I wrote and deleted a couple of posts, not wanting to get people riled up, but I must say around 1995 this man started getting my respect. My whole life he was labeled the worst person ever by the MSMedia in the US.... and I guess there are some people whom I understand were treated badly by him in Cuba... but he was in power a long long long long... maybe the longest time of any dictator ever. He must have been doing something right or as has happened many times in this world the dictator gets booted out.
I always kind of expected to hear how he got the boot... and when he never did I slowly started thinking
isn't that interesting and impressiveI do not claim to understand how these things work, but I know bad guys tend to get the boot. I wont name names to not offend anyone but the people will rise up and overthrow a dictator if things get too bad. That has happened 1000s of time all over the plants forever
So whatever Fidel Castro did, or didn't do, or said or didn't say... he seems to have had his story (all the way back in 1959) and he stuck with that story and he outlasted a lot of people who really wanted to see him go.
The strange stories of what some folks tried to do to him... it was all very odd.... loading his cigars? nairing his beard? wtf?90 years seems like a long long time to be a dictator. That is impressive.
So around 1995 I started to think about how he leads this country just 90 miles to the South of the US and he basically holds up his middle finger to the US and says fkyadontneedyadontlikeyafkya... and he seemed to have a sense of humor.... like n
ot cashing the rent checks the US sent him for Guantanamo BAY. A weird thing. I have never really understood how/why the US has a military base on Cuban property if/when/while the US supposedly dislikes Cuba so much. I still dont know why we have a base there.
But it is all world politics and the world is strange and the way things REALLY work is REALLY strange. So over my life I slowly became somewhat amazed and impressed with how long Fidel Castro was in charge. He never took the money and ran. He set up his deal... and that was the way things are.
Of course I have heard all the bad things... and even today the MSM (aka the actual fake news) is pounding on him saying all the yadda yadda yadda... but I never heard of him doing really insane things to the masses like some leaders are doing today, this very minute, in some countries.
Maybe if I knew the ALL the facts about everything I might feel differently, but as it is, I see a man who did not like the corruption he saw happening with the gambling and foreign interests taking over his country back in 1959, so he and his people stepped up and stopped that. And then it was stable for the next... my whole life.