Sometimes boring is a good trustful serious person.
Fidel Castro promised CHANGE too. My landlord is Cuban, escaped to here at age 10. He's scared to death.
Fidel top 5 lie QUOTES circa 1959:
“I will lead the country to economic and cultural progress without sacrificing individual freedoms.
There is little room in Cuba for communist ideas.â€
Cuban rebels didn’t preach class war.
Promise to restore the Constitution of 1940
The promise of free elections
Here are some even earlier lies by Fidel Castro to Coronet Magazine, February 1958.
Why We Fight
1. First of all and most of all, we are fighting to do away with dictatorship in Cuba and to establish the foundations of genuine representative government.
2. Once appointed, the provisional government's chief task will be to prepare and conduct truly honest general elections within twelve months.
3. The question has presented itself whether I aspire to the presidential office of this provisional government or the elected government which will succeed it. The truth is that, quite apart from my personal reluctance to enter the presidential competition so soon, our Constitution, as it now stands, would prohibit it. Under its age requirement clause, I am, at 31, far too young to be eligible for the presidency, and will remain so for another ten years.
4. Immediate freedom for all political prisoners, civil as well as military.
5. Full and untrammeled freedom of public information for all communication media-- broadcasting, TV, the daily and periodical press. Arbitrary censorship and systematic corruption of journalists has long been one of the festering sores of our nation.
6. We want to reestablish for all citizens the personal and political rights set forth in our much-ignored Constitution.
7. We want to wipe out corruption in Cuban public life.
8. we support speedy industrialization of our national economy and the raising of employment levels.
9. U.S. companies with business interests in Cuba have been repeatedly warned that I have secret plans in my pocket for seizing all foreign holdings. Let me say for the record that we have no plans for the expropriation or nationalization of foreign investments here.
10. And with rising living standards and growing confidence in government will come rapid progress toward political stability under a representative, truly democratic government. That, ultimately, is what we are fighting for.
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