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Weeping, hopeful, Cubans look to future without Fidel Castro
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| 11/26/2016
| MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ
Posted on 11/26/2016 2:19:36 PM PST by heterosupremacist
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"Fidel Castro's death "puts a sharper focus on the mortality of the entire first generation of this revolution," said Philip Peters, a Cuba analyst and business consultant, "and brings into sharper focus the absence of a group of potential leaders that's ready to take over and politically connected to the public."
For Cubans off the island, Castro's death was cause for celebration. In Miami, the heart of the Cuban diaspora, thousands of people banged pots with spoons, waved Cuban and U.S. flags in the air and whooped in jubilation.
"We're not celebrating that someone died, but that this is finished," said 30-year-old Erick Martinez, who emigrated from Cuba four years ago.
The Cuban government declared nine days of mourning for Castro, whose ashes will be carried across the island from Havana to the eastern city of Santiago in a procession retracing his rebel army's victorious sweep from the Sierra Maestra to Havana. State radio and television were filled with non-stop tributes to Castro, playing hours of footage of his time in power and interviews with prominent Cubans affectionately remembering him.
Bars shut, baseball games and concerts were suspended and many restaurants stopped serving alcohol and planned to close early. Official newspapers were published Saturday with only black ink instead of the usual bright red or blue mastheads."
To: heterosupremacist
For sure, ALL HOPE IS GONE.
To: heterosupremacist
"...Music fell silent, weddings were canceled and people wept in the streets Saturday as Cubans Soviets faced their first day without Stalin, the leader who steered their island to both greater social equality and years of economic ruin... History repeats itself. There were even those in the Gulags who cried when Stalin died.
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posted on
11/26/2016 2:26:48 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
To: heterosupremacist
I’m glad I read this before I ate, instead of after.
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posted on
11/26/2016 2:29:00 PM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
To: heterosupremacist
...each Cuban family get a basic ration of staples such as rice, beans, cooking oil, salt, sugar and bread. They also get the following in limited quantities: 1 piece of soap, 1 toothbrush, and 1 tube of toothpaste. Milk is only available for mothers with children below the age of six.
http://www.havana-guide.com/lifeinhavana.html
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posted on
11/26/2016 2:34:15 PM PST
by
donna
(The media is supposed to tell us what happened, not speculate on the future.)
To: rlmorel
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posted on
11/26/2016 2:36:30 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: rovenstinez
"...but I think that the revolution will keep on in the same way and always keep moving forward." I don't get it - the keep talking about the "revolution" - against whom are they revolting???
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posted on
11/26/2016 2:39:04 PM PST
by
jackibutterfly
(We have to stop saying "How stupid can you get". Too many people are seeing it as a challenge.)
To: heterosupremacist
Just putting a face on the type of person who could right such a utterly stupid article.
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posted on
11/26/2016 2:39:17 PM PST
by
FreeReign
To: BenLurkin
Is is some kind of amazing national Stockholm Syndrome for these communist countries. They are robbed, starved, murdered, and imprisioned by these people, then they cry for them.
Reading “The Gulag Archipelago”, Solzhenitsyn makes this very same observation. Liberals would do the same thing.
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posted on
11/26/2016 2:41:01 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
To: heterosupremacist
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posted on
11/26/2016 2:42:15 PM PST
by
aquila48
To: FreeReign
right —> write
Geez this guy's stupid is contagious.
To: aquila48
They even cried in Albania when Enver Hoxha died, Five years later the Communists were overthrown in Albania.
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posted on
11/26/2016 2:46:33 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: rlmorel
It shows the power of propaganda.
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posted on
11/26/2016 2:49:08 PM PST
by
aquila48
To: rlmorel
Just wait until the clintons bite it, the streets will be awash with liberal tears.
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posted on
11/26/2016 2:50:23 PM PST
by
W.
(Practice does NOT make perfect, only perfect practice makes perfect pistolcraft!)
To: heterosupremacist
Hey Raul, let’s have a trade - the Democratic Party in exchange of Cubans who yearns to be free...
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posted on
11/26/2016 3:24:00 PM PST
by
Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
To: aquila48
Exactly. Powerful tools in the hands of people who use it for ill ends...Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro. We use propaganda too, but not to subjugate our population, in my opinion.
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posted on
11/26/2016 3:29:31 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
To: heterosupremacist
Much like North Korea, when the leader dies, everyone has to show extreme open mourning or be shot.
To: jackibutterfly
In case anyone is curious, this is the next dictator in line to take over in 2018, described as a "hardliner", Miguel Diaz-Canel:
Seems like a nice guy, right?
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posted on
11/26/2016 3:35:33 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
To: W.
Yeah...One would think they wouldn’t have any of those salty liberal tears left by then, but like crocodiles, they never run out of them!
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posted on
11/26/2016 3:36:39 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
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posted on
11/26/2016 3:41:46 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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