Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959
Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959
#0Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959
Posted: 7/31/06 at 9:58pmHe has suffered serious intestinal bleeding and is being treated. He has turned over power to his brother Raul - this is according to ABC News.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
ZONEACE
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#1re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959
Posted: 7/31/06 at 9:59pmI 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.
brdlwyr
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#2re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959
Posted: 7/31/06 at 10:05pmCuba will soon become a popular vacation destination!
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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.
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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."
FindingNamo
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#5re: 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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DAME
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Posted: 7/31/06 at 10:20pmYou just have to fly to Canada and go from there. Right?
HUSSY POWER!
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#7re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959
Posted: 7/31/06 at 10:21pmDame, 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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Posted: 7/31/06 at 10:22pmIs 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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Posted: 7/31/06 at 10:26pmI thought that technically you could go as long as you don't spend any money while you're there.
FindingNamo
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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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brdlwyr
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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.
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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!"
#13re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959
Posted: 7/31/06 at 11:29pmWho 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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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
#15re: Ill Fidel Gives Up Power For the First Time Since 1959
Posted: 7/31/06 at 11:35pmI assumed that to be a joke.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Yero
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#16re: 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.
"I have this mental image of Patti barreling down the street and pushing tourists out of her way." -colleen_lee
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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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