empire.
"the documented record on Latin America is very clear that the USSR did not invest as much in that corner as US propaganda had everyone believe."
US propaganda? The very KGB general Nikolai Leonov (second in command of the KGB at the time) admitted that they had supported Allende with HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in loans, credits, equipment and weaponry.
Well said! There is National Socialism-NAZI and International Socialism-RED. SAME SHIT. Nazi's killed 40 million Commies killed 100 million. Can people really be this stupid, to think that Communism is friendly? They had to wall their citizens and shoot them in the back! How idiotic can these idiots be? Even Hitler wasn't forced to build a WALL. N.Korea or S. Korea? E. Germany or W. Germany? Did they swallow an ignorance pill? Or is it genetic? FREE CUBA! GO USA! SCREW TOTALITARIANISM!
@USAHavana PLEASE TELL ME ABOUT THE HUNDREDS OF NAZI`S EMPLOYED BY THE CIA IN 1945...THOSE WHO MURDERED IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND THEN WERE ALLOWED TO SETTLE IN THE USA AFTER THE WAR WITH NO WAR TRIALS....IM BEGINNING TO THINK THAT YOUR NON INTELLIGENCE AND IGNORANCE IS ONLY MATCHED BY YOUR FATHER...IS YOUR DAD G W BUSH BY ANY CHANCE CAUSE YOUR AS THICK AS HE IS
It's actually a lot more people because they kill the human soul and free will before killing you physically. A true communist doesn't like or use the internet, the greatest capitalist invention of all times! The Internet allows the free exchange of ideas, communism kills ideas. There is a contradiction here. I think you should move to Cuba and renounce access to the internet if you want to defend totalitarianism from a solid base.
Ya callate pinche comico. You're just mad because you and your family got booted out of Cuba. You are not even Cuban pendejo. All you do is suck Rebublican dick in the hopes that you will be accepted as something more than another low class Cuban American. Your disgraceful family came here and fucked up Miami. Little Havana is a shit hole! Pinche gusano if you love Cuba so much get the fuck out of America. We don't need you worms here.
@mic: Yet another filthy wetback THAT SUFFERS FROM Cuban-American-Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Its a common Chicano-wetback mental illness based on their feelings of powerlessness, iinferiority and inadequacy. Cubans outearn them, outsmart them and kicked their filthy Indian asses out of Miami. Go sell your' 'seeester' you dirty fuckin SPICK beener! Maybe she can be a nice maid for us Cubans here in Miami, you can mow my fuckin lawn...WETBACK! LMAO!
A true communist doesn't like or use the internet, the greatest capitalist invention of all times! The Internet allows the free exchange of ideas, communism kills ideas. There is a contradiction here. I think you should move to Cuba and renounce access to the internet if you want to defend totalitarianism from a solid base.
A "True Communist" knows that the world is in a downward spiral because of greed and Militant corporations. He/She actively supports revolutionary movements around the globe, wether it be merely vocally, or a more active role as a soldier. It takes both.
I suppose then by YOUR views... I am not Communist.
Luckily YOUR views... seem almost comically biased.
Also, I spent 5 years in China, I think I mentioned it somewhere on this page before.
Jajaja so you really think you are going to fix the world by supporting totalitarian communist dictatorships that's just plain dumb. When I suggested you move to Cuba I'm not talking to live there for 5 years as an idiot useful pampered by the regime. I'm talking about living, like I did for 25 years, as a regular subject, losing all human rights, freedoms, your prosperity and access to the internet. Your worst mistake is assuming you will belong to the privileged class there, you won't.
Big words coming from someone who clearly doesn't know what he talks about. Who has clearly never read Marx or Engels. And is clearly making shit up about living there. My experiences in China were like what you would find anywhere else, Worked in a factory for two years (Which was clean and safe, contrary to popular belief) and then worked as a substitute teacher for the remaining three.
It had its ups and downs, but was overall quite enjoyable.
I don't assume I will belong to any sort of "Privelaged class". I was, and would be just like anyone else, working for the betterment of the community.
Stop listening to FOX news... its clearly turned your brain into goo in a box.
TOTALITARIAN COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIPS is what they are and you obviously don't understand what this means. I was forced to study the terribly boring and utopic theories, later taken advantage of by dictators, of marx and engels for more than 12 years, not only that, every day I used to wipe my ass with the pages of their books because I couldn't afford toilet paper and that was their best use ever! You could say my ass is more knowledgeable than you about the subject jajaj. USEFUL IDIOT!
Ah, so you believe that fundamental communism could work but only if it is not taken over by dictatorships?
Very good! We're making progress, as most Communists today believe the very same thing... All... 120 Million of us and counting.
Also, the rest of what you said is pretty much bullshit... Cuba has toilet paper, spent a couple weeks there in a middle class apartment on an exchange program. Even the slums had toilet paper.
Ohh sure it would work great! It would be a paradise where all humankind would be happy and there would be no money, no one would rise as a dictator blah blah blah. Communism would only work if where all robots, liked working for conscience, and behaved well but if we where like that why would we need a government then? Communism is a cancer for the ignorants, thanks god the cure is information and that vaccine is now everywhere.
Funny... I'm exposed to the internet on a daily basis and I still believe Communism could work if it had a great leader.
Guess this is where we have to differ? I've seen more of the world then you ever have so you can't call me "Ignorant". I've spoken with countless individuals who are sick and tired of Capitalism.
Democracy is good... Capitalism is bad
The two are distinctly different, and I'm tired of hearing people say they are both the same.
I hate to break it to you but Communism will never work. No one leader has the truth and all the answers, even you or me if given enough power would become terrible dictators. Only a system that provides checks and balances and a way to correct its own mistakes will make it into the future. I see you are naive and inexperienced but have good intentions but the road to hell is full of those. Be very careful, always remember that when you stop being "useful" to a dictatorship they will discard you
Not only I can listen to Fox News now that I'm leaving as a free individual. I can now have access to all the news agencies, bloggers, chats, social networks etc of the entire world!!!! THANKS CAPITALISM AND DEMOCRACY FOR THE GREATEST INVENTION OF THE WORLD: THE INTERNET!!!!!! I just love it man!!!!!! and I have a feeling you do too. Totalitarian regimes are a thing of the past, they depend on the total control of information and that's impossible today. Better get used to that.
The only totalitarian Communist state I can think of today is North Korea
And I strain whenever I affiliate Communism with them... Its more of a Dictatorial Monarchy.
Cuba is free... Rugged, but free. Ever since the Soviet Union collapsed it has fallen on hard economic times due to the loss of its primary trading partner. However I remember Castro distinctly saying that he refuses to buy American Blood oil.
Fox News is bullshit... O'reilly and Glenn Beck are fear mongers and nothing more.
I don't understand how you can be so ignorant about Cuba when you have so much information at your reach. Just like NK, Cuba is a totalitarian communist state and very recently became a dictatorial monarchy too. I'm Cuban, I spent most of my life there living as a regular Cuban like 99% of everyone else. Only those who belonged to the privileged class, the government officials and snitches can afford toilet paper. Old soviet propaganda books where a bliss for my ass jajaja. My ass is communist.
I don't know what part of Cuba you're from. But where I was, we had toilet paper. There was no talk of "No toilet paper" and I spoke with people who both hated and loved the regime.
I don't understand the Cuban language too well, but I do know for a fact that not all their books are "Soviet Propaganda"
You'll find that the west... the United States in particular is extremely ignorant of Communism. It always reports on its negatives but never its positives. Such as when Castro personally ordered medical and rescue teams to Haiti during the recent earthquake. They were among the first on the scene, and the medical equipment and training was good.
Cuba is an extremely poor third world country. Medicines and doctors are in very short supply for the Cuban people and yet Castro keeps sending them abroad for propaganda tours to entice useful idiots like yourself. That's messed up! Doing that to your own people! That's fucked up! Of course you will never understand, it's not your family we are talking about. No one in your family has been killed in a paredon or died for lack of medicines and treatment in run down hospitals for regular cubans.
@cubano1979 My Grandfather was a Communist German during Hitler's reign. He was sent to a Concentration camp in 1938 for his beliefs where he miraculously survived until the closing periods of the war, where the camp was liberated by the Red Army
They gave him food, clothing, and a visa to get to Britain within the month. All of them were generous, from the regular soldiers, to the Commissars. I know that simple acts of goodwill are not "Communist Propaganda Scams". You act as if Communists are a different species altogether. As is the arrogant pride of many Americans.
@cubano1979: Spoken like a Miami gusano. Cuba is not some extremely poor third world country. When I was there a few years ago, people looked healthy, didn't see kids sleeping in gutters, they were laid back, full of life and excitement; basically the opposite of what an oppressed and poverty stricken people would be like. Unlike in the USA, obtaining a medical degree in Cuba requires staying awake in med school. The only Cuba you know is in Miami.
@shadowmare97: Very true. Also remember how Bush outright rejected Castro's offer to send Cuban doctors to the USA and help the victims of the Hurricaine Katrina disaster.
China was among the first nations, after Russia to abandon the "Pro Lobotomy" practices where they're drill into the brains of mental patients, calling it an inhumane practice. The US didn't abandon it until the late 80's.
@cubano1979 Ha! "Thanks Capitalism" ummm i believe all u just mentioned wouldn't exist without the Satellite. Who do you think launched the First Satellite? If it wasn't for satellites today's Technology let laone our lives would be a whole disaster. Oh and FOX News?? oh WOW 0_0
@eddiemperor I know exactly who launched the first communications Satellite, a technological marvel that has changed our world and is toppling totalitarian dictators all over the middle east! The worthless pinging ball in space built on the famine of millions of russians you are refering to didn't really do much except to awaken the greatest nation on earth and take Humanity to the moon and the future. The only one thing communism excels is at killing people, either of hunger or violently.
