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Fidel Castro Is Dead (nytimes.com)
Striek quotes the New York Times: Fidel Castro, the fiery apostle of revolution who brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere in 1959 and then defied the United States for nearly half a century as Cuba's maximum leader, bedeviling 11 American presidents and briefly pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war, died Friday. He was 90. His death was announced by Cuban state television.
In declining health for several years, Mr. Castro had orchestrated what he hoped would be the continuation of his Communist revolution, stepping aside in 2006 when he was felled by a serious illness. He provisionally ceded much of his power to his younger brother Raul, now 85, and two years later formally resigned as president. Raul Castro, who had fought alongside Fidel Castro from the earliest days of the insurrection and remained minister of defense and his brother's closest confidant, has ruled Cuba since then, although he has told the Cuban people he intends to resign in 2018.
Kebertson shares an AP article which remembers a book proclaiming "Castro's Last Hour" -- in 1982. And Miamicanes jokes there'll be celebrations among Castro-haters in Miami, sharing a CNN article which notes that in the end, Castro "lived long enough to see a historic thaw in relations between Cuba and the United States."
In declining health for several years, Mr. Castro had orchestrated what he hoped would be the continuation of his Communist revolution, stepping aside in 2006 when he was felled by a serious illness. He provisionally ceded much of his power to his younger brother Raul, now 85, and two years later formally resigned as president. Raul Castro, who had fought alongside Fidel Castro from the earliest days of the insurrection and remained minister of defense and his brother's closest confidant, has ruled Cuba since then, although he has told the Cuban people he intends to resign in 2018.
Kebertson shares an AP article which remembers a book proclaiming "Castro's Last Hour" -- in 1982. And Miamicanes jokes there'll be celebrations among Castro-haters in Miami, sharing a CNN article which notes that in the end, Castro "lived long enough to see a historic thaw in relations between Cuba and the United States."
One less commie in the world....
Progressivism: Parasites helping parasites to help themselves - to other people's stuff.
RIP?
Burning in hell!
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
How do we know now....
This item hit the news feeds oh, around 15 hours ago.
A bit late to the game eh?
A cyanide laced CIAgar?
...for everyone else on the planet.
Fidel has been out of it for years. His death is no surprise and changes nothing.
There was a time before Castro... Rich landowners jacking up property values beyond what slave wages they can earn through a lifetime of working. Rich and powerful lobbyists controlling the government and getting away with anything. Rather letting poor people die than give them any healthcare. Fake news spinning stories to make the opposite political party look corrupt. Only educating the kids of the rich and well off...
I don't know if the US is doing any better in 2016 though.
It was 2008.
But consider for a moment, if it was fake.
With a huge Cuban community you can bet that celebrations will break out in Miami, Fl.. Many have waited eagerly to hear of his death.
Cuba's hostility against America is legendary. President Clinton removed Gitmo's landmines due to international pressure, but Castro kept his in place (they're still there as far as I know).
The only reason Obama even attempted that was to create some sort of legacy for himself. I don't know if it'll work. It depends on what Trump does. I'll figure he'll be a better negotiator than Obama and actually achieve normalized relations on fair terms, but Obama will get the credit for the being the first one. Casto's death ought to help the situation, since they're less crazy than North Korea.
Cuba is still communist while tricle down economics has been discredited. People die . Its if their ideas live on is what matters.
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The nation mourns our glorious, eternal leader, and vows that the revolution he started will be continuous and with out end forever. State mandated spontaneous heartfelt displays of populist mourning are designated to begin at 6:30 sharp. Consult with your neighborhood block education officer to receive your sign and for assignment to your designated spontaneous demonstration in continuing support of the revolution. Failure to comply will be noted by your education officer and reported to the education ministry which will then determine whether remedial education terms ranging from six months to twenty years at government re-education facilities are warranted.
Castro is still dead.
this isnt going to be a very popular opinion here, but the reason for the historic thaw is surprising. Typically the united states is content to hold trade embargos indefinitely against any nation that so much as thinks of challenging unfettered capitalism. The reason for this thaw is similar to the reason for the Iranian thaw. The US is losing geopolitical capital at an unprecedented rate early in the 21st century.
central and south american leaders are no longer subscribing to the teachings or guidance of american politicians. instead theyre renationalizing their resources and divesting from markets typically dominated by american presence. Cuba was a last ditch effort by the state department to keep a foothold in trade agreements that are rapidly moving away from the dollar as their standard. Prior to this we had tried calling in our debts from socialist democracies, demonizing their policy in our media, and withholding world bank investment only to find these countries far more resilient and fungible than they were 35 years ago when we could routinely replace their leaders with a coup.
Good people go to bed earlier.
I'll believe it when Netcraft confirms it.
You can say anything about Fidel, but he was a tough guy. Cuba resisted bravely (if you allow me to use the term) to an enemy way bigger and more powerful for many years. Curiously, the end of the Castro era could have arrived long before if the past presidents would have used the Obama approach: Embrace, extend and extinguish. Personally, I think he chose a wrong path and became the perfect example of why communist social structures are not sustainable. "Join together to share the lack of wealth", to use Stallman's words, simply goes against human nature. RIP, anyway.
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Killed by Hillary Clinton. Sad story.
... until I see it on Fox News (sic).
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
...5,999,999 to go!
... comes to us from the Greeks (ca. bay of pigs) and is a concatenated corruption of the form, "infidel castration," and generally refers to a paynim in the ass with no balls.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Finally! Hope he died slowly and painfully!
The most capitalist day of the year.
It doesn't feel as good as when Thatcher and Reagan bit the dust.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead."
The end of President Obama, the end of the Hillary, and the end to Dictator Castro. What's not to like about the end of 2016.
it's actually more to do with Obama, the Democrats and how our presidential elections work.
