Castro Steps Down!!!!!!!
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The beginning of the end.
He may still be alive, but he's definitely no longer dictator of Cuba!
Fidel Castro has resigned.
The "President" announced his plans earlier today, in a statement published quietly overnight without advance warning in the online edition of the Communist Party daily Granma.
"I will not aspire nor accept—I repeat I will not aspire or accept—the post of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief," said Castro.
The tyrant's brother, Raul, 76, is expected to take his place when the National Assembly meets this Sunday.
Fidel, 81, has not been seen in public since July of 2006.
His dark rule over the isle of Cuba lasted 49 years.
Posted: February 19, 2008 at 6:30 am
oohh just GREAT apparently, his brother will be worse so we all know what this means,,,,, ALL CUBANS JUST COME ON UP TO MIAMI!!!!!im all for immigration, (wait… LEGAL immigration..)but these people at least need to learn the english language.. im fucking sick of feeling like im in a foreign country here…EITHER GO BACK TO CUBA OR LEARN ENGLISH, FUCKTARDS!!!!
I read the account of Fidel's bodyguard that defected in the Miami Herald last year. Fidel and Raul have been preparing for this eventuality forever. Raul would take a deal where he could leave the country with all the money he stole and put in Swiss bank accounts, but that would be a crime against the people of Cuba.
hey werent u betting that if he wasnt dead ud turn straight:PP
From Cienfuegos all the way to the Bay of Pigs, Cubans have been saying that Castro has been dead for the past year and a half.
Re: Joan Your saying Cubans "deserved what they got", the Cuban government will and has thrown many people in jail for trying to "stand up to their government" You are so ignorant to say people haven't tried to fight back. Do me a favor and google "Cuban women in white" and educate yourself about this group of women standing up for their rights in the only manner the governemnt will allow. And please don't speak if you have no idea what your talking about.
A quote: my question is, why didn't Cubans ever fight against his rule as most other countries have against dictators?
They did. There is ZERO freedom in the country. There are Defenders of the Revolution from the Communist Party ON EVERY BLOCK spying on every family.. The army is in TIGHT control of the country. Anyone the least "subversive" is arrested and jailed. It is the most oppressive country on earth next to North Korea.
jesus… you are an american… Castro is not a dictator… But all of you there think he is… He has the best health care system in the world… And the cubans love him!! Just because he has made a fool all your presidents and wanted nothing to do with you doesn't mean he is a dictator… You really are a non educated nation, aren't you? Cuba is much better without any "help" of Americans.. Look what you fucking did in Irak… Get yourself together and do what you do best…. Gossip…
Re: Jessica – This is another spoon fed American idiot. Im disgusted by people like you that spout all kinds of shit without knowing facts. I was raised by Cubans who came over here to get away from castro's rule. When the stories that the Cubans left on the island start making their way to our country they will be far worse than anything that came out of Hitlers Germany, I know I still have family left there that cannot leave until they are too old to serve their country anymore. My mother couldnt go to school,she had to work in his fields and do other jobs for her country. She came here in her 20's and got an education. something she couldn't do in her own country regardless of the shit we are fed here about their WONDERFUL health and education system. So please at least talk to people that are educated before giving your ignorant opinion on a subject you cant possibly understand.
A former aide spills the dirt on Fidel:
A member of Fidel's inner circle now lives in Miami and is talking up a storm. He even knows why the Cuban leader burns his underwear.
BY OSCAR CORRAL
As part of Fidel and Raúl Castro's inner circle, Delfín Fernández learned titillating secrets — everything from why the Cuban leader incinerates his dirty underwear to his cravings for pricey Spanish ham.
Oh, Fidel's former gofer confirms, too, the heftier ”secrets” that Cuba experts have talked about for years: how the brothers assemble dossiers on foreign businessmen who want to invest in Cuba, for instance.
It's Fernández's knowledge about Fidel Castro's dirty laundry, though — literally and figuratively — that has made him a cause célbre in South Florida. No detail about the Castro brothers seems too small for sharing with the world.
Fernández says chief of bodyguards, Bienvenido ”Chicho” Perez, told him the Cuban leader has his underwear burned to foil any assassination plots with chemicals during laundering.
And he knows Fidel's capricious appetite for Serrano hams, having been sent to Spain to bring $2,500 worth of the pata negra delicacy back to Cuba. He knows well the Castro brothers' doctors and children, having vacationed with them at lavish oceanfront homes on the island. PART ONE
He's a real F***ing Mother F***er!!
