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Fidel Castro dead at 90

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I've done a lot of things that I never thought I'd do in my life. Perhaps #1 is breaking the news to my Cuban mother-in-law that Fidel Castro died. Her response was "Gracias Senor (Thank You Lord)" and she started crying. My in-laws left Cuban after the Castro-led Cuban Revolution. They've never returned and have no desire to do so despite having family there.

Going to be amazing to experience today in Hialeah, the city with the highest percentage of Cubans and Cuban-Americans in the US.
 
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LOL. She's calling family and waking them up to tell them.
 
People partying in streets because a vegetable of an old man finally died is kind of crazy to watch

I've studied the man and even wrote a grad school paper on the complexities of our relations (Castro was not initially a communist) but I'll never understand it all.

From what I can tell he was a genuine revolutionary who let the power and paranoia overtake him.
 
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I might add, it is rather lamentable that through some cruel twist of fate so may of these mass murderers were allowed to cheat their well deserved hangman and allowed to die in their beds.
 
The Fidel/Che revolution is still one of the most incredible stories of the last century. I have no pity for the man, but he is certainly an interesting chapter in the world history books


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From Miami Herald:

Few national leaders have inspired such intense loyalty — or such a wrenching feeling of betrayal. Few fired the hearts of the world’s restless youth as Castro did when he was young, and few seemed so irrelevant as Castro when he was old — the last Communist, railing on the empty, decrepit street corner that Cuba became under his rule.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nat...castro-en/article117186483.html#storylink=cpy
 
Our embargo succeeded at one thing, keeping Castro in power. It gave him an excuse for keeping the people poor. Many hated the US more than him. The Castros would likely have been out of power decades ago if we had dropped the inane embargo.
 
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There was an interesting article on Kaepernick blasting him for the Fidel shirt yesterday then the dude up and dies. Good riddance
 
Trump says he'll overturn Obama's actions towards Cuba unless they change their policies...or unless they give the Trump Company a casino license.
 
The degree to which ESPN has contorted this story to make it sports related is weird. As if anyone would feel jilted if a sports network didn't report this news.
 
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