Cuba Is A Kleptocracy, Not Communist

Daily Beast ^ | December 19, 2014 | Romina Ruiz-Goiriena

[C19fan]

Fidel Castro seized power in January 1959 after waging a guerilla war against then-dictator Fulgencio Batista. The charismatic bearded revolucionario dressed in a dark olive uniform promised to restore order and hold elections. People on the streets of Havana cheered and celebrated the return of fighters from the Sierra Maestra. Batista had fled and Castro was their hero.

But the dream of a new dawn was short lived—at least a democratic one. Soon enough, Castro turned his back on those ideals, embracing Soviet style communism. Cuban exiles fled. Others were ousted. In 1961, the United States broke off relations with the island 90 miles off Florida’s shores.

[C19fan]

The author does not say it but the headline screams "One cannot condemn Communism because it has never been truly attempted." Guess what Ms. Ruiz-Goiriena when Communism allows a gov't to yield totalitarian power corruption is an inevitable outcome. Humans are not saints but fallen beings and the Communist attempt to create a "New Man" has crashed and burned in every Communist regime. I recommend Hayek's "Road to Serfdom" to Ms. Ruiz-Goiriena. He correctly observed and predicted with Socialism and Communism people will attempt to get around the restriction leading to more crack downs and restriction from the gov't creating a vicious down spiral. Get your damn Red head out of your arse Romina.

[cripplecreek]

All communist/socialist nations are kleptocracies.

[Paine in the Neck]

Castro is Batista’s avarice alloyed with Guevara’s blood lust.

[Paladin2]

Cuber is apparently run by a terrorist and torturer.

That would make it a terrorist State whose values include torture.

[Red Badger]

Only when people are free to pursue their own self interest, without the weight of oppressive government on their backs, can a nation thrive............

[McGruff]

Kleptocracies are generally associated with corrupt forms of authoritarian governments, particularly dictatorships, oligarchies, military juntas, or some other forms of autocratic and nepotist government

Sound like the Obama administration?

[GOPJ]

Communism is a totalitarian horse to ride for power freaks. Communism gives a message of hope to fools... lies that work long enough for the control freaks to rob everyone of their freedom and dignity.

It’s evil on the level of convincing a young mother her dead child can be brought back to life if only she whores herself ...

[Dqban22]

AMEN!!!~

[cripplecreek]

Its the heart of communism. When the people at the top decide they want something, they simply take it and the people have no recourse.

[bray]

You mean like the Democrat Party.

Pray America is waking

[ZULU]

So is the guy in Washington a Kleptocrat. Like likes like.

[Dqban22]

Batista was a dictator who share the responsibility for opening the path to the communist takeover. Nevertheless, when Batista left power Cuba have almost not internal or international debts and the Cuban peso was internationally accepted on par to the dollar. Batista left in the Treasure $400 million dollar in gold and convertible foreign currency, the equivalent of several billions in today dollars. In perspective, it seems that Batista was a very frugal president compared with the Communist kleptocracy that have oppressed the Cuban people for more than half a century.

[amnestynone]

Some people are more equal then others. Therefore they have every right to steal.

[Paine in the Neck]

I think the difference is that Batista got his as off-books rake-off from the organized crime he permitted to flourish, not from the public till. With the Castros, the public till is their personal account.

[stars & stripes forever]

Give it a year and the President will dispatch a memo declaring Cuba the 51st state followed by Puerta Rico - annexing them in time for the 2016 elections.

[Maceman]

Communism, fascism, national socialism, international socialism, kleptocracy — just different flavors of the same unpalatable totalitarian leftist tyranny.

These labels serve only to help leftists confuse debate: “Oh no, my poor benighted friend, Obama isn’t a socialist, and you would understand that if you read Professor Schmutz’s book, which you obviously haven’t.”

The fact is, Obama is a totalitarian leftist who would claim the powers of Kim Jung Un if he could. Anyone who thinks otherwise isn’t paying attention.

It is only the practical legal and political realities in our country that stop him, and those barriers to total dictatorial power become less insurmountable every day.

[mrsmith]

Communism is feudalism.
There is NO difference between the systems.
Marx did a very good job of understanding and explicating feudalism.

[donna]

“We had a two-hour lunch, some kind of chicken. I found Fidel to be really pleasant and intelligent. He’s up on what’s going on. He was following the election on CNN, but he didn’t say who he wanted for president.”

- Al Sharpton, November, 2000

Al Sharpton Raps With Castro To Take Hip-hop To Cuba
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2000-12-01/news/0012010355_1_al-sharpton-cuba-fidel-castro

[donna]

I would add Feminism.

[Bigun]

Only when people are free to pursue their own self interest, without the weight of oppressive government on their backs, can a nation thrive............

Amen! Which is EXACTLY why we must rid ourselves of the Marxist income tax and the IRS if we are ever again to be a truly FREE people!

http://fairtax.org