Posted on 12/01/2016 10:37:05 AM PST by Enlightened1
While fellow communists and assorted global leftist elites are using the occasion of his death to praise Fidel Castro as a hero of the poor, reports from both defectors within Castro’s world and journalists using publicly available information have estimated the Castro family fortune to be in the millions. The closest realistic number estimating Castro’s net worth appeared in the magazine Forbes in 2006, whose research found that Castro was hiding a $900 million fortune from his starving people.
“To be conservative, we don’t try to estimate any past profits he may have pocketed, though we have heard rumors of large stashes in Swiss bank accounts,” Forbes wrote at the time. “Castro, for the record disagrees, insisting his personal net worth is zero.”
In addition to government sources of revenue, many have speculated that his close ties to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Marxist terrorist group that funds its activities with cocaine trafficking, has paid its tributes to Havana in order to continue to receive safe haven there.
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awww he wasn’t even a full-fledged billionaire, not a very competent revolutionary kleptocrat!
It’s all about the people. /s
Now _that_ is the way your true lefty operates.
Fraud and force, lies and theft, murder and steal—lefties love it!
Same thing for Yasser Arafat.
“Money for me but NOT for Thee”
Can I ask a stupid question?, How can he have a big fortune and a big estate to bequeath to anyone? Under communism, there is supposedly no private ownership. The state will wiher away and all that. Or was Fidel NOT a good communist??? Shame on him.........
—apparently he did better than old Commie Pete Seeger-—he only left about $4.5 million-—
My sources within the Cuban government tell me the cheese was used to feed a moose owned by his sister.
And the left admires him a lot. I guess that’s what they like: brutal, repressive dictators who keep the people poor and themselves filthy rich.
SO, communism really pays off....................
“awww he wasn’t even a full-fledged billionaire...”
Yep... we should feel SORRY for him.. He left the palace DIRT POOR!
Hmmmm. I'm thinking that's "millions" with a $B.
Hey, this Dictatorship Of The Proletariat stuff is a goldmine!
Considering the windfall for the survivors, I need to become a communist.
Maybe offer the Castro family a couple billion for Cuba. Let them keep their island get away for 100 years as part of the deal.
Not a Communist ...a Communist leader. Big difference.
The party seeks power for its own sake. Power is the end.
Political power is the ability to make others suffer. 1984
So much for the Communists’ war on private enterprise and private property
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