Tema: Report: Castro says Cuban model doesn't work

How is possible that still are some who are sympathetic to the Tyrannosaurus Rex? Don’t let this psychopath liar fool you, he has no conscience.

Castro during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 12, 1962, the closest the world had ever come to nuclear war, wrote in his cable to Khrushchev in October 26, 1962, “that would be the moment to eliminate such danger forever through tan act of clear legitimate defense, however harsh and terrible the solution would be, for there is no other… the Soviet Union must never allow the circumstances in which the imperialists could launch the first nuclear strike against it.”

Khrushchev response in October 30, 1962, “In your cable of October 27 you proposed that we be the first to launch a nuclear strike against the territory of the enemy. You, of course, realize where that would have led. Rather than a simple strike, it would have been the start of a thermonuclear world war.”


Castro, in his deep hatred against the United States, did not hesitate in asking for the launch of a nuclear strike without given a damn that such action sealed the annihilation of the Cuban people and a large part of humanity. Castro deserves everything that's coming to him.

Julia Sweig, a Cuba expert at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations who accompanied Goldberg on the trip, confirmed the Cuban leader's comment, which he made at a private lunch last week.

She told The Associated Press she took the remark to be in line with Raul Castro's call for gradual but widespread reform.

"It sounded consistent with the general consensus in the country now, up to and including his brother's position," Sweig said.

Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/10/world/main6853855.shtml

Why if asked by the Cuban model he responds by referring to another model?

So, when he says Cuban model he means the capitalist system, and when he says we are concerned he means the U.S.

And how it is that not even one of the Castroites was able to understand the "true meaning" of the words of the tyrant, before he made this "clarification"?

He reversed his previous statement. A lapse, a slip? It happened to him what almost never happened before, he is already old. His rectification is incoherent and it does nothing more than confirm what the journalists interpreted.

How many Cubans in the past 51 years have suffered unspeakable misery for saying the same thing Fidel Castro just said? Cubans are willing to risk their lives sailing in makeshift rafts in order to escape from Dr. Castro island paradise. He has expended Cuba’s resources exporting revolution around the world. The only ones who believe this consummate liar are brainwashed sympathizers and die-hard progressives. Who the cap fits let them wear it.

Fidel Castro has ruined the island. His selfish desire to dominate the Cuban people, has not allow them to prosper and fulfill their potential. The daily struggle that most Cubans have to go through just to live their daily lives is unbelievable. Tourists go to Cuba and relax in the hotels, enjoy the beaches and eat the good food. These are things that the average Cuban can’t afford. Instead of releasing the grip over the people and allow their entrepreneurial abilities to create new ideas and value for others, Castro prefer to keep them under his control, unable to sustain themselves, and hold on to power.

Castros regime has been a complete and absolute failure. The rest of the leadership no longer believe in the regime, they are just puppets obeying order from the Castro brothers. They keep the regime alive by use of force and repression, but the day of reckoning is upon them, the regime is coming apart at the seams.

Fidel Castro was wrong all along. Fidel's experiment with Marxist-Leninist political economy has been a total failure. His model doest work if you want your nation to be a third world dirt poor dictatorship, like Castro turned his country into.

The aging and egotistical Fidel Castro makes this statement without any recriminination after 51 years of living the good life. But of course those who have said that before him, have been shot, or thrown into a jail or have to leave the island.

Fidel Castro, the inspiration and maximum leader of the progressives, has exposed the real truth to the world that the communist economy system doesn’t work. He can’t unscramble a broken egg.

What Fidel Castro is after? For people to feel sorry for him? Only those who are easily deceived would fall for that. He was, he is and he will die a brutal dictator, who never allow any type of opposition to his absolute power, and has fail miserable with the implementation of his archaic economic policies.

If Fidel Castro really believes that communism is the best system of government for the Cuban people, why he never has allows any other communist candidates to run against him? Why not let the people decide for themselves? The answer is because his insatiable drive for power and prominence, by his belief that his grip on power justify abusing it. Castro in his depraved mind thinks that he knows what is best for the island and will get rid, for whatever means, of those who dare to oppose his Machiavellian tactics.

How convenient that at this particular point in time when the Castro brothers regime has run out of benefactors and other options, they choose to say: “The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.” I am sure that there are more to it. Like always they will blame the US embargo and polices for their own failures, and the Progressives would used all the tricks in the bag to justify that the regime failure is the fault of the US, not because the archaic policies of Castros’ regime.

