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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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 Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:43 am Post subject: Stick a fork in his sorry..... |
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ass. He is done, toast, good bye you persecuting, relentless, merciless *beep*. The question now is, what will his brother do when he takes power? Will the U.S. enforce the plan they have set forth to establish a "democracy" on the island? Interesting times to come I tell you.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6265739.stm |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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One only needs to read about the pre Castro years to appreciate the revolution and progress in Cuba through the Castro years.
Seriously Cuba was destined to be a another Haiti under Batista.
US policy was wrong before Castro and is still wrong with Castro.
It is unfortunate for both countries.
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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Hugo Chavez figures to be a big player in Cuba's future, having pretty much bought his way in ...
Then again, Cuban officials deny the newspaper reports that Castro's in such a grave condition (though I think he's been incapacitated for a long time now...) |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:29 am Post subject: |
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| cbclark4 wrote: |
One only needs to read about the pre Castro years to appreciate the revolution and progress in Cuba through the Castro years.
Seriously Cuba was destined to be a another Haiti under Batista.
US policy was wrong before Castro and is still wrong with Castro.
It is unfortunate for both countries.
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Uh, yeah. I have no love for much of U.S. foreign policy, at least the darker elements of it, but your comments are silly. They ignore completely that Cuba basically collapsed after the USSR crumbled because the subsidies that made it an island socialist paradise disappeared. So, as poor as U.S. policy may have been, Castro's was no more successful. It was just bankrolled by Russia.
If Cuba hadn't been on the shores of the U.S., Russia would have given them a fraction of the aid they did. Nowhere in Eastern Europe was there anything like a paradise, for example. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:38 am Post subject: |
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| Had Cuba had a Lee Kwan Yew, and not a Castro, the island would have had a much different future indeed. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| It sure looks like the old boy is on his last legs. Do you think he has days, weeks or months left? My guess is weeks. |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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Newspaper: Castro decided to avoid colostomy
Cuban leader reportedly opted for riskier surgery that led to complications
HAVANA - Cuban leader Fidel Castro chose to avoid a colostomy and opted for riskier intestinal surgery that led to serious complications, the Spanish newspaper El Pais said in its Wednesday edition.
The shortcut involved sewing the colon to the rectum but did not heal properly and broke apart, releasing gastric fluid with feces that caused serious infection, El Pais said on its Web site.
The newspaper reported a day earlier that Castro�s prognosis was �very serious� and that he is being fed intravenously after three failed operations for diverticulitis, or pouch-like bulges in the large intestine that get infected.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16667098/
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