Posted on 07/31/2006 6:33:36 PM PDT by tdewey10
Cuban President Fidel Castro is transferring power provisionally to brother Raul while he undergoes an operation, Cuban TV announces.
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as if the people are given a choice.
That said, it doesn't appear they are setting up any kind of succession plan for after Raul (and personally, I don't think they really can). Which scares me a little bit, because I could Raul doing something really really stupid right before dying.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about and have clearly swallowed the leftist propaganda hook, line, and sinker.
Castro is/was the cruelest of dictators. The health care, education, equality myth does not compute. Just look at the statistics for Cuba in the years prior to the "glorious revolution." The country was ALREADY providing its people extremely good health care and education-- which have declined, not improved, under the monster Fidel. A look at s Havana phone book from the '50s will show you yellow pages that go on and on with listings of nice little businesses. People were making money. Thriving, in fact. NO ONE has thrived in Cuba since then. Except Castro, who has about $2 billion in offshore accounts thanks to tourism and some of his communist minions who drive around Havana in new Mercedes while the populace tries to figure out still another way to keep their 1954 Chevies alive for one more mile. There's nothing in between....NO middle class, no middle zone, no equality whatsoever. Perhaps 5% of the population are high enough up the (unelected) commie heirarchy to participate in the good stuff, the rest suffer. SUFFER.
Racial equality? You have to be kidding. I was there in '99...you could not find a black person in Havana in any neighborhood likely to be visited by tourists. A black professor we dredged up told us that blacks had been involuntarily relocated to the countryside in droves when tourism became Csstro's main source of income. Cuban workers earned $7/week at foreign-run hotels, but those hotels paid Castro $50 per week per worker. And today, prostitution is many times worse than it was in the Batista era simply because there's no other way for women to make a living. No nice little stores to work in, no possibility of starting a little dressmaking shop without being thrown into jail.
And Castro's jails are known to all civil rights groups worldwide as the most demeaning, cruelest, nastiest ever devised. A dear friend of mine worked for one of those groups for decades, helped get political prisoners released from all kinds of jails, dungeons, torture chambers from Sudan to Chile...he couldn't even talk about Castro's jails without tearing up at the atrocities he had seen there.
May Castro rot in the lowest level of hell.
I hope you realize that those weren't my words. At the top of my post I made it clear that I was about to paste a post from the Democratic Underground.
Oooops! Sorry, NinoFan. No, I didn't understand that it came from DU. What a relief!
But I always enjoy ranting about Castro to one and all. LOL.
That's OK. :) Too bad DU wouldn't let you post that over there. Most of the responses to that guy's post were either trying to offer support for their sad liberal friend or were angry at him for assuming that Castro was dead, LOL.
What jerks they are! Booooo Hissssss to DU. (Drunken Underachievers?).
More to the point: Is Fidel dead yet?
Or better, is he still dead?
I was just watching the Cubanos partying on the news. I am struck by one very important difference.
The Cubans have been fighting to get back to their homeland for 50 years. They have a wonderful national pride and desire to return to a capitalist Cuba.
The Mexicans, on the other hand, fight to get away from their homeland
And the Cubans here love the USA more than even many native-born Americans do.
That's for sure!
The ABC report I just heard on the radio was worse than that.
To shouts of "Hasta la vista , baby!" in the background the reporter intones, "These are the die-hard, hardcore, anti-Castro types here in Miami... They aren't representative of the Cuban people at large." ...or something like that.
He seemed to be trying to dispel the notion that anyone (with good sense) could be celebrating the death of the great leader.(sarcasm on)
I think he is dead. I recall that the same "He's doing well" spin was happening when Arafat was dead.
When you are right, you are right.... I would only add that I hope the end is very, very painful for Fidel.
Aww, the Dim Gripper, er - the Rim Dipper, whoops it's the Grim Reaper!! Wordiness is contagious Phil!
I normally don't take pleasure in the sickness of others, but this character's death would be good for the world, and the suffering people of Cuba. I laughed when watching the celebrations in Miami. May Cuba be free soon.
I wonder how easily Raul Castro sleeps? Or can he take the chance that someone won't hasten the Castro brothers' reunion?
Raul may just get whacked by his own military !
let's try again...
I would love to hear him say,"Fidel Castro is still dead"
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