Fidel should have made it to the Guinness World Records, he survived more assassination attempts than we can count. I don't think there had been another man that had stood up to an empire for so long and had live to tell the story.
Fidel Castro has died
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#12Good riddance
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#13This feels like one more end of an era. Though I wonder if the opening of relations between the US and Cuba might have been the end of that era.
In any case, Fidel lived long enough to see the American overreaction through most of it's shelf life.
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#14... and nothing of value was lost.
http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/cuba/dictatorship.html
The man was an evil murderous dictator, and the world - and his subjects - are better off without him.
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#15I went to Cuba earlier this year. It felt like a new era was upon the island. This just solidifies that. Looking back, it will be crazy to think, I went to Cuba while Fidel Castro was still alive.
Castro's death changes nothing, he has been away from leading Cuba and decision making for about 8 years. The current president (his own brother) has his very same ideals
same ideals, and close to the same age.
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#17Is there anyway way that castro could have done his revolution that wasn't opposed to the us? suppose you lived in a country that was ruled by a dictator that was supported by foreign powers, and you wanted to end that dictatorship so the people got freedom? that part seems okay. castro was a communist, that was unforgivable. but think about how the us treated chile and pinochet and other south american leaders. Like most revolutions, there were good and bad things. I don't know enough about castro and cuba to draw conclusions. after he took power, did he become a new dictator himself? what did he do more than be a communist leader?
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#18I guess death by old age is definitely an "unnatural" death for a dictator.
When he was very old but still in power, I always wondered if he would just suddenly die one day and his country would descend into chaos. At least that has not happened, what, if you like or dislike him, you should probably still credit him. I hope Cuba will develop into a freer society over time.
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#19Excerpt from the article on CNN (probably edited by the time you read this): http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/26/americas/fidel-castro-obit...
"One Castro or another has ruled Cuba over a period that spans seven decades and 11 U.S. presidents. Fidel Castro outlived six of those presidents,[[[NOTE: change to seven if George H.W. Bush dies before Castro]]] including Cold War warriors John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan."
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#20Finally , that As was a tyrant and son of the devil, I'm happy he is gone forever