Expressions of sympathy have poured in from around the world from fellow murderous dictators and fellow climate warriors like Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, for the death of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on the death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro:
“It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of Cuba’s longest serving President.
“Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century. A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation.
“While a controversial figure, both Mr. Castro’s supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people who had a deep and lasting affection for “el Comandante”.
“I know my father was very proud to call him a friend and I had the opportunity to meet Fidel when my father passed away. It was also a real honour to meet his three sons and his brother President Raúl Castro during my recent visit to Cuba.
“On behalf of all Canadians, Sophie and I offer our deepest condolences to the family, friends and many, many supporters of Mr. Castro. We join the people of Cuba today in mourning the loss of this remarkable leader.”
President Obama’s eulogy was sympathetic, if a little less enthusiastic than Prime Minister Trudeau;
We know that this moment fills Cubans–in Cuba and in the United States–with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation
Read more: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/president-obama-fidel-castro-death-170615139.html
Murderous Syrian tyrant Bashar Assad joins Prime Minister Trudeau and President Obama in mourning the Cuban climate warrior.
… Syria President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday hailed Fidel Castro’s “legendary resistance” to the embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba in a statement marking the death of the revolutionary leader. “The great leader Fidel Castro led his people’s and his country’s struggle against imperialism and hegemony for decades,” Assad, whose government is facing US sanctions, said in a message of condolences.
“His resistance became legendary and inspired leaders and people all over the world,” he said in the letter addressed to Castro’s brother Raul, who is president of Cuba. “Cuba, a friendly country, was able thanks to its leaders to resist against the toughest sanctions and most unjust campaigns in our modern history,” Assad said, referring to the US embargo on the island. …
Fidel Castro’s brother Raul, the thug who inherited the Cuban dictatorship from his ailing brother, is committed to continuing Castro’s battle against Climate Change and any political dissidents, artists and homosexuals who have so far escaped Cuba’s brutal extra judiciary punishment of such offences.
Remarks by President Obama and President Raul Castro of Cuba in a Joint Press Conference
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More broadly, we’re moving ahead with partnerships in health, science, and the environment. Just as Cubans and American medical teams have worked together in Haiti against cholera, and in West Africa against Ebola — and I want to give a special commendation to Cuban doctors who volunteered and took on some very tough assignments to save lives in West Africa in partnership with us and other nations. We very much appreciate the work that they did. Our medical professionals will now collaborate in new areas, preventing the spread of viruses like Zika and leading new research into cancer vaccines. Our governments will also work to protect the beautiful waters of this region that we share.
And as two countries threatened by climate change, I believe we can work together to protect communities and our low-lying coasts. And we’re inviting Cuba to join us and our Caribbean and Central American partners at this spring’s regional energy summit in Washington.
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President Raul Castro on Climate Change;
President Raul Castro Warns on Consequences of Climate Change
Cuba´s President Raul Castro, denounced today here that the global temperature rise will compromise first, integrity and physical existence of many countries and island nations, and will produce serious consequences to the Third World.
Key Remarks of President Raul Castro at Rio+20
“Despite the milestone that marked the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, emissions of carbon dioxide increased by 38 percent between 1990 and 2009”, said Raul Castro speaking at the plenary session of the Summit United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio +20.
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President Obama and President Raul Castro’s remarks echo Fidel Castro’s earlier commitment to fighting climate change in 2012.
Fidel Castro warns of climate change
Havana – Cuba’s iconic revolutionary Fidel Castro warned that the world was on an “inexorable” march into the abyss this year because of climate change and the threat of nuclear war.
In an article published on Thursday – Castro’s first since November 2011 – the 85-year-old retired leader also took aim at the United States and at gas shale “fracking”, a new source of fossil fuels condemned by environmentalists.
He did not, however, address rumours of his death, which were denied by an official Cuban blogger after they surfaced on Twitter earlier this week.
“Many dangers threaten us, but two of them, nuclear war and climate change, are decisive and are drifting further away from a solution,” he wrote in an article entitled “The March Towards the Abyss.”
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Read more: http://www.news24.com/World/News/Fidel-Castro-warns-of-climate-change-20120106
Some Cuban exiles in Miami, who seem hung up on how many of their relatives and friends were brutalised and murdered by Castro and his thugs, are distracting attention away from Castro’s climate warrior legacy.
Castro was a mass murderer
President Obama said this about the death of Fidel Castro: “History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular character.”
And I say “Fidel Castro was a mass murderer who ordered the killing of thousands of innocent Cubans, in order to scare and control the rest of the Cuban population.”
He had a peaceful death, but in his final days he should have experienced a lot of suffering; he should have been dragged through the streets of Havana, like Mussolini in Italy, and then hanged.
