here is the joke in the ladrones post " the Cuban People decide " while he wallows in the freedoms and sucks the teat of freedom the whining complaining ladrone lefty kid who has never had it hard except for when his Puerto Rican /Cuban complex gets the best of him and he projects his inferiority complex and piggybacks onto the Castros for his false pride ...What nerve ! as he says ....." He and the rest of his tribe cant accept the fact that its should be up to Cuba not the US to decide the fate of of the Cuban people or it political philosophy."......Be up to Cuba or your murderous commie thug amigos ......you loser because you had it given to you you dont know what it is and you never had to fight for it .

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Castro: Never Mr. Nice Guy
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In recent years Hollywood celebrities and U.S. political figures have traveled to Cuba to visit Fidel Castro and treated him as though he is some heroic figure. Most had glowing words to say about their host. Fidel Castro is a very charismatic individual and his long tenure in office adds to his legend, but Castro is defiantly not a heroic figure, far from it. Now that he has stepped down, and as President Obama and the United States seek better relationships with Cuba, with which I agree, I thought it would be timely if we reviewed some of Castro's real record.

FACT: In an August 8, 1958 speech Castro said "our primary objective is to reestablish democracy." Five months later, on January 1, 1959, he lead the Cuban revolution to victory. Since then he has never relinquished power and has remained in office 49 years. Not a promised democracy but a communist dictatorship.

Castro is not a hero to many of the Cuban people who expected democracy.

FACT: By the end of 1959 virtually all major business was under state control and critical newspapers were silenced. All of the media was eventually controlled by the government, including the internet. Today in order to get on the internet you must get permission from the government.

Castro is not a hero to journalists or the citizens who lost their business.

FACT: In 1961 he declared himself a Marxist Leninist. He purged his military, replacing them with communist militants, and those who complained he jailed, executed, or forced to leave Cuba. They were friends who fought along side him in the revolution. Their crime: they wanted what they fought for, democracy not communism.

Castro is not a hero to many of his compatriots of the Revolution.

FACT: Commandant Huber Motos, who fought in the revolution alongside Castro and even rode into Havana as a hero on a tank, standing with Castro, complained about communism creeping into government and the military, and he resigned. Castro called him a traitor and he was imprisoned for 20 years, sixteen of these years in solitary confinement.

FACT: In July 1961, during the Cold War, the U.S. broke relations with Cuba.

In the early 60s Castro made a deal with the Soviet Union to place nuclear missiles in Cuba aimed at the U.S. Castro then suggested, in a cable to Premier Khrushchev on October 27, 1962, that they launch from Cuba a first nuclear strike. In a letter to Castro, Soviet Premier Khrushchev rejected the idea: "You realize of course where that would have led, rather than a simple strike it would have been the start of a thermonuclear war."

Castro is not a hero to those who remember he wanted to nuke the U.S.

FACT: Castro is the man whose repressive government caused the U.N. Human Rights Commission, along with Amnesty International, from the 1960s into the 21st century to condemn Cuba for "the continuing violation of human rights." In April 1986, "The Tribunal on Cuba" met in Paris and, as reported on April 18 in Le Figaro, "testimony by former Cuban prisoners resembled those made 40 years ago by survivors of the Death Camps."

Castro is not a hero to those mistreated in Cuban prisons.

FACT: Just six years ago Castro arrested 75 human rights activists, journalists and opposition figures and sentenced them to terms ranging from six to 28 years. Last year a free press group, "Reporters without Borders," appealed to Raul Castro to release the 19 reporters in prison since 2003.

Castro is no hero to those unfairly jailed or their families.

FACT: Since Castro's triumph in the revolution, over two million Cubans, many at great risk of life, fled Cuba. Something must be wrong. Some were Cubans whose property had been confiscated, small businessmen whose stores and shops were closed, the very poor dwellers in Havana's squalid inner-city, as well as many poor throughout the country. They were fed up with economic hardship and virtual disappearance of political freedom. That exodus continues today.

Castro is no hero to the millions of loyal Cuban people who had to flee their homeland.

FACT: In the 1970s the U.S. and Cuba decided to try to get along. At a secret meeting in the Hotel Pierre, near LaGuardia Airport in New York, Cuban and American officials tried to work out a rapprochement. In 1975 Secretary of State Henry Kissinger announced the U.S. was ready to "begin a new relationship." The two countries were on the brink of an agreement.

Then Fidel Castro made one of the worse decisions in his life. Just as the normalization of relations between Cuba and the U.S. seemed imminent, Castro decided to rekindle his international ambitions. He faced a choice, intervention with Cuban troops into Angola's civil war, or normalize relations with the United States. Unfortunately he made the wrong choice. With Cuban troops fighting in Angola, President Gerald Ford said Castro's intrusion into Angola precludes any improvement of relations with Cuba.

