Posted on 02/24/2020 12:45:29 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
On Sunday, Fidel Castros ashes were buried in a cemetery on the edge of Santiago de Cuba, a city that is to Cuba what Harlem is to New York.
The remains of the 90-year-old revolutionary were interred near the tomb of Jose Marti, a white journalist and poet who led Cubas 19th century fight for independence from Spain. Marti is considered the father of the Cuban nation.
Burying Castro close to Marti is, no doubt, intended to equate the communist leader who ruled Cuba with an iron fist for 49 years to Marti, who in just 42 years of life came to be called the Apostle of Cuban independence.
But for many people of African descent in Cuba and elsewhere, Castros burial in the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery which is named for a black saint and is also the final resting place for Mariana Grajales Coello, the mother of Antonio Maceo might have a deeper meaning
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Let me know when ya want to retire..........Arrrrrgh!
Yes he died a few years ago. His jeep towing his body broke down during the funeral procession! LOL
Died November 25, 2016
"...I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it. I'm swamped."
I have to say no.....If the AfroCubans are anything like the blacks in Honduras, they're a sub culture minority that are looked down on by the Hispanic community......
In Honduras they are called "island blacks"
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