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  • Fidel Castro dead 24 Nov 16

    Fidel Castro dead 25 Nov 16


    http://nypost.com/2016/11/26/cuban-p...ro-dies-at-90/
    http://christian-identity.net/forum/...5581#post15581
    http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...5581#post15581


    Communist dictator Fidel Castro, who took hold of Cuba with a bloody revolution and ruled with an iron fist for five decades, died on Friday.

    The ruthless leader, who impoverished his country and caused countless migrants to flee the island, died at 90 years old, his brother Raul, the country’s president, said on Cuban state television.

    “Towards victory, always!” Raul said with a shaking voice after stating that his older brother died at 10:29 p.m. Friday.

    Fidel’s body was scheduled to be cremated on Saturday, according to Agence France Presse.

    The death comes just months after President Obama normalized diplomatic relations between the Cold War enemies.

    As part of his brutal hold on power the Cuban leader executed thousands of innocent people. He once admitted to holding 15,000 political prisoners in the 60s, and forced gays into “re-education” camps.

    At least 582 were shot by firing squads over two years. Independent newspapers were forced to close.

    Still, the cold-blooded dictator was romanticized by leftists around the world, who hailed him as a hero.

    His reign was marked by near-catastrophic Cold War relations with the US.

    Diplomatic tensions between the two countries nearly led to a nuclear confrontation during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.

    President John F. Kennedy announced there were Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba and imposed a naval blockade of the island.

    Humankind held its breath, and after a tense week of diplomacy, Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev removed them. Never had the world felt so close to nuclear war.

    One year earlier, the US had helped launch a fruitless invasion of the country at the Bay of Pigs.

    About 1,400 Cuban exiles stormed the beach on Cuba’s south coast. But the CIA-backed invasion failed.

    The debacle forced the US to give up on the idea of invading Cuba, but that didn’t stop Washington and Castro’s exiled enemies from trying to do him in.

    By Cuban count, he was the target of more than 630 assassination plots by militant Cuban exiles or the US government.

    In 1980, about 10,000 Cubans who wanted to leave the country massed on the grounds of the Peruvian embassy. Castro then announced that anyone who wanted to leave could do so. The result was the Mariel boat lift to the US.

    But Castro got the last laugh by opening prisons and mental institutions and encouraging their inmates to go to the US.

    Fidel Castro Ruz was born Aug. 13, 1926, in eastern Cuba’s sugar country, where his Spanish immigrant father worked first recruiting labor for US sugar companies and later built up a prosperous plantation of his own.

    Castro attended Jesuit schools, then the University of Havana, where he received law and social science degrees.

    His life as a rebel began in 1953 with a reckless attack on the Moncada military barracks in the eastern city of Santiago. Most of his comrades were killed and Fidel and his brother Raul went to prison.

    Fidel turned his trial defense into a manifesto that he smuggled out of jail, famously declaring, “History will absolve me.”

    Freed under a pardon, Castro fled to Mexico and organized a rebel band that returned in 1956, sailing across the Gulf of Mexico to Cuba on a yacht named Granma. After losing most of his group in a bungled landing, he rallied support in Cuba’s eastern Sierra Maestra mountains.

    He seized power in 1958, when his guerrilla forces overthrew of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.

    On Jan. 8, 1959, tens of thousands spilled into the streets of Havana to celebrate Batista’s downfall and catch a glimpse of Castro as his rebel caravan arrived in the capital.

    The US was among the first to formally recognize his government, cautiously trusting Castro’s early assurances he merely wanted to restore democracy, not install socialism.

    Soon Castro moved into the Soviet bloc, and Washington began working to oust him, cutting U.S. purchases of sugar, the island’s economic mainstay. Castro, in turn, confiscated $1 billion in U.S. assets.

    The American government imposed a trade embargo, banning virtually all US exports to the island except for food and medicine, and it severed diplomatic ties on Jan. 3, 1961.

    Castro cobbled revolutionary groups together into the new Cuban Communist Party, with him as first secretary. Labor unions lost the right to strike. The Catholic Church and other religious institutions were harassed. Neighborhood “revolutionary defense committees” kept an eye on everyone.

    Castro exported revolution to Latin American countries in the 1960s, and dispatched Cuban troops to Africa to fight Western-backed regimes in the 1970s. Over the decades, he sent Cuban doctors abroad to tend to the poor, and gave sanctuary to fugitive Black Panther leaders from the US.

    But the collapse of the Soviet bloc ended billions in preferential trade and subsidies for Cuba, sending its economy into a tailspin. Castro briefly experimented with an opening to foreign capitalists and limited private enterprise.

    As the end of the Cold War eased global tensions, many Latin American and European countries re-established relations with Cuba. In January 1998, Pope John Paul II visited a nation that had been officially atheist until the early 1990s.

    Castro was the world’s third longest-serving head of state, after Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and the King of Thailand.

    He temporarily ceded power to his younger brother Raul after undergoing surgery in 2006.

    Castro permanently stepped down from office in 2008 when Raul took over officially.


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    Fidel Castro is dead

    Fidel Castro is dead

    Florida has become the old Cuba



    http://www.occidentaldissent.com/201...astro-is-dead/
    http://christian-identity.net/forum/...5584#post15584
    http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...5584#post15584



    “The Eastern variety imprisons, persecutes and mortifies the body but
    at least does not destroy hope. Its Western counterpart ends up creating happy robots.
    It is an air-conditioned hell. It kills the soul.” – Alain de Benoist

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    Fidel Castro is dead.

    I see people celebrating all over Facebook and Twitter. I would also like to celebrate the death of the world’s longest surviving communist dictator, but I can’t get in the Cold War spirit. It’s not because I like Castro or Cuba under communism. It is because I hate what Florida has become.

    Just 36 percent of Floridians were born in the state. Even that number is exaggerated because it counts as natives people whose parents recently immigrated to the state. Of all the states in the country, only Nevada has fewer native born residents. In the late 20th century, the native Florida Cracker was utterly overwhelmed by immigrants from all parts of United States and Latin America.

    South Florida has become culturally alien to the rest of the South. There are twice as many Jews in Palm Beach County alone as there are in the entire state of Texas. Florida now hosts much of Puerto Rico in the Orlando area and there was a lot of speculation about whether Puerto Ricans would be Hillary Clinton’s secret weapon in the November election. There is also a large Haitian population in Miami.

    Florida’s New South “Open For Business” motto and tax laws have played a major role in attracting the flood of transplants. The Villages is the largest retirement community in the world. Everywhere you go in Florida now you will find signs that the natives have been overwhelmed. Closer to home, the Redneck Rivera of my youth has been erased over the last 15 years as it has been transformed by expensive, high rise condos. That’s the way it is now all over the Panhandle from Panama City to Pensacola.

    Shouldn’t we be hailing the progress that capitalism has brought to Florida? The Sunshine State has become in many ways what Cuba was before Castro: a playground for wealthy transplants and aliens. The political and economic power in Florida has been wrested from the hands of the people who are from Florida. When I look at Cubans putting around in their antique cars in Havana and compare it to what I see in Orlando, I can’t help but notice that Cubans have retained more of their national character.

    It’s like comparing France or Germany under Western capitalism to Poland or Hungary under Soviet communism. I can’t help but ask myself: both of these are awful systems, but who got the worst of it when it was all over? Are both systems equally bad? Sure, we’ve got a Burger King off every other interstate exit in Florida and no one is being executed by the state, but we have lost something even more valuable.

    Welcome to Florida, the unsettled, air-conditioned hell of anomie.

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