So what does a man with such sensitive information do once he goes into exile?
Why, he gets a steady, if unpaid, gig on a Spanish-language TV show in Miami, of course, after having been a bodyguard to international stars — among them, Antonio Banderas.
Fernández, cherubic, chatty and with a portfolio of sensitive photographs and a memory filled with intimate Castro morsels, arrived in Miami less than a year ago after living in Spain for five years. But already, he has a spot on a new TV show on WJAN-Channel 41.
“I was assigned to take care of the people closest to Fidel. So that they don't lack anything and don't feel threatened by anything inside or outside of Cuba. . . . When I tell about these things on television, people see me and I start making a name for myself.” PART TWO
Former CIA analyst Brian Latell, a senior researcher at the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies, said this week he spent several hours meeting with Fernández in Miami earlier this year for academic research.
”A lot of the stories he told me were fascinating, and I found almost all of them to be highly credible,” Latell said.
Fernández, 44, was code-named ”Otto” when he reported to Cuban counterintelligence's Department 11 — assigned to the Castro brothers and their closest foreign investment contacts, mostly from Spain, he said.
Fernández got the post as a trusted gofer in 1980 through his uncle, Rodolfo Fernández Rodriguez, chief of the Office of Special Affairs of the Counsel of State and one of Fidel's most trusted confidants.
While he worked for the Castro brothers, Fernández witnessed the tactics used by Cuba's leaders to monitor important foreign investors. His disillusionment with the regime, he said, and his ambitions for a better life compelled him to defect. PART THREE
Re: MARIO – This is another spoon fed American idiot. Im disgusted by people like you that spout all kinds of shit without knowing facts. I was raised by Cubans who came over here to get away from castro's rule. When the stories that the Cubans left on the island start making their way to our country they will be far worse than anything that came out of Hitlers Germany, I know I still have family left there that cannot leave until they are too old to serve their country anymore. My mother couldnt go to school,she had to work in his fields and do other jobs for her country. She came here in her 20's and got an education. something she couldn't do in her own country regardless of the shit we are fed here about their WONDERFUL health and education system. So please at least talk to people that are educated before giving your ignorant opinion on a subject you cant possibly understand.
this is awesome BUT……it still will be the same..EVIL RUNS IN THAT FAMILIES BLOOD….his brother will not freee cuba..he will just run it like his brother did….different person same ideas…
booo…….they all need to die and give the position to a good person….CUBANS NEED FREEDOM……..OUR FAMILIES NEED A REAL LIFE….POVERTY,JAIL…….HOW THEY LIVE IS HELL……
Re: Vinandi – This is another spoon fed American idiot. Im disgusted by people like you that spout all kinds of shit without knowing facts. I was raised by Cubans who came over here to get away from castro's rule. When the stories that the Cubans left on the island start making their way to our country they will be far worse than anything that came out of Hitlers Germany, I know I still have family left there that cannot leave until they are too old to serve their country anymore. My mother couldnt go to school,she had to work in his fields and do other jobs for her country. She came here in her 20's and got an education. something she couldn't do in her own country regardless of the shit we are fed here about their WONDERFUL health and education system. So please at least talk to people that are educated before giving your ignorant opinion on a subject you cant possibly understand.
”The initial idea of Fidel was good. Batista was an assassin,” Fernández said. “What happened was, the course he took with the revolution was wrong. It has dissolved into this unstoppable, insatiable corruption without limits, a vast lie. The people are in misery. Cuba's people have been enslaved as cheap labor for foreign businessmen.”
Fernández said Cuba's leader always travels around Havana in a six- or seven-car motorcade led by three nearly identical black Mercedes-Benz 560s. The Castro brothers have as many as 300 cars for them, their families, their bodyguards, Fernández said.
Fidel Castro turns 80 this year, and he has become obsessed with his health, Fernández said. The Castro brothers each have their own clinics and their own doctors in Havana's Council of State Building and in the Cimeq Hospital. Last year, Fidel Castro built a multimillion-dollar clinic a few yards from his front door, on the grounds of his Havana estate, Fernández said he learned from his island contacts. .