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Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article117295703.html
President-elect Trump also criticised the Cuban dictator’s reign;
“Fidel Castro’s legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights”
Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/11/26/eu-chief-juncker-praises-hero-fidel-castro/
Some critics have mocked Trudeau’s heartfelt eulogy for his fellow green on Twitter, completely ignoring Castro’s strong stand against global warming.
https://twitter.com/FowlCanuck/status/802592021131259904
It is with a heavy heart that we mourn the passing of Saddam Hussein. His advancements in chemical research live on. #trudeaueulogies
— The Count (@TheCountDM) November 26, 2016
Jack the Ripper was a permanent influence on the lives of many economically deprived White Chapel women. #trudeaueulogies
— Regulus de Leo (@RegulusdeLeo) November 26, 2016
https://twitter.com/Integralmathyt/status/802599390623899648
https://twitter.com/realMaxRenn/status/802608014842855424
https://twitter.com/RenegadeMinds/status/802607939617980416
https://twitter.com/TheC0zmo/status/802607935130046465
Despite the criticism, I’m confident that Fidel Castro will be remembered by the liberal elite as one of their own – someone who stopped at nothing to address the twin problems of overpopulation and carbon pollution, by murdering lots of people, especially people who disagreed with him, and by doing everything in his power to halt harmful economic growth, by shackling his country’s economy to the grinding misery of decades of communist stagnation.
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Embarrassed to be Canadian because of our swooning and infantile prime minister.
Fidel Castro had 20 luxury homes, a yacht and a private island, sparkling guest lists — all on “$25 dollars a month.”
Now why can’t the Columbian peasants forced to grow coca and produce cocaine paste figure out how to do the same thing on $25 a month.
Zeke
You could find similar scenes in American ‘Rust Belt’ states
Do tell about all the American rust belt states that have been hijacked by gangs and drug dealers, and Castro-aided guerilla FARC fighters, supplying Fidel Castro with his cocaine supply.
Juan Reinaldo Sanchez, former body guard, said that Castro’s drug trafficking in cocaine and cannabis was a double benefit for the dictator.
“Sanchez notes that it was strategically beneficial to Castro to work in the drug trade because “it corrupted and destabilized American society.””
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/05/05/fidel-castros-former-bodyguard-cuban-dictator-ran-cocaine-trade-like-a-godfather/
..OMG..If only stupidity was painful…”Approximately 26 percent of Cuba’s population is living in poverty, which is the equivalent of 11.2 million people. “…The Liberal Left ideology creates poverty to control the masses ….Period…!
Actually, you couldn’t, but don’t let the facts get in the way of your opinion.
Zeke
Your only quotes are from degenerates that will say anything for a few bucks.
Perhaps Sanchez escaped because he was rumbled as being mixed up with drug trade.
Do you think that the Rust Belt decay and hopelessness that accompany unemployment and drug abuse can be attributed to Castro and Cuba?
Most of the drug pushing emigre Cubans are now in Florida.
Is Trumps wall along the Mexican/USA border a waste of time ?
It seems to be so according to you!
Anyone who disagrees with a communist is a degenerate.
All true revolutionaries know that.
And of course degenerates deserve only death.
The word he is looking for is “defector.” Juan Reinaldo Sanchez was his body guard for 17 years and likely paid for his eye-witness accounts with his life.
Hopefully you realize that not everyone in Canada feel the same way as our “looser” prime minister. Unfortunately many do (claim to) feel that that “thing” is great for our country but he has clearly shown himself to be a far left-wing socialists and potential dictator (some refer to him as the Lil’ Dick Tater). Using intelligence his father damn near ruined our country and this character using stupidity (both of his own and the people’s) is managing to complete the process.
Well at least you can’t say we are not competitive, at least not in the hypocritical department. The U.S. has Gore and we have Suzuki, U.S. has Obama and we have the Lil’ Dick Tater, the US has DiCaprio and we have Young, … Unfortunately we seem to be keeping up.
Hopefully that won’t become our only bragging right…
The same as above with some of the typos corrected. Fingers moving faster than brain this morning…
Hopefully you realize that not everyone in Canada feels the same way as our “loser” prime minister. Unfortunately many do (claim to) feel that that “thing” is great for our country but he has clearly shown himself to be a far left-wing socialists and potential dictator (some refer to him as the Lil’ Dick Tater). Using intelligence and cunning, his father damn near ruined our country and this character using only stupidity (both of his own and the people’s) is managing to complete the process.
Well at least you can’t say we are not competitive, at least not in the hypocritical department. The U.S. has Gore and we have Suzuki, U.S. has Obama and we have the Lil’ Dick Tater, the US has DiCaprio and we have Young, … Unfortunately we seem to be keeping up.
