Fidel Castro RIP

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Always did like his hat, RIP

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Well, seeing as you are in a hat buying phase, perhaps you should get one as a tribute.

Already got one.

 

[Paulus]

The last of the cold war communist leaders that nearly bought about WW3 in the early 60's. He stuck two fingers up to the USA and kept them up.

 

[swee'pea99]

A great man. He fought with great courage, ruled with integrity, and kept his principles. Even P.J. O' Rourke - a lifelong Republican - once wrote that Cuba was the one Caribbean country where you could eat at a roadside cafe without being besieged by hungry children. Cuba, a third world country, despite a spiteful US trade embargo, was among the world leaders in literacy, and had the best doctor/patient ratio of any country in the world, bar none. R.I.P.

 

[Markymark]

He put Cuba on the map.

The CIA's?

 

[JtB]

I once met one of Fidel Castro's life long friends (the father of the best man at my wedding) and he was one of the most humane people you could hope to meet. Of course, like Fidel Castro he was not liked much by the Americans. RIP Fidel Castro.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Well he stuck up two fingers to the US so we can overlook the bad stuff.

 

[nickyboy]

[QUOTE 4572603, member: 259"]I can never forgive him for Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine.[/QUOTE]

But howsabout the Buena Vista Social Club? We have the Ying and Yang off contemporary Cuban music.

 

[JtB]

[QUOTE 4572603, member: 259"]I can never forgive him for Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine.[/QUOTE]
That's like holding a lifetime grudge against HM The Queen for the Beetles.

Since setting up my turbo trainer earlier this week, Radio La Cubanita is providing me with some excellent motivational music.

 

[robjh]

Xi Jinping has declared that Castro will live forever. I hope his powers of prediction are better than this in other areas.

 

[Fnaar]

It'd be nice to be able to hail him as a man of principle who stuck to his beliefs, stuck two fingers up to Uncle Sam, good health provision etc. But then when you think that Juan Público can't read all the eulogies on the Interwebs because it's banned in private homes, I think again...

 

[Fnaar]

I thought you were going to say that Miss Goodbody is fond of a good fidel.

Ha ha, good one

 

[Crackle]

It'd be nice to be able to hail him as a man of principle who stuck to his beliefs, stuck two fingers up to Uncle Sam, good health provision etc. But then when you think that Juan Público can't read all the eulogies on the Interwebs because it's banned in private homes, I think again...

Red Ken was on Radio4 news singing his praises. I'm sure he said he would have loved to live there. We would have loved that too.

 

[slowmotion]

Didn't the CIA hatch some devilish plot to feed him chemicals that would make his beard fall off?

 

[Milkfloat]

But then when you think that Juan Público can't read all the eulogies on the Interwebs because it's banned in private homes, I think again...

Sounds like my mothers house, the best she can get is two tin cans and length of frayed string.