Posted on 02/20/2008 7:33:57 AM PST by Nextrush
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has paid tribute to Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who is retiring on health grounds after 49 years in power.
Mr. Adams met President Castro during a controversial visit to Cuba in 2001.
The West Belfast MP said Tuesday's announcement marked "the end of an era in Cuban and Latin American politics."
"He leaves behind him a country with world class health and education systems and I wish him well in his retirement," he said.
Mr. Adams' 2001 trip to Cuba was criticised at the time by some US politicians, including Republican Congressman Peter King, a long time supporter of Sinn Fein, who described Fidel Castro as a "human rights violator."
While he was in Havana, Mr. Adams unveiled a monument in memory of 10 republican prison hunger-strikers who died in Northern Ireland in 1981......
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Well wait a minute.
If as many freepers seem to think the best way to bring back conservatism is to let Hillary! win, then why isn't the best way to instill conservative values in children to expose them to the reality of Marxism? /s
He leaves behind him a country with world class health and education systems and I wish him well in his retirement,” he said.
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LOL.....yeah you pub crawler, I ashamed you are Irish.
Considering Gerry’s admiration of the cuban health system, we shouldn’t expect to be seeing him looking for special visas to get care in this country.
POS Adams to POS Castro
Raul Castro tops Fidel in Cuba election
Associated Press | 1 hour, 26 minutes ago | WILL WEISSERT,
Posted on 01/30/2008 3:17:41 PM EST by BenLurkin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962164/posts
Castro, McCain spar over Cuban torture[rs of US POWs] in Vietnam
Reuters
Posted on 02/11/2008 3:48:51 PM EST by bshomoic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968655/posts
Fidel Castro Resigns as Cuba’s President (NYT Pontificating on Fidel)
NY TImes Web Site | 2/20/08 | JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Posted on 02/19/2008 1:24:23 PM EST by Renkluaf
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972860/posts
Matthews: ‘Why Do Cubans Still Support Castro Brothers?’
NewsBusters | Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 02/19/2008 6:16:32 PM EST by governsleastgovernsbest
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973011/posts
CNN: Be Kind To Castro
BabaluBlog | February 19, 2008 | Henry “Conductor” Gomez
Posted on 02/20/2008 12:05:43 AM EST by tgslTakoma
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973165/posts
Fidel Castro ‘determined to outlast Bush’
The Telegraph | 22/09/2007 | Tim Shipman
Posted on 09/22/2007 4:30:10 PM EDT by Baladas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900733/posts
[snip] Castro’s son Antonio has revealed that his father will not recover from the illness which caused him to undergo surgery this summer, according to a new biography. The new book Without Fidel, by CBS television correspondent Ann Louise Bardach, reveals that Castro has permanently ceded effective power to his brother Raul - not on the temporary basis that Cuban authorities claim. It confirms that when the dictator disappeared from public view this summer he was undergoing treatment for an illness that is expected to kill him. [end]
North Korea + Palm Trees = Castro’s Cuba
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