Ethereal
08-19-2014, 02:29 AM
Cuban Government Celebrates Fidel Castro's 88th Birthday With Pomp And Photographs (http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2014/08/13/cuba-celebrates-fidel-castro-88th-birthday-with-photo-exhibit-fidel-is-fidel/)
Published August 13, 2014 Fox News Latino
HAVANA (AP) – Cuba marked Fidel Castro's 88th birthday Wednesday with tributes in official media, a concert and a photo exhibit in the capital and a newly inaugurated restoration of the home where he was born.
Loathed by many exiles in Florida who see him as a man who ruled with an iron fist and stamped out civil liberties, Castro was celebrated on the island as a fighter for equality and social justice who defied the United States for five decades.
"Eighty-eight more reasons to continue fighting for the salvation of humanity," read a headline in the newspaper Juventud Rebelde.
"Paying homage to Fidel is a great party," Communist Party daily Granma said.
His birthday was last Wednesday.
What I find amazing was his ability to avoid being killed or overthrown by the CIA for all those years.
Almost as amazing is that Fidel Castro, the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who shut down virtually every privately owned business in Cuba during his reign, has a Twitter account: LINK (https://mobile.twitter.com/reflexionfidel)
And although he somewhat softened his anti-privatization policies during the 1990's, this was done purely out of political and economic necessity, lest Cuba become a Caribbean version of North Korea, a wretchedly impoverished pariah state.
So, I'm wondering if Fidel Castro sees the irony in having a Twitter account, which is a privately owned, publicly traded for-profit company based out of Silicon Valley, America's center of free market enterprise in the 21st century.
Either way, he's an interesting figure to say the least.
Published August 13, 2014 Fox News Latino
HAVANA (AP) – Cuba marked Fidel Castro's 88th birthday Wednesday with tributes in official media, a concert and a photo exhibit in the capital and a newly inaugurated restoration of the home where he was born.
Loathed by many exiles in Florida who see him as a man who ruled with an iron fist and stamped out civil liberties, Castro was celebrated on the island as a fighter for equality and social justice who defied the United States for five decades.
"Eighty-eight more reasons to continue fighting for the salvation of humanity," read a headline in the newspaper Juventud Rebelde.
"Paying homage to Fidel is a great party," Communist Party daily Granma said.
His birthday was last Wednesday.
What I find amazing was his ability to avoid being killed or overthrown by the CIA for all those years.
Almost as amazing is that Fidel Castro, the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who shut down virtually every privately owned business in Cuba during his reign, has a Twitter account: LINK (https://mobile.twitter.com/reflexionfidel)
And although he somewhat softened his anti-privatization policies during the 1990's, this was done purely out of political and economic necessity, lest Cuba become a Caribbean version of North Korea, a wretchedly impoverished pariah state.
So, I'm wondering if Fidel Castro sees the irony in having a Twitter account, which is a privately owned, publicly traded for-profit company based out of Silicon Valley, America's center of free market enterprise in the 21st century.
Either way, he's an interesting figure to say the least.