Fidel Castro may die soon, for real!!

[Hueij]

... who himself professes himself as our enemy (long before we did him btw).

I think you'll have a hard time backing that up...

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Patroklos
There is also the fact that the Cuban expatriot community in America dwarfs all the other Latin American coutries put together.

So, there are less than half a million Mexicans in the U.S.? I don't know whether you count Puerto Rico as a country, since it's a colony of the U.S., but there are easily a few million Puerto Ricans in the U.S.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by johncmcleod
Do you think people in America were celebrating when Batista was thrown out of power?

Actually, they were, cuz Castro was seen as a romantic revolutionary before he was appointed Prime Minster. The New York Times had done a series on him and an American camera crew followed him around. Most Americans thought Castro was a pretty swell guy, until he started nationalizing American businesses and only offering them their self-assessed tax values as compensation.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Brachy-Pride
Cuba as a pseudo colony of the United States had batista or other pro USA dictators continued, would have a standard of life now at least as good as Puerto Rico imo, which I think is a lot highers than Cuba (never been to Puerto Rico,

PR's gdp/pc is much better than Cuba's, but the people of Puerto Rico are much poorer than Cuba. Remember, when you stand next to Bill Gates, you have an average wealth of 19 billion between the two of you. Plus, the U.S. puts a lot of money into Puerto Rico, and they pay no income taxes. However, something like half the island is on public aid, 42% of women of child bearing age have been sterilized (as of 1990, it's probably dropped since then), and almost half the population is in the U.S. because of the lack of opportunity there. Both countries have free education, and since so many of Puerto Ricans are on government assistance they get free health care also, but there's a major qualitiative difference.

[DanS]

I challenge you to actually read my posts.

Dude, hate to be the one to break it to you, but your posts are unreadable.

[Barnabas]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara

Originally posted by Brachy-Pride
Cuba as a pseudo colony of the United States had batista or other pro USA dictators continued, would have a standard of life now at least as good as Puerto Rico imo, which I think is a lot highers than Cuba (never been to Puerto Rico,

PR's gdp/pc is much better than Cuba's, but the people of Puerto Rico are much poorer than Cuba. Remember, when you stand next to Bill Gates, you have an average wealth of 19 billion between the two of you. Plus, the U.S. puts a lot of money into Puerto Rico, and they pay no income taxes. However, something like half the island is on public aid, 42% of women of child bearing age have been sterilized (as of 1990, it's probably dropped since then), and almost half the population is in the U.S. because of the lack of opportunity there. Both countries have free education, and since so many of Puerto Ricans are on government assistance they get free health care also, but there's a major qualitiative difference.

Crap, 42% thats insane

Do they have some nazi eugenics dfude in government? or do they not contracept?

Recently a minister in bolivia said that indians (I mean native americans with indians) should have 8, 9 10 kids, that birth control was an invention of whites to not be outbreeded into irrelevance by the indians.

[chequita guevara]

The U.S. government, in the 1950s, decided the island was overpopulated, and began various prgrams to stop population growth. The most successful one is the free ticket to America, which is why about half of all Puerto Ricans live in the U.S.

They also began experiementing with sterlization. Generally speaking, it was voluntary, although there have been many cases of involuntary sterilization (also in the U.S. among American Indians), and also often times the doctors would ask the husband's permission, instead of the woman. A lot of women who did agree felt pressured to do so, and many didn't really understand it wasn't a reverable procedure due to their lack of education.

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Because of the way birth control has been pushed in many Latin American countries, there is a deep suspicion of it in many indigeous communities. I heard one Bolivian Indian peasant woman tell of the time they castrated two Peace Corps workers to see how they liked it. Peasant justice is harsh.

[Barnabas]

By the way, it was the same minister who said that before the spanish conquest indians lived 200 years, and that his grandmother lived 200 years, all with a serious face...

Yes, peasant justice in harsh, very harsh, if I recall correctly 3 or 4 years ago they either stoned or burned alive some major in a town for being corrupt.

[Barnabas]

Castro seems to be really finished

a tumor in his stomach, cuban authorities told Lula . it filtered to the press

http://ar.news.yahoo.com/060805/11/sxg3.html

[Vince278]

English link?

[chequita guevara]

Same article through Bablefish

Cuba: Lula was informed by Cuban authorities into which I castrate suffers of c?er and its state "is worse of the admitted thing"

The president brasile? Luiz In?o ' Lulá gives Silva was informed this week by Cuban civil employees of which the state of health of Cuban president Fidel I castrate "is worse of the admitted thing", depu?de that Monday the agent chief executive was put under a stomach operaci?quir?ica, that estar?seg?estas sources caused by c?er, seg?informa the newspaper brasile?'Folhá.

Peri?co assures that I castrate, that cedi?l to be able to its Ra brother? pro first time from the triumph of revoluci?hace 47 a, to podr?quedar disqualified to retake the power, even if one recovers of the disease, supposedly "a malignant tumor in the abdomen".

"It seems that we are going to lose our friend", to declar? ' Folhá an assistant of Lula, that asegur?ue information from Havana affirm that I castrate, that cumplir?0 a? pr?mo d?13 of August, "est?al". After receiving these information, habr?pedido Lula discreci?a its team of Government.

[chequita guevara]

Aside from the humor of the translation, this sucks. Teh Miami Cubans are going to be insuferable now.

[Zkribbler]

Grave digger: "Bring out your dead! [CLANK] Bring out your dead! [CLANK!]
Raul: "Here, I've got another one for you."
Fidel: "I'm not dead yet."
Grave Digger: "'Ey, 'e says 'e's not dead yet."
Raul: "Oh, he's pretty dead. Can't you take him anyway?"
Grave Digger: "We've got rules, y'know."
Fidel: "I'm feeling better!"
Raul: "Shut up. You aren't fooling anyone."

[Darius871]

Originally posted by DanS


Dude, hate to be the one to break it to you, but your posts are unreadable.

QFT

[Vince278]

Gotta love Babelfish. I'm curious about those references to castration.