These two neemakarams spoke highly of Fidel Castro against the people that suffered at his hands. They get booed and their public statements were rejected by the Cuban people that risk their lives to escape Cuba.
Many Guyanese shared similar sentiments of Castro for helping Guyana. If wasn't for Castro, Guyana would have used alternative ways to get by as a country. Therefore, I disagree with all of you.
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Here is President Obama's statement direct from the Whitehouse.gov website. Where in that speech is the President embracing Communism and what is so wrong with it that has yours and Rubio's panties in a bunch?
At this time of Fidel Castro’s passing, we extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban people. We know that this moment fills Cubans - in Cuba and in the United States - with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation. History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him.
For nearly six decades, the relationship between the United States and Cuba was marked by discord and profound political disagreements. During my presidency, we have worked hard to put the past behind us, pursuing a future in which the relationship between our two countries is defined not by our differences but by the many things that we share as neighbors and friends - bonds of family, culture, commerce, and common humanity. This engagement includes the contributions of Cuban Americans, who have done so much for our country and who care deeply about their loved ones in Cuba.
Today, we offer condolences to Fidel Castro's family, and our thoughts and prayers are with the Cuban people. In the days ahead, they will recall the past and also look to the future. As they do, the Cuban people must know that they have a friend and partner in the United States of America.
1. He turned Cuba into a colony of the Soviet Union and nearly caused a nuclear holocaust.
2. He sponsored terrorism wherever he could and allied himself with many of the worst dictators on earth.
3. He was responsible for so many thousands of executions and disappearances in Cuba that a precise number is hard to reckon.
4. He brooked no dissent and built concentration camps and prisons at an unprecedented rate, filling them to capacity, incarcerating a higher percentage of his own people than most other modern dictators, including Stalin.
5. He condoned and encouraged torture and extrajudicial killings.
6. He forced nearly 20 percent of his people into exile, and prompted thousands to meet their deaths at sea, unseen and uncounted, while fleeing from him in crude vessels.
7. He claimed all property for himself and his henchmen, strangled food production and impoverished the vast majority of his people.
8. He outlawed private enterprise and labor unions, wiped out Cuba’s large middle class and turned Cubans into slaves of the state.
9. He persecuted gay people and tried to eradicate religion.
10. He censored all means of expression and communication.
11. He established a fraudulent school system that provided indoctrination rather than education, and created a two-tier health-care system, with inferior medical care for the majority of Cubans and superior care for himself and his oligarchy, and then claimed that all his repressive measures were absolutely necessary to ensure the survival of these two ostensibly “free” social welfare projects.
12. He turned Cuba into a labyrinth of ruins and established an apartheid society in which millions of foreign visitors enjoyed rights and privileges forbidden to his people.
13. He never apologized for any of his crimes and never stood trial for them.
In sum, Fidel Castro was the spitting image of Big Brother in George Orwell’s novel “1984.” So, adiós, Big Brother, king of all Cuban nightmares. And may your successor, Little Brother, soon slide off the bloody throne bequeathed to him.
MIAMI — Chanting “Free Cuba! Down with tyranny!,” hundreds of people took to the streets of Little Havana on Saturday to celebrate the death of a man whose brutal dictatorship drove them or their parents from their native Cuba.
Fidel Castro was old and in failing health, but he was also a tyrant who prohibited free speech, jailed or killed political opponents and even abolished Christmas as a national holiday. So when his death was announced late Friday, those who fled Cuba for a better life in the United States saw cause for jubilation.
“It brought tears to my eyes,” said Jonathan Gomez, 39, a delivery driver who came from Cuba to Miami in the 1980 mass emigration known as the Mariel boatlift. “This would have been the happiest day of my dad’s life.”
Gomez said he himself was “looking forward to going back to my country one day.”
THERE IS AN OLD SAYING" YOU DON'T SPEAK ILL OF THE DEAD" TRUMP SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY SENIOR OFFICIAL THAT HAS NOTHING GOOD TO SAY OF CASTRO.YET HE PRAISES PUTIN A LIVING DICTATOR.
Cobra posted:These two neemakarams spoke highly of Fidel Castro against the people that suffered at his hands. They get booed and their public statements were rejected by the Cuban people that risk their lives to escape Cuba.
Many Guyanese shared similar sentiments of Castro for helping Guyana. If wasn't for Castro, Guyana would have used alternative ways to get by as a country. Therefore, I disagree with all of you.
Many Guyanese left Guyana to escape from Burnham, just the same as Castro. Guyanese paid large sums to escape, some used back track, some travelled in the cover of the night, in the cold ,swamp and remote locations, some stuck in compartments in tractor trailer. But, then again there is good in all the sacrifices, if not for Burnham you all would still be in Guyana cutting cane . The many Cubans in Florida are living a prosperous life and yes thanks to Fidel Castro.Per capitia Cuba has the most Doctors, education is FREE, health care is FREE, housing is FREE, and crime is almost nil .Americans hated Castro because he joined ranks with the Soviet Union and not being a puppet to USA.
Have you guys ever thought what your life will be like if Burnham was the kind of President that you wanted. It is because of Burnham that many of us left and never returned back there to live. Think what our lives would have been like had we stayed. So whether good or bad Castro changed the lives of many Cubans in directly.
I stand firm with the Cuban people who have every right to rejoice the death of cruel dictator.
Amral, if we hadn't left Guyana, life would still go on for all of us.
You miss the point Prince
How you know the Cubans who live in Cuba are rejoicing Castro's death?
I wonder how no one complained that Trump was a communist for praising Putin
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), whose father, Rafael, came to the U.S. from Cuba in the 1950s, wrote on Facebook: “Fidel Castro’s death cannot bring back his thousands of victims, nor can it bring comfort to their families. Today we remember them and honor the brave souls who fought the lonely fight against the brutal Communist dictatorship he imposed on Cuba.”
State of the Union
RiffRaff posted:I wonder how no one complained that Trump was a communist for praising Putin
Since when Putin/Russia is Communist?
Amral posted:Have you guys ever thought what your life will be like if Burnham was the kind of President that you wanted. It is because of Burnham that many of us left and never returned back there to live. Think what our lives would have been like had we stayed. So whether good or bad Castro changed the lives of many Cubans in directly.
What shyte is this coming from Amral! So we should give thanks to despot Burnham for making us virtual refugees by following Castro? True many of us recovered and went on to make good lives however, the rush out of Guyana created a lot of heartbreak, broken dreams and broken families.
Burnham was worse than Castro. Castro ran his Communist camp and was an equal opportunity depriver. Burnham borrowed aspects of Communism and aspects of Apartheid to create his own race-base state controlled doctrine!
Castro was a dictator who turned out to be worse than Batista. Hopefully his brother will kick the bucket also soon.
ba$eman posted:RiffRaff posted:I wonder how no one complained that Trump was a communist for praising Putin
Since when Putin/Russia is Communist?
So they are not communist, but they are run like how Burnham used to run Guyana...elections are rigged, Parliament is a rubber stamp
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