Posted on 05/09/2018 4:05:13 AM PDT by grundle
I am sure that many people will start to write all kinds of things about Fidel Castro now that he is gone. Some may have romantic fantasies about who they thought he might have been, but have no clue what it is to have lived under his regime. I have never lived in Cuba ... but my mom did. My grandmother did. Much of my family did. My father went and picked up Cubans during the Mariel boat lift, and my extended relatives were born there.
They all left. They all have terrible stories of great loss and sadness. Most left with only the clothes on their backs or what little they could carry.
Everyone has their personal stories, but one consistent thing that everyone says is the same: “He took everything.”
My grandmother repeated her story to me multiple times when I was little. She remembered as they were leaving Cuba — she was born and raised in Spain, along with my mother, but lived in Cuba for a few years before she came here — she remembered the government taking inventory of every spool of thread she had (she was a dress maker), and they made sure that she left with none of it. My mother would tell me that her beloved horse “Cheespa” was taken from her “by Castro.” I don’t know anyone who doesn’t shudder who lived under his rule, and like I said, everyone has a story. None are good.
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Castro was an evil serial killer. So was Che. May they burn in hell.
And the guilt for inflicting that on people is shared by the Democrat Party, which gave us JFK, who failed to win (because he didn’t try) at the Bay of Pigs.
They say that Stalin,Mao and Castro (among other Marxist dictators) were worth billions while their people lived as savages.One fact about Castro that is very telling indeed is that when he became really sick he flew off to Spain for treatment.That’s very noteworthy because a) it puts the lie to the repeated claims that Cuba had the best health care on earth and b) because in the entire country there were no more than a couple of dozen people who could afford to do that.
Is the author one of the women Schneiderman beat?
Exact same name.
The same, and a complete leftwing moonbat she is.
I noticed that. It is not a common name.
Hopefully her experiences with leftist scum will open her eyes.
Schneiderman’s punching bag was apparently born in South Florida.
Parts of south FL are just NYC south.
Specifically Dade, Palm Beach and Broward counties. The other 64 counties are Florida. Those 3 are Miami.
I know a great “romantic fantasy” about Fidel Castro, as told by an elderly gentleman.
“Picture a group of grinning US Marines in a circle around Fidel, feeding him handfuls of his beard.”
Doesn’t the huff want America to be just like Cuba?
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