@cubano1979 Exactly The Communist had to be the "First" to Explore Space for everyone else to start Racing to Immortality ha? I'm not going to mention anything about the Middle East Simply because there is absolutely nothing Ethical about the Middle East, only it's Beautiful Culture and People, the rest is just a Blank. and for your last statement i think it would be Great if you could tell that to the poor survivors and victims in My Lai who's life were completely destroyed by American Soldiers
The blinding propaganda against Cuba in the U$ renders U$ citizens incapable of knowing in what high esteem Cuba is held in other parts of the world.
One really has to live in Cuba to experience the beauty of the system. The deprived people of the U$ can't comprehend what it would be like to have no homeless people, free education, the right to food etc. Where a poverty of social justice reigns as it does in the US, there's no hope of understanding the equality in Cuba.
This is the real reason why the US has hated Cuba, it has nothing to do with anything else. Cuba does not follow orders. Ironic how nobody complains about Obama hosting the dictators of Jordan and Egypt with smiles and handshakes.
Castro got in bed with the Stalinists on his own free will..Castro joined the side of international totalitarian marxism during the Cold War,and believe me it was a war..that's why we hate Castro..we tried to warn him he was ruining the future of Cuba, but Castro was confident the Soviets would win the Cold War...just like Mussolini was confident that the totalitarian NAZIS would win WW2..Castro allied with the totalitarian Soviets..he was on the losing side of the war..
it's up to Castro if he wants better relations, we won the cold war, winners don't make concessions, losers do..when fidel is ready to make concessions give us a call..if not , then screw the piece of shit stalinst dictator..it's his own fault for joining the side of totalitarian tyrrany during the Cold War.
First off, the Cuban model is far from Stalinism, it is closer to a Trotskyiest model. Second, it is funny that you mention Nazis when at the time the US was also taking sides, with brutal neo-Nazi regimes in the hemisphere such as Somoza in Nicaragua, Augusto Pinochet in Chile, the neo-Nazi rulers of Argentina, the brutal military regimes of El Salvador and Guatemala who killed thousands and the neo-Nazi regime in Brazil. The Soviets at least never funded death squads in the region.
the Soviets funded Allende, the Soviets and Cubans funded the rebels in Nicarauga, El Salvador...the rebels followed Castro's call for violence...if the Soviets and Cubans had kept their noses out of South America it would have saved thousands of lives...
Excuse me, I believe you need to educate yourself. I suggest reading "The Pinochet File" which gathers all the State Department documentation on the Pinochet era in Chile. His free market reforms had little to do with Nazism, but his military ideaology certainly did including many social policies he implemented. To top it off, Pinochet used Nazi fugitives living in Chile to help with the running of torture camps and death squads.
I'm talking about the specific charateristics of Pinochet's military regime when it comes to its social policies. The glorification of one class over the other, women in the early phase were even forced to wear skirts instead of pants, young men were forced to cut their hair short, indigenous communities were cleaned out. The entire indoctrination of Chilean society under Pinochet has the classic markings of your prototypical fascist state.
Both fascism and Communism are authoritarian models. However, the differences are in ideaologies, social goals etc. So in literal political terms you cannot classify Fidel Castro as a fascist. Interestingly, in Saul Landau's book "Assassination On Embassy Row," he does chronicle the anti-Semitic, racist views of most anti-Castro militants in Florida.
Yes, "Colonia Dignidad" was a detention center. It was also a major torture center where German Nazi fugitives living in the colony consulted and aided Pinochet's forces in barbaric Nazi techniques. This is all well documented, including in The Pinochet File which you claim to have read.
You have no authority to dismiss that section of the book. Nobody in their right mind is making a connection between the actual, defunct Nazi Germany and Pinochet. But Nazi FUGITIVES are known to have helped not just Augusto, but his buddies in Argentina and Brazil as well, countries where a large number of German war criminals fled to following the end of WWII. You can find exact similarities between the barbarism of Chile and that of Argentina.
1º "Chile under the Popular Unity" compilation by Ercilla magazine.
2º The declassified CIA documents of the Church commission available online.
3º "The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World" declassified documents by KGB major Vasili Mitrokhin with the help of Cambridge professor Christopher Andrew.
4º Documents from the Chilean Center of Public Studies. Including an Interview with KGB general Nikolai Leonov.
Very good. I also recommend "Killing Hope" by William Blum, where he chronicles in exact detail how Russia never had a chance or even real goals of seeking "world domination." The US used the excuse to intervene abroad and keep countries from seeking their own paths, whatever they may have been politically.
The USSR did intervene heavily in Eastern Europe. However, the documented record on Latin America is very clear that the USSR did not invest as much in that corner as US propaganda had everyone believe. Now we know for example, that Russia refused to help Cuba much in Central America, believing it was a lost cause. Russia also never invaded territories in our hemisphere like the US did in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua.
You also forget Castro did not even declare the Cuban Revolution as socialist until the US launched the Bay Of Pigs invasion and began waging a brutal terrorist war against Cuba which also lead to the Missile Crisis.
yeah, but it was apparent that a communist revolution was underway before bay of pigs..but I agree that the Kennedy's secret war on Cuba helped cause the Cuban Missile Crisis..
Cuba was always a non aligned state. They only turned to the USSR because they were the only ones that would buy their produce and thus ensure the economic health during the american embargo. And why was there an embargo? because the US threw a little tantrum because they had lost control of Cuba which they first controlled thru the Platt amendment, then the Batista regime, and they threw a bigger tantrum when they got their asses kicked in the bay of pigs invasion.
non aligned?..LOL...Cuba was getting 5 billion a year from the Soviets...Cuba supported the Soviet invasions of Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan..the Cuba and Soviets worked to together on funding,training and arming totalitarian movements in Central America,Africa etc...
Yes, and the US was doing the same thing, arming brutal military dictatorships in Latin America, invaded the Dominican Republic, Haiti etc. etc. Oh and Vietnam, forgot about that one! There are no clean hands here.
"El socialismo es la filosofía del fracaso, el credo a la ignorancia, y la prédica a la envidia, su virtud inherente es la distribución igualitariade la miseria." wiston Chorchil.
I'm against the embargo. But the economic problems in Cuba were exacerbated by the demise of USSR & the end of the $5 billion in subsidies that they gave annually to the Castro government. & so they quickly faced a large budget deficit. In response, they made a deliberate decision to continue to spend money to maintain its military & internal security apparatus at the expense of other priorities. They had to so that they could keep the police strong & not allow dissent & freedom of the Cubans
When one thinks about the way dissent is handled in Cuba, one must consider the impact that the American influence has had on the island. Take into consideration the Bay of Pigs invasion; repeated CIA airstrikes of sugar cane fields; anti-castro propaganda spread through the island's media outlets; Operation Mongoose; and the list goes on. It is a protection mechanism, and it is intended to keep the revolution alive.
Fidel Castro Hugo Chávez Rafael Correa Evo Morales Daniel Ortega Michelle Bachelet Álvaro Colom Tabaré Vázquez Crsitina Fernández de Kirchner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero... Mauricio Funes Todos estos nombres han abierto una nueva época de reflexión, lucha y de esperanza en América Latina, todos ellos han dado el mensaje de la auto-determinación. Y han son parte de la Historia ¿Y quién sabe? Tal vez no pase mucho antes de ver Barack Obama.
For every illiterate Cuban under the Dictator Batista there are now 3 Cuban DOCTORS under Fidel.
Cuba sends more doctors overseas to help with disaster relief then any other country, usually twenty times as much as Europe and much more then U$A's number of 0.
Fidel is a long- standing member of the UN's Human Rights Commitee. That is something you can't say about an American president. Not bad for an "evil dictator" under a 40 year trade embargo.
June 2007-That panel had stained the UNs reputation through declining credibility and professionalism, in the words of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. , They repeatedly singled out Israel for condemnation while ignoring human rights abuses committed by Hamas and Hezbollah and failing to address far worse human rights situations around the world in places such as Belarus, China, Cuba, North Korea, and Zimbabwe. So Cuba being a "long standing member" is a joke.
I rather be brainwashed then live in DENIAL & WITHOUT FREEDOM,FOOD, & SO MUCH MORE ALL Your Life.You Have N O T H I N G,I was there in 79"&80".And it was Horrendous!Everybody that is here now recent arrived say it's WORSE! I can't Imagine Worse than 79" & 80".I mean,hey it's your Life and If you have Kids I feel really sorry for them also.I will pray for you & your family. No Tienes Nada! Just living a Lie una mentira! & Hey the Brain is a powerful tool.Good Luck Brother..
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Castro is the Cancer that Destroyed the Lives of Millions and still til this day.Sadly no person had the balls to assasinate that Cancer.Cancers are eradicated completely.The CIA ,Local Cubans or Santos Trafficante & Company should've done it long time ago.Sadly,Cuba is lost and any Human that Lives there today or is a Product of Castro Ideology is Scum,the majority are thieves,and low lifes.They Come to Miami Steal from the US Government and they hide in Cuba..
I do enjoy Fidel, and i'm not miserable for it. He is the best leader that Latin America has today, Chavez is up their too. The United States just hate Castro because he stood by his convictions and brought Cuba it's independence. Before Catro Cuba was a client state and the whore house and gambling dens of rich Americans, under Castro, Cuba is its own nation. It's a shame to see that you have been brain washed by America.
please explain then why Cuba is ranked fifth from the bottom by the World Press Freedom Institute, why it has been repeatedly condemed by human rights monitors, and why five thousand people languish in prison for "dangerouseness."
