I guess we don't hear of much over here so out of sight - out of mind, and one doesn't feel the need to go look it up. The only real mention of Cuba we get is what a great holiday venue it is and how far your dollar goes, how little crime there is on the street and how safe it is, how cute are the old US 50s gas-guzzlers that you can hire, what a successful health service they have - on a shoe-string, what a big hit were the Buena Vista Social Club, and no mention that the friendly people you engage in confab while you're there are going to get grilled by the authorities.

A few months back there was a docu about how many attempts there have been on Castro's life by the CIA but I didn't see most of it and what I saw didn't mention his "attrocities"

>Wow I am absolutely amazed. I won't deny that Castro has done some things for his country to their benefit, but the repression he has employed over the years, not to mention the firing squads without trial make me think that maybe the time spent gathering the documentation is worth it in order to post it here for everyone. His quietness over recent years does not negate what he has done. There are huge groups of Cuban-Americans who have already put it together, not to mentio the United Nations and Human Rights Watch Groups.
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>>Yes, I've been wondering this too. Besides having let his soviet masters deploy missiles during the Cold War, he's just struck me as a big posturing but harmless teddy bear, no threat or harm to anyone. I've never understood the US embargo on Cuba - after all they do BIG honourable business with the PRC which DEFINITELY IS guilty of many attrocities, not least the invasion and suppression of Tibet, Tianamen Sq, et al.
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>>>>No, not at all. I'm questioning your statement Metin. You still haven't answered me. You complained because CNN suggests (they never stated this so it must be insinuated in your mind) that Castro is evil (I won't argue that assumption by CNN at all). He may have done some good for his country, but that doesn't negate the rest. Your original statement suggested that, in contradiction to CNN to what you perceived as CNN's position, you do not see him as evil. I am questioning THAT and you have not responded. I am asking whether or not you see anything wrong with Castro's leadership over the years? That was my question Metin. You were the first to contradict, not me. Now all you are doing is throwing questions back at me Metin without answering anything at all to support your original position. I will continue this discussion if you actually answer my question with facts, not more questions which prove or support nothing. Then after that you can argue
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>>>>>You see just black and white? Everything just bad or good?
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>>>>>>You don't see anything wrong with Fidel Castro's leadership over the years?
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>>>>>>>Tracy, in according of CNN and even National Geographics, Fidel Castro is an Evil (That's not their word that's what they mean)...
>>>>>>>Throw these glasses... :)