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Fidel Castro tells Cuba’s Communist Party he will soon die
The Washington Times ^ | April 19, 2016 | Michael Weissenstein/AP

Posted on 04/19/2016 2:31:59 PM PDT by jazusamo

HAVANA — Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro delivered a valedictory speech Tuesday to the Communist Party that he put in power a half-century ago, telling party members he will soon die and exhorting them to help his ideas survive.

“I’ll be 90 years old soon,” Castro said in his most extensive public appearance in years. “Soon I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain as proof on this planet that if they are worked at with fervor and dignity, they can produce the material and cultural goods that human beings need, and we need to fight without a truce to obtain them.”

Castro spoke as the government announced that his brother Raul will retain the Cuban Communist Party’s highest post alongside his hardline second-in-command. That announcement and Fidel Castro’s speech together delivered a resounding message that the island’s revolutionary generation will remain in control even as its members age and die, relations with the U.S. are normalized, and popular dissatisfaction grows over the country’s economic performance.

Fifty-five years after Fidel Castro declared that Cuba’s revolution was socialist and began installing a single-party system and centrally planned economy, the Cuban government is battling a deep crisis of credibility.

With no memory of the revolution’s heady first decades, younger Cubans complain bitterly about low state salaries of about $25 a month that leave them struggling to afford food and other staple goods. Cuba’s creaky state-run media and cultural institutions compete with flashy foreign programming shared online and on memory drives passed hand-to-hand. Emigration to the United States and other countries has soared to one of its highest points since the revolution.

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TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: castro; communists; cuba; death; deathwatch; dictators; elderly; fidelcastro
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To: PROCON

Thanks, I needed the laugh.

Can’t wait for that butcher, Castro, to be judged for his heinous acts - not the least of which is damned near starting WW3 by launching an anti-aircraft rocket at a US surveillance plane during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Buh-bye, you old POS!


41 posted on 04/19/2016 3:21:09 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: jazusamo

Some folks in the heraafter waiting to have a few words with you, Fidel.


42 posted on 04/19/2016 3:23:15 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: jazusamo

What a great loss that will be to our world.


43 posted on 04/19/2016 3:37:11 PM PDT by Pinkbell (Liberal tolerance only extends to people they agree with.)
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To: Larry Lucido
"Some folks in the hereafter waiting to have a few words with you, Fidel."

Joe, the Georgian (Al Stewart)

Now I've got my payment
For the service that I gave;
They've given me my ticket
To this place beyond the grave.
I suppose it's kind of funny,
I suppose it's kind of sad,
Thinking back on all the times we had.

But it's kind of hot and smoky
In this ante-room to Hell,
And I won't make up a story
'Cause you know the truth so well.
It's much too late to worry
That we never had a chance,
And, when Joe the Georgian gets here,
We will dance, dance, dance.
When Joe the Georgian gets here,
We will dance.

We all set off together
On this sorry Ship of State.
When the Captain took the fever,
We were hijacked by the Mate;
And he steered us through the shadows,
Upon an angry tide,
And cast us one by one over the side.;

But it's kind of hot and smoky
In this ante-room to Hell,
And I won't make up a story
'Cause you know the truth so well.
It's much too late to worry
That we never had a chance,
And, when Joe the Georgian gets here,
We will dance, dance, dance.
When Joe the Georgian gets here,
We will dance.

There's Kameniev, Zinoviev,
Bukharin, and the rest;
We're sharpening our pitchforks
And we're heating up the ends.
We've got a few surprises
For the Mate when he appears;
I hope he likes the next few million years.

And it's kind of hot and smoky
In this anteroom to Hell,
And I won't make up a story
'Cause you know the truth so well.
It's much too late to worry
That we never had a chance,
And, when Joe the Georgian gets here,
We will dance, dance, dance.
When Joe the Georgian gets here,
We will dance.

44 posted on 04/19/2016 3:38:50 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is circumstance. Three times is enemy action.)
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To: jazusamo

“I’ll only say Fidel is long overdue and 0bama will be saddened.”

So sad he will have the US fly our flags at half staff!


45 posted on 04/19/2016 3:43:57 PM PDT by Clay Moore (JRandomFreeper RIP)
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To: BlueLancer

Never heard that one. Cool lyrics.


46 posted on 04/19/2016 3:44:46 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: jazusamo

Way overdue, Fidel, way overdue.


47 posted on 04/19/2016 3:45:57 PM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Meeping Great Again! Meep! Meep!")
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To: jazusamo

Why didn’t he just do it?


48 posted on 04/19/2016 3:55:13 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Ted Cruz was the man!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

How many people has this subhuman piece of cr** murdered or tortured or imprisoned?


49 posted on 04/19/2016 3:57:09 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: jazusamo

I heard the cheers from here.


50 posted on 04/19/2016 3:58:07 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: jazusamo

Not soon enough. He should have died at about the same time as Che died and in about the same manner.


51 posted on 04/19/2016 4:11:46 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Clay Moore

Will Bernie lose as his followers go into mourning?


52 posted on 04/19/2016 4:14:22 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to you.")
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To: jazusamo
I'm ready!


53 posted on 04/19/2016 4:16:14 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: jazusamo

I hope he doesn’t die while Obama is still in office. I can just imagine what Obama will require the US to do to honor Fidel.


54 posted on 04/19/2016 4:16:49 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: jazusamo

Obama will be saddened, as will Democrats everywhere.


55 posted on 04/19/2016 4:17:48 PM PDT by donozark (Vote Bernie Sanders: Because 100 million dead just isn't enough...)
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To: Texan5

From your lips to God’s ears! That’s the only way I’ll go back there to visit the land of my birth.


56 posted on 04/19/2016 4:28:55 PM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: jazusamo

Rapido p#ndejo!


57 posted on 04/19/2016 4:55:39 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: BlueLancer

Quite the quote there.


58 posted on 04/19/2016 5:12:34 PM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: jazusamo

Criswell of Criswell Predicts said Fidel Castro would be murdered around 1973 by a woman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Criswell


59 posted on 04/19/2016 5:15:48 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: jazusamo

Someone please explain to me why atheists have ideals of any kind.


60 posted on 04/19/2016 5:16:17 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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