”So that if Castro has a heart attack or he dies, the only people who will know about it will be his family, the guards working at the time, and Raúl,” Fernández said. “Fidel never cedes control, and will never cede power.” PART FOUR
Re: Ana – This is another spoon fed American idiot. Im disgusted by people like you that spout all kinds of shit without knowing facts. I was raised by Cubans who came over here to get away from castro's rule. When the stories that the Cubans left on the island start making their way to our country they will be far worse than anything that came out of Hitlers Germany, I know I still have family left there that cannot leave until they are too old to serve their country anymore. My mother couldnt go to school,she had to work in his fields and do other jobs for her country. She came here in her 20's and got an education. something she couldn't do in her own country regardless of the shit we are fed here about their WONDERFUL health and education system. So please at least talk to people that are educated before giving your ignorant opinion on a subject you cant possibly understand.
Perez, Didn't you once promise to become straight if Castro wasn't dead? What's happening with that?
Please, Fidel is hardly a tyrant. It's a sad day that this era will end. in a couple of years you will see Wal Marts and no more free health care , no more free education , no more free art education. It's too bad you feel the way you do, like trh rest of the cubans that left cuba to find gold and riches for themselves……money isnt everything, and you'll find millions of cubans that believe this.
you people are so ignorant… you sit here and talk about how Cuba is so great… what are you doing here? why dont you move to Cuba?
by the way, our facist country of USA are the ones that imposed the embargo on Cuba, so that we wouldnt be allowed to see how beautiful it can really be without the frills of everyday life.
Then again, this is perez hilton…im sure you live for the thrills of society….
Hey Perez, have you ever been to Cuba?
Nope. And that's why Cuba is the best vacation spot. Ignorant people like you(and many in the United States) can't wander the beaches polluting the air with your bullshit. Half the people who are talking about Fidel's reign of terror have never been there, and are basing their argument on what they've heard on CNN. I've been to Cuba, and I've talked to real locals who are grateful for Fidel, especially because of the life they had to live before him. I never thought you would be so ignorant to believe everything you read or see on television. If the United States tried to run Cuba it would ruin it. The day Fidel dies will be a scary day.
way to go!!! that's what i call crack reporting! remember when you said "the tyrant is dead" last year? yeah, you have about as much credibility as a giant turd.
Holy shit!!! Could you guys get any more pig-headed and closed minded, Cuba is a beautiful place full of amazing people. Stop judging something you nothing about and the gov't has told you to think that way!!!!!
"his dark rule," how very american of you perez, you clearly know nothing of politics therefore you should shut your fucking mouth. Under castro Cuba has one of the best health care systems in the world, it's entirely universal, compared to the states where it's just for the elite. Think about what you are saying shit head!
my boyfriend's family was exiled from the country in the 60's… maybe now they can finally go home!
Pull my finger
not american or cuban, but where i'm from we have learned good things about cuba. we've learned that they are happy people. not rich by any means but happy with good health care and education. better than what we've learned about some other countries…
He has the last laugh after all…Cuba Si! Miami NO!
.Re: jessica – Yeah, how long will it take for america to [try to] invade and [try to] take over? it is a scary thought.
Funny cause I thought I had read an exclusive news brief off this site claiming that he was dead.
You are clearly a really uneducated person.
First you start a rumor saying he is dead(a clear lack of journalistic skills), and now you insult the cuban people by caling him a tyrant… just because he stood up to your corrupt countires leader.
I read this site for the celeb gossip. maybe you should keep to that. You obviously have no clue about politics.
It is so sad how Americans (and many living in the US) are so ignorant when it comes to anything. They are sooo used to the good life. They have no idea how things work overseas. It is a shame! You have seen nothing. Check your facts maybe all the statistical data you see is not even true… You are just too used to your organized system that you do not use your brains that is why Asians see you as naive! Don't pay attention to them Perez… They just don't know and in the end Americans don't care about anything that is why they do so much drugs!
hes been dead a year and a half ago!thats why he hasnt been seen since 2006!his brother better die as well!
Perez, i do recall you saying a while back that you guarantee Fidel Castro is dead. How come you are not owning up to it? I am sure you will just ignore this comment, however you can not fool me. You are not a news reporter, you report gossip, stick to that.. sir, or ma'm.
