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Arturo Sandoval Reacts to Fidel Castro's Death: 'He Was Worse Than Evil'
Billboard ^ | 11/26/2016 | Leila Cobo

Posted on 11/27/2016 6:08:06 AM PST by Eddie01

“The dictator of Cuba has died!!!!!FINALY!!!!”

So starts the trumpeter Arturo Sandoval’s much-shared Facebook post, written in the early morning hours after Fidel Castro’s death was announced.

“I'm happy that they'll cremate him, at least his bones will not contaminate the ground,” punctuated Sandoval, summing what thousands of Cuban exiles felt.

Sandoval never minced words when he spoke about Castro and his dictatorship. His struggles as a musician and a husband where chronicled in the made-for-TV movie For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (with Andy Garcia playing the role of the trumpet virtuoso), including Dizzy Gillespie’s “discovery” of Sandoval and Sandoval’s efforts to leave the island.

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TOPICS: History; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: castro; cuba; freedom; sandoval
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To: The Cuban

Correct.


21 posted on 11/27/2016 2:23:32 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: KC Burke

I think that your previous post this date about ‘security operatives’ not returning alive is closest to the bulls eye insofar as all my readings over the years explain it.


22 posted on 11/27/2016 3:40:22 PM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: Cen-Tejas

It is one of my favorite quotes from Alexander Solzhenitsyn. I read the Gulag Archipelago after One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and First Circle which were all the rage in the late 60s for those of us that were anti-communist and on campus.

The quote came up in reading on this site and I always try to add it where appropriate.

The answers to the left and the understanding of the left have been there since our nation started and Edmund Burke confronted the evil in the French Revolution’s overflow into British culture. We just need to keep digging them out and showing the world.


23 posted on 11/27/2016 3:49:05 PM PST by KC Burke (Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
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To: The Cuban

..........and your authoritative source is?

Remember, before you shoot from the hip again, few if any freepers, given what we’ve all learned in the Obama era, ascribe ANY credibility at all to talking heads, newspapers, magazines or democrats.

In this particular instance, an “authoritative source” would be someone who was there and involved on the front row of what was going on.

And, I’m not disagreeing with you, I’m just not swallowing your assertion hook, line and sinker just because “you” say it’s true.

All we know is that allegedly air support did not happen. After that, the question remains WHY?


24 posted on 11/27/2016 3:53:47 PM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: Eddie01
As a side note (pun intended), my son shared this with me a few days ago. Stunning National Anthem prior to the 2009 Orange Bowl.
25 posted on 11/27/2016 4:02:20 PM PST by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: tang-soo

I just shared with my family.

Awesome!!

Thanks.


26 posted on 11/27/2016 4:09:34 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

Glad to share. I was so impressed with him. Out of the Doc Severinsen and Maynard Ferguson mold.


27 posted on 11/27/2016 4:57:44 PM PST by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: KC Burke

We just need to keep digging them out and showing the world.
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Amen


28 posted on 11/27/2016 6:42:50 PM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: Cen-Tejas

go...read...a...book....on...it.


29 posted on 11/27/2016 7:45:11 PM PST by The Cuban (again)
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To: Cen-Tejas

https://www.amazon.com/Decision-Disaster-Betrayal-Bay-Pigs/dp/1574882376


30 posted on 11/27/2016 7:46:26 PM PST by The Cuban (again)
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