Castro is possibly one of the worst leaders that ever took power.
Castro certainly made mistakes, that is indisputable. The imprisonment of the dissidents, however, was necessary for ensuring the survival of the revolution. Whatever you think of Castro, he was the only man with the confidence and willpower to lead the revolution without succumbing to fear or doubt, and the revolution was certainly just. What you must realize is that the revolution was not intended to simply replace Batista with another depot, but to elicit REAL social change, which it did.
no one wanted that social change. The revolution was republican in character, not communist. The goals originally were to restore democracy and the Constitution of 1940. Castro destroyed everything the people fought for. Why do you think so many of his allies turned against him?
Ask the peasantry in Cuba if they were happy with the revolution, and you will get a very different response. Landowners and and the upper class of Cuba resented the revolution because it attempted to bring about egalitarian reform in Cuba-and it succeeded. As for the dismal economic conditions in Cuba, alot of that can be ascribed to the containment policy of the U.S. towards Cuba. You know, the embargo; economic sabotage; refusal to lend aid to any nation that trades with Cuba.
Cuba can trade with nearly every other country, but the economy still sucks. The average salary is around $20 a month. That's a lot worse then in Iran, which also faces a strict embargo.
and if the peasants were so happy with the revolution, then why was there a guerilla uprising against Castro in the Escambry Mountains (hardly the rich man's turf) from1960-65.
Those guerillas were nearly all peasants and many of them had fought with Castro, who betrayed them.
Yes, Cuba can trade with several other countries, but those countries then face losing tade, or aid, with the United States.
As for the counterrevolutionaries, they consisted mostly of disgruntled affluent Cubans who were displeased with the radical, leftist direction in which the revolution was heading.
The counter-revolutionaries were mostly peasants, and were led by former 13th of March movement fighters disgruntled by Castro's tyranny. These were NOT affluent people. That war is considered a PEASANT revolt and it involved more guerillas than Castro's uprising.
and I don't know where you get that BS about losing trade from. The US's main trading partner, Canada, is Cuba's main trading partner as well.
You seem like you know alot about the revolution, yet you repudiate that the United States has shown economic agression towards Cuba? Then what about when Eisenhower pushed bills through congress which imposed sanctions on countries that bought Cuban sugar with U.S. loans, and cut off security assistance to countries that gave ANY aid to Cuba? Or how about, in late 1961, congress passed a bill refusing to offer any aid to any country that dealt with Cuba? What about the embargo?
fsjjshshhs I didn't realize you were talking about the 13th of March (3/13/57)fighters who were peasants, students, professionals that wanted democracy. What was left of them tried to stop Castro's tyranny but couldn't during the Escambray rebellion, many peasants joined this group & paid with their lives but the US papers never publicized that revolution. Castro is the one glorified by Herbert Mathews in the US.I was talking to XxxNuMbxxX0301 who isn't well versed on Cuba, you are thank you!
You need to read the real Cuban history. It was NOT just the peasants that were behind the Revolution. Many different groups were against Batista & many of these started at the University of Habana & were educated middle class, including Castro. Americans fall prey to the romanticized Revolucion when the truth is not as pretty. What ended up was NOT what the Cubans had wanted which was democracy & freedom. History will tell you Castro used Marti as the example of freedom & then took it away
I know that the peasents weren't the only ones behind the revolution, I simply meant that they gained alot from it. I have read a good deal about the Revolution, and I stand with Castro.
When did you live in Cuba exactly? How are you SO behind Castro? When you say anit-castro propaganda, do you actually mean freedom of speech? I lived there under those conditions & unless you've lived there as a Cuban with no human rights, no freedom of speech I find it interesting that as a casual observer you have great insight into the lives of the Cubans. Easy to "stand with Castro" when you're not the one being oppressed! The revolution let the Cuban people down a LONG time ago!
My grandfather was jailed by the revolution, so I can sympathize with what you're saying. My whole life I was brought up thinking Castro was a monster who, because I had been fed all these stories of his wickedness. I'm sorry to tell you my friend, but before Castro, Cuba was was in a condition of abject servility; the whore house of the Caribbean. At least now it has it's independence. But perhaps you're among the Cubans who would rather see it revert to that deplorable state.
I'm sorry to tell you my friend as I lived there MYSELF that it's NOT as black & white as you'd like to make it out to be. I & many Cubans are NOT the radicals of the old Cuban exiles. We are a new breed that understand the corruption of Batista but also see the corruption of Castro. You can say there's independence & it's free from the capitalistic US which is the war cry of the Revolution, But the people are NOT free & Castro read & believed the writings of our great hero Marti & let us down.
Understand how you feel being brought up with a one sided perspective of Cuba. While it's not fair to paint the Batista regime as wonderful it's not right to paint the Castro regime that way either. Cuban history shows us that we had many corrupt leaders & were contstantly searching for a democracy that we thought the Revolution had won for us. Where much of the anger towards Castro stems is from his promise of democracy that never came, Cubans feel cheated & have difficulty looking past that.
Fidel Castro is not my hero, although I do admire him. You said it yourself, the annals of Cuban leadership are replete mired by corruption, and alot of that is due to the influence that the U.S. has had on the island. That is why I admire Castro, because he took back control of Cuba and put it to use for Cubans, not wealthy American business men. It was an important step that had to be taken, and perhaps now, with someone like Obama as president, we can move forward.
But you continue to miss an important fact; he did NOT give it to the Cuban people. He has taken the rights away from those Cuban people and made himself and his party the elite and ruling class of Cuba with rights & privileges not afforded to the Cubans living there. They have become the imperialistic elite they so adamantly oppose. I once was young & idealistic so I know that I can't change your perspective of this man you admire. Sometimes it's best to keep those ideals when you're young.
.Also, we new Cuban exiles are for a free Cuba without the integration of the US. However, Cuba must learn from the past & STOP using the US as was done by Marti as well as Castro. While they both detested the US & didn't want it in Cuba they both used the US to spread their ideology & cries of freedom. Cuba deserves independence as well as the democracy that Cuban history will show you is what the majority of Cubans have wanted & I having come from there can tell you, still want today!
I respect your position. But first you guys need to clean house in the exile community itself. The world will take you seriously when you vote out the Balarts and Lehitenen in Florida and when you fight against those protecting terrorist scum like Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles. You can't fix Cuba when the whole enterprise in the US is ultra-corrupt as well. Cuban politicians are the only Latinos I saw on TV supporting the Iraq war for example.
AndrewMann552 when you say "you guys" I assume that you refer to ALL Cuban Americans. I find it interesting that you put us all in one group & can't see any diversity. I think that comes from the fact that the people who have the most radical views are usually the ones speaking the loudest. I & MANY "others" were against the war, don't agree with ANY form of terrorism including those that are Cubans & want a free Cuba without the US involved. Maybe we "guys" need to start screaming to be heard?
Also, I don't live in Florida but can tell you my brother lives there and voted against Martinez when he ran for the Senate and he wasn't the ONLY Cuban that did that. There is a new generation that isn't part of the old Cuban Americans & we have formed groups to work together for the changes that need to occur not only for the US but for Cuba as well. You may see the "whole enterprise in the US is ultra-corrupt" but I don't. I know too may good people working to make a change.
PRISIONES en CUBA, PRISONS in CUBA 1958 = 14 cárceles (Antes del Castro Comunismo) 1958 = 14 jails (before Castro communism) 2008 = 581 cárceles y campos de trabajo forzado. 2008 = 581 jails and force labor camps. HAMBRE, ODIO, MISERIA Y CÁRCELES! Tal es la Herencia de la Revolución Comunista. y de la Tiranía impuesta en mi Patria por Fidel Castro. HUNGER, HATE, MISERY AND JAILS! Such is the legacy of the communist revolution. and the dictatorship impose on my Country by Fidel Castro.
Great to see, but if only that Stalinist was democratic. Socialism will never work in a dictatorship. That is why eastern Europe turned back to capitalism. Democratic socialism is superior to Stalinism, Capitalism, and Fascism.
But great to see how U.S capitalist are kicked out, I whish that would happen here in Europe. But our Christian Democrats are good friends of Mr. Bush, and many Europeans fear socialism, because of Stalinism and the fear of losing their freedom.
For 49 yrs, Cuba has developed a highly effective machinery of repression. The denial of basic civil & political rights is written into CUBAN LAW. In the name of legality, armed security forces, aided by state-controlled mass organizations, silence dissent with heavy prison terms, threats of prosecution, harassment, or exile. Cuba uses these tools to restrict severely the exercise of fundamental human rights of expression, association & assembly. Yet, the Repression of Dissidents continues.
2) Well, Castro & Co. have a failed Cuban Communist experiment & was an outpost of the CCCP for many years. Thus, the repression has been going on for the last 49 years, the last forty-nine freaking years & still you have the audacity to talk about human rights?!!!
It's painfully obvious, how communists do equality...
Why are you so excited to advertise your ignorance on the net??
Batista, ruled for 61/2 years, and you say that he was, "a brutal U.$. backed dictatorship that allowed the island to become America"s "Whore House" & Mafia Casino hang out - in exchange for his cut of the profits."
Go to Cuba , find a job there , live with they pay you and you will come back healthy with 40 pounds less.
mans410 2 months ago
Don't bother explaining me about Cuba, I know all those "statistic", I'm Cuban living in USA.