Cuban immigrants were a big part of winning Florida for the Republicans. They're why we've maintained the embargo. Anyone politician who tried was dead in the water on a national stage.
That said time passed, those immigrants died and their kids didn't listen much to granddad's story and Obama formed a big anti-Bush jr coalition to put him in the Whitehouse.
That left us open to normalizing relations. Businesses have wanted this for years but politics made it impossible. So at this point it's got more to do with the dems free trade policies and general progressivism than anything else. That and marginalizing the remaining anti-Castro voters left in Florida.
So yeah, we embargoed a country for 30+ years because their refugees settled in a populous swing state. Take those same people and drop them off in TX and things would be completely different. Man, our politics are a mess. And don't get me started on Israel...
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And the timing of this is suspicious with Trump about to become our ruler.
Its like the Iranians and the hostages. They knew their time was up when Reagan was elected.
Cuba is still communist while tricle down economics has been discredited. People die . Its if their ideas live on is what matters.
Fidel's ideas only live on under the gun's of his government. Reagan didn't need to hold guns to people's heads. When the Cuban government's guns are put aside we'll learn the people's true opinion of Fidel.
Khrushchev would agree with you. If he or his dream were still alive.
And Khrushchev was the sane one of the two. Part of the reason he withdrew missiles from Cuba was that he thought Fidel was f'n crazy, willing to let Cuba suffer nuclear strikes if it would advance global communism.
You can say anything about Fidel, but he was a tough guy. Cuba resisted bravely ...
Fidel was the little bully sidekick talking sh*t, sucking up to, the real tough bully, the Soviets. He was a useful idiot, nothing more. Once the Cuban people are allowed a voice he will be consigned to the dustbin of history.
...killed by Death, same as Lemmy.
Economic growth is not everything.
It is if you have to pay for your hospitals, schools, etc. Once the Soviet subsidies ended the Cuban "progress" started to fall apart.
When Castro first came to power, he was inspired by the Mexican revolution of 1910-1920 who did not turn communist. Moreover the Cuban Communist Party had denounced Castro's revolution as pro-Western. He was pushed into the USSR sphere of influence by the aggressive CIA-led actions.
Then the embargo provided the biggest excuse ever for Castro and his dictatorship. He could always blame his failed economic policies on the USA led embargo.
Yeah, Batista was a bad guy, just like the Shah of Iran was a bad guy. Most places on Earth throughout all of human history have been run by bad guys.
Sadly, there are always WORSE people who are eager and ready to take advantage of such situations to bring even worse guys into power.
When the Shah fell in Iran, the "revolutionaries" brought-in Islamofascism and converted Iran into a pariah nation widely recognized as the world's worst state-sponsor of global terrorism. The Iranians who were outraged by the number of victims of the Shah, found themselves under the boot of the Iranian revolutionary guards who have racked-up a FAR worse record of murder and oppression.
Castro arose to replace Batista, and ended-up creating a nasty police-state that massacred political opponents as a sport (Castro pal Che, of T-Shirt fame, had big windows installed in his office overlooking the execution area so he could enjoy the firing squads slaughtering his opponents). Under Castro, Cuba did not improve relative to Batista, it actually got WORSE. Nobody will ever know how many Cubans died at sea trying escape, but the number is certainly far higher than under Batista.
This makes Trudeau The world's top communist. We're number one!
he's pining for the fjords.
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a new chewing toy.
Proving that ${deity} truly has a sense of humor, Fidel Castro -- icon and architect of Cuban Communism -- died on Black Friday... a/k/a "Adam Smith Day" -- the day Americans gather in our grand cathedrals of commerce and celebrate capitalism by shopping like there's no tomorrow.
I think you're going too far by assuming that your opinion is unpopular. Yes, you got a couple of bad mods, but overall your post was rated insightful, and I even felt that it was one of the few insightful-rated posts that deserved the mod. In the absence of any meaningful notion of "identity" associated with Slashdot membership, I can just dismiss the negative mods as coming from sock puppet herders, though I suppose some of them could be from actual angry losers (like so many of those Trump voters).
At least the funny mods were for posts that deserved it, though there were so few of them. The funniest idea is that the mod system could be fixed, eh? I'd like to see some incentivizing for humor, for example by giving double funny mod points to members who've earned lots of funny mods.
On the actual topic, I did see a list of hate, but very little about the other side of the bogeyman named Castro. Can't recall that any of the hate lists mentioned the real reason the right wingers hated him so much: FEAR. They were really afraid that the bad example could spread to other countries in the hemisphere. Same sort of domino theory that brought us the war in Vietnam. From that perspective, the best things that Castro did were actually the worst, so I guess that means the Cuban medical system. Just shows what can be accomplished without much money (or computers or modern cars) as long as your priorities are on keeping people healthy? (Did some searches for mentions of that topic and couldn't find much in the visible parts of the discussion.)
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the sole reason the trade embargo was lifted was so that Bill could get good cigars again ......
The very concept of a "literacy rate" is nonsense. Different people have different capacity to understand what they read. I'm not big on sports, but I can usually get some understanding from scientific papers. I may not fully comprehend what I am reading, but some understanding is usually accomplished. Reading ability is one big grey area.
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It is arguable whether Fidel really believed in communism (at least initially), he is even on the record many times stating before the uprising he did not believe in it. Cuba was given no other choice though as they were in the shit for revolting against a US backed corrupt dictator, So it was either befriend Soviet Union and Co or go it alone against a country who had shown no morals whatsoever when it came to dealing with Cuba and the Cuban people/.
Want to know if a site is a real news site or a fake news site? If the site refers to Castro as a "leader" or "controversial figure" but not as a dictator, it's a fake news site.
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.