At the risk of sounding a commie im writing this post....Cuba is soon approaching the end of an era with the "rumoured" terminal cancer that Fidel Alejandro Castro is facing. With this would end the world's longest rein as head of state for a man who defied the most powerful country in the world starting with just 82 men. It is for this fact that you have to admire this man.
At a time when powerful leaders of the world like Saddam couldn't stop the wrath of US of A ,this man stood literally under their noses for 47 years without them being able to let out a sneeze.
Castro has ruled Cuba with an iron grip ever since usurping power in 1959....1959 it seems quite a long time back doesn't it...Well just for your information, 70% of Cuba's 11 million population was born after Fidel Castro came into power...That is something,dude..
Castro's first attempt to overthrow General Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba on July 26 1953, was a failure and he was exiled to Mexico.
But he didn’t give up. Along with revolutionary icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara and brother Raul, Castro lead a successful revolution. On January 6, 1959 he took over the country's rule.
With his impending death , one of the last bastions of Communism of yore (with Russia and China falling years back now) is at crossroads. I think his death would be like a final chapter in the history books of the Communist era of this century...A final nail in the coffin if you like it.
New questions arise in our minds with this thought....Will the new order of Globalization be Capitalistic Communism or Communistic Capitalism???
Whatever the future hold for us I salute the man who stood his ground against the brashness of the mighty US of A and came out without a scar...
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He did what he wanted, and got away with it, not a lot of people, let alone dictators, can say that, with his death, things will change,, they have to, but the ball is on the people's court now, it will ultimately be determined by them, the outcome that is.
The young idealism of Fidel, Che, Camilo, Haydee, Vilma, Celia and so many other revolutionaries - however, one feels about communism, however, one feels of what later transpired - was something beautiful and romantic in its moment in time.
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