Castro is no hero to the Cubans who wanted to renew U.S. relations.

FACT: Like an ancient potentate, Castro has passed his power on to his younger brother Raul Castro. Raul was then elected president in a sham election as the only candidate on the ballot. According to CNN, Time and the Wall Street Journal, Raul has a "reputation for ruthlessness." If you think Cuba is going to have a meaningful change with Raul, don't bet on it. Raul has said socialism and communism will remain. Recently it is reported that Cuba was discussing a plan to bring the Russian military back into Cuba. Raul just allowed the Cuban people to own a cell phone. A start, but funny, as most Cubans really can't afford them.

SUMMARY: So, Castro is no hero. The real Fidel Castro lied when he promised democracy, he confiscated businesses large and small, he executed or jailed many of his fellow revolutionaries, he silenced a free press, he rebuked the U.S. when he had a chance at rapprochement, he caused millions of loyal Cubans to leave their homeland and in a secret deal with the Soviet Union, he had nuclear missiles placed in Cuba aimed at the U.S. Then he actually suggested to Khrushchev he wanted to fire them in a preemptive strike. That's right, nuke America. And so as he leaves the world stage and as the U.S. plans for better relations, let's remember what Castro actually did to his country. The more than two million that fled Cuba, they remember. Yes, I know Cuba has a lot of doctors, but the misery he brought to the Cuban people for the last 49 years is the real legacy of Fidel Castro.

Bed bug needs liberating from his brainwashing....... Never fought for anything except owning a bigger and better car to pollute the air and trash the planet.
S.

Perhaps (I believe in milagros) a hundred years from now it may finally dawn on ABCdummy that he makes an utter fool of himself. He never responds to the content of any post, like a broken record (or demented little man) he keeps repeating the same old silly personal insults....

i find this incessant reference to the misery of Cuba quite intriguing. it is strange that Cuba is the only nation on earth in which the constitution states that every citizen be given free health care, education, and living quarters. the USA refers to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, but i fail to see how you can be entitled to Llife if you have no health care, or the pursuit of Happiness when you have no basic necessities,and you live under a highway overpass.

Cuba, awesome country, hundreds of millions all over the world are desperate to move there, they are having to build walls around Cuba to keep people out, Doctors from the USA are begging to be allowed to give up $300,000 USD a year to live in the workers PARADISE at $200 per month, but Castro says no, his isalnd is one were all are equal (equally poor) and only he is allowed to be a billionaire....

HAVANA -- Before leaving home for work, Aurelio makes sure he carries the touch-screen cellphone with music player and camera that he bought from a Spanish tourist. In today's Havana, a phone like that is a symbol of power.

Aurelio (who asked that his surname not be published) is a privileged member of a class of Cubans who try to maintain an above-average standard of living without running into a system that not only discourages individual initiative but often punishes it.

''In my opinion, people who work in the hotel, tourism and transportation industries have a greater purchasing power and use cellphones more frequently,'' Aurelio said. ``And I believe that will continue until the day some things change.''

Cubacel, a company operated by the Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA), has a monopoly on mobile telephones on the island. The connection fee is as high as $65. A charge is made for both reception and transmission that vary from between 45 and 60 cents per minutes. That's steep in a country where the average monthly salary is about 400 Cuban pesos (about $18).

SLOW PROGRESS

When it comes to mobile phone access, Cuba holds the last place (behind Haiti) on the list of Latin American and Caribbean countries -- 0.2 phones per inhabitant or less than 5 percent of the population. First on the list is Argentina.

Cuban authorities estimate that by the year 2013 there will be 1.4 million lines available, including regular users and prepaid-card users.

For the Cuban government, communications are a vital frontline. The traditional and inflexible control of information for the past half century has been challenged in recent years by new technologies. There are about 20 independent blogs, such as Generation Y, where dissident voices freely express their vision of reality. On occasion, personalities in the opposition have participated in video-conferences with exiles in Miami.

Despite the official restrictions and the slowness of the connections, the Internet and the boom in cellphone use have been very useful to human-rights activists, who transmit their denunciations abroad with a speed that was unthinkable years ago.

Since the 1990s, television has been the censors' Achilles heel. Thousands of Cubans, mostly in Havana, watch Spanish-language telecasts from Miami. U.S. State Department officials estimate that 10,000 to 15,000 parabolic antennas are in use in Cuba.

Amaury, a Havana resident who rents rooms to foreign tourists for about $30 per night, pays about $10 a month to receive a pirated TV signal. That expense does not dramatically dent his monthly family budget -- about $450.

''Here, we pick up Miami channels such as Univisión and Channel 41 [America TeVé],'' said Amaury, who also asked that his surname not be published. ``The only problem is that you can only watch the channel selected by the owner of the parabolic antenna.''

