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Thursday, 26 January 2012

Fidel Castro Calls Republican Race 'Competition Of Idiocy And Ignorance'

quote [ HAVANA -- Fidel Castro lambasted the Republican presidential race as the greatest competition of "idiocy and ignorance" the world has ever seen in a column published Wednesday, and also took shots at the news media and foreign governments for seizing on the death of a Cuban prisoner to demand greater respect for human rights. ]

I am generally sick of political things but this, for whatever reason, made me want to post.

Gingrich talking shit on Cuba.

Breaking from his attacks on Republican rivals, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich made a stop at Florida International University on Wednesday where he lashed out at the Obama administration for overlooking of Latin America, the Castro regime in Cuba, and Iranian influence in Venezuela.

In a speech that drew on the United States historical influence in the region, the former history professor condemned the Obama administration for focusing on the Arab Spring uprisings while shying away from any definitive action against Cuba. ‘They worry about an Arab Spring in Egypt, where we give billions of dollars of aid every year, they worry about an Arab Spring in Syria,” Gingrich said. “I don’t think its occurred to a single person in the White House to look south and propose a Cuban Spring.”

“If Mubarak was bad, Castro’s worse. If Assad is bad, Castro’s worse,” he added.
Gingrich also targeted Castro’s ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, for condemnation, saying he was a “bitter, deep, anti-American” and chastising him for his close ties to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Calling it the first overt violation of the Monroe Doctrine since the 1820s, Gingrich said the United States would not tolerate Iranian influence in the Western Hemisphere. “We will take whatever steps necessary to block the Iranians from acquiring military bases or other assets in Latin America, because its an intolerable.”

Gingrich said the U.S. needs to confront Chávez head on. “I think we need to say calmly and pleasantly to Chávez. We know who you are. We believe what you say. And therefore we regard you as a mortal enemy of the United States,” Gingrich said.
Cuba's Shadow Economy

While the Obama Administration has loosened some travel restrictions and the amount of remittances that can be sent to the island, it has continued to maintain a strict stance on the U.S. embargo toward Cuba until the Castro regime improves its human rights record and makes strides toward democracy.

“The United States will not waver in our support for the liberty of the Cuban people. We will remain steadfast in our outreach to the Cuban people through unlimited Cuban American family visits and remittances, purposeful travel, and humanitarian assistance to dissidents and their families in support of their legitimate desire to freely determine Cuba’s future,” The White House said in press release following the recent death of Cuban activist Wilmar Villar Mendoza.

But Gingrich, in his speech, proposed a more active, non-military approach in pressuring Cuba toward democracy and mentioned steps taken against the Soviet Union by former President Ronald Reagan as well as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II as examples. “You look at how the three of them brought moral pressure, psychological pressure, information pressure, economic pressure, covert assistance. Things like solidarity were being propped by lots of sources,” Gingrich said.

“I just want to suggest to you an all out American effort in alliance with the Cuban people to facilitate the future of Cuba,” he added. “We are in fact not going to allow a negative future of new generation of dictators to replace the Castro brothers.”

On the same day as Gingrich's speech, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro called the Republican race a competition of "idiocy and ignorance."
“The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is — and I mean this seriously — the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been,” Castro said, according to the Washington Post.

Jobless Mexicana Flight Attendants Pose for Calendar

The former Speaker of the House also mentioned security in Mexico as a concern to the U.S., saying that the violence in Mexico was a tragedy fueled by American money and its drug habit. “In effect we are funding a war that we should make sure the government of Mexico wins,” he said.

Over 47,500 people have been killed in violence related to drug war since Mexican President Felipe Calderón declared war on the country’s cartels in 2006.
Gingrich closed his speech by saying that Latin Americans need to see that the U.S. wants to help the region grow economically and for its people to live in safety. “We owe all of Latin America a commitment to prosperity, to the rule of law,” he said. “To truly be a good neighbor we want to help every part of Latin America achieve that kind of future.”

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http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/01/25/newt-gingrich-criticizes-obama-chavez-and-castro-in-florida-talk/

GOP Race in Florida is Taking a Castro Detour (Talking shit on Castro)

Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the most anti-Castro of them all?

The race is on – for the U.S. presidency, yes, but just as urgently, to be seen by Florida’s Latino voters (especially Cuban Americans) as the GOP contender most likely to give ulcers to the Castro brothers.

GOP front-runner Mitt Romney sent two statements out on Friday stressing the former Massachusetts governor’s commitment to freedom on the island.