Hopefully this won’t become our only bragging right…
Our Canadian media helped elected PM Trulander (who they will tell you, with a straight face, has a HUGE mandate despite getting only 39.5% of the vote), then comment on the Trump win (unfavourably of course, despite his getting much more than 39.5% of the vote), THEN follow Trulander to Cuba, and not raise a single issue about Raul Castro’s “election”.
Yet they still can’t grasp why so many of their colleagues are being laid off, and their media outlets closing…
Does anyone want to take a stab at the value of (socialist) Fidel Castro’s estate? $tens or $hundreds of millions?
Trudeau said:
“While a controversial figure, both Mr. Castro’s supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people who had a deep and lasting affection for “el Comandante”.
When Fidel Castro died, thousands and thousands of people all over the world broke into spontaneous celebrations, dances, street parties, and expressions of joy.
I got to thinking … just how bad does a man have to be for his death to be a cause for widespread celebrations all over the world.
The answer seems to be … very, very bad.
w.
But that’s also what happened on the death of Thatcher in the UK, and many people on this site are absolutely appalled by such behaviour. It just depends how you view the person concerned.
As far as I can see, Castro was a complete villain , but Thatcher was not exactly an Angel either. While their offending is of a different scale, the offence people feel at the celebration of Thatchers death gives them a good insight into how supporters of Castro feel about about celebrations of his death. Many people on this site think Thatcher was a wonderful person beyond reproach or criticism. Some people think that about Castro.
There is always someone who will send condolences, even on Hitlers death some countries sent the same message of sadness.
Just a reminder, here is Nelson Mandela thanking Castro from the bottom of his heart for his help in overthrowing Apartheid.
Gareth, are you truly trying to draw some equivalence between Thatcher and Castro? When Castro died, the party in Miami involved tens of thousands of people and lasted three days, a completely spontaneous outpouring of joy over the death of someone who had killed and imprisoned their family and friends. They’d be partying in Cuba too, but of course, thanks to Castro’s laws, that would get them thrown in jail as “counter-revolutionaries”.
There was nothing even remotely comparable to that when Thatcher died. A few blokes raised a pint in a pub to her death, a couple hundred people held a “street party” in Brixton, but nothing even slightly like the three-day, tens of thousands of people blowout that happened for Castro.
Finally, you seem to think that Mandela thanking Castro should mean something. Hey, Justin Trudeau thinks Castro was a great guy too … me, I find my own moral lines, I don’t take them from either Mandela or Trudeau.
Not only that, but an old man with a gray beard still wearing combat fatigues and that bogus belt? That should tip you off that this is just another photo op for a ruthless totalitarian despot …
w.
For each person happy about Castro’s death there are 10000 sad about the death of this great man.
This indicates that he must have been very loved by the poor people of the planet
Bryan November 29, 2016 at 12:29 am
Oh, please. You just made that number up out of your imagination. There are not any huge gatherings in sorrow over his death, even in Cuba. Well, especially in Cuba.
Next, the number of people celebrating in Miami alone was in the tens of thousands … so by your claims, just to offset Miami alone there need to be a hundred million idiots who are saddened by his death …
Man, that kind of clueless certainty is so cute! I think you actually believe that!
Reality check, Bryan. Castro was a cruel and heartless man who delighted in throwing people in jail and keeping Cuba locked down by one of the more ruthless police forces on the planet. His response to the poor people with AIDS? Lock them up and throw away the key …
If you think he was “loved by the poor” either inside or outside of Cuba, well, there must be a few poor people out there who are as clueless as you, but most of the poor can recognize a totalitarian dictator when they see one, and their natural response is fear, not love.
w.
The top headline can be used for almost all recent rulers;
G W BUSH, H W BUSH, TONY BLAIR, MARGARET THATCHER all sent many thousand of people to a needless death and all were Climate Warriors.
Willis Eschenbach
Apart from the Miami emigre’s and some right wing US citizens there is no such unseemly glee in Castro’s death
Balance that against the many millions of people in Latin America, China, India, Russia and so on.
Also add the left oriented people all over the world.
Also add the left in the USA, the black citizens and the occupy movement and the Sanders youth.
So all in all the 10000 to one ratio is probably an underestimate
Bryan November 29, 2016 at 9:45 am
Perhaps the best comment was “When I die, I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like Fidel Castro, not screaming in terror, like his victims.”
Yes, there are lots of fools in the world. But the people who actually had to live under Castro, the people of Cuba and the emigres, are the ones who are celebrating … and the people who never had to live under his reign of terror, people for whom he was some kind of leftist wet-dream, are not celebrating.
Color me unsurprised. Do you truly take your moral guidance from the Occupy movement and the Sanders youth? Yeah, from the looks of it, I guess you do.
You wish … take a look at how many world leaders actually show up at the funeral. Trudeau already wimped out. Why?