DISTRIBUTION

The pirated signal is distributed by a neighbor through coaxial cables, amplifiers and frequency boosters that normally blend with the ordinary electric lines.

According to Amaury, the capricious limitation of the TV service is not objectionable because -- he and his girlfriend agree -- Cuban television is ``boring.''

Cuba has five television channels, at least two of which offer only educational programming. One of them, Multivisión, began to broadcast round the clock nine months ago. It was a desperate effort by the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television to provide more attractive programming and to slow the increase of pirated subscriptions.

Recently, the government announced that it will initiate a study to launch digital TV 15 years from now, increasing the number of channels and improving the signal in remote areas. Meanwhile, operations are underway to dismantle illegal connections and break up a business that, so far, has defied the authorities' strict vigilance.

In March, the Cuban press reported the arrest of several citizens for illegal economic activities that included the dissemination of television signals broadcast by the U.S. company DirecTV. Darris Gringeri, a spokesman for DirecTV in New York, refused to comment on the issue.

During the investigation, the Provincial Tribunal of Havana concluded that the accused had contacts in the United States. Allegedly, accomplices of the accused across the United States opened DirecTV accounts for the sole purpose of furnishing the codes and installation devices needed to capture the international signal in Cuba.

HARSH PUNISHMENTS

Punishment for illegal possession and installation of parabolic antennas ranges from 3 to 5 years' imprisonment, fines and confiscation of goods, according to each case.

Amaury, 41, does not know for sure how his neighbor obtained the antennas and repeaters, but said that neither the fines nor the confiscation of the equipment used for the distribution of satellite signals ``will make clients forget cable television.''

According to him, every so often a van from the Ministry of Computer Sciences and Communications drives through the neighborhood detecting unauthorized frequencies.

''That happened in the Vedado neighborhood, but two or three days after the police came and cut the special cables, the neighbors reinstalled the connections,'' he said.

The authorities have been particularly watchful of citizens' access to the Internet. There is still no official response from Cuba to the suspension of a series of restrictions on communications and TV linkage to the island announced recently by President Obama.

U.S. INVOLVEMENT

In fact, U.S. firms can already establish fiber-optic and satellite connections and offer portable-telephony services. However, Cuba insists on having access to a network of underwater Internet cables that would provide faster connections, in violation of the rules of the trade embargo imposed in 1962.

Price is one of the main obstacles to widespread Internet use. The connection from hotels and ETECSA branches costs as much as 10 CUC per hour. Recently, some hotels have denied the use of computers to Cuban citizens, claiming the existence of a joint regulation by the Ministry of Tourism and ETECSA, although its contents has not been published.

To the government, the usual explanation for the lack of a Web infrastructure that satisfies the population's demands blames the economic crisis and the U.S. embargo. ''It sounds good but it doesn't compute,'' said Xiomara, 21, a student of engineering.

The government restrictions ''are economic, not political,'' she added.

Xiomara stood on line for more than 30 minutes, one day in May, to use a computer in an ETECSA office at Obispo Blvd. in Old Havana. The government, she said, has no idea as to what ''dissatisfied'' young people can do.

''They want to wear us out, but I think that things are going to be difficult for them,'' she said. ``Young people in Cuba are more restless than ever.''

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HAVANA -- Before leaving home for work, Aurelio makes sure he carries the touch-screen cellphone with music player and camera that he bought from a Spanish tourist. In today's Havana, a phone like that is a symbol of power.

Aurelio (who asked that his surname not be published) is a privileged member of a class of Cubans who try to maintain an above-average standard of living without running into a system that not only discourages individual initiative but often punishes it.

''In my opinion, people who work in the hotel, tourism and transportation industries have a greater purchasing power and use cellphones more frequently,'' Aurelio said. ``And I believe that will continue until the day some things change.''

Cubacel, a company operated by the Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA), has a monopoly on mobile telephones on the island. The connection fee is as high as $65. A charge is made for both reception and transmission that vary from between 45 and 60 cents per minutes. That's steep in a country where the average monthly salary is about 400 Cuban pesos (about $18).

SLOW PROGRESS

When it comes to mobile phone access, Cuba holds the last place (behind Haiti) on the list of Latin American and Caribbean countries -- 0.2 phones per inhabitant or less than 5 percent of the population. First on the list is Argentina.

Cuban authorities estimate that by the year 2013 there will be 1.4 million lines available, including regular users and prepaid-card users.

For the Cuban government, communications are a vital frontline. The traditional and inflexible control of information for the past half century has been challenged in recent years by new technologies. There are about 20 independent blogs, such as Generation Y, where dissident voices freely express their vision of reality. On occasion, personalities in the opposition have participated in video-conferences with exiles in Miami.

