Fidel Castro has Died

[JI7]

just broke on BBC NEws .

[Archae]

1. Now that bastard can join his buddy Che in the hell they made for themselves.

[BainsBane]

4. That's harsh.

[Archae]

9. It's also accurate.

Che Guevera was a vicious racist, as well as a radical.
He lived for causing havoc.
That image (based on a staged photo,) of him looking so "resolute" was posed.

Fidel Castro was a communist dictator.
The only differences between Fidel and Battista, Battista was right-wing.

[Kilgore]

19. You nailed it

Hope they are both doing the slow roast in hell.

[secondwind]

40. Tell it. What that man did to the Cuban people is abhorrent and disgusting.

[elmac]

21. Yes, but there are blue dogs lurking

and nothing gets their blood up more then those damned communists. They much prefer those innocent, democratically elected presidents like George W who only murdered a few hundred thousand people in 8 years.

[LiberalLovinLug]

35. ...

The intent should play a bit of a factor no?

[RKP5637]

2. Wow, that, is the end of an era! n/t

[dhill926]

7. It truly is

[RKP5637]

11. Makes me feel old. I lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis waiting second by

second ... if we were headed into a potential nuclear war.

[dhill926]

12. Yep

I can still remember all that like it was yesterday…

[JI7]

13. how does it compare to right now with Trump ?

[RKP5637]

15. We had JFK, very steady hand. With Trump, it's unpredictable, uneasy feeling. Hard to tell

what Trump might do in a similar crisis.

[JI7]

16. that's what i was thinking. there was at least a feeling that those in charge

had the best interests for the country and do whatever they could to protect us.

that's not the case with trump.

[RKP5637]

17. Exactly!!! And JFK was very smart, and not an obnoxious blowhard like Trump. n/t

[roamer65]

20. Even Nixon would not have been able to handle the Cuban Missile crisis, let alone Dump.

The world isn't a nuclear wasteland today because of John F. Kennedy.

[RKP5637]

22. This, could not be more true!!!!! n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

42. I was in 8th grade then.

At school, the nuns scared the bejesus out of us by thundering on ad nauseam about making certain that our souls be ready for nuclear death.

Then I'd go home where my mother wanted to drink all the booze in the house so it didn't go to waste. I guess that was her way of coping with the fear.

I'd go to bed and cry. That was a terrible time.

[RKP5637]

44. OMG - that's horrible!!! It was a bad enough time without all of that. n/t

[Liberal In Texas]

3. WOW.

I have nothing to say. This is probably expected but there it is.

[lpbk2713]

5. Age 90

Not bad for a cigar smoker.

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[roamer65]

8. From Eisenhower to Obama.

That was quite a stretch. Hopefully relations continue to improve.

[MrScorpio]

10. 2016 strikes again.

Perhaps our greatest adversary, may he rest in peace.

[vlakitti]

39. Thanks for writing this.

He was an overwhelming force in breaking out of the cold war polarities in the '60s. He was trapped for many years by the Stalinist mindset, as was Ho Chi Minh, but within those limits both of them helped their nations and their people. And the international medical troops Cuba created have saved millions in third world countries over the past 40 years.

And no, he wasn't Batista and he wasn't F. Marcos and he was honest and he wasn't corrupt. Tell me more about leaders like G. W. Bush and D. Trump and creeps like the Shah of Iran the US Establishment idolized.

[secondwind]

41. Tell that to the kids who were separated from their parents and sent to live in the U.S. in foster

homes... the Cuban people suffered for half a century because of this asshat. I will never call him an "honest man" and yes, he was VERY CORRUPT. He owns everything in Cuba, from gas stations to hotels... all the $$ went into his pocket.

I was in Cuba in 2011, and I saw old people rummaging through the garbage looking for food.. He was an evil man.. I hope he rots in hell for what he did to his people.

[Liberal In Texas]

14. BBC report:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38114953

[geomon666]

18. Rest in piss you evil fuck.

It's times like these that make me wish I actually believed in Hell.

[LenaBaby61]

26. Well...

We'll be living in something close to it with tRump, and when people are put in jail and called terrorists just because they're protesting something they feel is wrong, that will be like living in hell. When we lose most or all of our health care. When Social Security is privatized, when the Supreme Court is stacked with Scalia's and worse and will make rulings far right which WILL set us all back 50 plus years ...

I have friends I've been speaking to who will lose their health care under tRump, and if today wasn't brutal enough, a neighbor told me that her 13 year old grandson whose being given life-saving Chemo treatments thanks to Obamacare, and we KNOW that the GOP/tRump will replace it with zilch. She said she's preparing for him to not make it through a tRump presidency. She took the wind out of me as I stood there shaking to my core when she told me that. I know my neighbor, her daughter/daughter's husband their son and family are all living in hell right about now, and so are others who face similar fates when they lose access to life-saving treatment if they're suffering from a disease such as Cancer.

[linuxman]

23. Adios!

[flamingdem]

24. Adios comendante

He got to see the US capitulate to some extent anyway.

[elmac]

25. Yes, he finally seen that russia won the cold war by installing trump

he can now die a happy man!

[LenaBaby61]

28. Yes, he finally seen that russia won the cold war by installing trump.

"He can now die a happy man!"

SO sad, but true. Our OWN government and all.

He's out of this misery, and those of us where know what time it is are all here forced to live with it unfortunately.

[flamingdem]

29. haha and Putin will probably protect Cuba

if he can truly influence Trump.

Trump will pretend to follow the right wing Cuban American bull but in the end he wants Trump Hotels and golf courses before Hilton can get (back) in there

[LenaBaby61]

36. So true about tRump, whose small mind never strays from making business deals...

"But in the end he wants Trump Hotels and golf courses before Hilton can get (back) in there."

tRump's licking his chops at the prospect of possibly making MONEY off of Cuba if he can for his OWN good. Hotels, Towers, golf courses. It's not like he and his company didn't already break the rules of the Cuban trade embargo the US had in place when Castro was in charge in 1998.

[flamingdem]

38. I know right, how did tRump get away with doing business in Cuba?

Seems like he wasn't penalized at all

[DonCoquixote]

27. the sad fact is

the only thing that might keep the GOP from trying another bay of Pig is Putin.

[flamingdem]

31. Good thing Obama finagled the opening to Cuba

A Trump admin or any repub admin wouldn't have the skill to do it

[LenaBaby61]

32. The only thing that might keep the GOP from trying another bay of Pig is Putin.

Makes me wonder whose working for whom, and on what side of the street?

Bottom line is that you have a puppet and his puppet master running things over HERE.

[tritsofme]

30. Good riddance.

[burrowowl]

33. And Batista and the Mobs

who held Cuba in poverty! You don't know what you are talking about.

[DemocraticWing]

34. I have no doubt that he cared for the people of Cuba.

He wasn't perfect, but he will be remembered fondly by many of his people for good reason. The nuanced discussion that should be had about Castro, with all the good parts and terrible parts, won't be had for many, many years.

[flamingdem]

37. Raul is more liberal than Fidel

He's going to open up business more, things will accelerate. Plus, they'd better get things done before the Trumpenfuhrer gets rolling.

[Statistical]

43. Hooray although even his death can't bring back his thousands of victims. n/t