The idea that the regime has been selling of free education, health care, and housing, isn’t true. There is nothing free in live, it doesn’t come out of thin air. When Fidel Castro says the system “doesn't even work for us anymore,” what he is saying is that there isn’t such thing as free lunch, nothing in this world is free. The Cuban people will not be truly free until the Castro brothers are removed from power.

According to the ruling class the Cuban people support the regime. If that is true, why the regime continues to censor the media, prohibit the formation of opposition parties, the distribution of copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the formation of independent labor unions, and enforce a penal code that make pre-criminal dangera legal charge, which allow to imprison people on suspicion they might commit crimes in the future?

The answer obviously is that their claim is false. Because it is a government vested with absolute power without restrictions by a constitution, laws or opposition. It is a police state that employ very oppressive measures and restrict civil rights.

Castro's Confession
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/546721/201009091858/Castros-Confession.htm

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The Left: Fidel Castro stunned the world this week by admitting socialism had failed in Cuba. The implication of the dictator's statement is unclear, but one thing isn't: Castro's sycophants have some explaining to do.

Castro, now 84 and semi-retired, made a surprisingly lucid admission about how 52 years of communist dictatorship have ruined his country. "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore," he casually told the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, a reporter he summoned to Havana to tell him his thoughts.

Castro made other noteworthy statements to the reporter — that he regretted urging the Soviet Union to rain nuclear war on the U.S. in 1962, and that he wanted Iran's leader to stop slandering the Jews. But nothing was as arresting as the statement that his life work, the communism he forced on Cuba in 1959 was, in truth, a miserable failure.

Castro's motives in stating the obvious are still unclear. He may be desperate for attention. Or, having turned his country into an impoverished hellhole, he may want the U.S. trade embargo to end.
Cuba scholar Humberto Fontova notes that Castro has made similar offhand statements in the past, and none had any consequences.

But one thing is clear: Castro's apologists in the West, who've marched in lockstep throughout his half-century of communist rule, have been hung out to dry. For years, they've held up Castro as some kind of alternate beacon to the U.S. and all its freedom and prosperity.

Filmmaker Michael Moore made a 2007 documentary called "Sicko" that touted the superiority of Cuba's health care system and used it as a means of pushing ObamaCare in 2009. Based on the dictator's own words, that film should now be considered garbage.

Other Castro sycophants have also been played for fools. Hollywood actor Ed Asner's campaign to free five Cuban spies from U.S. jails doesn't have quite the same credibility now, given that Castro has admitted his entire mission is a lie.

Then there's movie director Oliver Stone, who at the showing of "South of the Border," his man-crush paean to leftist Latin dictators, confided he's filming another hagiography about Castro.

Not even Castro's toadies will able to watch Stone's next offering with the same rapt credulity now that the despot has shown himself as the little man behind the curtain.

Even Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, who's sought for the past 12 years to turn his country into Cubazuela — complete with police informers, ration cards, worthless money, bad food, dirty water, electricity shortages and poverty — is shown to be a fraud.

Whatever Castro meant in the interview about the failure of communism, it's obvious that those who have defended him and his revolution from their free societies have been willfully spewing lies.

Whatever they say in their defense, it's clear they've been had, with the proof coming straight from the mouth of their failed idol.

Raúl Castro has, for all practical purposes, confirmed that Fidel's original statement was correct. Cuba's current model doesn´t work, need a new approach. The key question is whether the announced reforms will save the regimen. In y opinion it will not.

It is true that Cuba needs reform. For the pass five decades the island has experiencing a deterioration of the standard of living since 1959. But the current reforms will not be able to accomplish the necessary changes.

Every single time the regime has opened the economy, sooner or later, it has decided unilaterally to take away those changes, ending up punishing those who tried to take advantage of the small economic space that had been provided. This type of reversal has taken place three times under the actual regime.

Well, if only the leftist American politicians would give up their admiration for men like Castro...

Fidel Castro Turns on the Charm, Dazzles the MSM
http://townhall.com/columnists/HumbertoFontova/2010/09/10/fidel_castro_turns_on_the_charm,_dazzles_the_msm
Humberto Fontova

Fidel Castro recently bestowed The Atlantic Magazine’s Jeffrey Goldberg with an exclusive interview. More than a mere exclusive, this is the first interview granted by the Stalinist dictator to an American reporter in 4 years.

The MSM is absolutely agog with the catalogue of insights, woes and regrets bequeathed by the Cuban mass murderer to Goldberg. “I asked him if he believed the Cuban model was still something worth exporting,” writes Goldberg.

"'The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore,” Castro replied. The MSM and assorted “Cuba Analysts” are all aflutter over Castro’s “epiphany,” “honesty”, “regret,” - take your pick - “that Communism “doesn’t work.”

