what the americans think of fidel castro?chavez also?

Answer 1

Castro? Don't care about him one way or the other.. but I don't understand why we still have an embargo from 50 years ago that hurts our farmers today.

Chaves? Don't care about him either.. he does what he thinks he needs to to get attention for his nation and to help his people... they seem to be ok with it so it's really none of my business.

Answer 2

Castro? An old man that's stuck in the 50's and 60's, and can't get it in his head that communism didn't work, but refuses to let the power go back to the people.

Chavez? Castro, 30 years ago.

Answer 3

Hero"s, Venezuela is a very poor country even with the western style capitalism so they will be better as socialist
Cuba, well not everyone that jumped to Miami well be welcomed if Cuba goes capitalist, then they will want to jump back to Cuba.

Answer 4

They are men who went against the US enslaving their fellow country men and women. They both through a false government out of power and became elected by popular vote by their fellow citizens. I have the utmost respect for these two men they stood up and fought for equality and freedom.

Answer 5

They are world leaders. If we refuse to talk to them or pay any attention to them they can catch us by surprise and hit us when we don't expect it. If we talk with our advesaries we are getting into their heads and learning about them. As long as they are talking they are not shooting. All that being said. These are dictators of two very small countries. Neither is a threat to us. I see no harm in talking to them.

I don't like either of them and disagree with their way of governing but that is not my decision to make about their countries. The people of those countries must decide how they wish to be governed. It is not our business. All we can do is to try and get along with the neighbors but keep an eye on them.

Answer 6

It depends on how indoctrinated they've become, how much they've internalized (made their own, with their own internal arguments) as a result of years of purposeful hysteria about anything which threatens American dominance in any field (decades now, re Cuba). It takes work to weed through the American myths and underlying assumptions. It takes research (reading) and thought and discussion. As hard as most of us have to work just to make ends meet, most just want to relax when they finally get home and get the kids fed and to bed. Fertile ground for a power grab.
In spite of (the supposed omnipotence of) US power, subversion, and military aggression (at least thus far) both Castro and Chavez have succeeded in keeping popular rule alive in the hemisphere, and that is no small achievement.
However, I believe that most Americans hold the views expressed in corporate media, as most Americans believe that if it's in the news, it must be true. They will select which of the two views presented in the media fits them best, and then wear that around. As Noam Chomsky and Ed. Herman have pointed out, the media present two "opposing views", both acceptable to the State and the Ruling Class, which define the effectively very narrow limits of acceptable debate. This leaves out a great number of possibilities, what Chomsky describes as unthinkable thought, and notes that the nightmare vision of Aldus Huxley was far worse than that of Orwell. In "1984," the people needed to be watched for signs of dissent, but in "Brave New World" the people accepted tyranny with open arms, the propaganda system designed to convince them having worked so well.

American elite hatred of Chavez and Castro is the same as for Ho Chi Minh, Mao, Marx, Lennin, Martin Luther King, the ACLU, the UN, FDR, the 'New Deal,' Korea, (the list is nearly endless). All were threats of a good idea or a good example which threatened entrenched power in the Untied States. Power will not tolerate any threat to its existence, especially domestically. Just as the Royals tried to keep the peasants from reading, modern powers try to keep the public from knowing. So Americans face a tidal wave of daily propaganda, fronting as tid-bit 'news', and have little knowledge of, access to, or energy for, reasoned alternative interpretations.

"Cuba has ... been condemned for not allowing its people to flee the island. That so many want to leave Cuba is treated as proof that Cuban socialism is a harshly repressive system, rather than that the U.S. embargo has made life difficult in Cuba. That so many millions more want to leave capitalist countries like Mexico, Nigeria, Poland, El Salvador, Philippines, South Korea, Macedonia, and others too numerous to list is never treated as grounds for questioning the free-market system that inflicts such misery on the Third World."
Michael Parenti

"We live in a nation hated abroad and frightened at home. A place in which we can reasonably refer to the American Republic in the past tense. A country that has moved into a post-constitutional era, no longer a nation of laws but an autotocracy run by law breakers, law evaders and law ignorers. A nation governed by a culture of impunity ... a culture in which corruption is no longer a form of deviance but the norm. We all live in a Mafia neighborhood now."
Sam Smith

The biggest political joke in America is that we have a liberal press. It's a joke taken seriously by a surprisingly large number of people... The myth of the liberal press has served as a political weapon for conservative and right-wing forces eager to discourage critical coverage of government and corporate power ... Americans now have the worst of both worlds: a press that, at best, parrots the pronouncements of the powerful and, at worst, encourages people to be stupid with pseudo-news that illuminates nothing but the bottom line."
Mark Hertzgaard

"NPR and PBS at a national level tend to provide a bland variant of mainstream and conventional journalism, comparable to what's on the commercial networks, especially on highly sensitive matters such as the economy and the U.S. role in the world. Public broadcasting is so obsessed with conservative criticism, even more than commercial news media journalists are, that it bends over backwards to appease the Right and appear "balanced."
Robert McChesney

"24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract."
Will Hutton

Answer 7

One is the original. The other is Fidel 2.0. Both are bad guys & I would never buy Citgo again...

Answer 8

sick men really
not sure how old you are but think back or research what he did his own people how horried he treated them, not a pretty picture, much less how much he hates Americans (they)

Answer 9

It seems that a certain Political party loves them

Answer 10

personally I don't think much of either one of them.