I have read comments by a few europeans and canadians online that view Fidel Castro a global hero and his nation a utopia. I am just curious why people would idolize an evil person such as Fidel Castro.
I guess they forget about Fidel's close ties with the Soviet Union (yes a communist regime that killed more people than Hitler ever dreamed of, yet most americans aren't educated about that), and how Fidel Castro has some of the poorest human rights in the world.
Never to mind the fact that Fidel doesn't even allow its own citizens out of Cuba! Or about Fidel's racism against the african cubans.
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2007-01-17 03:24:48 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
To Cubans he is.
2007-01-17 03:28:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 2⤋
Fidel Castro is certainly heroic; he is also charismatic and well educated; unlike some of his critics many of whom haven't been to Cuba for some time. The revolution took place in a racially & economically divided country; President Castro didn't sieze power from a benign democratic government.
I was in Havana two months ago. The effort to restore the city is truly amazing. The children are loved and cared for. Freedom to be educated and eat regularly is the foundation of other 'democratic' freedoms.
Revolutions are usually bloody affairs (except the Glorious Revolution & that was some time ago) ; it is foolish to compare the Cuban experience with the pure horror of Stalin's Russia.
If, for example, Haiti could find a leader with the vision of Castro the country would have less crime, more food, health care and education. But would that count for much if there was no free press , no free vote?
U.S. Americans allow their poor to freeze in hell without social services, U.S Americans profess a commitment to an ideological land of the free market; although in fact they set out for 'The Land of the Free' - not the same place at all.
Someone jumped on the wrong boat , steered by a bogus star & landed on a truely foreign shore. Which dreamer will history absolve ?
P.S. Cuba was pushed into the arms of the USSR by the U.S. embargo. If only the U.S. had kept its head ...but impetuous romantics ( an endearing U.S. character flaw) puffed and stormed and tried to blow Fidel's house down.
2007-01-17 06:12:52 · answer #2 · answered by flowerpotgirls 2 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Shocking, isn't it? Look at how even many Americans (and most if not all of them being leftists / liberals / Democrats) consider him a "hero" and Cuba "heaven".
Castro has a worse human rights record than Pinochet, yet he is feted by the lefties. He killed and imprisoned more political opponents, and he's honored. His people live in under tyrannical oppression, mired in poverty, with no human rights, and his Cuba is considered "utopian".
I find it quite disturbing that Castro would be considered anything but the marxist thug that he is.
2007-01-17 03:36:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
If Fidel Castro was such a hero, then why does the Coast Guard pick up hundreds of Cubans trying to get to the U.S. on unworthy seagoing vessels every day? Would anyone risk their life to escape a hero? I think not.
2007-01-17 03:32:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
If Cuba were such a Utopia, why hasn't Miami tried to defect to Cuba instead of the other way around?
Castro is no hero. He's a dictator.
2007-01-17 03:28:46 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
He is not a hero! he is the personification of hypocrisy and evilness who has managed Cuba as a two-faced country: One happy and heroic face for foreigners and other extremely sad and frustrating for those who have the disgrace to live in that jail without bars!
2007-01-17 13:04:26 · answer #6 · answered by Bantam W 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
American media is not much better than Cuban media. American's don't hear about the mistakes they make in battle. How many civilians they have killed or even friendly army by accidental fire. People shouldn't speak of the number of people killed by the USSR until you know the mass number American forces have killed in so called police actions and searchs for weapons of mass destruction.
2007-01-17 04:49:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
No...Your details put a finger on just that.
Unfortunately 50 years of his hateful venom will not be quickly erased in Cuba.
2007-01-17 03:43:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
His views are gradually adopted in Latin Almeria nowadays. The great leader from tiny country did marvellous job. one of the legend of this world after Churchill,Kennedy. the negative prop agenda by Americans nullified by his iron philosophy.
2007-01-17 03:49:09 · answer #9 · answered by adraya 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
He replaced the corrupt repressive Batista regime, and kicked the oppressive foreign places landowners foreign places. Cuba has executed better than maximum caribbean international locations. fortuitously for them, the US won't commerce with them. Ten minutes as quickly as we initiate figuring out to purchase and merchandising with them, we are going to very own their country and it will bypass returned to the way it exchange into.
2016-10-31 08:52:34 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fidel and Saddam have a lot in common--they both make deals with fat cats from Europe to line their personal pockets and to hell with their people. Maybe soon they will have something else in common--death.
2007-01-17 03:38:01 · answer #11 · answered by slodana2003 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