In Cuba they do not have enough money for the basic aspects of life such as food and medicine. But they do have money to waste in state of the art surveillance equipment at just about every strategic street corner in the city. I personally was question by police that stated I was being suspicious. What I was doing in fact, I was looking a girls. A normal thing that most males do at parks. LOL.
@juliorodriguezp and americans can go to cuba freely ..yes???...can they fuck ...have you been to cuba ?...i doubt it ....americans only learn geography from the countries they invade....to kill for oil
@squarecracker Perhaps. But what is literacy if you can only read government-sponsored materials and write Communist propaganda? What is literacy if ideas are the enemy? A literate Cuban is not a vessel for free thought or a catalyst for change, but a puppet to be used by Castro's dictatorship for his own glory. What is access to medical care providing you with a diagnosis when the prognosis is already written---- a life of suffering, empty shelves where medicine should be, and rationed food?
@NikiCid If you are hungry, you can't be free, because you have to have the clear mind only a properly-nourished mind can possess. If you are sick or injured and can't afford a doctor, you can't be free, because freedom requires a strong body and good health. If you are illiterate, or if your education has to stop after high school or in some cases junior high or grade school you can't be free, because you can't be free if you haven't been taught how to understand life.
@NikiCid A suffering and uneducated person, living in subservience to others, can't be free at all. And subservience, injustice and inequality are the only things the Miami exiles
can ever bring to Cuba. They don't want freedom and happiness for the Cuban people...they just want those people to go back to treating them(the Miami exiles)as "the natural leaders". If they actually cared about those who stayed, the exiles would promise never to take away free healthcare and education.
A visit to Havana will reveal the true face of a communist dictatorship. What was once a vibrant and promising Latin American city is now but a former shell of itself. Buildings such as The Riviera, Hotel Nacional and Capri are reminders of that past. Castro's goverment has brought only misery to Cuba.
@ryanrful No, Castro's government brought literacy and medical care. The Embargo brought misery to the Cuban people, it never made Fidel go hungry. Ending the embargo would bring Castro down in a month. You exiles are retarded and sadistic.
A moneyless,classless,stateless communities of humanity sharing the Earth in cooperation harmony and wisdom for our common needs and well being.The market system of artificial scarcity and the wage slavery of the working class is the historic process of private property relationship of alienation,exploitation and suffering of our common humanity. A majority democratic movement of no leaders no followers to transcend the CLASS RULE.
@NeutralExistence...And what fine country are you from sir? I suggest you put your money where your mouth is; give up all your possessions and travel to live in Cuba-as a Cuban, not as a tourist. I'm sure your impression of the tyrant you calll "Mr. Castro" will change with your experience.
that's is the Comunism..! to show the world that they are the best, to show a mask to everyone that everything is fine, but if you go to the bone to investigate and ask the people, the people will tell you this is a hell..!, people coerced and forced to yeld Viva Fidel cuz they are starving and Fidel is the only one that provide food to them, ask Cubans here in USA, they tell me their histories, and I believe them..! is not a Joke..! Castro have been talking excrement like this 51 long years.
If you think Fidel Castro can't speak english, your wrong. He can speak english perfectly. He got his PHD in HARVARD!!! That's what he wants you to think.
@PvtBeltre he did not, but he is a lawyer who got his degree in Havana. harvard educated bastards do not make revolutions, but end up like that liar turner working for the oppressors of the masses
@rihesq who say that, fidel was elected by the people and the party and reelected, by the people and the party go to learn the history of cuba and then talk
Castro is not a dictator, he is a leader. And he has done a lot for the people of Cuba.The people of Cuba live and suffer together, those who are against sharing pain are greedy and self-centered. Those are the anti-revolutionaries in Cuba, and those are the only people that oppose Fidel. Most of them are ex-millionaires or people who have fallen victim to false propaganda broadcasts from Florida. These people are few and far between, because most Cubans support the government.
Okay so you visited Cuba, but you no know nothing about what the fuck It's like there, why you think my father brought us over on a floating car? You know what that Fidel maricon asshole did? If someone say, Fidel why you no let us talk, he send his soldiers to your house late at night, they take you out and shoot you and bury you in the street, and all that fucker says is revolucion this revolucion that, SHUT THE FUCK UP! Los únicos que te quieren a ti son esos que tu le lava el ce
Fidel was a benevolent dictator..........Bush was a piece of shit,,,, there is no difference between Bush and third world dictators of the60s--80s.....Bush came in not through elections, but through the supreme Court's decision.
Fidel is the man,,,,,,,,,,,,,if he is a dictator, then why aren't the Cuban revolting against their oppression like the Egyptians and the Tunisians did. You cannot say that it is because of mechanism of control. Think about, revolution come from educated middle class people. While the Cubans might lack a middle class, they definitely do not lack an educated population. This educated population is aware of the shortcomings of capitalism and for the most part appreciate the gains made.
@PInk77W1 higher levels of education than most countries, little to no crime, medical clinics in each neighborhood, no one dying for lack of health coverage, no one dying of starvation, no homelessness (whats up with our veterans being homeless here)
Have you been to Cuba? Why do you think 99% would leave? Where do you get your facts? Fox News? hehehe, You argue with no foundation or facts.
@rafagee1 1st let me say i love cuban people its the govt. that repels me. My daughters boyfriend is cuban. But the idea that u r defending cuban govt. is down right laughable. I could bury u with facts but that would be too much work because the facts are unending. Let me just say that during the boat lift the pass. were ALL headed NORTH.
@rafagee1 FOX news, we report , you decide. Cuba Castro reports Castro decides. I will take fox news any day of the week and twice on sunday thank you very much. At least i can turn the channel. How does one turn the Castro channel with out being killed?
america has nuclear arms all over the world but if its america it's okey right like anything else you think you have the right to what every is best for your country not for all countries iraq war was build on a lie , to gain the oil...... us did pay sadam in the 80' and even usama bin laden when he was at war with the russian haha your country is hipocrist (sorry bad english)
Fidel is not a dictator. Dictators don't teach the poor literacy. Dictators don't arm the people from the threat of invasion. Dictators don't provide free medical care. Dictators don't ration the food products among the people. Dictators don't cut off diplomatic ties with Israel over the mistreatment of Palestinians. Dictators don't organize teams of doctors to go and provide free medical care to the poor in third world countries. If Castro is a dictator then he is the strangest one.
You are apparently unfamiliar with Hitler. Hitler provided free medical care, he introduced rationing to Germany, not just for food, but for everything. He mandated that the entire German population be extremely well educated and well-armed. He sent "Doctors" (Mengele) into poor countries (Poland) to provide "medical care". And, were he alive today, not only would he cut all ties to Israel, but he would begin to KILL all of the Israelis. He and Castro would be good friends.
@darkwolfdv Kill all of the israelis?Not a bad idea.Cos they are behind every war.All they want is a world domination and a world gonverment under a fuckin jew leader.Genocide of Palestinians.burn the fuckin jews.stick their money up to their fuckin smelling asses
@darkwolfdv fidel hasn't killed 6 million people but america has killed millions. fidel doesn't starve people to death but america has and last i checked your president bush family were friends with hitler. you guys are the nazis.
@PInk77W1 - as an educated Cuban citizen, I can assure you that you are ignorant in your comments. Fidel does not starve Cuban citizens, the US blockade you support does. The vast majority of us are very happy with our country and government. Cuba is very much still a beautiful country, come visit. Please educate yourself before comm. How much sense does it take to see that Cuba would have fallen long ago if the majority wanted change, the US has been waiting to support a coup for 50 yrs
@osler109 ARE u allowed to own a gun? are u allowed to go to the usa? are u allowed to vote against fidel? are u allowed to go to church? Are u allowed to buy a new car? a new house?
