“From building a world class health and education system, to Cuba’s record of international solidarity abroad, Castro’s achievements were many.”
This is from Mr Corbyn, than vile, cruel piece of trash. I most sincerely hope that when this bastard dies, demons in hell make him experience Cuba’s world-class system of torture known as Cuban healthcare for all eternity.
Corbyn goes on to praise Cuba’s actions in Angola. I remember how a man with a limp and a scarred face approached me in Havana.
“I don’t want anything from you,” he said. “I simply need to tell this to someone.” For the next 2 hours he walked next to me, telling me about being beaten, threatened and blackmailed to force him to go to Angola. And then forced to engage in horrible things in Angola. And then doomed to live with constant pain from his wounds after he came back because there is no medical care. And still threatened and humiliated so that he wouldn’t talk about it.
These pieces of stinking garbage like Corbyn live their whole lives in opulence and never take the trouble of looking in the eyes of those who pay the tragic price of their idiotic rich-boy fantasies. Their obliviousness and indifference to others rises to the level of sociopathy.
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Canada’s Prime Minister, Trudeau, expressed “deep sorrow” at Fidel’s death and praised him highly.
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I’m sure he used this as a cute photo op as well. That’s all he ever does anyway.
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Here are links to President Obama’s written statement and to President-Elect Trump’s remarks.
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Jimmy Carter also had warm words for Castro’s memory: “Rosalynn and I share our sympathies with the Castro family and the Cuban people on the death of Fidel Castro. We remember fondly our visits with him in Cuba and his love of his country. We wish the Cuban citizens peace and prosperity in the years ahead.”
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It’s like he’s taking a piss out of them. Prosperity is a cute word to use in this context.
Gosh, I’ll never forget how in Havana you keep walking through a horrible slum, broken down cars, dirt, dilapidated houses, a stench of buckets people use as toilets in their cramped little rooms. And only black faces, of course.
And then all of a sudden there is a cute little neighborhood that looks almost American. Good cars – not new, but newish and not rusted heaps of junk. Detached houses with gardens and garages, flowers everywhere. Clean pavements. Streetlights. And only white faces of residents who greet me in good English.
Some revolution that was.
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In my opinion, Trump is 100% right here. I’ve seen the suffering of the people in Cuba and I can’t pretend I didn’t. And I’m disgusted with how incapable my fellow Liberals are of noticing this inconvenient suffering.
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Why this time, Trump reacts the opposite of Putin?
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Obama took Cuba away from Putin’s influence 2 years ago. Now Trump is signaling that he’s ready to give it back.
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I agree.
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Russia can’t afford to subsidize Cuba like it did during the Cold War. If Raul is forced to choose between economic largesse from the U.S. or Putin, we’ll see which road he takes.
Direct airline flights and business investments from America or from Moscow? Might be worth freeing a few political prisoners to keep the sucker deal he got from Obama.
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When Putin needs money, he simply gets one of his oligarchs to give him a billion or two. And they are happy to oblige because they remember how one of them refused and went to jail for 10 years.
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It seems that some in Canada did not appreciate PM Trudeau’s eulogy for Castro. Here are a few examples of “eulogies” offered for other late-lamented people.
There are many more
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Funny. 😀 At least, there are people who haven’t lost their minds completely. That’s heartening.
Thank you for these.
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Isn’t this just the sort of thing that leaders do after someone important has died? Not speak ill of the dead, etc.
Did you read Obama’s statement when King Abdullah died?
“He took bold steps in advancing the Arab Peace Initiative, an endeavor that will outlive him as an enduring contribution to the search for peace in the region. At home, King Abdullah’s vision was dedicated to the education of his people and to greater engagement with the world.”
Puke.
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The CIA must be so mad he died a natural death! 😀
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In Cuba when a black person and a white person are seen together in public, police approaches to separate them immediately. Which is not surprising given the kind of segregation that the white Castros from a well-off family see as the only natural way of life.
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I don’t know anything about King Abdullah, so I can’t say. But I’ve been to Havana and I’ve had dozens of people try to sell me and my friends sex with small children.