Some actual study of recent Cuban history might enlighten these learned parties. To wit:
"This doesn't work, I'm resigning!" - Fidel Castro, July 1959 during political crisis with his puppet "President" Manuel Urrutia)

"This doesn't work! Terrible mistakes were made (especially in adopting Che Guevara's moral incentives) - we need material capitalistic incentives. So I'm resigning!" - Fidel Castro, July 1970, after the much-ballyhooed "10 million ton" sugar harvest proved way short and utterly disastrous.

"The capitalists organize production better than we do. There's much we can learn from them." - Fidel Castro, 1986 during "Rectification Process" i.e. another “re-evaluation” after another economic crisis.

"We are not afraid of the market. We are not afraid of economic reform. The people understand the reasons behind them and support them." - Fidel Castro, Nov. 1991 announcing Cuba’s "Special Period" i.e. loss of Soviet Sugar Daddy - another re-evaluation after another economic crisis.


Has any “Cuba analyst” noticed a marked change in the rights, prosperity and welfare of the Cuban people after any of these “epiphanies,” “regrets,” “re-evaluations”, etc.?

And has any “Cuba Analyst” mentioned that Hugo Chavez (current Cuban Sugar-Daddy) looks to lose the Sept. 26 parliamentary elections in Venezuela Venezuela 52 to 42 percent? (granted, there's much room for altering the results).

And has any “Cuba Analyst” mentioned that this will present Castro with an economic crisis as bad as the "Special Period" in the early 90's after the Soviets collapsed? Will this require another “re-evaluation” that will buttress the regime but have the same effect on the Cuban people’s rights, prosperity and welfare as all the other “re-evaluations?”

And has any Cuba Expert mentioned that - given Castro's history of pronouncements during his various economic crises (to say nothing of this one) - his pronouncements to Jeffrey Goldberg just might be insincere? Just might have an ulterior motive? Just might have meant absolutely nothing with respect to the rights and welfare of the Cuban people?

If so, I haven’t seen or heard it.

Fidel Castro converted a nation with a higher per capita income than half of Europe, the lowest inflation rate in the Western hemisphere, a larger middle class than Switzerland, a huge influx of immigrants and whose workers enjoyed the 8th industrial wages in the world into one that repels Haitians. And this after being lavished with Soviet subsidies that totaled almost ten Marshall Plans (into a nation of 6.4 million.) This economic feat defies not only the laws of economics but seemingly the very laws of physics. (Full documentation for the above here.)

Cuba’s infant mortality rate plummeted from 13th lowest in the world in 1958 (lower than in Germany, France, Japan, Israel among many other first world nations) during the unspeakable Batista era to 44th today. This rate qualifies as an “achievement” in the lexicon of “Academics” and news agencies that have earned a Havana bureau.

This current infant-mortality rate, by the way, is also kept artificially low by an abortion rate of 0.71, the Hemisphere’s (and hovering among the world’s top five for the past two decades) highest, which “terminates” any pregnancy that even hints at trouble. Cuba’s suicide rate is also currently the Hemisphere’s highest, triple its rate during the unspeakable Batista era.
And now, Castro realizes “the Cuba Model doesn’t work”? Please.

Actually, given the goal of Cuba's ruler since January of 1959 (absolute power) the Cuban economy has been EXPERTLY managed and has worked splendidly. Castro inherited a vibrant free market economy in 1959, something unique among communist rulers. All the others, from Lenin to Mao to Uncle Ho to Ulbricht to Tito to Kim Il Sung, took over primitive and/or chaotic, war ravaged economies.

A less megalomaniacal ruler would have considered it a golden goose landing in his lap. But Castro wrung its neck. He deliberately and methodically wrecked Latin America's premier economy. Castro has long believed that the Cuban capitalist is a difficult person to control. Cuba - despite a deluge of tourism and foreign investment for over a decade - is as essentially Communist in 2010 as it was in 1965. The Castro brothers are very vigilant in these matters.

“A foreign reporter — preferably American — was much more valuable to us at that time (1957) than any military victory. Much more valuable than rural recruits for our guerrilla force were American media recruits to export our propaganda.” - Ernesto “Che” Guevara in his diaries

“We cannot for a second abandon propaganda. Propaganda is vital — propaganda is the heart of all struggles,” - Fidel Castro in a letter to a revolutionary colleague in 1954.
And he’s still at it. And foreign reporters are still eating out of his hand like trained pigeons.

I wonder if the Cuban population knows about this. He talked to an American reporter and since he controls the media, the citizens shouldn't know anything about it.