How many of those children castro saved, had died in the Straits of Florida,in Angola ,Ethiopia.?
mans410 2 months ago
And the worst part is the poor people think that fidel castro's way is the way to solve global problems , and it is just a diversion.
mans410 3 months ago
fidel castro is not the solution for the world problems, he himself kill the revolution for personal ambitions like the rest of the dictators lake him.
mans410 3 months ago
All of that is in paper not in reality, Cuba had the best plans to produce everything but just plans.
mans410 3 months ago
Castro didn't redistribute the land, he confiscated the land and make state own farms, and as a result the food disappear in Cuba.
mans410 6 months ago
@mans410
"As a result the food disappeared"
Cuba has a 99.8% literacy rate, an infant death rate lower than some developed countries, and an average life expectancy of 77.64. 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.
I think you are full of bullshit, no way they are starving with these stats.
NeutralExistence 3 months ago
I love that day when those capitalists of the United Fruit Company lost their property in Cuba. Castro became a reformist Stalinist, but he did a good job in destroying capitalism. Unfortunately win out workers democracy, the Cuban economy became inefficient and to bureaucratic.
A planned economy needs democracy, otherwise you get a bureaucratic deformed planned economy.
UDSS 8 months ago
@xMxiMusx... You my friend are not Cuban and you have never spent a day in Havana. You present an image of Cuba as a whorehouse; however, you were never there to see it. Castro has ruled Cuba for 52 years now, in the process he has shot, jailed, exiled and deprived all Cuban citizens of their liberty. Cuban exiles are not thugs they are the victims of a mad man. Get your facts straight.
lrodria1 9 months ago
NOT EXACTLY CURRENT FUCKING NEWS.
Javjean 10 months ago
Cuba on Monday said it is laying off nearly half a million workers, an eye-popping figure in any country, but especially in a nation where the government so totally dominates the economy.
AmericanMale1953 1 year ago
The way I see it if Cuba is such a socialist utopia, such great healthcare, such great education, and so much food for all and the people are so healthy, and have true social justice. I'm sure they all have there human rights, and support from all the other socialist countries that are there to help. A country with free elections so they say, no need to replace Castro and his little brother for 51 years, Then why would anyone jump on a inner-tube and paddle north in shark infested waters? Why?
ENCOMAN 1 year ago
@ENCOMAN Because they are deluded into thinking the US is the 'promised land' with freedom for all and streets paved with 100 dollar bills. Woo hoo..that dream will die fast. Instead they will end up slaving for big business and have NO health care and crappy education.
Brenda2OOO 1 year ago
@Brenda2OOO You were misinformed. I came to the U.S. the "promised land" were I have freedom to speak my mind, I got public and privet education also. I then worked hard for the big bad Corporations.I own my home(property) I have good healthcare, I'm also free to travel. You were told the streets are paved in $100 sorry babe.The streets are really paved with "Opportunity" to earn your keep. Never had time to sit and wait for a Government hand out. One time I did find $20 bucks on the street.
ENCOMAN 1 year ago
@ENCOMAN You can't believe how thrilled I am for you. Sadly, others are not living in your dream world.
Brenda2OOO 1 year ago
@Brenda2OOO Thank you, but your comment should be directed to Castor's socialist utopian revolution that has become the Cuban peoples nightmare.
ENCOMAN 1 year ago
@ENCOMAN because they are buying the the same "American Scheme" bullshitt u buy,and i hope they make it nothing like a dose of reality, to "Un-Fukk" yourself.cause we know how many job's and opportunities are waiting for them don't we???.and opportunity in america is spelled "Depression" the u.s dollar is Not worth the paper it's printed on.well at least they will get health care for all the shark bites,Ooops were getting rid of that,too many poor people,getting health care,the american dream.
myleftnutts 1 year ago
@myleftnutts ???
ENCOMAN 1 year ago
Bulls.. communist propaganda. Nothing is said about the thousands of innocent Cubans and Americans murdered by the totalitarian regime or what has happened to Cuba's former wealth after 50 years.
cubano1979 1 year ago
As a Veteran of the invasion of Cuba, I am proud of the progress JFK made possible in Cuba.
JFK was a friend of Fidel's
JFK knew that if he left Fidel in charge, Fidel would do the right thing.
Fidel liberated the women of Cuba from the slavery of drugs & prostitution.
JFK did the same in Vietnam.
JFK issued Executive Order #263 & stopped the Vietnam war for one month.
The CIA killed JFK for these 2 acts of Courage.
JFK liberated Cuba & Vietnam.
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paul8kangas 1 year ago
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Chullotron 2 years ago
Anyone with any intelligence
Anyone with any ambition
Anyone with any pride
Anyone with any talent
Left Cuba decades ago.
All that is left are the lowest dregs of any society. Thats why Communism is so attractive to LOSERS..they cant make it in any other society.
ehunter2 2 years ago
As he mentioned the USA investments that he was nationalizing he was signing the death sentence of the Cuban people.
freirant 2 years ago
que ignorante fidel no sabe negociar para el pueblo si solo para el y sus intereses se cogio toda esas inversiones y el pais se puso en mas malas como nunca que genio fidel si que sabe cojer al malo y hacerlo peor el pueblo si lo apoyo y ahora todavia se lo estan chupando ha ha ha ha
future305 2 years ago
only the capitalist king u.s has killed millions, the CIA has killed 6 million since 1950, they killed 15 million natives cus they said it was their minifiest destiny, they have nuked 2 cities, they have bunrned hundread of thousands of kids and women in drezden burning them alive!, they killed millions in ww1,ww2 and millions in vietnam and hrundread thousands in iraq and they keep killing, now add all the people other democratic countries have killed it would be more the 100 millions way more!
09realgangsta 2 years ago
abajo fidel!!!!! abajo raul!!!!! abajo che!!!!! abajo con el communismo!!! abajo con el socialismo!!!!!! Que Viva Miami!!!!! Volveremos Fidel!!!!!!! Communista De Mierda!!!!
1984capitalism 2 years ago
BUT THEY ALL BEG FOR THE EMBARGO TO BE LIFTED?
Which is it?
USA OUT? OR USA PLEASE RETURN, WE ARE A BUNCH OF MORONS! AMAZING HIPOCRACY. LMAO!
USAHavana 2 years ago
@USAHavana usa hypocrocy is selling ,mass producing cuban flags and other merchandise with che`s name and face on ....you cant get bigger hypocrocy than that...and yes i laugh my ass of that one man ,one country can scare the shit out of the yanks....for all your oil,capitalism,corruption, freedom ...you cant bear the thought that the little island 90 miles away is the one you just couldnt beat...with all your super power,intelligence,weapons ....HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE......
hoppterr 2 years ago 2
HOP You must be the arithmetic man; you add stupidity, subtract pleasure, divide attention, and multiply ignorance. What an ignorant limey. Why do they BEG for US loans?An end to the EMGARGO? THEY BEG FOR US CAPITALISM? America was founded on an idea, rather than conquest
America did away with monarchy
Americans founded the freest country in the world.
America kicked ass in WW2 and emerged as the only superpower
We brought on the fall of the Soviet Empire
AND KILLED CHE! FREE CUBA!
USAHavana 2 years ago
America killed hundreds of thousands of Native Americans and still opress many of them (Conquest)
America has done nothing against the British Monarchy
Check the Patriot act and see if your beloved America is as "free" as you think.
The Brits, Russians and Canadians did a lot more work then you guys did. AND were involved earlier on.
You bought the Soviets out... hardly a conquest when there's still 120 Million communists and growing through the world.
Che was murdered by a drunk...
shadowmare97 2 years ago
You're an ignorant communist ideologue. Must be nice to be a communist in a NON communist country...HYPOCRITE! Any YOUTUBE IN CUBA? You are a joke. LONG LIVE DEAD CHE IN THE 6th CIRCLE OF HELL...asswipe. LMAO!
USAHavana 2 years ago
Actually I did spend 5 years in China as a substitute teacher
Still... Obvious troll is now obvious
shadowmare97 2 years ago
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A true communist doesn't like or use the internet, the greatest capitalist invention of all times! The Internet allows the free exchange of ideas, communism kills ideas. There is a contradiction here. I think you should move to Cuba and renounce access to the internet if you want to defend totalitarianism from a solid base.
cubano1979 1 year ago
United fruit company win. x)
E1337wArZoNe 2 years ago 4
There are similarities with Fidel Castro & FDR, both men were born with a silver spoon & yet both turned against their own class because they wanted to do the right thing serving the people & spread fairness & equality. Another person who rebelled against his upper class status was actor Humphrey Bogart & he was labeled a communist in 1947 when he led a group of actors to Washington to protest & support fellow actors, directors being questioned & interrogated by the McCarthy "witchhunt".
WINGGULLSEAGULL 2 years ago 17
Socialism of one form or another is "where it's at" if you are modern and have something resembling a human conscience.
