Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959

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Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959

Posted: 7/31/06 at 9:58pm

He has suffered serious intestinal bleeding and is being treated. He has turned over power to his brother Raul - this is according to ABC News.

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re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959

Posted: 7/31/06 at 9:59pm

I just saw this on CNN.com. Whats the over/under on how much longer he has left to live?

when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.

re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959

Posted: 7/31/06 at 10:05pm

Cuba will soon become a popular vacation destination!

re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959

Posted: 7/31/06 at 10:08pm

SAy what you like about the man, but he outlasted them all: JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan...fingers crossed for GWB!

You're terrible, Muriel.

re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959

Posted: 7/31/06 at 10:13pm

Cuba will soon become a popular vacation destination!

Again!

All my life, Fidel has been in power in Cuba, so it wasn't until Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (and later, Guys and Dolls)that I knew anything different about the country. I've always been a little jealous of people who knew a different Cuba. A PARTY Cuba.

And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."

re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959

Posted: 7/31/06 at 10:15pm

"Cuba will soon become a popular vacation destination!"

It already is. Except for US citizens, whose government refuses to let them go there.

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re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959

Posted: 7/31/06 at 10:20pm

You just have to fly to Canada and go from there. Right?

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re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959

Posted: 7/31/06 at 10:21pm

Dame, you used to be able to go there through another country, but those who do and are caught are seriously fined.

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re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959

Posted: 7/31/06 at 10:22pm

Is it? Until her death a few years ago, one of the most prominent citizens in my town was Elena Amos. (Wife of John Amos, founder of AFLAC - long before those annoying duck commercials.) She was a Cuban refugee, and worked tirelessly to bring people from Cuba to the United States. The picture she painted of Castro's Cuba was incredibly bleak, and it is the only information I have to draw from about Cuba today.

And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."

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re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959

Posted: 7/31/06 at 10:26pm

I thought that technically you could go as long as you don't spend any money while you're there.

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Posted: 7/31/06 at 10:37pm

They used to be upper middle class in the "old" days and now can't even afford necessities.

Not that that would have anything to do with the useless embargo the US has clung to for no apparent reason other than to appease the ever so powerful Cuban ex-patriate community in South Florida?

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re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959

Posted: 7/31/06 at 10:48pm

embargo = stupid!

When Castro is dead there will be a counter revolution and eventually market forces will prevail and the poor will still be poor.

#13

re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959

Posted: 7/31/06 at 11:25pm

People who have not been to Cuba should really not just listen to the news from the people who live in South Florida or from a lot if the US media.

Tourism is thriving in the country and the health care system is better than a number of other countries.

I totally agree that the majority of the problems are from the embargo. It's interesting that there is no embargo with China which has the same system.

And does anyone really know Fidel's brother? Don't assume that if something happens to Fidel that things will just change automatically.

"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"

#14

re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959

Posted: 7/31/06 at 11:29pm

Who is assuming that? Castro turned over power to him, so my assumption would be that he shares the same views.

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

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re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959

Posted: 7/31/06 at 11:32pm

Assumptions ARE being made. To say that "Cuba will soon become a popular vacation destination" implies, to me at least, that some major change is soon to come.

"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"

Updated On: 7/31/06 at 11:32 PM

#16

re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959

Posted: 7/31/06 at 11:35pm

I assumed that to be a joke.

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

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re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959

Posted: 7/31/06 at 11:40pm

"Assumptions ARE being made. To say that "Cuba will soon become a popular vacation destination" implies, to me at least, that some major change is soon to come."
I believe the original poster was joking when they said that.

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re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959

Posted: 7/31/06 at 11:53pm

brdlwyr may have indeed been making a joke but I'm not only thinking about what was written in this thread. His post reminded me what I had actually heard a short time before I posted. My viewing of "Hell's Kitchen" was interrupted by the "breaking news" out of Miami. There are many people there who are thinking that a change is imminent.

"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"

Updated On: 7/31/06 at 11:53 PM

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