Cuba's Fidel Castro Has Died..

You make it sound good there. Maybe I can steal or trade IDs with one of the thousands that risked their lives trying to get away from all those good things.

 

Are we celebrating a kleptocracy and its dictator ?

For what good is literacy, if you are only afforded the ability to read propaganda?

What happened to Camillo Cenfuegas? Che Guevara ? and the founders of The Revolution.

 

Do you want the truth? Or do you want the truth?

 

Good riddance. The good that he did was overshadowed by the countless people who went missing - Oppose him and suffer big time. Sorry, some people wanted more, there was no incentive to do better for yourself under his rule and you were punished if you were not "all in" for Castro. Yes, literacy improved big time, but it was all to expose people to his propaganda...soo. Only worse person to die recently (2013) was Hugo Chavez.

 

Ok let me ask what everyone is thinking...

So can we buy cigars now?

 

Preserving such cars for more than half a century in a tropical, rust-prone climate like Cuba can be quite a challenge. Now that Cuba is importing newer cars to the island once again, I sure hope they keep on preserving their vintage cars as it gives the whole country a lot of character.

 

Seems to me that the view of those outside the arena (including ones own) are not best suited to make a judgement of the conditions therein - of what what is - and what (will see) may be - it would be interesting to hear the views of a Cuban citizen / or ex - on the changes = good, bad and ugly - for which there has been from 1959 to date.
- Media depiction - especially from a bias press - is not 100% accurate
- As for "So mass murder, human rights violations, and persecution of homosexuals is totally fine as long as it's done in the name of social (or any other -)ism?
Ok got it. I'll jot that down so I never forget " - Let those without...cast accordingly - If one is going to be true to these convictions, then let us be clear - there was not, is not nor sadly will not be an isolated case for singular criticism
= Cuban Comments - Welcome

 

People who hated him most were the American capitalists who had a great time exploiting Latin America and getting rich till Fidel Castro and
Che Guvera put an end to it. They still can't forgive them for it.

 

Your average Cuban earns $20 per month.

The Castro family is worth $900,000,000.

Trump will crush these communists and rebuild that fabulous golf course inside two years.

 

They are worn out brother.

https://youtu.be/F4tjkKpMhcU

 

Fucking communist

 

They just need a good mechanic with the right parts. Hey spaceman...get on this...

 

Nice cars.

What I suppose will most likely happen, unfortunately, is that classic car buyers are going to take advantage of the situation in Cuba and buy them and export them off the island. A fully functional car like those will go for a TON of money in a place like the US and Canada, even if it's in tattered shape. Since the people of Cuba driving those cars make $20 a month, I'm sure the buyers will take advantage and buy them for pennies on the dollar.

 

A good many of these cars have been refitted with very small Japanese and Chinese engines. The Detroit machines petered out long ago. I doubt more than a few of them are all original. I saw a picture of one several years ago that had a sofa for a front seat that was held in with angle brackets. And I doubt any of them had air conditioning!

 

And the buyers would probly use that as the bargaining tactic to get the car for pennies on the dollar

 

i do not believe the many decades of america boycotting cuba greatly inconvenienced either country.
but it was and remains a silly illogical pettiness of sour grapes.

whether or not 'loyal fortress' (an aproximate translation of his name)
was the best thing to ever happen to cuba, it certainly wasn't the worst

i believe in many aspects of a similar perspective,
though not in the romanticizing of continual 'revolution'/struggle.

people in america are conned into expecting trying to impress each other will bring them gratification,
and then refuse to believe their own experience when it never does.

on the other paw, i like to see nice things, but i like them also to be for everyone,
and i would like to see a culture, regardless of ideology,
where people don't tear them up and destroy them just to be doing so,
whatever ideological excuse for doing that either.

real gratification comes from creating and exploring,
and i don't believe any polarity of ideology acknowledges that.

 

If that's the case, then it's a heaven for hot-rod builders.

One of the biggest mental struggles about acquiring a tattered old classic car, is deciding whether or not to restore it to its original stock condition, or rod it out with Eddlebrock performance parts, and make several upgrades. If all the original parts are defunct and replaced with cheap makeshift scrap engines and furniture, it makes the decision making that much easier.

 

Castro lives in immortality just like Alexander the Great as long as we keep talking about him and Colin Kaepernick keeps wearing his t shirts.