KosmicCitizen 2 years ago
@WINGGULLSEAGULL Um I think the biggest difference is that FDR was elected Democratically and left after his term ended instead of submiting a whole nation into Poverty and Comunist Regime
Scarer101st 1 year ago
@Scarer101st well scary that too is another LIE,he was Secretly Assassinated,by poison there was a attempted coup against him before that,even the communist's Knew this.scary in the future try not to get all your data from the "Nightly LYING Azz News" or the "HiS-Story" channell.
myleftnutts 1 year ago
@WINGGULLSEAGULL There are differences also. FDR and Humphrey Bogart loved the USA and its citizens and neither murdered, imprisoned, or exiled millions of Americans. Castro did it to Cubans in Cuba. If Castro's Cuba is a paradise how come nine out of ten Cubans would rather migrate than live in that hell hole? People must be free to choose their own government without fear of being branded as "worms" by government officials. The Castro brothers have run out of excuses. It is time for change.
ryanrful 11 months ago
@ryanrful
You're not understanding the isssue.. Before Castro Cuba was a corporate whorehouse.. 9 out of 10 want to leave because it's a poor country mainly because of sanctions.. Not his fault.. The "exiles" are usually anti-Castro US sponsored gangsters to undermine his regime and put in a US puppet.
xMaXiMuSx 11 months ago
@ryanrful
Cuba does more with less than probably any country in the world.. HE is demonized in our media because he refuses to be a puppet.
xMaXiMuSx 11 months ago
@WINGGULLSEAGULL FDR nedeed to get the US back on track in the horrible great depression..FDR didn t destroy net wealth..Fidel has destroyed the Cuban economy,made Havanna a ruin..the suger plantations are dilipidated and the cuban middle class fled. Fidel still lives with a huge silverspoon in contrast to his impoverished people.
am1966ath 4 months ago
"Russia also never invaded territories in our hemisphere"
I believed thats because:
1º The USSR was focus in keeping its power over Asia and Eastern Europe.
2º It would have been interpreted as an act of aggression by the US.
Wraith23 2 years ago
That's because the last country to attack the U.S. was Japan. Two atomic bombs and hundreds of thousands of innocent people murdered sounds like a good reason not to challenge the empire.
Frogstomp121 2 years ago
the Evil Empire
itsatrap1989 2 years ago
"the documented record on Latin America is very clear that the USSR did not invest as much in that corner as US propaganda had everyone believe."
US propaganda? The very KGB general Nikolai Leonov (second in command of the KGB at the time) admitted that they had supported Allende with HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in loans, credits, equipment and weaponry.
Wraith23 2 years ago
"Both fascism and Communism are authoritarian models"
Agreed
"the differences are in ideaologies, social goals"
Not so much, the totalitarian state, the one party system, the state regulating society, etc
"you cannot classify Fidel Castro as a fascist."
Yes I can, he meets all the criteria, unless you are willing to admit not every dictator is fascist.
Wraith23 2 years ago
Well said! There is National Socialism-NAZI and International Socialism-RED. SAME SHIT. Nazi's killed 40 million Commies killed 100 million. Can people really be this stupid, to think that Communism is friendly? They had to wall their citizens and shoot them in the back! How idiotic can these idiots be? Even Hitler wasn't forced to build a WALL. N.Korea or S. Korea? E. Germany or W. Germany? Did they swallow an ignorance pill? Or is it genetic? FREE CUBA! GO USA! SCREW TOTALITARIANISM!
USAHavana 2 years ago
@USAHavana PLEASE TELL ME ABOUT THE HUNDREDS OF NAZI`S EMPLOYED BY THE CIA IN 1945...THOSE WHO MURDERED IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND THEN WERE ALLOWED TO SETTLE IN THE USA AFTER THE WAR WITH NO WAR TRIALS....IM BEGINNING TO THINK THAT YOUR NON INTELLIGENCE AND IGNORANCE IS ONLY MATCHED BY YOUR FATHER...IS YOUR DAD G W BUSH BY ANY CHANCE CAUSE YOUR AS THICK AS HE IS
hoppterr 2 years ago 15
@USAHavana
Wow... there are STILL people who believe that the Communists killed 100 Million people?
The wall between North and South Korea was built because of the ongoing ceacefire between the two.
Berlin was split as agreed to during the Malta conference between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill.
Cuba is free... to place it under American imperialism once again will guarantee it another 50 years of criminal totalitarianism
Viva Fidel!
shadowmare97 2 years ago
It's actually a lot more people because they kill the human soul and free will before killing you physically. A true communist doesn't like or use the internet, the greatest capitalist invention of all times! The Internet allows the free exchange of ideas, communism kills ideas. There is a contradiction here. I think you should move to Cuba and renounce access to the internet if you want to defend totalitarianism from a solid base.
cubano1979 1 year ago
Ya callate pinche comico. You're just mad because you and your family got booted out of Cuba. You are not even Cuban pendejo. All you do is suck Rebublican dick in the hopes that you will be accepted as something more than another low class Cuban American. Your disgraceful family came here and fucked up Miami. Little Havana is a shit hole! Pinche gusano if you love Cuba so much get the fuck out of America. We don't need you worms here.
mic1112244 2 years ago
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@mic: Yet another filthy wetback THAT SUFFERS FROM Cuban-American-Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Its a common Chicano-wetback mental illness based on their feelings of powerlessness, iinferiority and inadequacy. Cubans outearn them, outsmart them and kicked their filthy Indian asses out of Miami. Go sell your' 'seeester' you dirty fuckin SPICK beener! Maybe she can be a nice maid for us Cubans here in Miami, you can mow my fuckin lawn...WETBACK! LMAO!
USAHavana 2 years ago
A true communist doesn't like or use the internet, the greatest capitalist invention of all times! The Internet allows the free exchange of ideas, communism kills ideas. There is a contradiction here. I think you should move to Cuba and renounce access to the internet if you want to defend totalitarianism from a solid base.
cubano1979 1 year ago
A "True Communist" knows that the world is in a downward spiral because of greed and Militant corporations. He/She actively supports revolutionary movements around the globe, wether it be merely vocally, or a more active role as a soldier. It takes both.
I suppose then by YOUR views... I am not Communist.
Luckily YOUR views... seem almost comically biased.
Also, I spent 5 years in China, I think I mentioned it somewhere on this page before.
shadowmare97 1 year ago
Jajaja so you really think you are going to fix the world by supporting totalitarian communist dictatorships that's just plain dumb. When I suggested you move to Cuba I'm not talking to live there for 5 years as an idiot useful pampered by the regime. I'm talking about living, like I did for 25 years, as a regular subject, losing all human rights, freedoms, your prosperity and access to the internet. Your worst mistake is assuming you will belong to the privileged class there, you won't.
cubano1979 1 year ago
"Totalitarian Communist Dictatorships"
Big words coming from someone who clearly doesn't know what he talks about. Who has clearly never read Marx or Engels. And is clearly making shit up about living there. My experiences in China were like what you would find anywhere else, Worked in a factory for two years (Which was clean and safe, contrary to popular belief) and then worked as a substitute teacher for the remaining three.
It had its ups and downs, but was overall quite enjoyable.
shadowmare97 1 year ago
I don't assume I will belong to any sort of "Privelaged class". I was, and would be just like anyone else, working for the betterment of the community.
Stop listening to FOX news... its clearly turned your brain into goo in a box.
shadowmare97 1 year ago
TOTALITARIAN COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIPS is what they are and you obviously don't understand what this means. I was forced to study the terribly boring and utopic theories, later taken advantage of by dictators, of marx and engels for more than 12 years, not only that, every day I used to wipe my ass with the pages of their books because I couldn't afford toilet paper and that was their best use ever! You could say my ass is more knowledgeable than you about the subject jajaj. USEFUL IDIOT!
cubano1979 1 year ago
@cubano1979
Ah, so you believe that fundamental communism could work but only if it is not taken over by dictatorships?
Very good! We're making progress, as most Communists today believe the very same thing... All... 120 Million of us and counting.
Also, the rest of what you said is pretty much bullshit... Cuba has toilet paper, spent a couple weeks there in a middle class apartment on an exchange program. Even the slums had toilet paper.
shadowmare97 1 year ago
Ohh sure it would work great! It would be a paradise where all humankind would be happy and there would be no money, no one would rise as a dictator blah blah blah. Communism would only work if where all robots, liked working for conscience, and behaved well but if we where like that why would we need a government then? Communism is a cancer for the ignorants, thanks god the cure is information and that vaccine is now everywhere.
cubano1979 1 year ago
@cubano1979
Funny... I'm exposed to the internet on a daily basis and I still believe Communism could work if it had a great leader.
Guess this is where we have to differ? I've seen more of the world then you ever have so you can't call me "Ignorant". I've spoken with countless individuals who are sick and tired of Capitalism.
Democracy is good... Capitalism is bad
The two are distinctly different, and I'm tired of hearing people say they are both the same.
shadowmare97 1 year ago
I hate to break it to you but Communism will never work. No one leader has the truth and all the answers, even you or me if given enough power would become terrible dictators. Only a system that provides checks and balances and a way to correct its own mistakes will make it into the future. I see you are naive and inexperienced but have good intentions but the road to hell is full of those. Be very careful, always remember that when you stop being "useful" to a dictatorship they will discard you
cubano1979 1 year ago 2
@cubano1979
Naive and inexperienced...
Clearly you're incapable of reading what I just told you... so I just wasted my time.
Wonderful
Remember that once someone offers to take your job for less pay, you will be discarded.
Remember that once you abandon Capitalism and take up something else... you will be shunned
Tis the same idea.. just in sheeps clothing.
shadowmare97 1 year ago
Not only I can listen to Fox News now that I'm leaving as a free individual. I can now have access to all the news agencies, bloggers, chats, social networks etc of the entire world!!!! THANKS CAPITALISM AND DEMOCRACY FOR THE GREATEST INVENTION OF THE WORLD: THE INTERNET!!!!!! I just love it man!!!!!! and I have a feeling you do too. Totalitarian regimes are a thing of the past, they depend on the total control of information and that's impossible today. Better get used to that.
cubano1979 1 year ago
The only totalitarian Communist state I can think of today is North Korea
And I strain whenever I affiliate Communism with them... Its more of a Dictatorial Monarchy.