@PInk77W1 your info is outdated pink, people can go to church in Cuba. As of gun, most countries in the world do not allow citizens to own guns. You mistake support for Cuba as a critic of the US. I live in the US, a citizen, served as a Marine, a teacher, so I have contributed to this country. But you cannot cannot sit and compare Cuba with the US....the most industrialized country in the world yet we have more people in prison than any other country (land of the free baby)
@rafagee1 i was a Marine too. C 1/9 weapons. i dont care what most countries do. i dont care if u support cuba. But support for castro kind of gets me upset.
@osler109 I agree, I have visited Cuba three times and yeah, there are some levels of dissatisfaction, but show me a country that does not have a satisfied population. I am always surprised at the levels of uneducated people in the US, not only in education, but in foreign affairs. I am a teacher and I proudly have a Fidel Castro poster in my room. Students always ask whats up with that, and when I ask them what they think of Fidel Castro the first thing most say is that he is evil.
I am not surprised at their answer because in the US we have been indoctrinated all our lives to hate Fidel with no logical explanation as to why. People point out to the fact that he expropriated people's property. Whats the difference with the bankers taking people's homes due to variable loans? Not much, at least if you ask those who lost their property.
@pulpyy the citizens of cuba are not even allowed on the internet unless it is job related. So would you want to live in cuba knowing that you could not post your dumbass comments up on here everyday?
@pulpyy Do you not know the definition of dictator? It doesnt mean monster. It means someone who is in complete control of a country or state. Castro is in complete control. The people have no say whatsoever in what goes on. No voting, no protesting. What he says go you may like it....you may not. It doesnt matter. He dictates whats going to be. Like when he aloud soviet nuclear missles to come in and be pointed at the united states. Cubans had no say. He almost destroyed cuba.
@meronmotors - Yes he allowed missiles to be pointed at the United States. So? Cubans fully supported his decision. Cuba had been the target of US backed terrorist acts (La Coubre) and invasions (Playa Giron). You act like we Cubans had a whole lot of say in what you americans call the "Cuban Missile Crisis". Cuba was a puppet in a piss contest Thank god Kennedy (honestly, a very respected man in Cuba) was in charge. The United States and the USSR almost destroyed the world. P.S. we VOTE
@pulpyy he is a dictator. u cant move to america can u? free medicine? if u havent noticed it is thee most expensive kind. Cuba is a wasteland and he is absolutely a dictator
@pulpyy Dictators violate individual liberties like the freedom of speech. Dictators stay in absolute power for nearly 50 years. Dictators, after getting seriously ill, give the power to their close relatives.
The fact that Castro has made social reforms and supported the rights of the Palestinians does not make him any less of a dictator.
@pulpyy You really have no idea what you're talking about, do you? Please, before you continue to propagate lies, get informed--not by the media, but by real cubans, who have lived on the island and have a deep understanding of the socioeconomic situation in Cuba. I am Cuban, and I am telling you, there is teaching of literacy, but suppression of free speech; there is protection of the people, but there is just as much suppression and restraint; Cuba is a totalitarian police state. Get informed.
@pulpyy I agree, 100% . Nowa days people get blinded by their false media , and start to think that Castro was a bad guy. Damn. We need another Castro
@pulpyy Castro is a dictator do dictators make kids attend boxing in order to see their family again hell yeah do dictators kill american helicopters for flying over airspace, yeah with an effing mig, do dictators not allow cubans to leave for better lives in different countries yes im a cuban descendant and i know he is
@mikeyrobot500 Castro doesn't want Cubans to leave to other countries because he's afraid they might comeback and change Cuban society.
Cuba has one of the best healthcare in the world, and 2nd in highest literacy in the world. How the fuck can you say he's a dictator? he only wants his people to be themselves and not let foreign society get in their way.
@pulpyy Fidel and his government, like other dictatorships, limits very basic freedoms. You will not see many cubans posting here or anywhere in the Internet because most of them weren't even allowed to access. Other countries, even in south America, don't need to ration food, also provide free medical care to the poor and have similar literacy levels, while living in full democracy and feedom.
You will quickly find with some minor research that your government most likely limits free speech much more then Mr. Castro. If you live in the U.S. then you defiantly are not one to be talking, the security apparatus that was set up after 9/11 would make the Nazi's green with envy.
Cuba has a 99.8% literacy rate, and a lower infant mortality rate then the U.S. In 2006 Cuba was the only nation in the world which met the WWF's definition of sustainable development.
great leader of his people,cuba is a poor country its lack the oil and land the united states has, its also only 60 years old whilst america is 300 years old. Castro run cuba in the interest of the ppl.america is run in the interest of wall street,if wall street makes million and unemployment is still high it doenst matter to obama
If Ted Turner was Cuban he would not be a millionaire, nor would he have a tv network or a professional baseball team. He would be just a regular Cuban with a ration card, no freedom and living under the threat of imprisonment if he disagreed with the government party line. How nice it is to go out and mingle with this anti-American bastard and then return to the good ole USA. Do us a favor Ted, stay in Cuba, live as a Cuban and let's see how long you last.
@mywindows7pc101 Fidel Castro is a great man who truly cares about humanity. Before Fidel and Che overthrew Batista who was an American sponsored mass murderer who oppressed the Cuban people by letting multinational corporations run rampant while also turning Cuba into one big Las Vegas loaded with strippers, prostitutes, and drugs for the men who operated those corporations. Fidel put this to an end by overthrowing the regime and bringing the power back to the people of Cuba.
@TheJames1233 From what I saw Che never had a chance to do much with the Cuban Peso, as a direct result of the revolution the Cuban peso dropped significantly because of all the madness of establishing the Revolutionary government. Che was more well-suited to the role of a soldier than to that of an Economics Minister if you ask me.
@KurtCobain198666 That you were" wrong" in admiring these men is only an opinion and that you should is not admire them is only a suggestion. I don't see him torturing or imprisoning you because you don agree with him; so how is it that he's suppressing your freedom of speech again?
@KurtCobain198666 While I'm not going to defend tyrants such as Mao and Stalin, it is fair to point out that many of the deaths attributed to them, are due to famines, which were a chronic problem in Russia and China even before their dictatorships were established. Were the famines due to government negligence and even deliberate food withholding? We may never know, but their "genocides" were certainly different and more complex than the outright extermination campaigns of Hitler.
Fidel was a Lawyer and a Highly educated man and when he was young he was a...actually a very strong looking figure...but I still say Che should have led Cuba
@KurtCobain198666 We never refuse all the mistakes, because our wonder nation has media everywhere in the World, and we dont live back in the Worldwide window. Now did you like start where the crimes start from the begining be specific & clear. My cousin went to Viet Nam, my uncle was in Korea, & my great grand father fougth in the firs war. Nothing has comparison with the Castro's & regimen dictatorship. & thank's for rectify the name of the criminal.IBORU.
only dumb people say cuba didnt work course it did imagine if america wasnt arrogant and didnt blockade them, didnt terrorise them literally by supporting cuban terrorists and sobotage their economy how good it would be
@timetochilli First of it was Castro brought all this upon himself and the Cuban people when he nationalized US companies through the agrarian reform and nationalized US refineries after they refused to process USSR crude oil. The US embargo was not a problem for the time the USSR existed. When everything went to shit 1991 with the perestroika, then he starts using the excuse of the US embargo to justify his failure as a leader. Castro was and still is a very arrogant person.
@Tropicoco123 castros a dick i accept that but american companies have cause genocide injustice poverty and death around the world they are as immoral as it gets u need to change ur system!
@timetochilli I think we are the most envied/hated nation in the world. There must be a reason. But there are groups working towards the betterment of our system. There are groups inside the US that condemn many measure taken by the US that can be considered genocidal and immoral. Now, aren't there US companies that have improved our lives? Or are all US companies bad? What about those companies that create jobs in abroad? Anyway, (cont.)
@timetochilli 2) I rather help eradicate the thought that some people have about Fidel Castro being a Role Model to other leaders. He has been an arrogant son of a bitch who has never accepted blame for any negative outcome his actions have had on the Cuban livelihood. He chose to find an alternative to the heavy influential US market on Cuban economy by approaching the USSR and ended up fucking up the diplomatic ties with the US.