In a strongly worded statement, Romney blamed the Castro regime for the death Thursday of Wilman Villar, a political prisoner who went on a 50-day hunger strike to protest his detainment and four-year sentence.

Other dissidents in Cuba and supporters of Villar, 31, outside the nation said he was arrested by Cuban authorities after a peaceful demonstration against the regime and in a call for human rights.

The race is on – for the U.S. presidency, yes, but just as urgently, to be seen by Florida’s Latino voters (especially Cuban Americans) as the GOP contender most likely to give ulcers to the Castro brothers.

Cuba's Shadow Economy

Villar’s death comes two years after the death of another dissident, Orlando Zapata Tamayo, who was on an 80-day hunger strike to protest his incarceration and what he had said was the physical abuse he suffered at the hands of Cuban authorities.

“The Castro regime is responsible for the death of Wilman Villar, just as it is responsible for the death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, and countless other brave prisoners of conscience that the world might never know,” Romney said in a statement. “Those of us who believe in freedom and cherish democracy must do our part to tell Wilman’s story and denounce the injustices and cruelties of the Castro tyranny.”

The statement came hours after the Romney campaign sent out a response to a Spanish-language radio ad by GOP rival Newt Gingrich that cast the former Massachusetts governor as someone who used the same slogan as Fidel Castro and held an unreasonably hard line on immigration.

Gingrich, who recently made a stop in South Florida, where he met with Cuban exiles, is airing ads that tell listeners that Romney a few years ago borrowed from a phrase from Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

The ad opens with the phrase "Fatherland or Death, we will prevail," which uttered by Castro in Spanish said: "Patria o muerte, venceremos!"

"Unlike Romney, who uses statements from Castro, Newt Gingrich has fought against the regime with Lincoln and Ileana to approve Helms-Burton," the ad says , referring to two Florida GOP Cuban-American members of Congress. "He supported the formation of Radio and TV Marti; and is in favor of holding the Castro brothers accountable for the shooting down of the Brothers to the Rescue airplanes."

Romney's campaign shot back Friday, telling Fox News Latino that some of Florida's leading proponents in Congress of a democratic Cuba have endorsed Romney because of his commitment to freedom in the hemisphere.

“This ad is false and full of ridiculous claims," said Alberto Martínez, a Romney spokesman. "Mario Díaz-Balart, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Lincoln Díaz-Balart all stand with Mitt Romney because he has laid out a clear vision for spreading democracy in our hemisphere."

Florida, which holds its primary on Jan. 31, will be the first state the candidates compete for votes in where Latinos can swing results. And Cuban-Americans, who tend to vote Republican, usually are a heavily-courted constituency for presidential political candidates.

On Friday, the Cuban-American mayor of Hialeah, a South Florida city that long has been home to a large Cuban exile community, said he planned to cast his ballot for Romney.

The very addition of Alberto Martínez, in fact, was seen as a smart move on the part of the Romney campaign as it courts the Latino vote.

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http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/01/20/gop-presidential-campaign-in-florida-is-partly-about-who-can-beat-castro/#ixzz1kbgU9MO4

Fidel Castro asking for $10 from president Roosevelt. I assume that the republicans want that $10 back with intrest.
http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blycastro.htm

[politics] [by themanwhoeatslettus@7:32pmGMT] [+10 Underrated]

Comments

RailRoader said @ 7:57pm GMT on 26th Jan
Never thought I'd side with Fidel on anything.

themanwhoeatslettus said @ 8:03pm GMT on 26th Jan
I was thinking he must be holding on to live for one more reason and i think that letter might have been it.

kichijoii said @ 8:55pm GMT on 26th Jan [Score:2 Underrated]
Why not? To me its not even an opinion, but a fact, like telling the time.

genesplicer said @ 10:18pm GMT on 26th Jan
Compared with it's other independent neighbors Haiti, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic Cuba is doing pretty well for itself, especially considering the US embargo. Cuba ranks higher on the human development index than those countries although I would hate to be a political prisoner there...

lilmookieesquire said @ 8:26pm GMT on 26th Jan [Score:5]
Can you please copy and paste the article so we do NOT give hits to FOX news and increase their advertising revenue? (you can find copy and paste HTML for boxes in my profile)

De_Wr0ng said @ 9:03pm GMT on 26th Jan [Score:1 Funny]
Lol, I knew who had mod'd you down before I clicked :-)

themanwhoeatslettus said @ 9:36pm GMT on 26th Jan
on it

lalanda said @ 10:13pm GMT on 26th Jan [Score:1 Insightful]
You got Wiessed!

