© JOE RAEDLE / GETTY IMAGESResidents take to the streets outside the restaurant Versailles in Miami on Saturday as they react to the news of the death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro.
"Cuba was nothing more than a casino, a bordello before the Cuban Revolution led by the man who died yesterday," former British MP and host of RT's 'Sputnik', George Galloway, said. "And the people who fled Cuba for Miami, the Scarface generation, were the people disinherited by the Cuban revolution, when casinos were turned into schools and colleges, when bordellos were no more. And they are celebrating for the same reason [that] hundreds of millions of people around the world are mourning. The passing of someone, who ... was the star, who made Cuba the coolest place on the planet."
"There's no country on the Earth, where more people have been to, or would like to go to than Cuba. And the iconography of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos and the Cuban revolution is really something that's pretty hard to beat."
It is understandable that refugees from Cuba have no love for the government, but Cuba is "no longer a threat to the US," British historian Martin McCauley told RT.
"I think that many of them are refugees from Cuba. They would say they suffered discrimination and perhaps even imprisonment in Cuba before they escaped. So, there is no love lost between them and the Cuban communist regime ... so, there are those in Florida among the Cubans there who strongly opposed the closer relationship with Cuba. They don't want the Communist party legitimized," he told RT.
"But Cuba is no longer a threat to the US. Communism is no longer a threat to the US. So, therefore, perhaps Trump will take a more relaxed and pragmatic attitude to Cuba and send his condolences to the people of Cuba on the death of Fidel Castro, because he changed fundamentally the relations between Cuba and the US from 1959 onward," he added.
Iconography? What do you mean? Bugger the details and give us the T-shirts?
Stefan Molyneux: The Truth About Che Guevara...[Link]
I know Molyneux's whole reds-under-the-bed schtick can get a bit tiresome, but his stuff is high on facts, from Guevara being another one of those sick individuals who as a child commenced his career by torturing animals, to pretty much everything else that followed, i.e. the 1001 uncomfortable facts about "Che" that never showed up in the Hollywood schlock-y "The Motorcycle Diaries'.
"The people who fled Cuba for Miami, the Scarface generation, were the people disinherited by the Cuban revolution"
Contemptible, inhuman "basket of deplorables" argument. Crushed by the weight of Hollywood iconography, ex-pat Cubans have been continuously tarred with the brush that they're all a bunch of greedy counter-revolutionary turncoats who are enamoured by the yankee dollar to such a degree that 70000+ of them were prepared to drown in the Florida Straits in pursuit of same, and, no small thanks to the likes of Oliver Stone, are all somehow complicit in the murder of JFK.