Comments on: Raul sacks ministers, elevates the military

By: eon

eon — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:02:25 +0000

What is often overlooked is that for most of Fidel’s reign, Raul’ was his resident hit man. Raul was the guy in charge of the secret police (whatever it was actually called on any given day), and was responsible for ferreting out “counter-revolutionary” elements, plots, etc. Which were defined as “Anyone who might, somewhere along the line, challenge Fidel’s power.”

As such, he came into the presidency with a very long backtrail of people who don’t like him, especially in the upper echelons of the government. Put bluntly, he has made so many enemies over the years that if not for Fidel’s patronage and their brotherly habit of watching each other’s backs, Raul’ wouldn’t be upright and breathing now.

To cite only one example, it was Raul’s idea to send Ernesto “Che’” Guevara to Bolivia in 1965, basically to keep him from staging a palace coup’ against Fidel. There are elements in Cuba’s regime’ to this day that claim it was Raul’ who tipped the Bolivian government off as to Che’s whereabouts, in the hopes of getting rid of him without getting caught at it. (If so, it worked.)

With a track record like that, if Fidel is even close to assuming room temperature, Raul’ is guaranteed to be circling the wagons to prepare for the reckoning he knows will inevitably come his way.

cheers

eon

By: Libertarian Joseph

Libertarian Joseph — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:32:19 +0000

fumpbump on March 3, 2009 at 2:38 PM

You’re a mental midget. We should drop all trade embargoes with Cuba and allow our two countries to freely trade. Anti-free trade members do nothing but increase hostilities and hurt the innocent of a nation. It doesn’t affect governments, at all.

By: jcila

jcila — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:26:11 +0000

I didnt know obama was telling cuba what to do too..

sounds like the cubans are following the democrat model..
or is that supposed to be the other way around

i can never seperate the two communists from democratss..

By: The Monster

The Monster — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:14:14 +0000

which begs the question: why now?

No, it raises that question. "Begging the question"

By: davod

davod — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:17:24 +0000

If only we had ended the embargo this would not have happened.

By: rbj

rbj — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:10:08 +0000

Not necessarily room temperature, but at least closer to a vegetative state. Fidel’s probably sitting in a wheelchair, in a garden, with a wool blanket over his legs in 85 degree weather. And has to have a nurse help him eat and poop.

By: BierManVA

BierManVA — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:08:21 +0000

I can’t for the life of me figure out what all the fuss is over Cuba!…
fumpbump on March 3, 2009 at 2:38 PM

Ditto. Just another failed communist state as far as I can tell.

By: Leopold Stotch

Leopold Stotch — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:08:09 +0000

There is no Lasik surgery in Que-bar?

By: albill

albill — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:07:16 +0000

Cleaning house waiting for Obama’s first visit to Cuba.

By: roux

roux — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:43:33 +0000

This is a test, just a test…. at least according to Crazy Joe Biden.

By: fumpbump

fumpbump — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:38:06 +0000

I can’t for the life of me figure out what all the fuss is over Cuba!
They are 90 freaking miles away. We need to sit down with Castro, explain to him how things are going to be, smoke a fine cigar of course, and send him on his way! Let him have his little dictatorship. When the people tire of it, they will do something. Until then, let it be. Make it painfully obvious to him that we will crush him like the little bug he is if he screws with the USA!
Of course, the problem with that idea in this day and age is that The One would actually go down there for pointers! (Probably wouldn’t even smoke a fine cigar the pantywaste!)

By: Alden Pyle

Alden Pyle — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:37:03 +0000

Soon he’ll be leading the conga line at the Wednesday night Whitehouse paahhtay!

By: DrSteve

DrSteve — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:25:38 +0000

Wake me up when you can add “… slips in shower, breaks neck” to that headline.

By: maverick muse

maverick muse — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:18:54 +0000

a purge is always coming.

:O)

OhEssYouCowboys

Congressman John Carter representing Central Texas wrote of Obama’s Binge.

By: maverick muse

maverick muse — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:16:35 +0000

Raul just had Chavez over for cocktails. These machismo Latin Socialists aren’t about to allow Obama to steal top honors performing the “now you see yourself, now you don’t” show of CHANGE “the people” bought without reading the fine print.

Obama’s not about to be outdone in the gamble. The Antipathy One has everything to lose beginning with America.

By: OhEssYouCowboys

OhEssYouCowboys — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:07:54 +0000

This reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode, with Peter Falk as a Castro-like character.

It was all about seeing enemies – EVERYWHERE.

I love how Communist tyrants fear those closest to themselves. Every night is a sleepless night … and a purge is always coming.

:O)

By: lorien1973

lorien1973 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:05:49 +0000

Sounds like a good time to drop the pesky embargo.

By: Realist

Realist — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:04:55 +0000

If Fidel has assumed room temperature, it is very unfair for the Cuban government not to disclose it.

To quote Dave Barry:

“IF CASTRO, IN FACT, DIES…

…and you are the kind of person who likes REALLY wild street parties, you want to get to Miami now.”

Think of it as Miami’s stimulus package…

By: jencab

jencab — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:03:17 +0000

Raul is a murderous thug just like his brother. Nothing but a power hungry jerk putting in his cabinet his favorite minions. I have no doubt Fidel is dead, and he is just getting his loyalists in his cabinet. He has been wanting this power for a long time.

By: Dr.Cwac.Cwac

Dr.Cwac.Cwac — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:01:10 +0000

Change.

Consolidating power around a group of intimates. Hmmmm…..

Whom does that sound like?

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By: Saltysam

Saltysam — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:00:11 +0000

Cubans are now attempting the raft trip…

to Ireland.