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Palomar

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Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: Cuba - Well...Why Not?

Cubans' Anti-Europe Protests

*Couldn't believe my eyes, when I read this.  Anti-Europe march?  Wow, I guess I'm so used to seeing "Anti-American" in a headline that I'd better ::pinch myself hard::

Castro sure is stubborn.  Not sure how far I want to go with this, but had to make a new topic for it.  What the heck.

--Cindy

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Josh Cryer

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Re: Cuba - Well...Why Not?

On a political stint lately, Cindy?

Some may find this hard to believe, but Castro actually has popular support in Cuba. And it's more or less due to the fact that the US won't lift the embargo.

Lifted embargo = weakened Castro (and Cuban government) = stronger democracy in Cuba.

And Cindy, I don't think you can take that headline at face value. Looking at Cuban political history, I think one can surmise that they were making their voice heard, not trying to show vehemence. Cuba needs Euorpe badly, and those in Havana wanted to make the point.

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Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: Cuba - Well...Why Not?

Ukraine-Russia war – live: Putin ‘invokes Cuban Missile Crisis’ as he moves ‘nuclear-capable’ ships to Havana
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl … 58425.html

maybe a post for the 'Submarine# thread

Here’s a look at the nuclear sub, other Russian warships that will visit Cuba next week
https://news.yahoo.com/news/look-nuclea … 07010.html
The Cuban armed forces announced Thursday that Russia will dock three naval vessels and one nuclear-powered submarine

a very old topic, 21 years ago

but maybe part of it overlooked is also a bitter memory and grudge going to to 1898 is passed onto the Communist son and a new Unitary Marxist–Leninist socialist Communism republic?

they say a new Russia was not Communist after the fall of the USSR

in the end the brutal form of Communism outlived him, Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008. There are rumors the Mafia and CIA and others were around Cuba in some kind of gang way before Castro, the economy weakening, but Cubans perhaps wanted something to blame and were also offended by what their country was becoming: a haven for prostitution, brothels and gambling. Castro adopted leftist and anti-imperialist ideas, some reports say early in life Castro became embroiled in student activism, starts reading Marxist Communist stuff and gets involved with the violent gangsterismo culture, 'banana wars' is a topic and opposing US intervention in the Caribbean, his father a veteran of the Spanish–American War in 1898.
https://web.archive.org/web/20061019214 … astro.html

Raúl Castro took power until 2021 and was Succeeded by Miguel Díaz-Canel, Manuel Marrero Cruz, Salvador Valdés Mesa, Esteban Lazo Hernández all picked by Castro.

'Russian warships headed to Caribbean for drills as tensions rise over Ukraine, US officials say'
https://apnews.com

Russian warships to visit Cuba next week officials
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/274 … -officials