@Tropicoco123 listen ur country blew up a cuban plane blew up cuban factories and funds ex cuban terrorists to attack cuba i dont care about castro his arrogance a small country is nothing compared to the arrogance stupidity and idiocracy of the states ur the biggest criminal in the world u murder millions aroudn the world u train millitans stage qou de tat's so dont preach about castro he is bad but that doesnt mean ur good, in fact u.s. makes him look like jesus christ!
You're the one comparing Cuba to the USA. The fact the US does all the thing it does doesnt make Castro a great ruler, great person or a saint as some people perceive him. On the contrary, the man is a criminal all by himself. That's all I have to say.
@timetochilli Than any US president?? But I thought you anti Americans said that US Presidents are just puppets and the real power lies on the hands of Multinational Corporations. Who understand you people?
@Tropicoco123 yep multi nationals pretty much choose all the candidates...but we are being blunt here at the end of the day if the president and congress wanted they can go against the multi nationals but because americans are dumb and would not admit the childish way in which their country is run that cannot happen. we cannot type everything on here where just talkin in blunt terms and secondly only because u have nothing to say dont come up wuth nonesense
@Tropicoco123 - Wrong chronology. The US State Department decided, even before Castro came to power, that the Revolution was "unfriendly". Sabotage of sugar mills etc by CIA agents began in 1959. US oil refineries were instructed not to process 300,000 tons of Soviet crude oil (April 1960). Cuba seized the refineries. The USA reduced its Cuban sugar quota (July 1960). Cuba nationalised all US property (August 1960). Compensation was offered, in the form of 20-year bonds but was refused.
@londonscot1 Wrong!! The US Department decided to favor the Revolution as early as 1958 when they stopped selling arms to Batista. The Revolution then enacts the Agrarian Reform Law which nationalized many US owned companies and decides to export sugar to the USSR in case the US decided to cut the sugar imports. THEN... US refineries were then instructed not to process Soviet Crude oil, followed by US reduction of its sugar imports, followed by Cuba's expropriation of all US owned properties.
@Tropicoco123 - Arms to Batista stopped at a very late stage. Then the "covert operations" began against Cuba. It's history. Don't you believe that the CIA engaged in sabotage etc? What else was the Bay of Pigs invasion, the bombing of La Coubre, the bombing of the department store in 1960 etc? All on the record. The surprising thing is that most supposedly well-informed Americans, with full access to all media, haven't heard of these things. Funny, huh?
@londonscot1 "Arms to Batista stopped at a very late stage"? More like half way through the revolution. Are you denying the impact the stop of arm sales to batista had on the revolution? WOW!! Anyway, Bay of Pig invation and all the covert operations began after Cuba decided to expropiate all US owned properties. There's no evidence that la Coubre was a CIA operation. There was opposition to the Revolution in Cuba where the CIA had nothing to do with. Get the timeline right.
@Tropicoco123 - With respect, the timeline is:- USA steps in at last minute, grabs glory and carpetbags Cuban assets (1898); Platt amendment subjugates Cuba (1902); Castro and others outfight numerically superior Batista forces armed by USA, UK, Yugoslavia etc; "The USA continued to supply weapons until the last moment", says Richard Gott in his "Cuba" A New History" (1956-9); land reform announced, with compensation (May 1959); US National Security Council decides "Castro must go" (June 1959).
@Tropicoco123 - CIA proposes sabotage of Cuban sugar refineries but Eisenhower asks for a "more ambitious" programme of destabilisation and aggression (January 1960); La Coubre explodes in Havana (March 1960); US refineries refuse to process Soviet crude oil (April 1960); Cubans nationalise the refineries (June 1960); USA cuts sugar quota and the Russians and Chinese take up the slack (July 1960); Castro nationalises all major US properties (August 1960); US embargo starts (November 1960).
@londonscot1 Since his childhood, Castro had had an Anti American feeling and he did not hesitate at the opportunity of blaming the US for the La Coubre explosion.He has no evidence whatsoever that it was a CIA operative.He used the event as a way of putting the US in a bad light and to justify the turn of his attention to the USSR. From the beginning the Revolution was not meant to be Red. But he's a smart guy and knew how to manipulate those events to make himself be seen as a victim.BULLSHIT
@londonscot1 Coincidence? Not at all. You don't think there were people in Cuba with no ties to the CIA that were opposed to what Fidel was doing? Not everything has to be connected to the CIA. But it's more entertaining if the US is to be blamed for everything, right? I say it again, there was no peove the CIA was involved.
@londonscot1 Look, you're ignoring the fact that many Cuban revolutionaries where against turning to Communism. Fidel chose to take the USSR route by starting a Land Reform and Urban Reform that he knew would upset the USA. At the moment back in the 60's he didn't care about upsetting the US b/c he had the support and complete dependence of an IMPERIAL Superpower in the USSR . (cont)
@londonscot1 (cont) With the Soviet Bloc collapse 20 years ago he loses that support he had had and then the US is to blame for his failure? Com'on. It was his desire since he was young to fuck with the US and its interests in the island. But it's not him or the North American people that suffer but those in the island because of the decisions he made more than 50 years ago. And the motherfucker is so proud that he's giving in to European capitalists but refuses to give in to the US.
@londonscot1 (cont.) Proves that he cares little about the well being of his people and more about his supposed revolutionary principles which his actually his desire to remain in power until the day he dies.He said once that he'd be willing to give his life for his people but never at the cost of the revolution.But today, he allows tourism, the free flow of US dollars, the construction of European owned resorts, AND AND AND he allows private property. That not a Marxist Leninist measure at all.
An achievement indeed. He can do and undo as he wishes. You could try make it look like I'm contradicting myself but at the end of the day, any Cuban that lives in Cuba as a "Cubano de a pie" will know what I'm talking about. You don't
@Tropicoco123 - I forgot to mention a gentleman called Lyman Kirkpatrick, a CIA man who (in 1956) offered Batista aid and assistance in the Buru Para Repression de los Actividados Communista...... protecting US interests despite growing opposition to Batista. Also, the Eisenhower regime were already unhappy about the nationalistic tone of Castro's speeches well before January 1959. Why wouldn't they be? The USA owned most of the good land, factories, everything.
@londonscot1 "Buro Para La Represion De Las Actividades Comunistas". There's only one fact here. If the US was unhappy about the Revolution they should have never stop selling arms to Bastista; but they stopped the sales and that was definitely beneficial for the Revolutionary process. The rebels took full advantage of that. You can't deny the US removed themselves from supporting Batista halfway through the fight wich only lasted 2 years.
@Tropicoco123 - Very difficult for the USA to stop selling weapons altogether and in fact they didn't. They merely reduced the number of weapons, reacting to US public disquiet about the Batista regime's excesses, while on the other hand covertly starting to plan Castro's overthrow, as his modest land reform proposals - which the US government had supported in principle, in other countries - were exaggerated into a "communist" appropriation-without-compensation.
Modest land reforms? Jaja Ok Sure. I said what I had to say. You gotta learn how to pick your friend. Fidel pick the wrong friend and well. Cuba has been run to the ground. But he doesn't care; He's still in power. That's all that matters to him believe it or not.
@Tropicoco123 - Re: Richard Gott. Being accused of being a KGB agent isn't the same as actually BEING a KGB agent. "Innocent until proven guilty". All he did was lunch with them in the course of his journalistic duties. It isn't the same as being an "agent". His book, which I mentioned, actually backs up some of your stats about pre-Revolutionary Cuba's doctors etc. It's an objective book!
@Tropicoco123 - PS a 2-year fight? I have spoken with other Cuban-Americans who, in dissing Castro's contribution, told me that the anti-Batista movement wasn't just the handful of jungle fighters (Che, Camilo et al) but also civilian leaders such as Frank Pais and Haydee Santamaria, of whom about 20,000 were killed in 1952-58 by Batista's goons. I can buy that. Batista fell because there was a genuine unstoppable movement against him. It wasn't just about weapons supplies.
