[detective]

This is an excellent summary of Castro's life.

The real Castro was far different from the heroic figure dishonestly portrayed by the media.

[jsanders2001]

> this excerpt of the article reminds me of another monster we have in the U.S. who would no doubt do the very same if he were able to do away with the 2A and confiscate our guns:

"Yet within three months of his entry into Havana, Castro's firing squads had murdered an estimated 600 to 1,100 men and boys, and Cuba's jails held ten times the number of political prisoners as under Fulgencio Batista, whom Castro overthrew with claims to "liberating" Cuba.[3]  

Barely a year in power, Castro was referring to the U.S. as "a vulture preying on humanity!" And most of Cuba's newspapers and TV stations (Cuba had more TVs per capita at the time than Germany, Canada or France) were under government control, to better serve "the people." Six months later he confiscated all U.S. properties on the island; 5,911 businesses worth $2 billion, along with most property and businesses owned by Cubans.[4]

On January 3, 1961, outgoing President Eisenhower finally declared, "there's a limit to what the United States in self-respect can endure. That limit has been reached." He broke diplomatic relations with Cuba. During the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961, Castro finally declared his revolution "Socialist," and in December of that year he pronounced himself "a lifelong Marxist-Leninist!" Cuba was now officially Communist."

[Migraine]

Fidel is a really good man, now.

The only good communist is a dead communist.

[jsanders2001]

I never knew just how brutal and cruel a dictator Castro was (with Che Guevara’s assistance) until reading this article which is excellent but a little long but definitely worth the read. And to think he studied to be an attorney and came from a privileged background then took over the government to enrich himself and live like a king while he enacted rations on all of his peasants and made them starve and killed any dissenters. Sounds sort of familiar doesn’t it which reminds me... I need to find Colin Kaspernick’s email address. I think he and a lot of leftists need some new material to read...: )

[mikey_hates_everything]

"Fidel Castro was educated in private Jesuit boarding schools."

Jesuit. Interesting.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Truly a monster. There’s no other way to describe him.

[rlmorel]

He and Che are brothers again now, sharing a hot boarding room (bed) in Hell.

I knew a cuban woman who had left Cuba during the exodus in the Camarioca boatlift as a young girl.

Until the last time I saw her just a few years ago, even a casual mention of Castro could elicit a violent spit.

[Travis McGee]