Re: beck – ohhh come on…. they are scared of what will happen to them when he's gone..bc he cut everybody by the ankles…there's no moral and people have gotten used to the idea of him..fanatism…and to anybody that thinks that there's no racism….equality my ass, blacks still get rejected for jobs and positions… interracial relationships are perhaps more common than here…U.S. is nowhere near perfect country…I would never think that… but when you're scared to talk on the phone negatively about the govt. bc of fear they'll hurt you or your family…that's no way to live… ABAJO CHAVEZ, ABAJO FIDEL…
Wow you are such an american queen! The only dictator i know is LeBush!!! He is the real leDOUCHE. I am sad Fidel is stepping down, now the US will try to bully them more….. US STAY OUT OF CUBA you have no buisness there
This is the closest they'll come to admitting that he's DEAD.
Re: VIVA LA REVOLUCION CASTRO IS A LEGEND!! – material things….??? people fled they're country to find freedom of speech… freedom to evolve….where are u getting your facts from? cuban stats..prepared by cuban communist leaders…get ur shit straight..talk to the people….specially the young people…who are coming to be more strong minded and are harder to brainwash w his bullshit propaganda
Re: jessica – when you go to Cuba to Varadero or whatever beach destination…and you spend any money there..that money goes to Fidel's pocket…not to the people..he owns everything… everything… he's one of the richest persons in the world…so think that if you go there the people that are serving u in the hotel.. are not working towards a fair salary…what they're dying for is your foreign currency tips…. EL DOLAR CHICA
so that you know, but Cuba has a better education and healthcare thanks too Castro, than you, stupid americans!
u know nothing about politics. i bet uve never even read a book. u just have parents that are dissidents and thats all. uve never even been to cuba. isnt it true? anyway…just talk about celebs and the color pink. dont get too serious..talking about things that actually needs some sort of knowledge…or brain cells.
He goes because he wants to, not because he has been defeated (10 American presidents could not defeat him). 90 miles away from the most powerful nation on earth, and they could not put him down. That's why so many people like Fidel.
I don't trust communists…..
What happened to you being 100% sure he was dead no matter what anyone else says?
Not one person who claims that castro/chavez is a good 'dictator' has never lived in any other country other than america. Why do you all trust communists? WTF!
Re: azz0r – Are you out of your fucking mind. All americans can go to a doctor. All americans can't afford to go to the doctor but that doesn't mean they can't visit a doctor. This is why we are free….
he's not dead yet though, right???
Re: VIVA LA REVOLUCION CASTRO IS A LEGEND!! – I don't hear about any Americans jumping on boats to escape here to get into Cuba to live. And prosper and speak freely and make my own money. I can write about the terrible things bush did and publish in an american newspaper. Can you do the same about castro in cuba?
#3 BE NICE.
he's still alive right?
Perez more proof you are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo stupid you said he was dead!
Re: jillyj –
You sound just like Obama with the blatant plagerism. you're not telling us anything we don't already know and that has'nt been said a miilion times over. it's fine to let those who don't know in on it but fuck………………..
one more thing is right
you don't know politics
he was president and did alot of good for his country there were problems but the US caused lots of them. think for yourself and dont be brainwashed by what your grandparents told you about him. read up on some history and come up with your own point of view
fuck no they can't #263!
PEREZ!!!! You REALLY shouldn't be commenting on matters like this when you have no clue what you're talking about. You've grown up in a bullshit little brainwashed American bubble, fed rotten lies about Castro and Cuba for the past 50 years…you know nothing, until you open your mind and listen to something other than right-wing american BULLSHIZ!!!! Castro was a better leader than any leader your country has ever seen…don't comment on other countries leaders, look at the worthless shits you people vote as your leaders!!!!
Go Cuba, they are one of those country's not fucked up by the U.S. so let another Fidel come!
I'm sorry if my point of view offends anyone, but I'm no american, I'm dutch.
he needs to die already, im sorry. CUBA WILL BE FREE!!!!! THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!
Re: iliketurtles – and this is why you people are shitheads, at least in cuba everyone HAS health care, and i do recall, in the 'medical olympics' cuba came in first, but because you people are such tools, the news reporters wouldn't say cuba won and ended up saying we (canada) won. America is probablly one of the shittiest places on earth, a tumbling economy, shitty health care, shitty education, a totally incompetent leader, drugs, gangs, 9 trillion dollars in debt, you guys are in hole and there is no way out!
i'm kind of sad i went several times in cuba and castro did a lot for the cuban people!! everyone there can have free education and free meds!
Can someone please tell me why it's okay for the US to do business with a communist China that keeps political prisoners, has prison labor, sells weapons to dictators, restrict unions, religion, and political partys, yet all hell breaks lose when Cuba just wants the wealth in it's country distributed evenly?
