RIP Fidel Castro
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- GeorgesII1
It kind of break my brain the number of apologist in this thread.
Good girlfriend of mine was a daughter of a cuban general that I rather not name.Even her with all the advantages she got in life because of her dad's position, ran away to italy because she couldn't support the double standard.
She felt some shame because of what her family was involved in, she told me just saying her family name would make people get up and leave when she was growing up. But that didn't stop her from spending the cuban cash lavishly..
The problem I see here, is the usual double standard.
Gadaffi was a brutal dictator who tortured his people, yet he brought his country to the highest standard of living in Africa build a lot of infrastructures, gave free school, he was making the desert bloom again thanks to his water projects.
under his reign of "terror" the people had the best quality of life there was, http://www.globalresearch.ca/lib…
yet he's still considered a brutal dictator,
but fidel a man that has been reigning for 60 years, had tortured opponents, executed those who dare to speak up, kept his country in dire poverty while living a lavish life (my friend I talked about above as a daughter of a general, lived the european style life, while the people of her country couldn't even afford to eat, she was partying in Milan) and he's considered a revolutionary,
has anyone lost their mind in 2016,
once again, I've been proven that you guys rather downvote then spend 5 min learning some history.
@niko: are you really going to taunt a 100% literacy rate under a dictature. look at how the ultra biased (/S) Human Rights Watch describe the utopia that was Cuba: https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/11…
"The progress on economic, social, and cultural rights was never matched in terms of respect for civil and political rights. The denial of fundamental freedoms throughout Castro’s decades in power was unrelenting, and marked by periods of heightened repression, such as the 2003 crackdown on 75 human rights defenders, journalists, trade unionists, and other critics of the government. Accused of being “mercenaries” of the United States government, the individuals were summarily tried in closed hearings. Many served years in inhumane prisons, where they were subjected to extended solitary confinement and beatings, and denied basic medical care for serious ailments. More than 50 of the remaining prisoners were released after Fidel Castro handed over power to his brother, most on the condition that they accept exile to Spain."
- In order to avoid life's 'downvotes'—some, many on this site—choose to flow w/the emotional grain of pop culture... it's not ignorance... just monophobia.PonyBoy
- great points Georges, but seriously, do you need me too post links to America's human rights violations? or any other countries for that matter?_niko
- from the beginning, one of my first points is that his human rights record was shitty, but who's isn't?_niko
- answer me this.good or bad
-free education for all?
-free healthcare for all?
-race equality?_niko - -class equality?
-high life expectancy?_niko - now you can list off 100 bad things he's done and I'll agree with every one of them._niko
- my point is, are his people worse off than the millions of poor in favelas all over latin america? The have all the negative things cubans have and none of the_niko
- positives. plus throw in guns and violence.
I'd argue they are worse off than cubans. Agree or not?_niko - Anyway, love ya Georges, I respect you opinion and pov on here didn't mean for this to become a pissing match lol_niko