@londonscot1 You're right about the anti-batista movement. But the fight that defined the triumph of the rebels was the Jungle fight and that one only lasted 2 years. You have no idea how much longer Batista would have lasted in power if the Guerrilla Movement would have been neutralized.
@Tropicoco123 - Neither do you have any idea how long Batista would have lasted in power if the guerrila movement had been neutralised. But it's fairly clear that the Batista government's repressions - 20,000 dead? - would have eventually led to a popular revolution, with the same US public revulsion and the same CIA covert support for the most pro-US elements. You know...... same in Guatemala (1954)!
I will live to see that day when The whole U.S. will be overrun by millions of ches in the streets.US started a fire and can not extinguish it,no matter what they try,people will see the truth.
Look I am a person who find Che fascinating. I know everything about him, I know that he was a murderer who was cold blooded and enjoyed killing, but still Che is my role model. If you know all the facts, you can make a choice on which side you believe in. BUT all of you uneducated Americans who knows no other channel than fox news on TV, FUCK OFF!
@TheSpassy People, he was not a cold-blooded killer without feelings... Man oh man... The guys last letter to his kids reads something like this, "Above all, remember to always deeply feel any injustice done towards any men at any part of the world. That is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary." Now which mass murder (like Hitler or Stalin) or ones with kids have ever said something like that. Something that might get their kids into deep trouble! He killed, but not out of cold blood
@piercedbydave On what knowledge do you make THAT statement, Fidel is the supreme leader period! He controls everything! Raul is his puppet, Fidel is the puppet master of Cuba.
@piercedbydave Oh my god, He runs the fucking country until he's ass deep in cancer!, El es la Ley Cabron! What he says goes! Raul isn't shit! Fidel runs the country! And i want that son of a peasant dog to just die...
@Iraqisocialist Your iraqi, thank god cuba isnt like iraq with soldiers all up your ass thinking you packing something on you, like you gonna shoot some people up like its the fucking projects or some shit, Cuba, its a POOR ASS COUNTRY, Balseros leave the island on little rafts to get the fuck away from there, because its misery there.
@DerekAnthony19 It's misery there because America put an trade-embargo since 1962 to Cuba.It means they have to count on themselves.Like African countries which have been ripped of their resources.No way America is the ''civilized'' world,NO FUCKING WAY
@MrBruntenebreux0211 AND FIDEL IS A FUCKING ASSHOLE FOR NOT DOING SHIT ABOUT IT, If Cubans could see whats going on in Libya, They'd do the same thing.
It's not a matter of the freedom to buy a Coke while watching Fox News.
It's about the duty of educate and feed every single person, even when the whole world hates you, and don't trade with you.
LN1992 1 week ago
drug trafficking business ?? turner is a scumbag and a liar who manipulates this interview.
extere 1 week ago
In Cuba they do not have enough money for the basic aspects of life such as food and medicine. But they do have money to waste in state of the art surveillance equipment at just about every strategic street corner in the city. I personally was question by police that stated I was being suspicious. What I was doing in fact, I was looking a girls. A normal thing that most males do at parks. LOL.
photo2u 2 weeks ago
you are not free if the government doesn't even let you out of prison island... go to hell Fidel...
juliorodriguezp 2 weeks ago
@juliorodriguezp and americans can go to cuba freely ..yes???...can they fuck ...have you been to cuba ?...i doubt it ....americans only learn geography from the countries they invade....to kill for oil
hoppterr 1 week ago
@squarecracker Perhaps. But what is literacy if you can only read government-sponsored materials and write Communist propaganda? What is literacy if ideas are the enemy? A literate Cuban is not a vessel for free thought or a catalyst for change, but a puppet to be used by Castro's dictatorship for his own glory. What is access to medical care providing you with a diagnosis when the prognosis is already written---- a life of suffering, empty shelves where medicine should be, and rationed food?
NikiCid 1 month ago
@NikiCid If you are hungry, you can't be free, because you have to have the clear mind only a properly-nourished mind can possess. If you are sick or injured and can't afford a doctor, you can't be free, because freedom requires a strong body and good health. If you are illiterate, or if your education has to stop after high school or in some cases junior high or grade school you can't be free, because you can't be free if you haven't been taught how to understand life.
KennBurch 2 weeks ago
@NikiCid A suffering and uneducated person, living in subservience to others, can't be free at all. And subservience, injustice and inequality are the only things the Miami exiles
can ever bring to Cuba. They don't want freedom and happiness for the Cuban people...they just want those people to go back to treating them(the Miami exiles)as "the natural leaders". If they actually cared about those who stayed, the exiles would promise never to take away free healthcare and education.
KennBurch 2 weeks ago
@NikiCid Nothing good could come to Cuba from replacing free education and healthcare with "property rights".
KennBurch 2 weeks ago
Subtitles might be more sufficient than William Shatner dubbing.
DroneHeartProduction 1 month ago
A visit to Havana will reveal the true face of a communist dictatorship. What was once a vibrant and promising Latin American city is now but a former shell of itself. Buildings such as The Riviera, Hotel Nacional and Capri are reminders of that past. Castro's goverment has brought only misery to Cuba.
ryanrful 2 months ago
@ryanrful No, Castro's government brought literacy and medical care. The Embargo brought misery to the Cuban people, it never made Fidel go hungry. Ending the embargo would bring Castro down in a month. You exiles are retarded and sadistic.
squarecracker 1 month ago
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A moneyless,classless,stateless communities of humanity sharing the Earth in cooperation harmony and wisdom for our common needs and well being.The market system of artificial scarcity and the wage slavery of the working class is the historic process of private property relationship of alienation,exploitation and suffering of our common humanity. A majority democratic movement of no leaders no followers to transcend the CLASS RULE.
arzoyan 2 months ago
socialism helps the people, capitalism kills!!!
EJGonzalezC 2 months ago
@NeutralExistence...And what fine country are you from sir? I suggest you put your money where your mouth is; give up all your possessions and travel to live in Cuba-as a Cuban, not as a tourist. I'm sure your impression of the tyrant you calll "Mr. Castro" will change with your experience.
ryanrful 3 months ago
that's is the Comunism..! to show the world that they are the best, to show a mask to everyone that everything is fine, but if you go to the bone to investigate and ask the people, the people will tell you this is a hell..!, people coerced and forced to yeld Viva Fidel cuz they are starving and Fidel is the only one that provide food to them, ask Cubans here in USA, they tell me their histories, and I believe them..! is not a Joke..! Castro have been talking excrement like this 51 long years.
bibolcs 3 months ago
@darkwolfdv
Castro does not support fascisim
DanielTheSocialist1 4 months ago
@pink77w1
You are a US Marine and you're calling other people eveil? lmfao!
DanielTheSocialist1 4 months ago
dereckanthony
Floating cars exist?
DanielTheSocialist1 4 months ago
@bada3arab
what we need is another che, Hell if we had 10 people that came even near to being to che the world would be a better place
DanielTheSocialist1 4 months ago
is anyone aware of any info regarding this interview? i hear Castro presented Turner with a stuffed flamingo before the interview
shotokan2004 4 months ago
i have family suffering in cuba and you say he isnt a dictator? omg
freedomfightersam 4 months ago
If you think Fidel Castro can't speak english, your wrong. He can speak english perfectly. He got his PHD in HARVARD!!! That's what he wants you to think.
PvtBeltre 5 months ago 6
@PvtBeltre lol I know but he is that smart but he does not have the out of wack moral compass of Harvard assholes.
AnswerManofRome 2 months ago
@PvtBeltre he did not, but he is a lawyer who got his degree in Havana. harvard educated bastards do not make revolutions, but end up like that liar turner working for the oppressors of the masses
extere 1 week ago
@PvtBeltre He got his PhD in Harvard? Are you being sarcastic?
Tropicoco123 1 week ago
@PvtBeltre
We latinoamericans had good experiences with expensive and selective Universities.
