Fidel Castro: My Generation's Disgrace Finally Died

I’m from NYC and I remember Fidel’s ticker tape parade up Broadway. People thought he was wonderful, a liberator - although Batista had actually been a reformer and had built some of the new infrastructure in Cuba.The country actually had the third highest literacy rate in the Americas (just behind the US and Canada) before Fidel took over and destroyed it all.

Fidel and his entourage stayed in Harlem and distinguished themselves by slaughtering a few chickens in their rooms (some of his simpler followers practiced santeria) and generally behaving in a bizarre, hostile manner.

Fidel was from a well-off Lebanese-Cuban family and had had every privilege and basically just used these people. Probably most of them later died either fleeing or in jail, once he’d gotten what he wanted out of them.

Like any leftist, such as the current Pope, whose heart is broken by the death of Fidel, he was all about himself and destroyed anybody who got in his way...but with pious words about the “revolution.”

I would suspect that he died and went directly to Hell. With apologies to Obama and the Pope, who should bear this in mind.

He and others naively believed every word Castro uttered.

Hope and Change?

If you like your doctor...?

Everybody is going to save $2,000 per year?

Well said and agree completely.

I believe I remember something about “slaughtering a few chickens in their rooms (some of his simpler followers practiced santeria)” if I’m not mistaken, that wasn’t the norm in this country. :)

“My sense always was that he had no ideals other then the desire to boss people around.”

He made people listen to his haranguing, interminable speeches. Can you imagine being stuck listening to that megalomaniac rail on for hours at a time?

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