Fidel Castro dead at 90

[Miles]

Article.

[Matty]

Hell just got split wide open.

Awful man.

[Dereich]

RIP, HP

[Goldwater]

RIP, HP

[Sumner 1868]

Will anyone ever come close to his record of surviving assassination attempts?

[Lumine]

The end of an era in an sense, considering Castro will go down in history as one of the most relevant figures of the 20th century.

Of course, one also hopes he'll go down in history as the tyrant he was.

[Frodo]

When Raul Castro follows his brother into oblivion (he's 88, right?), perhaps that might entice Congress into repealing trade sanctions against Cuba. 

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Finally.

[Blue3]

From the dusk of the Eisenhower presidency to the dawn of the Trump presidency.

[Mr. Reactionary]

RIP, HP

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Holy shit. Didn't think this would ever happen.

[cinyc]

I don't have anything nice to say about Fidel Castro, so I'd rather not say anything at all.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Christ what I'd do to be in Miami tonight.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I'm hearing fireworks in the distance on the other side of the Intracoastal. I can only imagine that some wealthy Cuban exiles across the river by A1A are the cause of it.

[kyc0705]

RIP, HP

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Nine months from today the maternity wards in Miami are going to be at full capacity 'me thinks. What an exciting night! I know so many Cuban-Americans who have been waiting for this night for a long time. Seeing the footage out of Little Havana with all of the people in the streets, the car horns honking, the bands playing, and so forth is a really beautiful sight.

I'm sure the mood on the island itself is a bit more complex and divided, of course.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Holy shit. Didn't think this would ever happen.

A 90-year-old man dying?  That tends to happen sometimes.

[Frodo]

Holy shit. Didn't think this would ever happen.

A 90-year-old man dying?  That tends to happen sometimes.

When he's been around this long (before even our parents were born), it's easy to forget he's only mortal. 

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Holy shit. Didn't think this would ever happen.

A 90-year-old man dying?  That tends to happen sometimes.

Not this90 year old . He seemed so grimly immortal.

[SATW]

Good riddance.

[Cubby]

RIP, a thousand points of light, requiem in terra pax and so forth, amen.

[Intell]

I’m going to go out on a limb, be anti-pc and say RIP, FF with a stalin moustache in my mouth.

In actuality, he’s many part’s good, and some part’s bad. He’s done a lot for the development for Cuba (but muh rich refugees), comparing the state of social welfare and economic development of Cuba compared many parts of the third world, and even post-communist capitalist countries, has been much better. He’s done a lot for the international socialist movement and the Latin-American left, and provided medical resources and foreign aid for countries in need, from such a small country like Cuba, who was viewed before as a banana republic of the US.

To say he’s the reincarnation of the devil, unless you’re free-marKKKet capitalist right-winger is ridiculous.

The Cuban situation isn’t perfect and can of course be improved, many of the economic woes lie in because of the US embargo, and the restrictions on trade, and the fall of the soviet union.

[Kingpoleon]

May he have mercy on the devil's soul.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The funny thing is, I kinda agree with Intell. Kinda.

Castro was a murderous thug who is burning in hell. I have no doubt about that. The glee of the Cuban community in Miami tonight is a long yearned for, long desired celebration. Yet, frankly, the Cuban community in Little Havana has largely exaggerated Castro's legacy. He's a thug, sure. A dictator, certainly. But he isn't even close to being as evil as, say, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Idi Amin, or Pol Pot. And of course, the embargo of Cuba by the United States not only made the suffering of the Cuban people worse, but also strengthened his regime's hold on power. Honestly, JFK probably caused more suffering and despair worldwide than Castro ever did.

Castro certainly did develop Cuba. He did it through illegally seizing and redistributing land, crushing opposition with brute force, and supporting radical leftist movements around the world.

The real irony about the Cuban-Americans in Miami who are celebrating the news and chanting "Cuba Libre" don't have any intentions of returning. Raul isn't going to be gone long after Fidel, and I suspect that even if communism in Cuba is a relic of the past by the end of Trump's first term, most of these "exiles" will not lift a finger to help Cuba move into the 21st century.

[I’m not Stu]

Castro was a horrible communist tyrant. May he be spared a bad fate.