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December 2016

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Viva Fidel, Viva la
Revolución, Viva Cuba,
Hasta la Victoria Siempre.

By © Guido Colacci 2016
Another one of my great heroes, the
Commander In Chief, Revolutionary
Icon and former president of Cuba Fidel
Castro, died late last night in Havana at the age of 90.

All honor to Cuba and the Cuban people there
and what great people the Cubans are and what
a Great leader Mr Fidel Castro was. He led his
country in a very courageous and dignified way
despite the intimidation, imposed economic starvation and death attempts by the USA government. He defined
himself at home with his staunch belief that true socialism benefitted all
people and abroad with his direct and
often taunting defiance of Washington. In
the end, he essentially won the political
staring game. He never once gave in to the U.S. despite over 600+ assassination
attempts on his life by th e CIA , Mafia and exiled disgruntled Cubans, and 50+
years of an economic embargo by the United States and its allies that left Cuba
always struggling economically especially after the fall of Russia. And in 1961,
the island nation fended off a CIA-backed invasion known as the Bay of Pigs.
Also, rejected by President John Kennedy was the CIA Operation Northwoods,
which was to disguise an American jet as a Cuban jet and have it attack a real
American passenger airliner killing all the passengers and thus causing outrage
and backlash against Cuba from everyone in the United States as in 9/11.
For
many like me, he was a champion
of the poor who along with Ernesto
"Che" Guevara made violent revolution a romanticized ideal, a symbol
of liberation who overthrew a dictator and brought free education and
health care to the masses. Hundreds
of thousands of Cubans began fleeing north almost immediately after
Castro's 1959 revolution as he started
turning exuberantly capitalist Cuba
into a socialist state.

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