I do think that Fidel is already dead, but they are proping him up like they did in the movie "Weekend at Bernie's"
That must have been quite the feat, considering the fact that he's "dead" and all.
Re: Commie – china it's on its way to a democracy…I am sorry…but he may give people the basics needs…which they have to struggle for anyways..is not as organized as it appears…if they gave free meds…. I had to send my family overthere freaking eyeglasses, tylenol, find them prescription medicines for certain conditions…send them soap… and those were people that worked..
Werent you once quoted saying that is he was alive then you would become straight? Just a thought.
as a Canadian who just spent my holidays in Cuba, its nothing like America makes it seem. Yeah its communist and it does need some change but it was amazingly nice and good there. I really don't think you have the right to call Castro a tyrant when its just based on assumptions and that Americans were kicked out and banned from Cuba. Ask many Cubans and they like how the country is, they are happy, and yeah there are exceptions, but overall a lot are afraid of what might happen when Castro is done: aka Americans being allowed in!
Come on people of America, when will you realize that your country sucks? You have stupid Presidents, you create wars and millions of people suffer because of you.. The only thing you are good at, is entertainment… So leave history in peace and stick to that… You are literally a menace for the man kind throughout the world… Cuba, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Irak, Vietnam… Do you want more? Millions of people have died because of you… Let us hope that this time you will vote for someone who is worth it… Like Obama… Clinton's husband attacked Bosnia and thousands of children were left decapitated and orphans.. Do not trust your media… Most of them are lying to you…
You stupid motherfu¢king White Cubans need to shut the fu¢k up with that "the people are suffering" bull$hit. My Grandmother is Haitian and was born in Cuba. Her family and other black families were discriminated against and beaten. They couldn't go to certain places and were exploited. Everything changed when Castro took over. Now, everyone is equal and black people are able to have other jobs besides cane-cutting. Black people brought Salsa and the carnival to Cuba yet were treated like trash before Castro. Why should only Whites have all the money and power?
Re: Vera – my question is have you been to Cuba? you sound like someone who is hearing the crap the American government is feeding you. i went there and talked to the people and it was even in their own homes so it wasn't like they were scared of someone coming after them. Yes some people want change, hey doesn't that happen in America? But over all everyone like how the country is run, the only request is for more $ but i think EVERYONE would like that! yeah their lives are not like the materialistic lives we have in North America but they have free health care and education (university and all) so really in some ways its better than america
I thought you claimed fidel castro was dead?
For every non cuban bashing the USA in all this is ignorant, plain and simple.
We might ask why there are such mixed feelings for this former dictator??????
Anyone here no matter where you are from answer me this. If you or your father or grandfather worked and studied very hard and paid their dues to become lets say a lawyer, then 1 day hear from the new dictator everything that you've worked so hard for is gone. You have to go to the banks because not a cent of your "old" money is good. Now everybody has $400.00 not a cent more. This was just the beginning. Now lazy ass people had as much money as educated hard working people, can't be a good feeling. Let's not forget all the cubans that dicktator killed, yeah great leader.
I don't have free health care now, and would never want free heath care if it meant that I had to be a puppet and eat only as much as they say I can, and have lights out when they say. Sounds like a prison to me. It's a prison full of people that are truly scared to live their life the way that they want to.
I am not cuban, but have many cuban-american friends. You low lifes that call them traitors must be the poor ass lazy folk that became equal, when your goverment robbed the hard working people of cuba.
Fuck fidel and his sympathizers!
Ya viene llegando!!! Nuesrto dia ya viene y lo estamos esperando!!! WOO HOO!!!!!!
I'm not American & the last time I visited Cuba, I loved it but I felt sorry for the people. We were constantly stopped or followed by the locals who were very friendly as though they have never had contact with anyone from the outisde world - well, they haven't. Many times, women would stop us & quitely ask us to buy them milk for their babies whilst looking over their shoulders constantly. In the museums, we were asked for money for food. At the airport, the officials asked us to give them any books or magazines we had for them to read, particularly soap opera magazines. i think these people were not content with just the best health care system in the world.
i thought you said he was dead
viva la revolucion
funny that everyone who regales castro are only people who have "visited" cuba. none of you actually live there or have ever lived there for an extended period of time or long enough to feel the full weight of communism. the only people who are actually from cuba are the ones who know the damage that castro has done. oh, and if their healthcare is so wonderful, why don't millions of people flood the island to take advantage of it? why does the US have the highest number of foreigners who come to take advantage of our system? because its BETTER.
