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| The great survivor: Cuba's Fidel Castro turns 90 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 13 2016, 09:10 AM (586 Views) | |
| mysysail | Aug 13 2016, 09:10 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37012538 |
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| mysysail | Aug 13 2016, 09:13 AM Post #2 |
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[...] Under the influence of a priest called Father Llorente, Fidel Castro excelled in certain areas, including sports and outdoor expeditions. At the end of his course in 1944, he was awarded a prize for discipline. "He liked humanities and languages; Spanish, English and history, Ms Guerra says. "But by his own admission, he wasn't a model student. He would leave everything to the last minute. "Still, he did recognise the importance of discipline, punctuality and obtaining good grades." |
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| 70-101 | Aug 13 2016, 10:12 AM Post #3 |
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A unique man, and one of the last of his kind. One of my closest friends parents had their Honeymoon in Havana before the embargo, back when 57 Chevy's were brand new. |
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| George Aligator | Aug 13 2016, 04:12 PM Post #4 |
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President Castro gets a bad rap here in the US. Not surprising; you should see what the British had to say about President Washington in 1783. |
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| Robert Stout | Aug 13 2016, 04:31 PM Post #5 |
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Only the good die young..............
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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| W A Mozart | Aug 13 2016, 09:02 PM Post #6 |
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A "bad rap?" Are you kidding me? This despicable piece of human garbage is a criminal. A killer. But, first and foremost, he is a dictator. Nobody elected this vulgar narcissist to anything. There never was an election of any sort. Ever. Does that matter to you? Should it matter to you? Would you say the same thing about Pinochet as well? The real reference today should go to all those people who were tortured and killed by the Castro killing machine. Good people. Honest people. In the hell-hole prisons. By firing squads led by Che. They ALL wanted to live till 90 as well. But now they are dead, at the hands of a dictator. Taken in the prime of their lives by a power-hungry jerk. May the old bastard continuously sh@t his pants on an hourly basis and then rot in hell, ....forever. And may those whose lives were cut short by this vicious killer, finally have their revenge. Today Nicolas Maduro made a special trip to Havana. Venezuela is falling apart, yet this nit-wit runs to Havana to pay tribute to this vulgarity. ![]() http://www.diariodecuba.com/cuba/1471079567_24565.html Mozart |
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| George Aligator | Aug 14 2016, 05:27 PM Post #7 |
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Your over-heated diatribe about Castro only serves to illustrate the bad rap he has in America. You prove my point. Thank you. It seems it has not occured to you why Maduro is making his pilgrimage. You have no feeling or understanding for why Fidel is a living saint to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Fidel Castro was judged by his own people not in comparison the Herr Mozart, which would have been bad enough, but in comparison to Fulgencio Batista. You didn't know don Fulgencio, did you? You don't know what the average Cuban's life was like in 1950 or even what s/he looked like. You judge Fidel by your criteria. That's fine; the poor and the oppressed of the old Third World have a different criteria, that's all. You can keep on hating the guy because nobody really cares what your kind of people think of his kind. Cuba, ahora es de todos. |
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| W A Mozart | Aug 14 2016, 09:04 PM Post #8 |
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What? Are U nuts? There are tens of millions of people who still consider Joseph Stalin a great man. The same could be said about the greatest killer of human beings 'in the history of mankind,' ...one Mao Tse Tung. I am quite sure there is Pol Pot fan club as well. The fact that Fidel is a "living saint" in your eyes is the result of people like yourself who completely negate being provided irrefutable facts. Stalin, Mao and Castro were all despicable human beings. All of them. "Not true!" scream the apologists. Fidel and his entourage are killers, nothing more. Evil. Violent sociopaths. Vicious killers. The fact that you are able to 'spin' this thoroughly substantiated fact of history into a legend is precisely what George Orwell foresaw nearly 70 years ago. Pure evil being turned into new icons of history. Truth doesn't matter to the gullible, only perception. The idea that Joseph Stalin could still be revered in modern day Russia is simply depressing. The fact that Cubans celebrate Fidel's birthday is even more so.... Mozart Edited by W A Mozart, Aug 14 2016, 09:07 PM.
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| Harambe4Trump | Aug 14 2016, 09:11 PM Post #9 |
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Castro did achieve the conquest of Southern Florida for the Cuban people. |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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| W A Mozart | Aug 14 2016, 09:45 PM Post #10 |
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A quick apology to my good friend Georgie for calling him 'nuts.' He must know that I've had family directly involved in the 20th century "isms" that resulted in the deaths of millions. It is a passionate subject of mine, which I'm sure he knows. Mozart |
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| Robert Stout | Aug 14 2016, 11:14 PM Post #11 |
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You can understand Aligator better if you know he suffers from tertiary stage PTSD from psychological trauma in Vietnam.....His "identification with the aggressor" (socialism) is a clue.........
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| Che On The Rocks | Aug 16 2016, 05:07 AM Post #12 |
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Feliz cumpleaños, Compañero Fidel.
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Free Milagro Sala! What happened to Santiago Maldonado? What happened to ARA San Juan? Mapuche Lives Matter! Stop the political persecution in Argentina! Stop the looting of Argentina! | |
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| W A Mozart | Aug 16 2016, 09:05 AM Post #13 |
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To which I might add, if Fidel had been in charge, Milagro Sala would have been tortured and then quietly killed. Mozart |
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| W A Mozart | Aug 16 2016, 11:16 AM Post #14 |
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Why would Fidel Castro be a "saint" to tens of millions of people, as Georgie alleges? Well, perhaps it's because the young have no clue.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWB8B614jac Mozart |
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| Che On The Rocks | Aug 18 2016, 05:31 PM Post #15 |
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Get real, Wolfgang. If Fidel had been in charge, Milagro Sala -a Native American woman who fights for the poors through colective action against a very oligarchic, near feudal Capitalism- would have gotten a medal and a ministry. But if Fulgencio Batista had been in charge, then yes, Milagro Sala would have been tortured and then quietly killed. So stop ignoring History.
Edited by Che On The Rocks, Aug 18 2016, 05:38 PM.
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Free Milagro Sala! What happened to Santiago Maldonado? What happened to ARA San Juan? Mapuche Lives Matter! Stop the political persecution in Argentina! Stop the looting of Argentina! | |
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| Robert Stout | Aug 19 2016, 02:58 AM Post #16 |
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Liberals may have a different definition of saint when President Trump summarily executes 5,000 liberals in his first 30 days in office...Yes, history is relevant........
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