Comments on: Term Limits in Cuba

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:13:16 +0000

Funny how it’s OK to replace a right ring authoritarian regime with a left wing authoritarian regime as according to lefties like Toms two wrongs do make a right (or should that be a left). I don’t see masses of people (actually no people that I’m aware of) wanting to move to Cuba or North Korea – perhaps Toms should go and set an example!

By: vibenna

vibenna — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:49:23 +0000

“Communist dictatorships all too often turn into a type of feudal monarchy”

Not just communist dictatorships. A certain city state often praised by commentators here seems to be going the same way. In fact, it reinforced the power of the ruling family by introducing term limits for ministers ! Oh, but with ‘obvious exceptions.’

By: gazzmaniac

gazzmaniac — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:40:02 +0000

The Cuban reevolution overthrew a corrupt Quisling regime and restored sovereignty to the Cuban people, and then defied the unrelenting hostility of the United States to create probably the most equal Central American society of all.

I guess everyone is equal if they all have nothing.

By: toms

toms — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:30:30 +0000

“ I believe that there is no country in the world including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country’s policies during the Batista regime. I approved the proclamation which Fidel Castro made in the Sierra Maestra, when he justifiably called for justice and especially yearned to rid Cuba of corruption. I will even go further: to some extent it is as though Batista was the incarnation of a number of sins on the part of the United States. Now we shall have to pay for those sins. In the matter of the Batista regime, I am in agreement with the first Cuban revolutionaries. That is perfectly clear. ”

— U.S. President John F. Kennedy

By: F E Smith

F E Smith — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:10:00 +0000

a corrupt Quisling regime

I hadn’t realised that Cuba was under occupation in the 1950s. How interesting, please elaborate!

EDIT: “bitter old authoritarians”

Are you saying that Cuba is not under the control of an authoritarian regime at the moment?

By: toms

toms — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:52:05 +0000

Yeah, because the gangster regime of Fulgencio Batista was really a shining light of modern capitalism… The Cuban reevolution overthrew a corrupt Quisling regime and restored sovereignty to the Cuban people, and then defied the unrelenting hostility of the United States to create probably the most equal Central American society of all. The Cuban revolution would have been wildly successful rather than a bit of a curates egg if not for the imperialist aggression of the USA and it’s determination to prevent the Cuban people deciding their own destiny.

If Cuba transforms into something resembling a democracy on it’s own terms and without succumbing to the tyranny of global capitalist authoritarianism, it will be a beacon to people everywhere.

No wonder bitter old authoritarians like Manolo hate Cuba so much!

By: TheContrarian

TheContrarian — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:43:35 +0000

About time the US removed the embargoes I reckon. The tourist industry would boom and cigars could be export.
one sure way to get people of Cuba to grow would be to give them a taste of greater economic freedoms

By: Manolo

Manolo — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:23:08 +0000

A miserable tyrant has given up on miserable ideology. Today’s Cuba is wrecked by widespread poverty amid the tourist spots and the ruling-elite neighbourhoods.

Communism and socialism are abject failures. Long live capitalism.