A lot of our governors and businessmen have studied there... and a lot of them are well-known corrupt robers, or murderers.
LN1992 1 week ago
Viva la dictadura mundialmente.
MMDDYY1000 5 months ago
Viva Fidel
demonthief115 5 months ago 3
Fidel cannot be called "presidente". He was never fairly elected.
rihesq 6 months ago in playlist TV legends
@rihesq who say that, fidel was elected by the people and the party and reelected, by the people and the party go to learn the history of cuba and then talk
thelastsoulja 4 months ago
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wexford1956 6 months ago
fuck uuuuuuu!
1988guerra 6 months ago
Cuba esta hecho un mierda por un capricho de un viejo.
ARCHDIVERALPHATEAM 7 months ago
Castro never backed down to mammon. That says it all.
SuperPeoplearestupid 7 months ago
Castro is not a dictator, he is a leader. And he has done a lot for the people of Cuba.The people of Cuba live and suffer together, those who are against sharing pain are greedy and self-centered. Those are the anti-revolutionaries in Cuba, and those are the only people that oppose Fidel. Most of them are ex-millionaires or people who have fallen victim to false propaganda broadcasts from Florida. These people are few and far between, because most Cubans support the government.
SamualTLedbetter 8 months ago
@rafagee1
Okay so you visited Cuba, but you no know nothing about what the fuck It's like there, why you think my father brought us over on a floating car? You know what that Fidel maricon asshole did? If someone say, Fidel why you no let us talk, he send his soldiers to your house late at night, they take you out and shoot you and bury you in the street, and all that fucker says is revolucion this revolucion that, SHUT THE FUCK UP! Los únicos que te quieren a ti son esos que tu le lava el ce
DerekAnthony19 8 months ago
Fidel was a benevolent dictator..........Bush was a piece of shit,,,, there is no difference between Bush and third world dictators of the60s--80s.....Bush came in not through elections, but through the supreme Court's decision.
rafagee1 8 months ago
Ted Turner - typical capitalist who cares only for the mighty dollar
ShaneFilmz1 9 months ago
Fidel is the man,,,,,,,,,,,,,if he is a dictator, then why aren't the Cuban revolting against their oppression like the Egyptians and the Tunisians did. You cannot say that it is because of mechanism of control. Think about, revolution come from educated middle class people. While the Cubans might lack a middle class, they definitely do not lack an educated population. This educated population is aware of the shortcomings of capitalism and for the most part appreciate the gains made.
rafagee1 9 months ago
@rafagee1 gains made? holy crap. What percent of cubans would leave if possible? 99%
PInk77W1 8 months ago
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osler109 8 months ago
@PInk77W1 higher levels of education than most countries, little to no crime, medical clinics in each neighborhood, no one dying for lack of health coverage, no one dying of starvation, no homelessness (whats up with our veterans being homeless here)
Have you been to Cuba? Why do you think 99% would leave? Where do you get your facts? Fox News? hehehe, You argue with no foundation or facts.
rafagee1 8 months ago
@rafagee1 1st let me say i love cuban people its the govt. that repels me. My daughters boyfriend is cuban. But the idea that u r defending cuban govt. is down right laughable. I could bury u with facts but that would be too much work because the facts are unending. Let me just say that during the boat lift the pass. were ALL headed NORTH.
PInk77W1 8 months ago
@rafagee1 FOX news, we report , you decide. Cuba Castro reports Castro decides. I will take fox news any day of the week and twice on sunday thank you very much. At least i can turn the channel. How does one turn the Castro channel with out being killed?
PInk77W1 8 months ago
america has nuclear arms all over the world but if its america it's okey right like anything else you think you have the right to what every is best for your country not for all countries iraq war was build on a lie , to gain the oil...... us did pay sadam in the 80' and even usama bin laden when he was at war with the russian haha your country is hipocrist (sorry bad english)
pizzeriavictoria 9 months ago
@pizzeriavictoria to gain the oil? not
PInk77W1 8 months ago
Long live the revolution and the pople of Latin America.. Juntos podemos!!!
bthebest23 10 months ago
I'm tired of politics,don't know why am I here.
Don't be politicians,be revolutionaries.
MirLjudima 10 months ago 38
@MirLjudima you mean revolutionary of politics?
link0zeldarulz89 8 months ago
@MirLjudima idiot
senssuck24163 3 months ago
Fidel is not a dictator. Dictators don't teach the poor literacy. Dictators don't arm the people from the threat of invasion. Dictators don't provide free medical care. Dictators don't ration the food products among the people. Dictators don't cut off diplomatic ties with Israel over the mistreatment of Palestinians. Dictators don't organize teams of doctors to go and provide free medical care to the poor in third world countries. If Castro is a dictator then he is the strangest one.
pulpyy 11 months ago 99
@pulpyy
You are apparently unfamiliar with Hitler. Hitler provided free medical care, he introduced rationing to Germany, not just for food, but for everything. He mandated that the entire German population be extremely well educated and well-armed. He sent "Doctors" (Mengele) into poor countries (Poland) to provide "medical care". And, were he alive today, not only would he cut all ties to Israel, but he would begin to KILL all of the Israelis. He and Castro would be good friends.
darkwolfdv 11 months ago
@darkwolfdv Kill all of the israelis?Not a bad idea.Cos they are behind every war.All they want is a world domination and a world gonverment under a fuckin jew leader.Genocide of Palestinians.burn the fuckin jews.stick their money up to their fuckin smelling asses
kar98ksniper 11 months ago
@darkwolfdv fidel hasn't killed 6 million people but america has killed millions. fidel doesn't starve people to death but america has and last i checked your president bush family were friends with hitler. you guys are the nazis.
Iraqisocialist 10 months ago
@Iraqisocialist he doesnt starve people to death? yikes
PInk77W1 8 months ago
@PInk77W1 - as an educated Cuban citizen, I can assure you that you are ignorant in your comments. Fidel does not starve Cuban citizens, the US blockade you support does. The vast majority of us are very happy with our country and government. Cuba is very much still a beautiful country, come visit. Please educate yourself before comm. How much sense does it take to see that Cuba would have fallen long ago if the majority wanted change, the US has been waiting to support a coup for 50 yrs
osler109 8 months ago
@osler109 ARE u allowed to own a gun? are u allowed to go to the usa? are u allowed to vote against fidel? are u allowed to go to church? Are u allowed to buy a new car? a new house?
PInk77W1 8 months ago
@PInk77W1 your info is outdated pink, people can go to church in Cuba. As of gun, most countries in the world do not allow citizens to own guns. You mistake support for Cuba as a critic of the US. I live in the US, a citizen, served as a Marine, a teacher, so I have contributed to this country. But you cannot cannot sit and compare Cuba with the US....the most industrialized country in the world yet we have more people in prison than any other country (land of the free baby)
rafagee1 8 months ago
@rafagee1 i was a Marine too. C 1/9 weapons. i dont care what most countries do. i dont care if u support cuba. But support for castro kind of gets me upset.
PInk77W1 8 months ago
@osler109 I agree, I have visited Cuba three times and yeah, there are some levels of dissatisfaction, but show me a country that does not have a satisfied population. I am always surprised at the levels of uneducated people in the US, not only in education, but in foreign affairs. I am a teacher and I proudly have a Fidel Castro poster in my room. Students always ask whats up with that, and when I ask them what they think of Fidel Castro the first thing most say is that he is evil.
rafagee1 8 months ago
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@rafagee1 he is very evil
PInk77W1 8 months ago
@osler109
I am not surprised at their answer because in the US we have been indoctrinated all our lives to hate Fidel with no logical explanation as to why. People point out to the fact that he expropriated people's property. Whats the difference with the bankers taking people's homes due to variable loans? Not much, at least if you ask those who lost their property.
rafagee1 8 months ago
@rafagee1 um no one puts a gun to your head when signing a loan. Castro has all the guns. sheeeeeeesh
PInk77W1 8 months ago
@pulpyy single party political system is dictatorship.