Cuba is free... Rugged, but free. Ever since the Soviet Union collapsed it has fallen on hard economic times due to the loss of its primary trading partner. However I remember Castro distinctly saying that he refuses to buy American Blood oil.
Fox News is bullshit... O'reilly and Glenn Beck are fear mongers and nothing more.
shadowmare97 1 year ago
I don't understand how you can be so ignorant about Cuba when you have so much information at your reach. Just like NK, Cuba is a totalitarian communist state and very recently became a dictatorial monarchy too. I'm Cuban, I spent most of my life there living as a regular Cuban like 99% of everyone else. Only those who belonged to the privileged class, the government officials and snitches can afford toilet paper. Old soviet propaganda books where a bliss for my ass jajaja. My ass is communist.
cubano1979 1 year ago
@cubano1979
I don't know what part of Cuba you're from. But where I was, we had toilet paper. There was no talk of "No toilet paper" and I spoke with people who both hated and loved the regime.
I don't understand the Cuban language too well, but I do know for a fact that not all their books are "Soviet Propaganda"
shadowmare97 1 year ago
You'll find that the west... the United States in particular is extremely ignorant of Communism. It always reports on its negatives but never its positives. Such as when Castro personally ordered medical and rescue teams to Haiti during the recent earthquake. They were among the first on the scene, and the medical equipment and training was good.
shadowmare97 1 year ago
Cuba is an extremely poor third world country. Medicines and doctors are in very short supply for the Cuban people and yet Castro keeps sending them abroad for propaganda tours to entice useful idiots like yourself. That's messed up! Doing that to your own people! That's fucked up! Of course you will never understand, it's not your family we are talking about. No one in your family has been killed in a paredon or died for lack of medicines and treatment in run down hospitals for regular cubans.
cubano1979 1 year ago
@cubano1979 My Grandfather was a Communist German during Hitler's reign. He was sent to a Concentration camp in 1938 for his beliefs where he miraculously survived until the closing periods of the war, where the camp was liberated by the Red Army
shadowmare97 1 year ago
They gave him food, clothing, and a visa to get to Britain within the month. All of them were generous, from the regular soldiers, to the Commissars. I know that simple acts of goodwill are not "Communist Propaganda Scams". You act as if Communists are a different species altogether. As is the arrogant pride of many Americans.
shadowmare97 1 year ago
No... nobody in my family has been Killed by Communism... only rescued
And from what my grandad told me.. he wasn't "Nitpicked" because of his beliefs. Everybody got the same treatment after the emancipation.
shadowmare97 1 year ago
@cubano1979: Spoken like a Miami gusano. Cuba is not some extremely poor third world country. When I was there a few years ago, people looked healthy, didn't see kids sleeping in gutters, they were laid back, full of life and excitement; basically the opposite of what an oppressed and poverty stricken people would be like. Unlike in the USA, obtaining a medical degree in Cuba requires staying awake in med school. The only Cuba you know is in Miami.
hectorbolshevik 1 year ago
@shadowmare97: Very true. Also remember how Bush outright rejected Castro's offer to send Cuban doctors to the USA and help the victims of the Hurricaine Katrina disaster.
hectorbolshevik 1 year ago
China was among the first nations, after Russia to abandon the "Pro Lobotomy" practices where they're drill into the brains of mental patients, calling it an inhumane practice. The US didn't abandon it until the late 80's.
Were either of these cases reported in the US?
Not that I'm aware of... and I HAVE looked
shadowmare97 1 year ago
@cubano1979 Ha! "Thanks Capitalism" ummm i believe all u just mentioned wouldn't exist without the Satellite. Who do you think launched the First Satellite? If it wasn't for satellites today's Technology let laone our lives would be a whole disaster. Oh and FOX News?? oh WOW 0_0
eddiemperor 9 months ago
@eddiemperor I know exactly who launched the first communications Satellite, a technological marvel that has changed our world and is toppling totalitarian dictators all over the middle east! The worthless pinging ball in space built on the famine of millions of russians you are refering to didn't really do much except to awaken the greatest nation on earth and take Humanity to the moon and the future. The only one thing communism excels is at killing people, either of hunger or violently.
cubano1979 9 months ago
@cubano1979 Exactly The Communist had to be the "First" to Explore Space for everyone else to start Racing to Immortality ha? I'm not going to mention anything about the Middle East Simply because there is absolutely nothing Ethical about the Middle East, only it's Beautiful Culture and People, the rest is just a Blank. and for your last statement i think it would be Great if you could tell that to the poor survivors and victims in My Lai who's life were completely destroyed by American Soldiers
eddiemperor 9 months ago
"You have no authority to dismiss that section of the book"
Yes, I do
"Nazi FUGITIVES are known to have helped not just Augusto"
Those people were already living in Chile before Pinochet.
"You can find exact similarities between the barbarism of Chile and that of Argentina."
Actually in Argentina there were 30.000 deaths, in Chile only 3.000
Wraith23 2 years ago
Anaelena65 = Gusano Puta
Hasta la Victoria Siempre !
Keep Cuba free of right-wing trash
4Barbudos 2 years ago
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The blinding propaganda against Cuba in the U$ renders U$ citizens incapable of knowing in what high esteem Cuba is held in other parts of the world.
One really has to live in Cuba to experience the beauty of the system. The deprived people of the U$ can't comprehend what it would be like to have no homeless people, free education, the right to food etc. Where a poverty of social justice reigns as it does in the US, there's no hope of understanding the equality in Cuba.
4Barbudos 2 years ago
This is the real reason why the US has hated Cuba, it has nothing to do with anything else. Cuba does not follow orders. Ironic how nobody complains about Obama hosting the dictators of Jordan and Egypt with smiles and handshakes.
AndrewMann552 2 years ago
Castro got in bed with the Stalinists on his own free will..Castro joined the side of international totalitarian marxism during the Cold War,and believe me it was a war..that's why we hate Castro..we tried to warn him he was ruining the future of Cuba, but Castro was confident the Soviets would win the Cold War...just like Mussolini was confident that the totalitarian NAZIS would win WW2..Castro allied with the totalitarian Soviets..he was on the losing side of the war..
skinz703 2 years ago
it's up to Castro if he wants better relations, we won the cold war, winners don't make concessions, losers do..when fidel is ready to make concessions give us a call..if not , then screw the piece of shit stalinst dictator..it's his own fault for joining the side of totalitarian tyrrany during the Cold War.
skinz703 2 years ago
First off, the Cuban model is far from Stalinism, it is closer to a Trotskyiest model. Second, it is funny that you mention Nazis when at the time the US was also taking sides, with brutal neo-Nazi regimes in the hemisphere such as Somoza in Nicaragua, Augusto Pinochet in Chile, the neo-Nazi rulers of Argentina, the brutal military regimes of El Salvador and Guatemala who killed thousands and the neo-Nazi regime in Brazil. The Soviets at least never funded death squads in the region.
AndrewMann552 2 years ago
the Soviets funded Allende, the Soviets and Cubans funded the rebels in Nicarauga, El Salvador...the rebels followed Castro's call for violence...if the Soviets and Cubans had kept their noses out of South America it would have saved thousands of lives...
skinz703 2 years ago
"Iit is funny that you mention Nazis...... the US was also taking sides, with brutal neo-Nazi regimes. such as.......Augusto Pinochet in Chile"
You are an imbecile if you think Pinochet free market capitalist reforms had anything to do with "nazism" or "fascism".
Please educate yourself.
And it is true that the KGB and the cuban DGI funded and armed Allende and his supporters.
Wraith23 2 years ago
Excuse me, I believe you need to educate yourself. I suggest reading "The Pinochet File" which gathers all the State Department documentation on the Pinochet era in Chile. His free market reforms had little to do with Nazism, but his military ideaology certainly did including many social policies he implemented. To top it off, Pinochet used Nazi fugitives living in Chile to help with the running of torture camps and death squads.
Please cite your scholarship sources on Allende.
AndrewMann552 2 years ago
" suggest reading "The Pinochet File""
I have, thank you
"His free market reforms had little to do with Nazism"
Im glad you admit it
"but his military ideology certainly did including many social policies he implemented."
Then I suppose according to you every military regime is a form of "nazism"...... please.
Wraith23 2 years ago
I'm talking about the specific charateristics of Pinochet's military regime when it comes to its social policies. The glorification of one class over the other, women in the early phase were even forced to wear skirts instead of pants, young men were forced to cut their hair short, indigenous communities were cleaned out. The entire indoctrination of Chilean society under Pinochet has the classic markings of your prototypical fascist state.
AndrewMann552 2 years ago
"The entire indoctrination of......... society under ....... has the classic markings of your prototypical fascist state. "
Then by your own admission Castro was a fascist.
Wraith23 2 years ago
Both fascism and Communism are authoritarian models. However, the differences are in ideaologies, social goals etc. So in literal political terms you cannot classify Fidel Castro as a fascist. Interestingly, in Saul Landau's book "Assassination On Embassy Row," he does chronicle the anti-Semitic, racist views of most anti-Castro militants in Florida.
AndrewMann552 2 years ago 3
"Pinochet used Nazi fugitives living in Chile to help with the running of torture camps and death squads."
I assume you refer to "Colonia Dignidad", that was a detention center.
Now how that makes Pinochet a Nazi?
Wraith23 2 years ago
Yes, "Colonia Dignidad" was a detention center. It was also a major torture center where German Nazi fugitives living in the colony consulted and aided Pinochet's forces in barbaric Nazi techniques. This is all well documented, including in The Pinochet File which you claim to have read.