themanwhoeatslettus said @ 10:18pm GMT on 26th Jan
And fixed

lilmookieesquire said @ 12:37am GMT on 27th Jan
Thanks!!

lalanda said @ 10:13pm GMT on 26th Jan
I could have sworn he was dead.

zarathustra said @ 10:19pm GMT on 26th Jan [Score:1 Underrated]
Who will go first; him or Abe?

mechanical contrivance said @ 12:54am GMT on 27th Jan
Nothing can kill the Abe.

assbastard said @ 7:48am GMT on 27th Jan [Score:1 Underrated]
I've got a $35 Indian tablet that says otherwise...

themanwhoeatslettus said @ 10:22pm GMT on 26th Jan
You know when i read it i had to remember it was Kim Jung Ill that was dead not Castro.

sacrelicious said @ 10:29pm GMT on 26th Jan
the republican candidates are just making impotent allusions to wishing him dead because a) it plays well in florida, and b) they know they have to compete with the guy who ordered the assault on the Bin Laden, and as pathetic as veiled threats against Castro are at this point in history, that's really the best they got.

antares said @ 11:03pm GMT on 26th Jan
In Havana about 5 years ago the place was covered in "Ochenta Mas" posters (that they wouldn't let us souvenier)

Fuck knows what he's going to look like in 2087 ....

antares said @ 11:20pm GMT on 26th Jan

graham said @ 11:46pm GMT on 26th Jan [Score:3 Good]
I don't know what this post is about because 3 minutes ago my mind was BLOWN.

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buckaroo50 said @ 1:01am GMT on 27th Jan
Gamma World?

lilmookieesquire said @ 1:49am GMT on 27th Jan
If I saw that guy walking down the street I think I would just let him pass.

Viking_Biochemist said @ 2:54am GMT on 27th Jan [Score:3]
Holy shit, I just realised this was made by an old mate of mine from high school.

sanepride said @ 4:33am GMT on 27th Jan
Fidel should be grateful to these guys. It's precisely their antiquated confrontational attitude and pandering to the Miami Cubans that kept him (and now Raoul) in power all these decades.

mrcucumber said @ 1:23pm GMT on 27th Jan
That's it? Nothing else? I never new everything was so simple and straight forward. Who would have thought that a confrontational attitude and pandering by US politicians would keep a man in power for so many years? In another country no less!! You must've lived there for a while, yes? I didn't know the USA had so much power, I mean, they aren't responsible for the arab spring, as you constantly want to remind us, but they sure do have power over lil'ol cuba. Come on now, those pesky cubans can't do anything for themselves, can they?

Geez, you know so mush.

profetscott said @ 6:40pm GMT on 27th Jan [Score:1 Insightful]
Never been to Cuba. However when a big powerful neighbor is attempting to crush you economicly,like say the Cuban embargo, historically that has tended to pull the population together, to resist. I imagine it doesn't always work that way. And that it doesn't work all that well for a whole generation or more. Probably has a little to do with the longevity. Then there is the use of televison mentioned by Marshal McLuan, and like china under Mao, the lives of the average family was noticeably improved for at least till the Soviet Union failed, and by that time it was a socialist society, so at least Cubans are housed, fed, educated and have medical care. Pretty sure things will be different in the next five to twenty years there, just because its different everywhere, pretty much.

profetscott said @ 7:00pm GMT on 27th Jan
reminds me of a story. I had this friend years ago, that had gone to Cuba for the largest sugercane harvest. They had boats going from Canada and Mexico taking volunteers to help out. The guy was telling this story about Fidel talking at a town hall kind of meeting, only outside. He was reading this speach saying how a large part of the population was lactose intolerant and that it was healthier to not drink milk. Think it had to do more with Cuban milk production than health issues, but that is another issue. Some old guy in the crowd says' Fidel, Fidel, I'm eighty years old and I drank two liters of milk a day for my whole life. Fidel talks to the guy and handles it well, so no one is uncomfortable. The guys point is that the people loved the guy.(Fidel) Having been raised to believe that Cuba was a police state where the people towed the line out of fear, it was pretty telling to me. Not saying you couldn't ruin your chances in life by being vocally obstructionist to the regime.

mrcucumber said @ 7:21pm GMT on 28th Jan
I've been to Cuba. Had a friend marry a Cuban girl. Nothing is as simple as it seems. The answer to why Fidel Castro and his brother are still in power is more complicated that an isolated community and the scum that feeds from them.

sanepride said @ 7:02pm GMT on 27th Jan [Score:1]
Thanks for your input.