UseUrHead503 10 months ago
@pulpyy the ones who accuse him of being dictator are criminals and thieves. america is a dictatorship with no healthcare and bad education.
Iraqisocialist 10 months ago
@pulpyy I really think that, thats the quotes I've be finiding for years
Thank You
ibombtheschool 9 months ago
@pulpyy the citizens of cuba are not even allowed on the internet unless it is job related. So would you want to live in cuba knowing that you could not post your dumbass comments up on here everyday?
narehs1 9 months ago
@narehs1
im not a fan of Castro, but I would pick him over batista anyday
superstrok99 9 months ago
@pulpyy Do you not know the definition of dictator? It doesnt mean monster. It means someone who is in complete control of a country or state. Castro is in complete control. The people have no say whatsoever in what goes on. No voting, no protesting. What he says go you may like it....you may not. It doesnt matter. He dictates whats going to be. Like when he aloud soviet nuclear missles to come in and be pointed at the united states. Cubans had no say. He almost destroyed cuba.
meronmotors 9 months ago
@meronmotors - Yes he allowed missiles to be pointed at the United States. So? Cubans fully supported his decision. Cuba had been the target of US backed terrorist acts (La Coubre) and invasions (Playa Giron). You act like we Cubans had a whole lot of say in what you americans call the "Cuban Missile Crisis". Cuba was a puppet in a piss contest Thank god Kennedy (honestly, a very respected man in Cuba) was in charge. The United States and the USSR almost destroyed the world. P.S. we VOTE
osler109 8 months ago
@osler109 u vote in a symbolic way hey? Dont even go there. Do u believe for one second that there are free and open elections in Cuba?
PInk77W1 8 months ago
@pulpyy Sure they do. Your last sentence is the only one that made sense.
OpethNation 9 months ago
@pulpyy he is a dictator. u cant move to america can u? free medicine? if u havent noticed it is thee most expensive kind. Cuba is a wasteland and he is absolutely a dictator
PInk77W1 8 months ago
@pulpyy Dictators violate individual liberties like the freedom of speech. Dictators stay in absolute power for nearly 50 years. Dictators, after getting seriously ill, give the power to their close relatives.
The fact that Castro has made social reforms and supported the rights of the Palestinians does not make him any less of a dictator.
ECabot22 7 months ago
@pulpyy There is no such thing as "free medical care." It is always stolen from one to give to another.
TechHost 6 months ago
@pulpyy You really have no idea what you're talking about, do you? Please, before you continue to propagate lies, get informed--not by the media, but by real cubans, who have lived on the island and have a deep understanding of the socioeconomic situation in Cuba. I am Cuban, and I am telling you, there is teaching of literacy, but suppression of free speech; there is protection of the people, but there is just as much suppression and restraint; Cuba is a totalitarian police state. Get informed.
adimitri82 6 months ago
@pulpyy dic·ta·tor Noun/ˈdiktātər/
1. A ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force.
2. A person who tells people what to do in an autocratic way or who determines behavior in a particular sphere
omgfaglolz 6 months ago
@pulpyy I agree, 100% . Nowa days people get blinded by their false media , and start to think that Castro was a bad guy. Damn. We need another Castro
bada3arab 5 months ago 2
@pulpyy Castro is a dictator do dictators make kids attend boxing in order to see their family again hell yeah do dictators kill american helicopters for flying over airspace, yeah with an effing mig, do dictators not allow cubans to leave for better lives in different countries yes im a cuban descendant and i know he is
mikeyrobot500 5 months ago
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@mikeyrobot500 Castro doesn't want Cubans to leave to other countries because he's afraid they might comeback and change Cuban society.
Cuba has one of the best healthcare in the world, and 2nd in highest literacy in the world. How the fuck can you say he's a dictator? he only wants his people to be themselves and not let foreign society get in their way.
willf1987 5 months ago
@mikeyrobot500 Why would a US helicopter be flying over foreign airspace without permission?
and if it did, the it's the right thing to do to shoot it down.
DanielTheSocialist1 4 months ago
@pulpyy Fidel and his government, like other dictatorships, limits very basic freedoms. You will not see many cubans posting here or anywhere in the Internet because most of them weren't even allowed to access. Other countries, even in south America, don't need to ration food, also provide free medical care to the poor and have similar literacy levels, while living in full democracy and feedom.
guimuy 3 months ago
@guimuy
You will quickly find with some minor research that your government most likely limits free speech much more then Mr. Castro. If you live in the U.S. then you defiantly are not one to be talking, the security apparatus that was set up after 9/11 would make the Nazi's green with envy.
Cuba has a 99.8% literacy rate, and a lower infant mortality rate then the U.S. In 2006 Cuba was the only nation in the world which met the WWF's definition of sustainable development.
NeutralExistence 3 months ago
@pulpyy JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA NUNCA VIVISTE EN UNA DICTADURA NO SABES LO QUE HABLASSSSS....
soylire30 3 months ago
great leader of his people,cuba is a poor country its lack the oil and land the united states has, its also only 60 years old whilst america is 300 years old. Castro run cuba in the interest of the ppl.america is run in the interest of wall street,if wall street makes million and unemployment is still high it doenst matter to obama
harj2009 11 months ago
@harj2009 i think u win the dumbass award
narehs1 11 months ago
@narehs1 any award from u my be dumbass award thats why I reject instead give it to ur president
harj2009 11 months ago
Viva Fidel. Recuerde que el Che.
wrightman690 11 months ago
If Ted Turner was Cuban he would not be a millionaire, nor would he have a tv network or a professional baseball team. He would be just a regular Cuban with a ration card, no freedom and living under the threat of imprisonment if he disagreed with the government party line. How nice it is to go out and mingle with this anti-American bastard and then return to the good ole USA. Do us a favor Ted, stay in Cuba, live as a Cuban and let's see how long you last.
ryanrful 11 months ago
Fidel is a good leader.. Im curious who will come into power now however.. I just hope that they do not mess things up :)
Aidan0128 1 year ago
@Aidan0128 a good leader?
hermesdavid1 1 year ago
@hermesdavid1
Yeah i don't consider him a dictator
Aidan0128 1 year ago
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hermesdavid1 11 months ago
@Aidan0128 el comunismo es la raiz de todos los males
hermesdavid1 1 year ago
can someone tell me if fidel castro is good from a neutral view of him because i can not decide
mywindows7pc101 1 year ago
@mywindows7pc101 Fidel Castro is a great man who truly cares about humanity. Before Fidel and Che overthrew Batista who was an American sponsored mass murderer who oppressed the Cuban people by letting multinational corporations run rampant while also turning Cuba into one big Las Vegas loaded with strippers, prostitutes, and drugs for the men who operated those corporations. Fidel put this to an end by overthrowing the regime and bringing the power back to the people of Cuba.
nastyness19 1 year ago
@mywindows7pc101 But don't take my word for it youtube Fidel Castro: The Untold Story and decide for yourself
nastyness19 1 year ago
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@londonscot1 - "I have a problem with the Miami Five being in jail AND with the fact that they didn't receive a fair trial."
Fair Trials.......that's a term the Castros are not too familiar with.
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
if che didnt die cuba would be better economically
TheJames1233 1 year ago
@TheJames1233 From what I saw Che never had a chance to do much with the Cuban Peso, as a direct result of the revolution the Cuban peso dropped significantly because of all the madness of establishing the Revolutionary government. Che was more well-suited to the role of a soldier than to that of an Economics Minister if you ask me.
ClownMasquerade 1 year ago
@TheJames1233 Buaaaajajajajaja!
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
Amazing to see this man in the same energy that power as it was thirty years ago in his youth. He is very articulate and clear today
yosef208 1 year ago
@KurtCobain198666 Oh you lived in Cuba as a foreigner; how wonderful!!
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@KurtCobain198666 HOw do you intend to live in Cuba and get everything you need?