Castro is not just somebody. He is a dictator with blood up to his neck.
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“Castro is not just somebody. He is a dictator with blood up to his neck.”
Not directed at you, but I can’t understand the particular hate for Castro here when this country has funded and supporter so many ruthless dictators all over the world.
Pinochet’s people trained dogs to rape women. But whatever.
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Pinochet was a product of his country. Like any other Hispanic dictator. Like Castro, like Franco, like Vineland. Hispanic civilization has produced these military dictators for 200 years for internal reasons. Whenever the US pointedly stayed away, the dictators still appeared and we’re exactly the same.
It is a mistake to adopt this US-centric worldview where everything on the planet is about the US.
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I’ve been saying it all morning, but I’m glad the bastard Castro is dead and I hope he’s Satan’s bitch in Hell. I can’t wait until the rest of those worthless pieces of shit die and Cuba won’t be a Communist shithole, they’ll need to do a really big purge. BTW, part of the reason my mother’s family fled was because my uncle would have been forced to fight in Angola and those Communist pieces of crap are more racist than Americans
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“I can’t wait until the rest of those worthless pieces of shit die and Cuba won’t be a Communist shithole”
It takes a looooong time for the contagion of communism to wash out of a society. In Poland, hardly anyone believed in or was in favor of communism since about 1960 and they haven’t officially had a communist system since about 1990 and the damage is still there (lessening every year but still there).
Ukrainians, only thought of dumping the communist mindset, en masse, a few years ago and Russians still have a communist mindset even if it’s not officially a communist country anymore.
You are talking about social poison with a very long half-life.
But I’m still glad the fucker is dead and only hope his final years were painful.
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Cuba has a lower rate of infant mortality than the USA according to the CIA world fact book. But then the CIA only have positive things to say about Castro.
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Have you ever wondered where these stats come from?
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…Which is why this woman and her husband I knew decided to have her second child in the United States instead of Cuba at the first opportunity.
I remember her shining the light on the baby to treat the kid’s jaundice.
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All of these stats are provided by Cuba itself. How can anybody trust them?
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No need to wonder, the CIA document their methodology.
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So? What’s the answer?
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Corbyn it seems is typical of those Western leftie types who is willing to praise, or support, or at least give the benefit of the doubt to, anything which looks vaguely like a successful socialist regime or is even some kind of “anti-imperialist” movement regardless of ideology. Partly for this reason, outside the hardcore left it is my experience he is not all that well-liked by the British people, even those who might otherwise be natural Labour supporters think he’s a wide-eyed idealist and not leadership material. Myself (seeing as I try to see the good and bad in all such figures) I am cautious, at least because I am not too much in favour of the current Tory government or the right wing of the Labour party and Corbyn at least seems to be some kind of alternative.
As for the Castro regime in Cuba… I don’t know if I ought to find anything good in the bad. Are all the claims of the supposedly amazing healthcare anything? Did it really bring any improvement over the Batista days and when everything was in thrall to the mafia? I don’t know, but I suspect it wasn’t worth it. Could be that too many people are caught up in revolutionary romanticism, or think all those crumbling buildings and rusting old 1950s American cars have a certain “shabby chic” appeal… which says enough about those of us brought up in the First World, perhaps…
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I talked to a woman in Cuba who has asthma. She gets an inhaler from the government that is supposed to last her x days. Nobody cares that she needs 3 inhalers for that period of time. So she has to beg tourists and prostitute herself to get extra inhalers. The same thing happens to diabetics. Every month you get to wonder if you’ll manage to sell your body successfully enough to get the needed insulin and stay alive.
The doctors and the nurses are Soviet in the extreme. They treat you with great cruelty even if you pay them in dollars. I don’t even want to imagine what they are like if you don’t have money to bribe them.
There is a big shiny hospital in Havana that is state-of-the-art. It’s reserved for the party apparatchiks. Regular people get “treated” in dirty little hovels that look like pig sties.
That’s Cuban healthcare.
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