Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader

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almost half a century. A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation.

detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban

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with the same knowledge of your black ops from Nam? and all the other s**te you've posted over the decades.

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news16

"Larger than life" doesn't mean good. Castro *never* served the interests of the Cuban people. He condemned the overwhelming majority of them to lives of grinding poverty and cruel repression.

No good person mourns the passing of the tyrant.

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Rudy Canoza

Rudy Canoza wrote on 11/27/2016 8:47 PM:

No, the US condemned the overwhelming majority of Cubans to lives of grinding poverty with economic sanctions.

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Bullshit. Castro did it. The economy was completely mismanaged. Communism doesn't work - never has. Sending engineers and medical doctors into the fields to harvest sugar cane doesn't work.

The sanctions could have ended in a heartbeat if Castro hadn't been intent on fomenting revolution, enslaving his people and refusing to pay compensation for seized property.

Castro did it. Everyone knows this.

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Rudy Canoza

In the year or two after the revolution, all property (including US propert ies) in Cuba were 'nationalized'. Stolen. The US cut off diplomatic ties, and put sa nctions in place, but it was Castro who burned every subsequent attempt at regularizing relat ions with Cuba.

Hundreds of thousands left Cuba during Castro's "administration". They h ad their reasons.

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Yeah bully boy thug Fidel had nothing to do with it.

With his shaggy beard and rumpled, olive-drab fatigues, Fidel Castro presented himself to the world as a modest man of the people.

At times, he claimed he made just 900 pesos ($43) a month and lived in a

fact.

everything, including his eight children, his many mistresses, even his

political ruthlessness, mistresses and greed.

Castro, who died Friday night at 90, made a personal fortune offering safe haven to drug traffickers, bedded a bevy of women over the decades, and once threatened his own brother, Raul, with execution when the brother

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Amazingly, most Cubans had no idea how, or even where, their secretive strongman actually lived.

Castro cheated on his first wife, the upper-middle-class Mirta Diaz-Balart, with Natalia Revuelta.

Sanchez wrote.

Castro also bedded his English interpreter, his French interpreter, and a Cuban airline stewardess who attended him on foreign trips, Sanchez wrote.

wrote.

Castro kept 20 luxurious properties throughout the Caribbean nation, including his own island, accessed via a yacht decorated entirely in exotic wood imported from Angola, Sanchez wrote.

routed the quarter-century-long dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, Castro

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Political opponents were executed by the thousands by firing squad, or sentenced to decades of hard labor.

Only those closest to him knew of these affairs.

The only woman who dared to cause him any public scandal was his rebellious daughter, Alina Fernandez Revuelta.

Sanchez wrote.

showed up with a copy of the magazine Cuba.

What followed was an epic father-daughter blowout.

reverberated all over the room, shaking the walls of the presidential

Several years later, in 1993, Fidel learned through his secret service that Alina was plotting to flee to the United States.

to Sanchez.

Two months later, Alina put on a wig, packed a false Spanish passport, and, with the help of a network of international accomplices, sneaked out of Cuba.

wrote.

to him that day, Fidel went mad with rage.

They met in 1961. Castro noticed her in the audience as he gave an open-air speech, Sanchez remembered.

After being vetted by his aide-de-camp, del Valle was installed in a discreet house just outside Havana.

Eventually, they married and had five sons, who grew up in hidden luxury on an estate outside Havana.

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Disloyalty exacted a heavy price. Dissidents were jailed for as little as handing out books on democracy.

Castro himself displayed little loyalty, either professionally or personally.

Even his closest aides faced execution if it suited his agenda.

exchanges of safe haven for cash with Colombian cocaine traffickers, Castro had no problem throwing those closest to him under the bus.

wrote.

Revolutionary Gen. Arnaldo Ochoa, who had fought alongside Fidel and Raul Castro, was at the center of the drug dealings, Sanchez said.

Raul was forced to watch on closed-circuit TV as a kangaroo court tried and

squad.

killing but also of humiliating and reducing to nothing men who had served

humiliation with vodka.

Raul, who perhaps knew best what his brother was capable of, complied.

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Even his daughter thought he was a piece of shit

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Ministry of Vengeance and Vendettas

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