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@KurtCobain198666 That you were" wrong" in admiring these men is only an opinion and that you should is not admire them is only a suggestion. I don't see him torturing or imprisoning you because you don agree with him; so how is it that he's suppressing your freedom of speech again?
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
I JUST WANT CUBAN CIGARS TO COME TO AMERICA...AND IF THAT MEANS OPENING THE DOORS THEN BY GOD OPEN THE DAMN DOORS!!!!
zunnanchudry101 1 year ago
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Arrrrrriba EL COMANDANTE FIDEL.
jabao1990 1 year ago
Naive questions, cunning answers!
theo1001 1 year ago
VIVA FIDEL VIVA CUBA
deraner65 1 year ago
hero che gueara
kapital3 1 year ago
@KurtCobain198666 While I'm not going to defend tyrants such as Mao and Stalin, it is fair to point out that many of the deaths attributed to them, are due to famines, which were a chronic problem in Russia and China even before their dictatorships were established. Were the famines due to government negligence and even deliberate food withholding? We may never know, but their "genocides" were certainly different and more complex than the outright extermination campaigns of Hitler.
IneptTroopr 1 year ago
Fidel was a Lawyer and a Highly educated man and when he was young he was a...actually a very strong looking figure...but I still say Che should have led Cuba
TravisDrago 1 year ago
@KurtCobain198666 We never refuse all the mistakes, because our wonder nation has media everywhere in the World, and we dont live back in the Worldwide window. Now did you like start where the crimes start from the begining be specific & clear. My cousin went to Viet Nam, my uncle was in Korea, & my great grand father fougth in the firs war. Nothing has comparison with the Castro's & regimen dictatorship. & thank's for rectify the name of the criminal.IBORU.
azalori 1 year ago
@KurtCobain198666 In which World are you living? Because Im sure is not my Planet. IBORU.
azalori 1 year ago
only dumb people say cuba didnt work course it did imagine if america wasnt arrogant and didnt blockade them, didnt terrorise them literally by supporting cuban terrorists and sobotage their economy how good it would be
timetochilli 1 year ago
@timetochilli First of it was Castro brought all this upon himself and the Cuban people when he nationalized US companies through the agrarian reform and nationalized US refineries after they refused to process USSR crude oil. The US embargo was not a problem for the time the USSR existed. When everything went to shit 1991 with the perestroika, then he starts using the excuse of the US embargo to justify his failure as a leader. Castro was and still is a very arrogant person.
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@Tropicoco123 castros a dick i accept that but american companies have cause genocide injustice poverty and death around the world they are as immoral as it gets u need to change ur system!
timetochilli 1 year ago
@timetochilli I think we are the most envied/hated nation in the world. There must be a reason. But there are groups working towards the betterment of our system. There are groups inside the US that condemn many measure taken by the US that can be considered genocidal and immoral. Now, aren't there US companies that have improved our lives? Or are all US companies bad? What about those companies that create jobs in abroad? Anyway, (cont.)
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@timetochilli 2) I rather help eradicate the thought that some people have about Fidel Castro being a Role Model to other leaders. He has been an arrogant son of a bitch who has never accepted blame for any negative outcome his actions have had on the Cuban livelihood. He chose to find an alternative to the heavy influential US market on Cuban economy by approaching the USSR and ended up fucking up the diplomatic ties with the US.
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@Tropicoco123 listen ur country blew up a cuban plane blew up cuban factories and funds ex cuban terrorists to attack cuba i dont care about castro his arrogance a small country is nothing compared to the arrogance stupidity and idiocracy of the states ur the biggest criminal in the world u murder millions aroudn the world u train millitans stage qou de tat's so dont preach about castro he is bad but that doesnt mean ur good, in fact u.s. makes him look like jesus christ!
timetochilli 1 year ago
You're the one comparing Cuba to the USA. The fact the US does all the thing it does doesnt make Castro a great ruler, great person or a saint as some people perceive him. On the contrary, the man is a criminal all by himself. That's all I have to say.
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@Tropicoco123 much less of a criminal than any american president
timetochilli 1 year ago
@timetochilli Than any US president?? But I thought you anti Americans said that US Presidents are just puppets and the real power lies on the hands of Multinational Corporations. Who understand you people?
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@Tropicoco123 yep multi nationals pretty much choose all the candidates...but we are being blunt here at the end of the day if the president and congress wanted they can go against the multi nationals but because americans are dumb and would not admit the childish way in which their country is run that cannot happen. we cannot type everything on here where just talkin in blunt terms and secondly only because u have nothing to say dont come up wuth nonesense
timetochilli 1 year ago
@Tropicoco123 - Wrong chronology. The US State Department decided, even before Castro came to power, that the Revolution was "unfriendly". Sabotage of sugar mills etc by CIA agents began in 1959. US oil refineries were instructed not to process 300,000 tons of Soviet crude oil (April 1960). Cuba seized the refineries. The USA reduced its Cuban sugar quota (July 1960). Cuba nationalised all US property (August 1960). Compensation was offered, in the form of 20-year bonds but was refused.
londonscot1 1 year ago
@londonscot1 Wrong!! The US Department decided to favor the Revolution as early as 1958 when they stopped selling arms to Batista. The Revolution then enacts the Agrarian Reform Law which nationalized many US owned companies and decides to export sugar to the USSR in case the US decided to cut the sugar imports. THEN... US refineries were then instructed not to process Soviet Crude oil, followed by US reduction of its sugar imports, followed by Cuba's expropriation of all US owned properties.
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@Tropicoco123 - Arms to Batista stopped at a very late stage. Then the "covert operations" began against Cuba. It's history. Don't you believe that the CIA engaged in sabotage etc? What else was the Bay of Pigs invasion, the bombing of La Coubre, the bombing of the department store in 1960 etc? All on the record. The surprising thing is that most supposedly well-informed Americans, with full access to all media, haven't heard of these things. Funny, huh?
londonscot1 1 year ago
@londonscot1 "Arms to Batista stopped at a very late stage"? More like half way through the revolution. Are you denying the impact the stop of arm sales to batista had on the revolution? WOW!! Anyway, Bay of Pig invation and all the covert operations began after Cuba decided to expropiate all US owned properties. There's no evidence that la Coubre was a CIA operation. There was opposition to the Revolution in Cuba where the CIA had nothing to do with. Get the timeline right.
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@Tropicoco123 - With respect, the timeline is:- USA steps in at last minute, grabs glory and carpetbags Cuban assets (1898); Platt amendment subjugates Cuba (1902); Castro and others outfight numerically superior Batista forces armed by USA, UK, Yugoslavia etc; "The USA continued to supply weapons until the last moment", says Richard Gott in his "Cuba" A New History" (1956-9); land reform announced, with compensation (May 1959); US National Security Council decides "Castro must go" (June 1959).
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Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@Tropicoco123 - CIA proposes sabotage of Cuban sugar refineries but Eisenhower asks for a "more ambitious" programme of destabilisation and aggression (January 1960); La Coubre explodes in Havana (March 1960); US refineries refuse to process Soviet crude oil (April 1960); Cubans nationalise the refineries (June 1960); USA cuts sugar quota and the Russians and Chinese take up the slack (July 1960); Castro nationalises all major US properties (August 1960); US embargo starts (November 1960).
londonscot1 1 year ago
@londonscot1 Since his childhood, Castro had had an Anti American feeling and he did not hesitate at the opportunity of blaming the US for the La Coubre explosion.He has no evidence whatsoever that it was a CIA operative.He used the event as a way of putting the US in a bad light and to justify the turn of his attention to the USSR. From the beginning the Revolution was not meant to be Red. But he's a smart guy and knew how to manipulate those events to make himself be seen as a victim.BULLSHIT
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@Tropicoco123 - So, La Coubre just blew up, eh? What an incredible coincidence!
londonscot1 1 year ago
@londonscot1 Coincidence? Not at all. You don't think there were people in Cuba with no ties to the CIA that were opposed to what Fidel was doing? Not everything has to be connected to the CIA. But it's more entertaining if the US is to be blamed for everything, right? I say it again, there was no peove the CIA was involved.