AndrewMann552 2 years ago
That part of the files gets a little "over the top"
Yes, socialist terrorists were tortured for information. and that colony was of german roots.
However the whole NAZI connection seems a little vague, in part because NAZI Germany had ceased to exist 30 years ago.
Wraith23 2 years ago
You have no authority to dismiss that section of the book. Nobody in their right mind is making a connection between the actual, defunct Nazi Germany and Pinochet. But Nazi FUGITIVES are known to have helped not just Augusto, but his buddies in Argentina and Brazil as well, countries where a large number of German war criminals fled to following the end of WWII. You can find exact similarities between the barbarism of Chile and that of Argentina.
AndrewMann552 2 years ago
My sources on Allende
1º "Chile under the Popular Unity" compilation by Ercilla magazine.
2º The declassified CIA documents of the Church commission available online.
3º "The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World" declassified documents by KGB major Vasili Mitrokhin with the help of Cambridge professor Christopher Andrew.
4º Documents from the Chilean Center of Public Studies. Including an Interview with KGB general Nikolai Leonov.
Etc etc etc.
Wraith23 2 years ago
Very good. I also recommend "Killing Hope" by William Blum, where he chronicles in exact detail how Russia never had a chance or even real goals of seeking "world domination." The US used the excuse to intervene abroad and keep countries from seeking their own paths, whatever they may have been politically.
AndrewMann552 2 years ago
"where he chronicles in exact detail how Russia never had a chance or even real goals of seeking "world domination.""
That doesnt mean they didnt try.
"The US used the excuse to intervene abroad and keep countries from seeking their own paths"
So did the USSR
Wraith23 2 years ago
The USSR did intervene heavily in Eastern Europe. However, the documented record on Latin America is very clear that the USSR did not invest as much in that corner as US propaganda had everyone believe. Now we know for example, that Russia refused to help Cuba much in Central America, believing it was a lost cause. Russia also never invaded territories in our hemisphere like the US did in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua.
AndrewMann552 2 years ago 2
Also, I suppose the mourners saying goodbye to Pinochet at his funeral with fascist salutes were just doing it for show?
AndrewMann552 2 years ago
You also forget Castro did not even declare the Cuban Revolution as socialist until the US launched the Bay Of Pigs invasion and began waging a brutal terrorist war against Cuba which also lead to the Missile Crisis.
AndrewMann552 2 years ago
yeah, but it was apparent that a communist revolution was underway before bay of pigs..but I agree that the Kennedy's secret war on Cuba helped cause the Cuban Missile Crisis..
skinz703 2 years ago
Cuba was always a non aligned state. They only turned to the USSR because they were the only ones that would buy their produce and thus ensure the economic health during the american embargo. And why was there an embargo? because the US threw a little tantrum because they had lost control of Cuba which they first controlled thru the Platt amendment, then the Batista regime, and they threw a bigger tantrum when they got their asses kicked in the bay of pigs invasion.
deadrock05 2 years ago
non aligned?..LOL...Cuba was getting 5 billion a year from the Soviets...Cuba supported the Soviet invasions of Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan..the Cuba and Soviets worked to together on funding,training and arming totalitarian movements in Central America,Africa etc...
skinz703 2 years ago
Yes, and the US was doing the same thing, arming brutal military dictatorships in Latin America, invaded the Dominican Republic, Haiti etc. etc. Oh and Vietnam, forgot about that one! There are no clean hands here.
AndrewMann552 2 years ago
So much irony in this...
He kicked out U.S interests..yet now Castro wants the U.S back.
Livingrevolutionary 2 years ago
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"El socialismo es la filosofía del fracaso, el credo a la ignorancia, y la prédica a la envidia, su virtud inherente es la distribución igualitariade la miseria." wiston Chorchil.
La prueba ----- Cuba
Castro uno de los hombres mas ricos del mundo.
POBRES TONTOS
evargasdelrio 2 years ago
I'm against the embargo. But the economic problems in Cuba were exacerbated by the demise of USSR & the end of the $5 billion in subsidies that they gave annually to the Castro government. & so they quickly faced a large budget deficit. In response, they made a deliberate decision to continue to spend money to maintain its military & internal security apparatus at the expense of other priorities. They had to so that they could keep the police strong & not allow dissent & freedom of the Cubans
anaelena65 2 years ago
When one thinks about the way dissent is handled in Cuba, one must consider the impact that the American influence has had on the island. Take into consideration the Bay of Pigs invasion; repeated CIA airstrikes of sugar cane fields; anti-castro propaganda spread through the island's media outlets; Operation Mongoose; and the list goes on. It is a protection mechanism, and it is intended to keep the revolution alive.
XxxNuMbxxX0301 2 years ago
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Wraith23 2 years ago
As the economic crisis grows, Fidel's ideas of making Latin American nations independent from imperial US economic control just makes more sense!
AndrewMann552 3 years ago
For every illiterate Cuban under the Dictator Batista there are now 3 Cuban DOCTORS under Fidel.
Cuba sends more doctors overseas to help with disaster relief then any other country, usually twenty times as much as Europe and much more then U$A's number of 0.
Fidel is a long- standing member of the UN's Human Rights Commitee. That is something you can't say about an American president. Not bad for an "evil dictator" under a 40 year trade embargo.
Hasta la Victoria Siempre !
4Barbudos 3 years ago 2
June 2007-That panel had stained the UNs reputation through declining credibility and professionalism, in the words of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. , They repeatedly singled out Israel for condemnation while ignoring human rights abuses committed by Hamas and Hezbollah and failing to address far worse human rights situations around the world in places such as Belarus, China, Cuba, North Korea, and Zimbabwe. So Cuba being a "long standing member" is a joke.
anaelena65 2 years ago
I rather be brainwashed then live in DENIAL & WITHOUT FREEDOM,FOOD, & SO MUCH MORE ALL Your Life.You Have N O T H I N G,I was there in 79"&80".And it was Horrendous!Everybody that is here now recent arrived say it's WORSE! I can't Imagine Worse than 79" & 80".I mean,hey it's your Life and If you have Kids I feel really sorry for them also.I will pray for you & your family. No Tienes Nada! Just living a Lie una mentira! & Hey the Brain is a powerful tool.Good Luck Brother..
carguymiami 3 years ago
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Castro is the Cancer that Destroyed the Lives of Millions and still til this day.Sadly no person had the balls to assasinate that Cancer.Cancers are eradicated completely.The CIA ,Local Cubans or Santos Trafficante & Company should've done it long time ago.Sadly,Cuba is lost and any Human that Lives there today or is a Product of Castro Ideology is Scum,the majority are thieves,and low lifes.They Come to Miami Steal from the US Government and they hide in Cuba..
Worthless Pigs..
carguymiami 3 years ago
Lol you are mistaken, the CIA tried numerous times to assasinate Casto, but all attempts were unsuccessful.
VIVA FIDEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
XxxNuMbxxX0301 3 years ago 6
Tried and Doing it are two different things.
Hey,Enjoy Fidel It's Your Misery not mine.
Sadly,Life goes on and that Country is Lost for Good.Whatever is on that Island the Majority are Lost Souls,Poor Lost Souls.
carguymiami 3 years ago
I do enjoy Fidel, and i'm not miserable for it. He is the best leader that Latin America has today, Chavez is up their too. The United States just hate Castro because he stood by his convictions and brought Cuba it's independence. Before Catro Cuba was a client state and the whore house and gambling dens of rich Americans, under Castro, Cuba is its own nation. It's a shame to see that you have been brain washed by America.
XxxNuMbxxX0301 3 years ago
please explain then why Cuba is ranked fifth from the bottom by the World Press Freedom Institute, why it has been repeatedly condemed by human rights monitors, and why five thousand people languish in prison for "dangerouseness."
Castro is possibly one of the worst leaders that ever took power.
fshjshshhs 2 years ago
Castro certainly made mistakes, that is indisputable. The imprisonment of the dissidents, however, was necessary for ensuring the survival of the revolution. Whatever you think of Castro, he was the only man with the confidence and willpower to lead the revolution without succumbing to fear or doubt, and the revolution was certainly just. What you must realize is that the revolution was not intended to simply replace Batista with another depot, but to elicit REAL social change, which it did.
XxxNuMbxxX0301 2 years ago
no one wanted that social change. The revolution was republican in character, not communist. The goals originally were to restore democracy and the Constitution of 1940. Castro destroyed everything the people fought for. Why do you think so many of his allies turned against him?
fshjshshhs 2 years ago
Ask the peasantry in Cuba if they were happy with the revolution, and you will get a very different response. Landowners and and the upper class of Cuba resented the revolution because it attempted to bring about egalitarian reform in Cuba-and it succeeded. As for the dismal economic conditions in Cuba, alot of that can be ascribed to the containment policy of the U.S. towards Cuba. You know, the embargo; economic sabotage; refusal to lend aid to any nation that trades with Cuba.
XxxNuMbxxX0301 2 years ago
Cuba can trade with nearly every other country, but the economy still sucks. The average salary is around $20 a month. That's a lot worse then in Iran, which also faces a strict embargo.
and if the peasants were so happy with the revolution, then why was there a guerilla uprising against Castro in the Escambry Mountains (hardly the rich man's turf) from1960-65.
Those guerillas were nearly all peasants and many of them had fought with Castro, who betrayed them.
fshjshshhs 2 years ago
Yes, Cuba can trade with several other countries, but those countries then face losing tade, or aid, with the United States.
As for the counterrevolutionaries, they consisted mostly of disgruntled affluent Cubans who were displeased with the radical, leftist direction in which the revolution was heading.
