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Yesterday on am640 talk radio York U professor Julio Fonseca said, "there's nothing negative about Fidel Castro." Wow! Is left wing liberal academia that blind and biased!? First our PM and now this!
Meh.
Communism has failed. Castro was a living relic, and now he's a dead relic.
The one thing about the guy is the fact that his communist revolution was the only one that ever succeeded in Latin America and actually took root.
Chile, Guatemala, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Argentina and Columbia all had communist rebel movements in their time, and a couple of them were able to take over the government, but those that actually succeeded didn't ever last for more than a few years, and all the others never got anywhere. Only Castro was able to pull it off.
All the others either returned to democracy or went back to strong-man dictatorships. Castro was one of the rare breed, whose personal magnetism is so great it carries them through. Mao had it, too, but after he died, things in China changed forever. Those guys don't come along often enough to make any political movement stick after they die, and Cuba won't be any different.
To us, he was a bad threat, but his communism wasn't the threat- the Russian missiles were.
Once the missiles were gone, he was just a pain in the butt.
But for all the Cuban peasants who cut sugar cane under one corrupt strong-man dictator after another, Castro was another guy who ran the show. They still ended up chopping cane all their lives, but they got a little something more for it than they got under Battista.
Cuba and the United States have older and stronger ties than Castro was able to ever eradicate. Now that he's gone, it's only a matter of time before those ties will become strong again, but for sure, neither nation will ever return to the old relationship as it once was.
I expect a lot of Cuban Americans are real busy right now, making plans that will build fortunes for them once they return.
Meh.
Communism has failed. Castro was a living relic, and now he's a dead relic.
The one thing about the guy is the fact that his communist revolution was the only one that ever succeeded in Latin America and actually took root.
Chile, Guatemala, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Argentina and Columbia all had communist rebel movements in their time, and a couple of them were able to take over the government, but those that actually succeeded didn't ever last for more than a few years, and all the others never got anywhere. Only Castro was able to pull it off.
All the others either returned to democracy or went back to strong-man dictatorships. Castro was one of the rare breed, whose personal magnetism is so great it carries them through. Mao had it, too, but after he died, things in China changed forever. Those guys don't come along often enough to make any political movement stick after they die, and Cuba won't be any different.
To us, he was a bad threat, but his communism wasn't the threat- the Russian missiles were.
Once the missiles were gone, he was just a pain in the butt.
But for all the Cuban peasants who cut sugar cane under one corrupt strong-man dictator after another, Castro was another guy who ran the show. They still ended up chopping cane all their lives, but they got a little something more for it than they got under Battista.
Cuba and the United States have older and stronger ties than Castro was able to ever eradicate. Now that he's gone, it's only a matter of time before those ties will become strong again, but for sure, neither nation will ever return to the old relationship as it once was.
I expect a lot of Cuban Americans are real busy right now, making plans that will build fortunes for them once they return.
No mention of executing people who not only disagreed with him but even those who agreed with him but might be a threat to his dominance?
I'm sorry, but when thousands of your people are hopping on rafts made of garbage each year to escape, it can't be rainbows and lollipops.
Yesterday on am640 talk radio York U professor Julio Fonseca said, "there's nothing negative about Fidel Castro." Wow! Is left wing liberal academia that blind and biased!? First our PM and now this!
Some people say things to incite a combative conversation... Radio people the worse.. I do not like them at all, but have a right to Bla bla bla
Maybe he can ask my great grandparents or my great grandmother's uncle who was murdered violently by Castro's little fleas about all the great positivity Fidel Castro had to offer the Cuban people. If he gets a telescope and looks way up into the heavens, he can see my great grandma on her rocking chair, giving him the bird
No mention of executing people who not only disagreed with him but even those who agreed with him but might be a threat to his dominance?
I'm sorry, but when thousands of your people are hopping on rafts made of garbage each year to escape, it can't be rainbows and lollipops.
In that case, Castro behaved no different than the leaders of your country who killed dissidents that didn't agree with their policies and who were assumed to be a threat to this country (even though they clearly weren't). That's even worse than killing your own citizens.
How many people did we kill in Guatemala or Indonesia alone? Or Vietnam? Chile? Iran? El Salvador? Iraq? Afghanistan?
Yesterday on am640 talk radio York U professor Julio Fonseca said, "there's nothing negative about Fidel Castro." Wow! Is left wing liberal academia that blind and biased!? First our PM and now this!
This guy does not represent all professors at universities. He is one person who was born and raised in Cuba and supports Castro.
That's like saying you represent all of us on this board because you post here.
You don't -- you don't even represent the majority being a Canadian.
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