If ever there was a leader that was strong and had the courage of his own convictions .It would be Castro .
CUBA - A communist led country that has successfully gone its own way and told the US to go play somewhere else . What balls to sit on the USA 's doorstep and give them the finger .

CUBA THE AMERICAN THORN .....VIVA CASTRO

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Americans eat communists and were hungry, ask iraq

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For my Brothers who ran into Hell and now walk with Angels. Gone but not forgotten.

Like N.Korea or N. Vietnam Not to mention Cuba .........Really ,is that the best you can do ?
Iraq was never Communist . Parallels only work when they are coherant and actually relate to facts ...........

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wow, communists are witty, at least they have that

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For my Brothers who ran into Hell and now walk with Angels. Gone but not forgotten.

On January 1, 1959, Castro's army, having defeated the American-backed Batista government, rolled victoriously into Havana.As news of fall of the government spread through Havana, The New York Times described the scene as one of jubilent crowds pouring into the streets and automobile horns honking. The black and red flag of the 26th of July Movement waved on automobiles and buildings.The atmosphere was chaotic.

Castro called a general strike in protest of the Piedra regime. He demanded that Dr. Urrutia, former judge of the Urgency Court of Santiago de Cuba, be installed as the provisional President instead. The Cane Planters Association of Cuba, speaking on behalf of the island's crucial sugar industry, issued a statement of support for Castro and his movement.
On January 5 the liberal law professor José Miró Cardona created a new government with himself as prime minister and Manuel Urrutia Lleó as president. On January 7 the United States officially recognized the new government.

On January 8 Castro himself arrived in Havana to cheering mobs and assumed the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. In February Miró unexpectedly resigned and on February 16, 1959, Castro was sworn in as Prime Mininster of Cuba.

Soon friction with the US developed as the new government began expropriating property owned by major U.S. corporations (United Fruit in particular) and planned to base the compensation on the artificially low property valuations that the companies themselves had kept low so their taxes would be negligible.

On April 15-26 Castro visited the U.S. as a guest of the Press Club where he was greeted with thunderous applause. During his visit he was charming and answered impertinent questions jokingly, ate hotdogs and hamburgers and made a media splash. His rumpled fatiques and scruffy beard made him seem an authentic hero.[40] He was refused a meeting with President Eisenhower. Rebuffed, he soon joined forces with the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev.

On May 17. Castro signed the First Agrarian Reform Law, which expropriated over 1,000 acres of farmlands and forbade foreign land ownership.

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You are the Grandson of Ramón Mercader. "Assasin"

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I can't wait until Fiedl Castro is out of power so that the trade embargo with Cuba and USA will be lifted so I can smoke a Cuban Cigar.

Can one of you folks wake me up when the trade embargo is lifted?

Get a flight out of Mexico or Canada and have a geat two weeks in Cuba!!

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Humans, a renewable resource?
Bumble Bees Die to sting you

Its a F uckin fidel allright ,Ya naz .Where the beer man .Wot ya dun wi it ?
Bloody Canada yeh yeh . No beer ? eh? F uck a jus fell over agin

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Quack quack!

That's..... very funny, Larry. Don't you think that you're getting just a tad too excited about this?