XxxNuMbxxX0301 2 years ago
The counter-revolutionaries were mostly peasants, and were led by former 13th of March movement fighters disgruntled by Castro's tyranny. These were NOT affluent people. That war is considered a PEASANT revolt and it involved more guerillas than Castro's uprising.
and I don't know where you get that BS about losing trade from. The US's main trading partner, Canada, is Cuba's main trading partner as well.
fshjshshhs 2 years ago
You seem like you know alot about the revolution, yet you repudiate that the United States has shown economic agression towards Cuba? Then what about when Eisenhower pushed bills through congress which imposed sanctions on countries that bought Cuban sugar with U.S. loans, and cut off security assistance to countries that gave ANY aid to Cuba? Or how about, in late 1961, congress passed a bill refusing to offer any aid to any country that dealt with Cuba? What about the embargo?
XxxNuMbxxX0301 2 years ago
fsjjshshhs I didn't realize you were talking about the 13th of March (3/13/57)fighters who were peasants, students, professionals that wanted democracy. What was left of them tried to stop Castro's tyranny but couldn't during the Escambray rebellion, many peasants joined this group & paid with their lives but the US papers never publicized that revolution. Castro is the one glorified by Herbert Mathews in the US.I was talking to XxxNuMbxxX0301 who isn't well versed on Cuba, you are thank you!
anaelena65 2 years ago
How am I not well versed in Cuba, because I do not espouse the same point of view that you do?
XxxNuMbxxX0301 2 years ago
You need to read the real Cuban history. It was NOT just the peasants that were behind the Revolution. Many different groups were against Batista & many of these started at the University of Habana & were educated middle class, including Castro. Americans fall prey to the romanticized Revolucion when the truth is not as pretty. What ended up was NOT what the Cubans had wanted which was democracy & freedom. History will tell you Castro used Marti as the example of freedom & then took it away
anaelena65 2 years ago
I know that the peasents weren't the only ones behind the revolution, I simply meant that they gained alot from it. I have read a good deal about the Revolution, and I stand with Castro.
XxxNuMbxxX0301 2 years ago
When did you live in Cuba exactly? How are you SO behind Castro? When you say anit-castro propaganda, do you actually mean freedom of speech? I lived there under those conditions & unless you've lived there as a Cuban with no human rights, no freedom of speech I find it interesting that as a casual observer you have great insight into the lives of the Cubans. Easy to "stand with Castro" when you're not the one being oppressed! The revolution let the Cuban people down a LONG time ago!
anaelena65 2 years ago
My grandfather was jailed by the revolution, so I can sympathize with what you're saying. My whole life I was brought up thinking Castro was a monster who, because I had been fed all these stories of his wickedness. I'm sorry to tell you my friend, but before Castro, Cuba was was in a condition of abject servility; the whore house of the Caribbean. At least now it has it's independence. But perhaps you're among the Cubans who would rather see it revert to that deplorable state.
XxxNuMbxxX0301 2 years ago
I'm sorry to tell you my friend as I lived there MYSELF that it's NOT as black & white as you'd like to make it out to be. I & many Cubans are NOT the radicals of the old Cuban exiles. We are a new breed that understand the corruption of Batista but also see the corruption of Castro. You can say there's independence & it's free from the capitalistic US which is the war cry of the Revolution, But the people are NOT free & Castro read & believed the writings of our great hero Marti & let us down.
anaelena65 2 years ago
Understand how you feel being brought up with a one sided perspective of Cuba. While it's not fair to paint the Batista regime as wonderful it's not right to paint the Castro regime that way either. Cuban history shows us that we had many corrupt leaders & were contstantly searching for a democracy that we thought the Revolution had won for us. Where much of the anger towards Castro stems is from his promise of democracy that never came, Cubans feel cheated & have difficulty looking past that.
anaelena65 2 years ago
Fidel Castro is not my hero, although I do admire him. You said it yourself, the annals of Cuban leadership are replete mired by corruption, and alot of that is due to the influence that the U.S. has had on the island. That is why I admire Castro, because he took back control of Cuba and put it to use for Cubans, not wealthy American business men. It was an important step that had to be taken, and perhaps now, with someone like Obama as president, we can move forward.
XxxNuMbxxX0301 2 years ago
But you continue to miss an important fact; he did NOT give it to the Cuban people. He has taken the rights away from those Cuban people and made himself and his party the elite and ruling class of Cuba with rights & privileges not afforded to the Cubans living there. They have become the imperialistic elite they so adamantly oppose. I once was young & idealistic so I know that I can't change your perspective of this man you admire. Sometimes it's best to keep those ideals when you're young.
anaelena65 2 years ago
And no, not freedom of speech, but actual CIA manufactured propaganda to spread all sorts of malicious lies.
XxxNuMbxxX0301 2 years ago
.Also, we new Cuban exiles are for a free Cuba without the integration of the US. However, Cuba must learn from the past & STOP using the US as was done by Marti as well as Castro. While they both detested the US & didn't want it in Cuba they both used the US to spread their ideology & cries of freedom. Cuba deserves independence as well as the democracy that Cuban history will show you is what the majority of Cubans have wanted & I having come from there can tell you, still want today!
anaelena65 2 years ago
I respect your position. But first you guys need to clean house in the exile community itself. The world will take you seriously when you vote out the Balarts and Lehitenen in Florida and when you fight against those protecting terrorist scum like Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles. You can't fix Cuba when the whole enterprise in the US is ultra-corrupt as well. Cuban politicians are the only Latinos I saw on TV supporting the Iraq war for example.
AndrewMann552 2 years ago
AndrewMann552 when you say "you guys" I assume that you refer to ALL Cuban Americans. I find it interesting that you put us all in one group & can't see any diversity. I think that comes from the fact that the people who have the most radical views are usually the ones speaking the loudest. I & MANY "others" were against the war, don't agree with ANY form of terrorism including those that are Cubans & want a free Cuba without the US involved. Maybe we "guys" need to start screaming to be heard?
anaelena65 2 years ago
ALL Exiles are Gusano scum
Traitors who sell out my beloved Cuba.
4Barbudos 2 years ago
Also, I don't live in Florida but can tell you my brother lives there and voted against Martinez when he ran for the Senate and he wasn't the ONLY Cuban that did that. There is a new generation that isn't part of the old Cuban Americans & we have formed groups to work together for the changes that need to occur not only for the US but for Cuba as well. You may see the "whole enterprise in the US is ultra-corrupt" but I don't. I know too may good people working to make a change.
anaelena65 2 years ago
"History will absolve me" --- Fidel Castro
One of histories greatest men and minds.
Hasta la Victoria Siempre !
4Barbudos 3 years ago 2
That's funny coming from a fat, spotty AMERICAN girl, Lardass
Blankfrack 3 years ago
centauriblue2 3 years ago
O because Batista was much better! lmao! Killing Cubans left and right for no reason and letting the Cuban people be the US's BITCH! GUSANO!
PDRO4LYFE 3 years ago
and that is why many Batista opponents became Castro opponents as well, including several of Castro's top lieutenants.
Batista's failings don't justify Castro's tyranny.
fshjshshhs 2 years ago
Isn't it about time for the USA
to stop strangling this poor little island?
Do we really think Cuba is going to take over the US?
shas1814 3 years ago
Great to see, but if only that Stalinist was democratic. Socialism will never work in a dictatorship. That is why eastern Europe turned back to capitalism. Democratic socialism is superior to Stalinism, Capitalism, and Fascism.
But great to see how U.S capitalist are kicked out, I whish that would happen here in Europe. But our Christian Democrats are good friends of Mr. Bush, and many Europeans fear socialism, because of Stalinism and the fear of losing their freedom.
UDSS 3 years ago 3
FIDEL = HERO
FIDEL = ICON
FIDEL = LEGEND
SaintErnesto 3 years ago 3
FIDEL = RULER OF A THIRD WORLD NATION "Quick get on the raft" LOL
CUBA SUX!
indigoj 3 years ago
Wow, not funny or educated in the slightest but.
chromelemon 3 years ago
So what if its written into Cuban law. It's there to protect the maintainance of the Communist system in Cuba. Long live Fidel Castro!!!
millerpiccinini8 3 years ago
For 49 yrs, Cuba has developed a highly effective machinery of repression. The denial of basic civil & political rights is written into CUBAN LAW. In the name of legality, armed security forces, aided by state-controlled mass organizations, silence dissent with heavy prison terms, threats of prosecution, harassment, or exile. Cuba uses these tools to restrict severely the exercise of fundamental human rights of expression, association & assembly. Yet, the Repression of Dissidents continues.
FreeNMiami 3 years ago
The same happens in the U.S. my friend. Look at what is happening in Denver at the democratic convention?
chromelemon 3 years ago
tredcrow:
2) Well, Castro & Co. have a failed Cuban Communist experiment & was an outpost of the CCCP for many years. Thus, the repression has been going on for the last 49 years, the last forty-nine freaking years & still you have the audacity to talk about human rights?!!!
It's painfully obvious, how communists do equality...
Why are you so excited to advertise your ignorance on the net??
FreeNMiami 3 years ago
What do you mean by failed experiment? Besides the U.S. is not in a position to talk about human rights.
chromelemon 3 years ago 2
tredcrow:
1) So lets add up the destruction shall we:
Batista, ruled for 61/2 years, and you say that he was, "a brutal U.$. backed dictatorship that allowed the island to become America"s "Whore House" & Mafia Casino hang out - in exchange for his cut of the profits."
Simply great!!!
FreeNMiami 3 years ago
Well, what part about that was wrong? I'm curious.
chromelemon