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Why, Fidel, why?
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2002 4:34 am
by Delacroix
Fidel Castro now is colecting people signatures in Cuba to make a permanent change on the Constitution, in the meaning of reafirmate the Comunist monoparti system.
"The Imperialists control and the Capitalist system will never rule Cuba anymore."- Fidel Castro, in the Celebration of Che Guevara and Antonio Maceo birthday.
Now, Since when Fidel Castro need to colect signatures to change the Constitution?
It's sounds too much "formal"
for him.
Especially since he know that he is largely suported.
You see anything or have any opinion about it?
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2002 4:37 am
by /-\lastor
Hmm the only comment I have I dont fancy the world going tru all this commie-crap again.
No offence
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2002 4:46 am
by Craig
Wheres Mr.Jingles?
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2002 4:53 am
by Weasel
Link to one story
I say let Fidel have his signing. No matter what is written down..nothing is ever permanent.
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2002 4:55 am
by Delacroix
Originally posted by /-\lastor
Hmm the only comment I have I dont fancy the world going tru all this commie-crap again.
Again? He is just oficializing the "Common Law".
BTW, he made this National Campaign with a 7 MINUTES speech; probably a record for him
.
The real purpose still a mystery to me.
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2002 5:02 am
by Weasel
Originally posted by Delacroix
The real purpose still a mystery to me.
Like the kings of yester year, he wants to leave a lasting "legacy". Delusions of Grandeur.
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2002 7:39 am
by fable
Fidel Castro now is colecting people signatures in Cuba to make a permanent change on the Constitution, in the meaning of reafirmate the Comunist monoparti system.
Castro is an old-line Communist dictator, possibly the only one in the last quarter of a century who actually believed in that system of government. I will give anybody 10-to-1 odds that within two years of his death, biographies begin to appear to place him in a tragic light as "a man out of his time."
I see this attempt to enshrine the one-party state Constitutionally as an effort to reach beyond the grave, despite the fact that he knows what he has built is doomed.
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2002 8:40 am
by Pregethwr
Actually Fidel was never much of a communist, more a vaguely left-wing nationalist.
He was never a member of the communist party until he reached power and while he was organising trade unions in Cuba was fairly anti-communist.
When he first came to power he said (along the lines of) "this will be a green revolution, steering a middle way between east and west, capitalism and communism".
However he quickly learnt if he didn't make a deal with the USSR his Government would be destroyed by its large, powerful neighbour so he began learning his Marx and party-line.
There are people around him who have serious communist pedigree however - his brother Raul is fairly Stalinist and one of the great hopes of the Cubans is that when Fidel dies it is not Raul who takes over.