The Discreet Terror of Fidel Castro

So what will become of Cuba after Fidel departs?

Raúl and his military cronies, however, cornered Fidel and imposed their group s criteria.

It may not be widely known that Fidel is a very cultured man.

Since ill health forced Fidel Castro to retire from Cuba s leadership, Raúl has opened the doors to the military and pushed out even those civilians who had been his brother s trusted associates.

In Cuba, Fidel Castro s eventual passing from the scene represents an immense challenge.

When it becomes irritated, it sets in motion a campaign of disinformation, blackmail and pressure.

In 1959 there is a revolution and the revolution is led by this character, Fidel Castro, and his kind of two right hand men are Raul Castro and Che Guevara right over here and they take control of Cuba.

The evidence that remained once again illustrates the inevitable correlation between colonialism and repression.

While Fidel wrote doctrinaire articles in the official press, the armed forces took over politics and production.

Aristide's attacks led US conservatives to brand him as the next Fidel Castro.

Mandela faced similar criticism from the West for his personal friendships with Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi.

The death watch for Fidel Castro is something that only Gabriel Garcia Marquez could get right.

The Cuban government, led by Fidel Castro after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, was at first neutral before turning itself towards Moscow.

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Yet the US cannot set aside the question of democracy and human rights in Cuba while it awaits the departure of Fidel s brother, Raúl.

And, in a scene worthy of the glory years of Stalinism, Raúl received the unanimous permission of Cuba s parliament to consult with Fidel on all major issues.

Many observers portray Raúl Castro, Fidel s younger brother and designated heir, as a pragmatist the practical Castro.

Fidel said that his appearance was a continuation of the statement given on 5 August to cover another serious incident which had taken place on 8 August, involving a hijacking and a murder.

Fidel called on the United States to extend to illegal Cuban immigrants the same treatment that was accorded to those coming from other countries.

Fidel Castro knows this, and will take advantage of the democracies diluted commitment to human rights and democracy.

Naturally, they declare friendship with Fidel Castro and seek his embrace to prevent old comrades from accusing them of betraying their legacy.

Like those tall tales, Fidel s myth of Che bears a superficial resemblance to historical facts, but the real story is far darker.

He accused the United States authorities of behaving cynically, irresponsibly and dishonestly in their investigation of the hijacking of a boat and the murder of a Cuban Navy Officer.

Given that Lula is an avowed leftist who counts Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro among his friends, Brazil s performance is all the more surprising. How could he manage to preside over such a spectacular stock market boom?

But the democratic transitions in Eastern Europe made Fidel Castro wary, so the first opportunity for a similar transition in Cuba was lost.

In 1953, Fidel Castro, in what is probably the best known speech in Latin American political history, proclaimed in court that history would absolve him.

For years, he has been accused of taking over where Fidel Castro left off supporting the rhetoric of radicalism and anti imperialism, if not revolution, throughout Latin America.

Fidel said that Cuba rejected the United States threats, and warned that the Cuban people were prepared to fight if Washington attempted to implement a plan of genocide and intervention on the island.

Raúl replaced Fidel as President of the Councils of Ministers and of State, but not as First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party.

President Fidel Castro that night condemned the United States for seeking to incite disturbances and to divide the population so as to provoke a bloodbath in Cuba with the ultimate aim of intervening in the island.

Fidel said that his Government did not need to do anything to make it easier for those who wished to leave the country to do so he condemned the disturbances which had taken place in Cuba as stemming from a subversive strategy on the part of the United States.

Cuba apos s adherence to the Treaty, announced in a letter from President Fidel Castro to President Itamar Franco in response to a Brazilian initiative has brought this process to a conclusion.

The emerging Uribe Lula Calderón troika has geo strategic influence because things have started to change in Cuba ever since Fidel Castro formally handed over the presidency to his brother, Raúl.

MEXICO CITY Fidel Castro s resignation from two of his three leadership posts, together with the appointment of his younger brother, Raúl, as his successor, marks the end of an era sort of.

Fidel Castro took 6 more days to arrive, as he stopped to rally support in several large cities on his way to rolling victoriously into Havana on January 8, 1959.

This is essential not only in order to build a better socialism, as Castro has promised, but, especially, to legitimize the continuity of the regime established by his brother Fidel s revolution.

But Raúl Castro is an old man himself, so we can hope for the prospect that some Deng or, better yet, a Suarez will ultimately emerge from the wreckage of Fidelism.

And, of course, the US has had a standing immigration agreement since 1965 with a country most Americans would not imagine Fidel Castro s Cuba.

On September 10, 1961, some months after Fidel Castro declared Cuba a socialist state, Costa Rican President Mario Echandi ended diplomatic relations with Cuba through Executive Decree Number 2 .

This is essential not only in order to build a better socialism, as Castro has promised, but, especially, to legitimize the continuity of the regime established by his brother Fidel s revolution.

Unlike Chávez, Fidel s fawning disciple, Uribe, Calderón, and Lula are quietly supporting political liberalization in Cuba, and believe that Raúl Castro also worries about Cuba s dependence on Venezuela, as well as on China.

The Philippines therefore received with just elation the news of 1993 the signing of the Declaration of Principles between the Government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on 13 September 1993, which was preceded by the exchange of letters on mutual recognition.

The despair of poor, provincial, and clientelistic constituencies is a tool rather than a problem, and belittling the US by aligning with Fidel Castro trumps promoting their countries real interests in the world.

Doing so would give whomever he chooses an edge when Raúl, who is 76, passes on, and he and Fidel do not necessarily agree on who should come next.