BECAUSE THE PEOPLE OF CANADA ARE FAR SMARTER THAN EITHER YOU OR JUSTIN! Trudeau wanted to go to burnish his leftist halo at Castro’s, but the Canadians were so outraged at this that he wimped out, and rightly so.
Is there some part of “Fidel Castro imprisoned, tortured, and murdered hundreds and hundreds of his fellow Cuban citizens” that is unclear to you? Wake up and smell the coffee, Bryan. He was not a hero, or a good man, or a decent human being. He was not the “hero of the people” as you seem to think—he liked to TORTURE THE PEOPLE, you idiot, and you are defending him?
Pathetic … you definitely need to spend more time out here in the real world, Bryan. Kind, decent people don’t support someone who tortures women, so … just why are you doing exactly that?
w.
Trump and dead Castro. Things are lookin’ up.
A lot of “lefties” are mourning his death.
I wonder how many of them remember that his answer to AIDS was to round them all up and put them in camps?
It will be interesting to see who attends his memorial ceremony.
And those who won’t…..like Trudeau who just opted out due to overwhelming public outcry.
Some politicians are very divisive figures, you hate them or love them. ( Marmite figures as call them in the UK)
Many people hated Castro and Thatcher, but no-one would want to go back to the time before either of them came to power. When the UK was in disarray and Cuba was run by right wing dictators and the mafia.
Maybe how people feel about such politicians says more about them than the politician under discussion.
How can you possibly compare an evil hypocrite like Castro who plundered Cuba’s coffers with the saintly Mrs Thatcher who along with Pitt the younger was the least corrupt PM/MP/politician in history.
Gareth Phillips
A deeply puzzling comment, as if Mrs T and RR are in some way similar to The Great Leader.
This kind of sentimental equivocation (they’re all ‘Marmite’) destroys debate and ignores the enormous divide between, on the one hand, anti-state politicians ( a vanishingly rare breed) and, on the other, statists such as Castro and Mussolini, whose joint motto was ‘everything for the state, nothing outside the state’.
Despite Mussolini’s comparative benevolence in these matters (Italy did not close its borders until the mid-30s), and however admired this type is, their work must end in tragedy. For they represent a return to the tribe with the unanswerable Big Chief at its head. Sure enough, both Cuba and Italy joined in world conflagration on the wrong side.
Since, as you admit, ‘the UK was in disarray’ in the 70s, at one level you accept the point. As for Batista’s corrupt Cuba, with its afro-Cuban ministers, being an unsalvageable hellhole, revisionist history is beginning to tell a very different tale….. The truth is rather the reverse….
Even if he did not realize that the carbonic church is also a part of the same imperialism of which the Cubans liberated themselves. From the mass murder by slavery on Bacardi’s sugar cane fields to a medical system that healed the Ebola pandemic in Africa for the benefit of the whole mankind. Not bad for a “mass murderer”.
‘(T)he catholic church (sic) is also part of the same imperialism’? Another baffling comment, and one from which even the fuhrer, who was beaten by Catholic priests, might well demur. Because so far, no-one has found any sign of the Swiss Guards in any other part of the world than the Vatican. But, er perhaps you have other information? If so, you need to tell us, for such a discovery would be a surprise to historians, to put it no more dramatically
Mussolini might agree with you, however; or at least his speeches were used by the Hero of the Cuban Revolution. He simply updated ‘British Imperialism’ to ‘Yanqi Imperialism’.
Another strange comment is Bacardi’s ‘slavery’. This too is new. What is your reference? (Better if it’s not the Huffington Post or The Daily Mail, just to be on the safe side). Wikipedia says Emilio Bacardi opposed both slavery and the church. No doubt just another bourgeois hypocrite?.
I wonder which is worse – a pretentious slave-owner like the ‘Anti-Bacardi’ of your imagination? Or real-life Satans like Castro/Guevara? Their joint intent was to destroy the southern United States as far as Peru, thus starting World War Three. Not much left of any Ebola survivors then, eh?
Never mind, they would have made their point. And when it comes to nuclear annihilation, that’s all that counts.
Isn’t it?
Castro was indeed a mass murderer. His partner in crime Che was both a mass murderer and a serial killer, who went abroad for new victims when he ran out of people personally to shoot and torture to death in Cuba.
Cuban medical teams aren’t volunteers. The regime makes money off the doctors and nurses it orders overseas.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/09/the-dark-side-of-cuba-s-ebola-economy.html
Meanwhile, Cubans suffer execrable health care, for lack of such simple medicines as aspirin.
Communism, as everywhere else, has been a disaster for Cuba and won’t long survive Fidel. The Cuban economy explained:
It reads:
Thoughts on today’s Cuba.
My father, doctor. My mother, lawyer. I, engineer.
Less bad is that my sister is a hooker and supports us all.