Fidel Castro

[superman321]

Just thought people might be interested. For the first time since the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro today handed power to his brother as he prepares to under go surgery. It seems some anti-Castro folks in Miami are celebrating it as some warning on imminent end to Castro's rule of Cuba but after reading the news it doesn't seem anywhere near as drastic as that, especially since power has merely been handed to his brother.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/sur ... 20357.html

[Leighton]

Good. Cuba would've been interesting if Che had've stayeed around and run the way I get the feeling he wanted it to run, but Fidel wanted it run the way the Russians wanted, and that was never the people's republic that Che wanted.

It's really a shame the way Cuba turned out.

[King_Nothing]

This can become very intereting indeed. The US govt is refusing to reach out to his Brother as well.

[flickn]

that peice of shit, what kind of medical treatment do they have , with the american embargo in place

[superman321]

actually cuba is reputed to have an excellent health system - that is why they are the home of those famous cancer centres.

[The_more_i_see]

that peice of shit, what kind of medical treatment do they have , with the american embargo in place

Well their health sistem is one of the best in the world actually, Cuba has done pretty well even with the USA embargo, i hope he gets well.
Also, i think that with all this years being the president of Cuba he must have thought of someone to continue with his work, altough it will never be the same without him

[Metallifold]

I hope he dies.

[The_more_i_see]

I hope he dies.

thats a really smart and interesting post

just joking, i dont mean to start a fight here, just that i would have expected to see at least an argument of what you said (if its posible to have an argument for wish death to someone)

[Metallifold]

I hope he dies.

thats a really smart and interesting post

just joking, i dont mean to start a fight here, just that i would have expected to see at least an argument of what you said (if its posible to have an argument for wish death to someone)

Well, he's ruleing has lead to generations of suffering. He deserves no more. Nah seriously, Don't wish him death, but I hope he won't back to his post.

[Duane]

Well I was in Cuba in Feb. of this year so I have first hand knowledge of the place. For every 120 people there is a Doctor....so I was told anyway, that's better than Canada. I can't speak for the quality of their health care but I'm sure Fidel has pretty good guys working for him. I would say America and Cuba both should stop acting like embittered little kids and shake hands and work together. All that missle shit was 40 years ago, the cold war is over, let it go man...it's the 21st century. Is it because it all happened when JFK was around and he's still America's patron Saint? What's funny is that the embargo isn't as big as you think, I could still buy Coca-Cola and Pepsi, Jack Daniels, all sorts of potato chips, Reebok, Nike, Canon stuff all in Cuba all pretty much American stuff. It's simply made in Mexico and shipped over. After all America does like professing to be patriotic and then send it's factories and production to Mexico where people work cheap and the labour laws and enviromental laws are almost nil. In short Cuba is a very, very cool place and don't knock it until you've seen it. And well Fidel is in someone else's hands, not ours. Can't we all just get along?