what type of leader is fidel castro from cuba?
819852
Hopefully a dead one soon!!!
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democracy is a farce. \n\n\ngo castro.
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There is NO doubt we have taken his rule for granted.  And there is no doubt the state dept incorrectly thinks there will be a "crack in the armor".  Let's face it they haven't done a very good job on foreign policy.\n\nI believe Castro's brother Raul would be the new dictator.\n\nI actually believe we should normalize relations now to martyr Castro making his successor less powerful.
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Ernesto Che Guevara De La Serna was a marxist leader, born in Argentina and assesined in Bolivia....\n\n1928 - 1967
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Fidel Castro; Cuba 47 years in power
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Fidel Castro\n\n\nAs an example (see the diagram below), José López marries María Famosa. Their son is named Juan López Famosa. Juan, in turn marries Isabel Fernández García. The son of Juan and Isabel could be named Pedro López Fernández, Pedro López y Fernández, Pedro López Famosa y Fernández, or Pedro López Famosa y Fernández García - the last two forms preserving the "Famosa" surname for future generations.\n\n\nIt is important to note that, in Hispanic cultures, wives retain their maiden names when they marry. They can legally add their husband's surname(s) after their own, preceded by the word "de" ("of", implying "spouse of"). Thus, in the preceding example, Isabel Fernández could sign her name as Isabel Fernández de López, or as Isabel Fernández García de López Famosa. If her husband has died, she can use the words "viuda de" (widow of), abbreviated "vda. de", instead of just "de".
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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.
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Ernesto Guevara  was an Argentine-born physician that became a member of Fidel Castro's paramilitary 26th of July Movement that seized power in Cuba in 1959. He left Cuba in 1965, was captured in Bolivia in a CIA-organized military operation and died at the hands of the Bolivian Army on October 9, 1967.
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Unfortunately yes. If for no other reason than his uncanny preserverance. He has survived and led his country, though there have been many attempts on his life. He has kept alive communism in his country.\nOne can only hope that once he is out of power, Cuba can gain enough freedom to replace him with someone that has human rights as a main issue.
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Yes, there are and, historically, there have been.  Ghandi is a good example as is Nelson Mandela.  While they weren't kings, they were important leaders.  Farther back, one can find monarchs who appear to have cared.  Sadly, we cannot really gauge that caring by our standards of behavior as time change.\n\nRight now, I would be hard pressed to find any leader who cares as much as they claim to.  Three examples of men who came into power on a foundation of caring about their country and people are obvious.  Hitler said he would free Germany of financial oppression and look what happened when he, instead, implemented his own plan of power.   Castro was able to gain power based on a promise of freeing Cuba of the influence of Batista and US corporations and politics.  He has since isolated Cuba in a way many find undesirable.  The third example is currently open to debate.  GW Bush claims to care about his country and people and, while we can say he is protecting the USA (ostensibly), he has eroded the individual freedoms which many claim a truly loyal-to-his-constituency would never do.
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Sad old man.  I think once Fidel is gone, things between the USA and Cuba will get better.
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Go to Mexico and to the Cuban Embassy.  Try Canada if it is nearer.
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The history of Cuba is essentially the history of the tragedy of American foreign policy since WW2.\nHistory already has absolved Castro in most parts of the world except right factions and miami dissidents in the US. His famous speech,  "History will absolve me" has become true...at a time during the Batista regime when Cuba mainly served as a gambling island and was owned by Americans, Castro led a people's revolution stating that history would absolve him. Ever since 1959, in Cuba, he has been absolved.  The entire history of Cuban politics in the past 50 years has been charaterized by anti-Americansim - his rule a defense mechanism against the greatest Empire in history. In that time, he has taken Cuba from a corrupt protectorate of the USA, from a client state of the USSR...to now, a completely independent country.  He is the leader of one of the smallest countries in the world, but is known throughout the world. He has taken Cuba from the tyranny and subjugation of the Batista regime, and brought on a people's revolution that has seen Cuba produce Nobel Prize winners, Olympic Athletes, Baseball players, Jazz musicians, doctors...taken the education and healthcare sytems from being in shambles to developing and sustaining a standard that not only erases illiteracy, but is capable of exporting to other developing countries...both in medicine and education.  \nFidel Castro has taken the Cuban people from being occupied slaves of the US and turned them into someone. An incredible achievement that not many other leaders in history can claim.\nNelson Mandela is one of Fidel Castro's closest friends...without Cuban aid and support during the 1980s apartheid...South Africa, Namibia and a host of other south african ".would not have gained independence wen they did.  But, as Harry Belafonte says, "If you don't understand this history, then you will never understand the importance of the Cuban revolution." Castro came into power and was greeted as a liberator of the Cuban people - he still is. The worst crime that he commited was giving the land and resources back to the Cuban people, instead of American companies. For that, the USA tried to invade during the Bay of Pigs; after that the world narrowly escaped a nuclear crisis as Cuba aimed to defend itself with Soviet aid against another attack.  Throughout, the Trade Embargo has remained...paradoxically granting themselves of American independence, but also, being isolated from the world's largest economy. I think the better question is: Will the US ever be absolved for what it has done to Cuba and its people since its revolution, which is completely supported by its own people. If only the USA would respect the sovereign rights of other countries. Will the US ever be forgiven for Operation Peter Pan, in which the CIA and the Catholic church kidnapped over 20,000 Cuban children from their parents and flew them to the US. Will the US ever be forgiven for being hypocrites for not trading with Cuba, but with China on an unprecendented level.\nVive le Castro! Vive le revolucion!
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Lenin,Castro and Mao-Tse-Tung.
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Che Guevara, I think he was from Argentina and Lived in Cuba.\nHe was some sort of a social activist.
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Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, Kim Il Sung, Hugo Chavez
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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.