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ZR
11-26-2016, 09:09 AM
Fidel Castro, the fiery apostle of revolution who brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere in 1959 and then defied the United States for nearly half a century as Cuba’s maximum leader, bedeviling 11 American presidents and briefly pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war, died Friday. He was 90.
His death was announced by Cuban state television.
In declining health for several years, Mr. Castro had orchestrated what he hoped would be the continuation of his Communist revolution, stepping aside in 2006 (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/14/world/americas/14cuba.html?_r=0) when he was felled by a serious illness. He provisionally ceded much of his power to his younger brother Raśl, now 85, and two years later formally resigned as president (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/world/americas/20cuba.html). Raśl Castro, who had fought alongside Fidel Castro from the earliest days of the insurrection and remained minister of defense and his brother’s closest confidant, has ruled Cuba since then, although he has told the Cuban people he intends to resign in 2018.


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83 5.0
11-26-2016, 09:16 PM
Trudeau called him a great friend, and leader..... http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fidel-castro-trudeau-condolences-1.3869280

What an embarrassment.

StAnger
11-26-2016, 11:41 PM
Trudeau called him a great friend, and leader..... http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fidel-castro-trudeau-condolences-1.3869280

What an embarrassment.


If you look up Idiot Left in the dictionary, you'll see a picture of Trudeau.

5.4MarkVIII
11-27-2016, 09:54 AM
Is this why I'm seeing posts like this being put up by all the left supporters on Facebook?

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NickD
11-27-2016, 01:59 PM
Great leaders don't have their citizens risking their lives fleeing the country on inner tubes in the middle of the night...

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83 5.0
11-27-2016, 02:17 PM
Great leaders don't have their citizens risking their lives fleeing the country on inner tubes in the middle of the night...

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Was thinking the same thing.