Fidel Castro dies

Led Cuba into communism.

Survived assassination attempts by the CIA.

Involved in bringing the world to the brink of Nuclear War.

Fidel Castro died early this morning at the age of 90.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-38114953

He was a beacon of peace

Apart from the odd killing and torture

Lovely bloke

RIP El Comandante

Restoring diplomatic relations between America and Cuba is one of the few good achievements by Obama. I don't think that would have happened, if Fidel Castro had still been President of Cuba.

http://www.cubanet.org/htdocs/CNews/y01/sep01/19e2.htm

The legacy.

I don't think the world will miss him.

Angel1.

I don't think the world will miss him.

 

Angel1.

It was interesting to see the difference in the reactions and comments from Trump & Corbyn. It was as if they were discussing totally different people.

There was an amusing quote on Sky News:

"Castro, he took Cuba from a brutal, corrupt, right-wing regime................."

My immediate though was "Yea, straight to a brutal, corrupt, left-wing regime"

He stuck the finger up to the big old US of A though and didn't back down.

RIP.....

He stuck the finger up to the big old US of A though and didn't back down.

RIP.....

So you don't mind about the complete repression of religion, or the mass disappearances and executions then?

Affection toward Castro can only be explained by complete lack of moral integrity or by profound ignorance on the matter.

Okay so what preceded him was worse, and the US should feel rather guilty about their support for that previous regime. But that's no excuse for over 50 years of brutal tyranny.

So you don't mind about the complete repression of religion, or the mass disappearances and executions then?

 

Affection toward Castro can only be explained by complete lack of moral integrity or by profound ignorance on the matter.

 

Okay so what preceded him was worse, and the US should feel rather guilty about their support for that previous regime. But that's no excuse for over 50 years of brutal tyranny.

Absolutely correct.

The country was overrun by organised crime and corruption of officials. No one was safe except the very rich, the Catholic Church did nothing to help their flock they had no rights education or healthcare and their were people starving in the street. Oh wait that sounds like a lot of other countries doesn't it. And then surprise, surprise! The Profiteering Capitalists are shocked when the people turn to communism or at the very least socialism. They try to kill the leader of the revolution and when that fails declare war, often failing again in a spectacular manner.

The leader and aids get paranoid and start banning, purging, imprisoning and executing. Oh what fun the superpowers think. Now we can condemn them from a higher moral ground. Er Oops sounds a bit like Mcarthyism doesn't it.

Pot Kettle Pot Kettle Pot Kettle. Frying pan-Fire

So you don't mind about the complete repression of religion, or the mass disappearances and executions then?

 

Affection toward Castro can only be explained by complete lack of moral integrity or by profound ignorance on the matter.

 

Okay so what preceded him was worse, and the US should feel rather guilty about their support for that previous regime. But that's no excuse for over 50 years of brutal tyranny.

Cuba couldn't have survived under Castro had it not been for massive financial support from the USSR and the fact that it was an island. As it was large numbers of Cubans jumped on old lorry inner tubes and attempted to float across 90 miles of open sea hoping to hit land in Florida.

It rather reminds me of the other communist dictatorships like East Germany where they needed mine fields to prevent the population clearing off. It is hardly a great endorsement of a governments policy if you need machine guns to stop the population clearing off somewhere else.