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February 19, 2008 02:12 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Fidel Castro announces retirement
Fidel Castro (13 August 2006)
Fidel Castro has not been seen in public since his operation in July
Cuba's ailing leader, Fidel Castro has announced he will not return to the presidency in a letter published by official Communist Party paper, Granma.

"I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the Council of state and commander in chief," he wrote in the letter.

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February 19, 2008 02:19 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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                       Castro suffers fall in Cuba, Oct. 2004

                           

                       

                  ¡He caído y yo no puedo levantarme!         



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February 19, 2008 02:24 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Castro resigns as president, state-run paper reports

(CNN) -- Fidel Castro announced his resignation as president of Cuba and commander-in-chief of Cuba's military on Tuesday, according to a letter published in the state-run newspaper, Granma.

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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro was seen on Cuban television in September 2007.

Castro, 81, temporarily handed power to his younger brother Raul Castro in July 2006 after undergoing intestinal surgery. He hasn't been seen in public since his surgery, but he has appeared in numerous videos and photos in state media.

In December 2007, a Cuban television news anchor read a letter reportedly written by Fidel Castro promising he would not "cling to office" or be an impediment to rising young leaders.

Castro took power in Cuba in 1959 and has ruled the island nation ever since, governing the first communist nation in the Western Hemisphere.

Fidel Castro captured the world's attention and imagination at 32 when the bearded revolutionary led a band of guerillas that overthrew a corrupt dictatorship -- and then became an irritating thorn in Washington's paw by embracing communism and cozying up to the Soviet Union.

For the next 47 years, Castro reigned in Havana with an iron hand, outlasting nine American presidents and defying a punishing U.S. economic embargo designed to dislodge him.



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February 19, 2008 03:00 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Maybe, just maybe Cuba will be a free country again?  It is a beautiful place, and they have excellent cigars. "Con Castro Cuba no estara libre nunca."
February 19, 2008 04:18 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Which means?  Gerald.  no is no and libre I think is life?  What is the sentence.  If they made manditory Spanish I'd be in big trouble, se?

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February 19, 2008 06:16 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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I doubt that Cuba will change. That is what the Liberals hope in Fidel's brother-Raul.

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February 19, 2008 09:05 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Man them resort companies can't wait to get in and start making some of that cold hard cash. Ole GW has already got the ball rolling. This will be a big fight between the europeans Middle easterners and the US corporations.

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February 19, 2008 10:31 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Yeah, and they could get someone in there on the order of Chavez, Fox, or Calderon, and who has ties with Iran. Where will that leave us. Who in our political structure has the ba--s to throw a blockade around the country, again? They don't even have the ba--s to put up a fence.

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February 19, 2008 10:34 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Con Castro Cuba no estara libre nunca = With Castro, Cuba was never free.

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February 19, 2008 10:43 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Patsy said: Con Castro Cuba no estara libre nunca = With Castro, Cuba was never free.

Told you I was bad with languages. 



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February 19, 2008 10:57 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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LOL....I think in French book is libre or something like that (been a long time since junior high french)....but, for Spanish, just remember a rum and coke - Cuba Libre!!  Si se puede!!  (When in doubt, go to www.freetranslation.com.  I even learned Castro means Fort!!

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February 19, 2008 11:42 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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La revolución está sobre. ¡Castro es hecho!  ¿Arby pobre. ...never encontró a un dictador izquierdo de la victoria que usted no adoró, hizo ya?

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February 19, 2008 11:52 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Would Love to savor a cuban cigar just one time before I pass on.  Only problem is I would be hard put in finding a place where I could smoke the darn thing?  Maybe an old fall out/bomb shelter from the 50's behind an old house somewhere.
February 19, 2008 12:17 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Patsy said: LOL....I think in French book is libre or something like that (been a long time since junior high french)....but, for Spanish, just remember a rum and coke - Cuba Libre!!  Si se puede!!  (When in doubt, go to www.freetranslation.com.  I even learned Castro means Fort!!

Gracias, Patsy.  Puse esa página en mis lugares favoritos.



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February 19, 2008 01:00 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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NorgelinUSA said:

Would Love to savor a cuban cigar just one time before I pass on.  Only problem is I would be hard put in finding a place where I could smoke the darn thing?  Maybe an old fall out/bomb shelter from the 50's behind an old house somewhere.

 

Once they start selling Cuban cigars here in the USA, Bill Clinton will most likely buy them all.

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February 19, 2008 01:19 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Comment updated February 19, 2008 01:21 PM
Looks like this joker had some laughs in his 50 year regime. He flipped off Spain completely, played nuke chicken with us, kicked mob bosses out, and killed hundreds of CIA operatives. And we did what to deter his marxist stronghold? TRIED to boycott his cigars?

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February 19, 2008 01:51 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Since the people have always "been taken care of" by the state, if they ever did become a free country, American liberal politicians would be wanting to make it another state, thinking it would be more votes for them in various offices.

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February 19, 2008 02:40 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Icon said: Since the people have always "been taken care of" by the state, if they ever did become a free country, American liberal politicians would be wanting to make it another state, thinking it would be more votes for them in various offices.

 

All they will do is go down there and rebuild the country, and send us the bill. I wouldn't put it pass them to build a bridge to make it easier to get here.

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February 19, 2008 02:44 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Gracias, Patsy.  Puse esa página en mis lugares favoritos.

De Nada!  Enjoy!  I use it a lot.



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