Cuban “Presidents” vs Cuban “Dictators” (Chapter XXXXIV)
"See? Reuters and the NY Times prove that in Cuba any little boy can grow up to be President."
From Reuters:
"When Raul Castro succeeded his brother as president in February 2008, he named his aide as defence minister. General Casas Regueiro was working as an accountant at a bank in the city of Santiago de Cuba when in 1957 he quit his job to join the budding revolution against dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Now from the New York Times:
The president’s brother, Fidel Castro, who led the country for decades but who no longer holds any official position, turned 85 last month. ..he began collaborating with the rebels who were trying to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.
Is that dog tag or an escapulario hanging from his neck?
Next to this miserable asswipe, Obama looks like Winston Churchill. As for what he's got around his neck, it doesn't matter; it's fake either way.
Asombra:
"Next to this miserable asswipe, Obama looks like Winston Churchill."
Exactly! the castro brothers are the lowest of the low. We're talking about scraping the bottom of the barrel here. There is absolutely nothing redeeming about them.
"As for what he's got around his neck, it doesn't matter; it's fake either way."
Precisely. The entire thing is a farce from top to bottom. Not even the "revolution" is real. At best it was an uprising by forces other than castro's. Batista departed in the middle of the night. A power vacuum was left with his escape and with the deaths of the real rebel leaders that had been killed in the struggle while fidel and raul safely hid in the Sierra Mountains with their little clandestine radio. fidel then opportunistically filled the hole. This entire thing with army fatigues, dog tags/escapulario, etc..etc.. is a joke. Even their army ranks are jokes. When did that queen ever fight a real battle or climb up the army ranks. Wasn't she a general before she became "president" raul? What a joke!
I'm on the soap box now, my other pet peeve is that stupid notion that with that small ragamuffin band of losers that came aboard the Gramma with castro he won the battle. That's a bigger tale than Paul Bunyon, yet, the American mainstream media repeats it over and over again.
How’s this for an edit: "When Raul Castro succeeded his brother as head of the brutal Castro dictatorship in February 2008, he appointed an aide as titular defense minister. Casas Regueiro was working as an accountant at a bank in the city of Santiago de Cuba when in 1957 he quit his job to join with an opportunistic rebel terrorist group headed by Fidel Castro, manuvering to overthrow the government headed by the unpopular dictator Fulgencio Batista.”
Cubans, on top of their tendency to trivialize even very serious things, were essentially infantile politically and very dangerously credulous. All that was needed for disaster was for someone or something to exploit their weaknesses fully. They had no clue what they were dealing with or playing at, no sense of the enormous risk, and no realistic appreciation of how well they already had it. Of course, the now official history, full of lies, half truths and deliberate distortions, makes it seem as if Cuba was practically Haiti waiting for deliverance, but never mind. The bottom line is that Cubans blew it big time, in the worst possible way, and that can be explained but never justified. You simply do not flush your country, culture and future down the toilet. It’s not even remotely respectable, to put it mildly.
These old “revolutionary” photos, full of dirty, unkempt, highly disreputable-looking pseudomilitary types, with absolutely no experience of governing (or even of working for a living, in Fidel’s case), look more appalling every day. It’s incredible that people would fall for such crudely theatrical huffing and puffing, for such blowhard posturing and grandstanding. It’s deeply shameful that most Cubans were no wiser than some pathetic foreign fool like Herbert Matthews. It’s also tragic, because unlike him, Cubans had everything to lose, and they sure as hell wound up losing it.
Asombra, I tip my hat off to you for wording it so PERFECTLY. We completely, miserably, utterly lost, squandered everything in the most monumental way imaginable. It just leaves one thunderstruck with a gaping mouth, panting and in shock to think how it all happened. I mean, it is not as if fidel castro were not an unknown entity. He was a student agitator, murderer and gangster. But, such was the hatred for Batista that the Cubans not only bite their nose to spite their face, they ripped off their entire face!
The way that I see it, we have nothing more now to do than damage control. We must work to undo castro's lies. Unfortunately, we're not even good at that! We have no viable think tanks, publishing house, no media outlet. NOTHING. All that we have are blogs which are good, but that's hardly enough. Reinaldo Arenas realized this years ago. He argued that if we were going to fight castro one-on-one, we would need a publishing house and a media outlet. He told this to a group of Cuban millionaires. Their reply to him, in typical Cuban fashion, THERE'S NO MONEY TO BE MADE IN THIS ENDEAVOR.
castro's 52 year long dictatorship was the perfect storm. A combination of unscrupulous, treacherous, psychopathic "revolutionaries' and a country whose people are characterized by their frivolous, nonchalant, cavalier outlook on life, combined with communism at its height and an inept, inexperienced and cowardly, roguish President, Kennedy.
That's the most chickenshit beard I've ever seen in my life. I bet Vilma had more facial hair than that.