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@londonscot1 Look, you're ignoring the fact that many Cuban revolutionaries where against turning to Communism. Fidel chose to take the USSR route by starting a Land Reform and Urban Reform that he knew would upset the USA. At the moment back in the 60's he didn't care about upsetting the US b/c he had the support and complete dependence of an IMPERIAL Superpower in the USSR . (cont)
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@londonscot1 (cont) With the Soviet Bloc collapse 20 years ago he loses that support he had had and then the US is to blame for his failure? Com'on. It was his desire since he was young to fuck with the US and its interests in the island. But it's not him or the North American people that suffer but those in the island because of the decisions he made more than 50 years ago. And the motherfucker is so proud that he's giving in to European capitalists but refuses to give in to the US.
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@londonscot1 (cont.) Proves that he cares little about the well being of his people and more about his supposed revolutionary principles which his actually his desire to remain in power until the day he dies.He said once that he'd be willing to give his life for his people but never at the cost of the revolution.But today, he allows tourism, the free flow of US dollars, the construction of European owned resorts, AND AND AND he allows private property. That not a Marxist Leninist measure at all.
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@Tropicoco123 - So Castro allows private property AND he owns everything in Cuba. That's quite an achievement.
londonscot1 1 year ago
An achievement indeed. He can do and undo as he wishes. You could try make it look like I'm contradicting myself but at the end of the day, any Cuban that lives in Cuba as a "Cubano de a pie" will know what I'm talking about. You don't
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@Tropicoco123 - I forgot to mention a gentleman called Lyman Kirkpatrick, a CIA man who (in 1956) offered Batista aid and assistance in the Buru Para Repression de los Actividados Communista...... protecting US interests despite growing opposition to Batista. Also, the Eisenhower regime were already unhappy about the nationalistic tone of Castro's speeches well before January 1959. Why wouldn't they be? The USA owned most of the good land, factories, everything.
londonscot1 1 year ago
@londonscot1 "Buro Para La Represion De Las Actividades Comunistas". There's only one fact here. If the US was unhappy about the Revolution they should have never stop selling arms to Bastista; but they stopped the sales and that was definitely beneficial for the Revolutionary process. The rebels took full advantage of that. You can't deny the US removed themselves from supporting Batista halfway through the fight wich only lasted 2 years.
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@Tropicoco123 - Very difficult for the USA to stop selling weapons altogether and in fact they didn't. They merely reduced the number of weapons, reacting to US public disquiet about the Batista regime's excesses, while on the other hand covertly starting to plan Castro's overthrow, as his modest land reform proposals - which the US government had supported in principle, in other countries - were exaggerated into a "communist" appropriation-without-compensation.
londonscot1 1 year ago
Modest land reforms? Jaja Ok Sure. I said what I had to say. You gotta learn how to pick your friend. Fidel pick the wrong friend and well. Cuba has been run to the ground. But he doesn't care; He's still in power. That's all that matters to him believe it or not.
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@Tropicoco123 - Yep, modest land reforms. The US government actually supported such reforms, post WWII, in other parts of the world.
londonscot1 1 year ago
@Tropicoco123 - Re: Richard Gott. Being accused of being a KGB agent isn't the same as actually BEING a KGB agent. "Innocent until proven guilty". All he did was lunch with them in the course of his journalistic duties. It isn't the same as being an "agent". His book, which I mentioned, actually backs up some of your stats about pre-Revolutionary Cuba's doctors etc. It's an objective book!
londonscot1 1 year ago
@Tropicoco123 - PS a 2-year fight? I have spoken with other Cuban-Americans who, in dissing Castro's contribution, told me that the anti-Batista movement wasn't just the handful of jungle fighters (Che, Camilo et al) but also civilian leaders such as Frank Pais and Haydee Santamaria, of whom about 20,000 were killed in 1952-58 by Batista's goons. I can buy that. Batista fell because there was a genuine unstoppable movement against him. It wasn't just about weapons supplies.
londonscot1 1 year ago
@londonscot1 You're right about the anti-batista movement. But the fight that defined the triumph of the rebels was the Jungle fight and that one only lasted 2 years. You have no idea how much longer Batista would have lasted in power if the Guerrilla Movement would have been neutralized.
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
@Tropicoco123 - Neither do you have any idea how long Batista would have lasted in power if the guerrila movement had been neutralised. But it's fairly clear that the Batista government's repressions - 20,000 dead? - would have eventually led to a popular revolution, with the same US public revulsion and the same CIA covert support for the most pro-US elements. You know...... same in Guatemala (1954)!
londonscot1 1 year ago
I will live to see that day when The whole U.S. will be overrun by millions of ches in the streets.US started a fire and can not extinguish it,no matter what they try,people will see the truth.
Lawbringer100 1 year ago
@Lawbringer100 they will have to act except of seeing...
fuckSnB 1 year ago
WOW WAS HE A MURDERER! HOW DARE YOU! jk
Look I am a person who find Che fascinating. I know everything about him, I know that he was a murderer who was cold blooded and enjoyed killing, but still Che is my role model. If you know all the facts, you can make a choice on which side you believe in. BUT all of you uneducated Americans who knows no other channel than fox news on TV, FUCK OFF!
TheSpassy 1 year ago
@TheSpassy People, he was not a cold-blooded killer without feelings... Man oh man... The guys last letter to his kids reads something like this, "Above all, remember to always deeply feel any injustice done towards any men at any part of the world. That is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary." Now which mass murder (like Hitler or Stalin) or ones with kids have ever said something like that. Something that might get their kids into deep trouble! He killed, but not out of cold blood
Aleksi535 1 year ago
che was a cold blooded terrorist i cant believe such stupid people still believe in comunism fuck comunism fuck u
yandykun 1 year ago
look at capitalism now in america :D (corruption)
thats all i have to say
RICARDOLOCO13 1 year ago
@RICARDOLOCO13 Look at socialism now in America :D (corruption and violence). I think the problem is not the system but the people that runs it.
Tropicoco123 1 year ago
This man will be toppled in very short time.
DerekAnthony19 1 year ago
@DerekAnthony19, your funny, The man was in power from 1959 to 2008, and now he is going to be toppled? On what basis do you make your statement?
piercedbydave 1 year ago
@piercedbydave On what knowledge do you make THAT statement, Fidel is the supreme leader period! He controls everything! Raul is his puppet, Fidel is the puppet master of Cuba.
DerekAnthony19 1 year ago
@piercedbydave Oh my god, He runs the fucking country until he's ass deep in cancer!, El es la Ley Cabron! What he says goes! Raul isn't shit! Fidel runs the country! And i want that son of a peasant dog to just die...
DerekAnthony19 10 months ago
@DerekAnthony19 i would give my life to him and his boot is worth more than all of your presidents.
Iraqisocialist 10 months ago
@Iraqisocialist Your iraqi, thank god cuba isnt like iraq with soldiers all up your ass thinking you packing something on you, like you gonna shoot some people up like its the fucking projects or some shit, Cuba, its a POOR ASS COUNTRY, Balseros leave the island on little rafts to get the fuck away from there, because its misery there.
DerekAnthony19 7 months ago
@DerekAnthony19 It's misery there because America put an trade-embargo since 1962 to Cuba.It means they have to count on themselves.Like African countries which have been ripped of their resources.No way America is the ''civilized'' world,NO FUCKING WAY
MrBruntenebreux0211 6 months ago 2
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@MrBruntenebreux0211 AND FIDEL IS A FUCKING ASSHOLE FOR NOT DOING SHIT ABOUT IT, If Cubans could see whats going on in Libya, They'd do the same thing.
DerekAnthony19 6 months ago
Ted Turner .. A VERY GOOD FRIEND OF FIDEL CASTRO!
A COUPLE OF FUK..G COMMUNIST!
ElMataCHE 1 year ago