Do you believe Castro is a dictator?
812807
It is possible to have a benign dictator - someone who has absolute control and uses it (to some extent) to benefit the people he governs.  But it is hard to argue that the government of Cuba is anything else when opposition groups are illegal and there are no observers or NGO oversight during elections.\n\nCastro has done a lot for his country, particularly in terms of education and medicine, but it is sad to see it come with a loss of civil and human rights.  I think it's misleading to look at his actions as entirely good or bad.
268810
Colonel Fedil Castro was in the US last year in a UN conference. He wasn't taken to jail because America isn't the police man of the world. He is a Legitimate President of an Independent country and the USA is only one country out of more than 160. \n\nFidel Castro never occupied Iraq, or Vietnam, or South Korea, or Cambodia, or Nicaragua, or Panama, or any where, he's a President that simply stood up and said no to Colonialism of his country and sucking it of its resoueces. \n\nAmerica must stop shouting and screaming at other countries, maybe after the world is spared America's Selfish Interventionalism, we'ld have peace and quiet for a change. \n\nLook at most world conflicts, it's American guns and weapons fighting those wars. \n\nLook at the Zionist theft of Palestinian's land, it's US supported. \n\nEven Saddam was US supported.\n\nHey Hey, Thank God Castro is still there to peacefully protest, if he was silenced, then maybe Cubans wouldn't be so peaceful, just think about it.
1134941
But it's OK, Saddam was our friend when Reagan put him in, right? Dictators are cool when they're on our side. The whole "freedom and peace worldwide" thing doesn't count when the dictators back our interests..\n</sarcasm>
223234
Raúl Castro is not Fidel Castro.  Cuba currently runs on a cult of personality, just as any other socialist state does.  Hopefully, after F.C.'s long-overdue death, the wall around Cuba will be torn down just as completely as was the Berlin Wall.  Then maybe Cubans can join the modern world.
233064
Yes, because they are fooled by their socialist master. He gives them a hut, long lines for free food and they think he's great. But let them talk bad about him like they do here about Bush and they get years in prison. Wonderful man like Castro and the Iranian idiot.
204994
Personally, I think we need to take the power completely away from the people for a while.  America has become a bunch of idiots that take Jerry Springer as the norm, and the Simpsons as the ideal.  We need a good dictator for about 10 years to whip us into shape, then turn it back over to us again!
749381
I don't think so.  It was Julius Caesar who was the dictator.
329523
Absolutely not. If America was a fascist state, do you think you'd have the freedom to even ask such questions? While it is true that the president and many leaders are extremely right-wing, they are NOT dictators. The US doesn't even actually have a 'ruler.' The president does not have sole power. America is a country of supposed checks and balances. Whether or not you agree with the current path that our country is on, we still have many more freedoms and opportunities than any other country. You still have the right to speak your mind and vote.
1057247
Castro is a communist.\nCastro stole billions in American assets when he took over.\nCastro tried to place nuclear armed missiles 90 miles from our shores\nCastro emptied his prisons and sent the refuse to our shores during the Maribel boat lift\nCastro actively spread communism to Africa and South America\nCastro invaded Grenada\nCastro gave material support to Manuel Noriega\n\nDo I need to go on?
406779
No, he was a dictator and a genocidal maniac.
1045829
And they said Hitler was a dictator..................
260475
A dictator with a good  style.
977846
With one party you have a dictator.
1057643
Neither.\n\nThey are both criminal dictators. They both have personal agendas, and are willing to sacrifice whomever to get what they want!
500061
Because the Dictator in Egypt is OUR Dictator.\nAnd since when were we promoting freedom in Iraq? I think I missed that news story.
1178070
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born 13 August 1926) is the current President of Cuba. He held the title of Prime Minister from 1959 [1], after commanding the revolution that overthrew Fulgencio Batista, until 1976 when he became president of the both the Council of State and the Council of Ministers. Castro became first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party in 1965, and led the transformation of Cuba into a one-party socialist republic.
284190
yep....I just saw the story on Fox News Channel (Hannity & Colmes?)   ....What an awful mess.\n\nCastro is denying them from leaving Cuba because they are dentists. ....Just another example of Castro being a self-serving jerkoff!