Nostalgic radio ad.

 

When his demise was announced, our prime minister put his foot in his mouth and praised Castro, he is doing damage control at the moment.
Max.

 

@nsaspook, gave some interesting stuff in another thread. I think his post should go here. It will also be interesting if Trump will way in and produce business plans for Cuba.

Maybe build a Hotel?

I really think they're clever about keeping their old cars running too!

kv

 

When his demise was announced, our prime minister put his foot in his mouth and praised Castro, he is doing damage control at the moment.
Max.

Let the sucking up to the US begin...

Imagine what Cuba would have achieved if there was no embargoes... if the US has not pushed them into working with the soviet government just to survive as an independent country... but of course when Castro took over 70% of Cuba was owned by US companies and 99% of cuban population was illiterate.

 

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Nostalgic radio ad.

Yes, I had to listen to that SOB rant for hours and hours on end.

 

Let the sucking up to the US begin...

Imagine what Cuba would have achieved if there was no embargoes... if the US has not pushed them into working with the soviet government just to survive as an independent country... but of course when Castro took over 70% of Cuba was owned by US companies and 99% of cuban population was illiterate.

Maybe if he didn't turn his countrymen into slaves that risked death to leave paradise this warped version of Cuban history might have come to past.

https://www.uscg.mil/history/articles/USCG_Mariel_History_1980.asp

 

our prime minister put his foot in his mouth and praised Castro, he is doing damage control at the moment.

he is right on both fronts: castro is a monster and an angel at the same time, depending on what you wish to emphasize and what you wish to trivialize.

Cuba represents the single biggest failure of US policy: Castro survived this long, all thanks to the US embargo.

 

When his demise was announced, our prime minister put his foot in his mouth and praised Castro

Several mealy mouthed, talking heads (of State) did that.
It's amazing how their brains go blank when they see a microphone.
What was that? 50 or 60 years of holding the population hostage, like the Russians did with East Berlin?

It's 2016 and they are still stuck in the 1950's.
Having difficulty deciding whether to put a smiley face on that...or a frowny face.
I liked the 1950's. Probably because I was a free-range kid, less than 10 years old, and completely oblivious about politics.
I got over that before I was 12.
Because Cuba.
Oct, 1962.

I wish those idiots with nuclear bombs would quit acting like fools.

 

Yes, it does depend greatly on what you choose to look at. Same with eastern europe. The US will have to learn one thing at some point - people of an independent country have a right to decide their own fate.

 

GITMO is still there. Didn't they have some natives as employees?

 

Being Canadian we were allowed to holiday there, interesting talking to the natives, we would take them a few trinkets we would take for granted.
Max.

 

people of an independent country have a right to decide their own fate.

Yeah. Those people could start by respecting the US voters and not calling them nasty names simply because they cannot comprehend the election or the election outcome.

 

Yeah. Those people could start by respecting the US voters and not calling them nasty names simply because they cannot comprehend the election or the election outcome.

would you rather have them invade Florida?

 

would you rather have them invade Florida?

I would rather that people can follow a conversation intelligently so we don't have to wonder "where did that come from?"

I would rather that people refrain from thinking that they know what's good for others.

I would rather that people have some common sense.

But I understand how difficult it is to ask some people to do that, even if less than perfectly.

 

Yes, it does depend greatly on what you choose to look at. Same with eastern europe. The US will have to learn one thing at some point - people of an independent country have a right to decide their own fate.

Sure they do but there is a point where it sickens the soul when we see the results of inaction.

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I would rather that people can follow a conversation intelligently so we don't have to wonder "where did that come from?"

I would rather that people refrain from thinking that they know what's good for others.

I would rather that people have some common sense.

But I understand how difficult it is to ask some people to do that, even if less than perfectly.

I suggest starting with that person you see in the mirror being what we have seen of him here he tends to violate every one of those things you list on a near hourly basis when online.

 

I would rather that people can follow a conversation intelligently so we don't have to wonder "where did that come from?"

I find this part of your comment to be particularly intriguing.

now lets check on some "cubans" celebrating Castro's death:

Gloria Estefan - her father was Batista's personal bodyguard

Marco Rubio - parents left during Batista's rule

I can keep researching...

 

Yeah. Those people could start by respecting the US voters and not calling them nasty names simply because they cannot comprehend the election or the election outcome.

What are you talking about?
Did somebody in Cuba complain that Trump won an election?

 

I for one see no reason not to reach out and show them more of what the world has done and how it changed for the better over the last 60+ years than they may be aware of.

Very few things motivate a society better than seeing they can have a chance at better lives now that some tyrant is gone and a new one has yet move into replace them.

Geographically they are not far from us and their people are known to have a good work ethic so I don't see any reason to not try and work with them at this point in time.

 

Those people could start by respecting the US voters and not calling them nasty names simply because they cannot comprehend the election or the election outcome.

I think I found the connection. Castro was so opposed to Trump that he dropped dead to protest the outcome of the U.S. election.
Naughty Castro. It's none of your business.