Posted on 01/26/2007 8:30:27 PM PST by The Bronze Titan
Even his letters are long and boring. Bring on the Worms.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Castro was NOT born in Spain. He was the son of Castro's Father's Maid. Who was Cuban from the get-go. Eventually his father married her but long after fidel's birth.
So Please tell me how was George w Bush Supposed to deal with Cuba in an ideal world?
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Castro's (both Fidel and Raul) head on a spike.
I tend to deal with things in a very simple manner. It just works for me.
Odd. I just had a friend return from Spain who said he saw Castro's birth place.
I cna't imagine that George W. Bush has given Cuba 30 seconds worth of thought in 6 years.
ROOTS IN GALICIA
The province of Galicia in the northwesternmost corner of Spain is a beautiful but sad place that was so poor in the nineteenth century that most of the men emigrated, some to Argentina and many to Cuba. Even today, it is a quiet and deceptive region, where people live by such maxims as "A man is owner of his silences and prisoner of his words." But to the young Fidel, it was also a shameful place, because his rough and rustic Gallego father, Angel Castro, was paid to take the place of a rich man's son to fight in the Spanish-American War of l898.
His father's plight surely has something to do with Fidel's implacable obsession with the United States. But his many obsessions, as he grew to turbulent adulthood in the late l920s and '30s, had little to do with being poor. In fact, Angel Castro was a rude but clever man who, after World War I, made a fortune in land in the "wild" part of Cuba, the eastern Oriente, so far from Havana society as to be another country. A sugarcane farmer, Angel had a lot of Haitian slaves and not many moral compunctions. He was only too happy to relieve himself of his first wife, a relatively cultured schoolteacher, and live openly with Lina Ruz, a raw-boned Annie Oakley type who had been the family maid and who would ride around the Castro property sporting a pistol and a Winchester.
Being unmarried didn't stop the unconventional pair from having child after child, six in all, before they bothered with matrimony. Fidel was most probably born about 2:00 a.m. on August l3, l926, during a devastating cyclone. "I was born a guerrilla," Fidel would say later, with his accustomed hyperbolic sense of theater, "because I was born in the night. It was a little like a conspiracy." Ever ambitious, Angel wanted to send his children to Catholic schools, and so the renegade couple finally married for that purpose.
I've never seen anyone use so many words just to say:
"BUSH'S FAULT!"
So this guy is whining that Bush gave too many visas and hes whining that he didn't let more Americans visit Cuba?
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