Despite the official restrictions and the slowness of the connections, the Internet and the boom in cellphone use have been very useful to human-rights activists, who transmit their denunciations abroad with a speed that was unthinkable years ago.

Since the 1990s, television has been the censors' Achilles heel. Thousands of Cubans, mostly in Havana, watch Spanish-language telecasts from Miami. U.S. State Department officials estimate that 10,000 to 15,000 parabolic antennas are in use in Cuba.

Amaury, a Havana resident who rents rooms to foreign tourists for about $30 per night, pays about $10 a month to receive a pirated TV signal. That expense does not dramatically dent his monthly family budget -- about $450.

''Here, we pick up Miami channels such as Univisión and Channel 41 [America TeVé],'' said Amaury, who also asked that his surname not be published. ``The only problem is that you can only watch the channel selected by the owner of the parabolic antenna.''

DISTRIBUTION

The pirated signal is distributed by a neighbor through coaxial cables, amplifiers and frequency boosters that normally blend with the ordinary electric lines.

According to Amaury, the capricious limitation of the TV service is not objectionable because -- he and his girlfriend agree -- Cuban television is ``boring.''

Cuba has five television channels, at least two of which offer only educational programming. One of them, Multivisión, began to broadcast round the clock nine months ago. It was a desperate effort by the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television to provide more attractive programming and to slow the increase of pirated subscriptions.

Recently, the government announced that it will initiate a study to launch digital TV 15 years from now, increasing the number of channels and improving the signal in remote areas. Meanwhile, operations are underway to dismantle illegal connections and break up a business that, so far, has defied the authorities' strict vigilance.

In March, the Cuban press reported the arrest of several citizens for illegal economic activities that included the dissemination of television signals broadcast by the U.S. company DirecTV. Darris Gringeri, a spokesman for DirecTV in New York, refused to comment on the issue.

During the investigation, the Provincial Tribunal of Havana concluded that the accused had contacts in the United States. Allegedly, accomplices of the accused across the United States opened DirecTV accounts for the sole purpose of furnishing the codes and installation devices needed to capture the international signal in Cuba.

HARSH PUNISHMENTS

Punishment for illegal possession and installation of parabolic antennas ranges from 3 to 5 years' imprisonment, fines and confiscation of goods, according to each case.

Amaury, 41, does not know for sure how his neighbor obtained the antennas and repeaters, but said that neither the fines nor the confiscation of the equipment used for the distribution of satellite signals ``will make clients forget cable television.''

According to him, every so often a van from the Ministry of Computer Sciences and Communications drives through the neighborhood detecting unauthorized frequencies.

''That happened in the Vedado neighborhood, but two or three days after the police came and cut the special cables, the neighbors reinstalled the connections,'' he said.

The authorities have been particularly watchful of citizens' access to the Internet. There is still no official response from Cuba to the suspension of a series of restrictions on communications and TV linkage to the island announced recently by President Obama.

U.S. INVOLVEMENT

In fact, U.S. firms can already establish fiber-optic and satellite connections and offer portable-telephony services. However, Cuba insists on having access to a network of underwater Internet cables that would provide faster connections, in violation of the rules of the trade embargo imposed in 1962.

Price is one of the main obstacles to widespread Internet use. The connection from hotels and ETECSA branches costs as much as 10 CUC per hour. Recently, some hotels have denied the use of computers to Cuban citizens, claiming the existence of a joint regulation by the Ministry of Tourism and ETECSA, although its contents has not been published.

To the government, the usual explanation for the lack of a Web infrastructure that satisfies the population's demands blames the economic crisis and the U.S. embargo. ''It sounds good but it doesn't compute,'' said Xiomara, 21, a student of engineering.

The government restrictions ''are economic, not political,'' she added.

Xiomara stood on line for more than 30 minutes, one day in May, to use a computer in an ETECSA office at Obispo Blvd. in Old Havana. The government, she said, has no idea as to what ''dissatisfied'' young people can do.

''They want to wear us out, but I think that things are going to be difficult for them,'' she said. ``Young people in Cuba are more restless than ever.''
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Cuba doesn't have the infrastructure yet, as China has, to control the internet. All sorts of lies can spread given that the evil empire, the USA, wants to subvert Cuba and return the Cuban people to short miserable lives as is so common in the World!
S.

ABC :

You fail to read between the lines....


Goulet just wants to illustrate how resourceful the cubans are.... you see, while they are dying of hunger (right belly?) , and tired of studying and darn it, learnign how to read and write, they still have to find amusement by reconnecting parabolic dishes and cable, that those UZI carrying gov't vans keep patrolling !!

hahhah!

GC, please filter your stuff before posting , it says so much between lines it makes you seem silly !

glim you have found a kindred spirit in the moron ABC now the imbecile and the moron have found each other he will be able to show you the true path to knowledge