Perez — where are all your nasty comments about your liberal Hollywood friends who think this guy is a fabulous role model? You're always criticizing the conservatives but there is never a peep from you about the brain dead liberals.
Re: kat – you're an idiot. learn to spell. IRAQ. obviously our educational system is better than yours, you illiterate fuck
I thought Castro was dead Perez….????? I thought that was your claim??????
What happened to your "for sure" news that he was dead? Nice try, stick to celebrity gossip.
And try and be nice for a change.
why do you lazy fucks celebrate nanny states? is it because you are too stupid to make a life for yourself and you have to have someone else do it for you? if you had any ambition or brains you would stop making excuses for why you can't afford this or don't have the means for that and achieve something. oh, and don't give me this bullshit of "its hard" or "you try doing something when you have nothing" because it happens all the time. its the people who have nothing and have the drive to pull themselves out of their situation who are the most successful and the ones who always denounce these fucking "equality for all, not matter how useless you are" systems of government. only people who are completely worthless and realize that they are actually want these types of governments in place because they wanna be able to have all of the same benefits afforded to people who actually work to attain them without doing a fucking thing.
you are cuban aren't you? and your family left Cuba instead of sharing their wealth with others didn't they? sad.
viva fidel castro fuera los tacanos materialistas traidores racistas de cuba VIVA EL PUEBLO CUBANO!!Y AHORA QUIEREN VOLVER PARA LLEVAR VENTAJA Y VIVIR COMO REYES, UN CARAJO SENORES QUEDAROS EN BUESTRO QUERIDO MIAMI!! AQUI EN CUBA PARA LOS CUBANOS Y A QUIEN NO LE GUSTE QUE SE LAARGUE.
Dear Perez, stay out of politics and do what you do best, report on hollywood stars…if you want to get all political maybe you should stop going to CNN as a source and actually pick up a real newpaper. It's so sad to see you Americans so controlled by your sorry excuse for a news station like CNN or Fox….honestly, stay out of it Perez, or at least get a brain.
I think he may already be dead. I hope that at some point we lift the restrictions for travel to Cuba, I have always wanted to go there!!!
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Nobody has wealth in Cuba moron, so how could perez's folk's have left money for anyone else. BTW why would someone with enough balls to leave this dictatorship leave money to people taking handouts???????????
Let's see how much money your family would leave behind if their government stole their money
Someone stick a fork in this guy!
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Isn't it time for your mommy to change your diaper?
moronic Jessica claims that the people of Cuba wanted Fidel to come in along with Che to kill, maim and destroy their country. Leave it to uneducated American morons to believe such shit! Communism has murdered more people in the last 80 some years than any other type of despotic regime. Cubans no more love the degenerate Fidel than they do Che. STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPI left wingnut Americans do though! Dipshit Jessica does! ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[re=1554263]Moron Joey claims Degenerate Fidel is
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Hey dipshit Joey, have you been sleeping with dipshit Jessica another moron here who thinks the murdering degenerate Fidel is 'good'? Leave it to uneducated morons like you to claim communism is good! Ask the hundreds of millions of people who have died because of the degenerate teachings of communism and they will call you a moron also!
Re: to the uneducated – NOT TRUE. Just a short drive out of Havana, there's a suburb (forgot the name) full of villas & houses. we were told they used to belong to the rich before the revolution & they were given to the poor. Those poor were obviously given gardeners, painters, workmen etc to keep them in such pristine condition as the rest of Havana is crumbling. We were later told unofficially that they belonged to members of "el partido"
yes, how could we forget that "exclusive" from Perez announcing Castro's death? How embarrassing. BTW, how are the lawsuits going? Hopefully they'll close your website & you'll have to work at MacDonalds to try & pay the millions they're suing you for. I only come here to see of they're shut you down.
LOL about Cuba having the best health care system in the world. I guess that's why Fidel used Spanish surgeons for all his health problems since 2006.
The embargo isn't lifted by Fidel giving power to Raul. It's lifted with free and fair elections and other significant, measurable democratic reforms.
RIP castro =/
What happened to Perez's unwaivering insistence that Castro was dead. Even after everyone else was reporting the rumor to be false?
Does this mean that you will be leaving us soon?
dark rule? fuck off, capitalist!