Comments on: Perez Hilton: Fidel Castro is Dead OMG!!!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:48:31 +0000

Randy,

On the issue of Cuba, we both agree. Bring out the rum and par-ty! :-)

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:42:17 +0000

Anonabat 35 — Yes, the media reports from Cuba are unreliable. The country is second only to China in the number of journalists it has in prison, and Cuban law criminalizes the spreading of “unauthorized” news. Human rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are not allowed into the country (they probably tried to make reservations at a bad time). The Red Cross is not allowed into its prisons, for some reason (there are over 300 political prisoners in Cuban jails).

Of course your friends who have visited Cuba paint a different picture. Do you think the Peace and Friendship tourist guides are going to let any foreigners talk to real dissidents, or ordinary citizens who aren’t looking over their shoulders for the police? Back in the day, when people I knew came back from the Soviet Union, they would say that everyone seemed happy enough—”wink, wink.”

BTW, I think the U.S. policy towards Cuba has been uncommonly stupid. The economic embargo has done more to keep Castro in power than anything else since the Soviet Union stopped aiding the country.

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:00:52 +0000

RIchard — I’ll take any excuse for a party.

By: Anonabat35

Anonabat35 — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:12:37 +0000

What do any of you, or I, actually know about Cuba or Castro for that matter? Can you actually find me any credible reporting in the American media on Cuba? I am much more apt to believe the people I know who have been there numerous times, under numerous circumstances, than virtually anything I hear from the media in America. Geez, talk about rumors!

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:33:30 +0000

Randy, are you talking about Castro or Bush?

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:23:17 +0000

There is a big difference between celebrating (or wishing for) another person’s death and celebrating the end of the despotic regime he ran.

By: Sally

Sally — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:00:37 +0000

Sean - that’s probably WHY Chris didn’t thank Jesus for calling him home… :)

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:51:26 +0000

“I did not thank Jesus for calling him home. I said I was going to smoke a cigar and drink some rum in his memory.”

thats speculating a lot — namely that he’s going to heaven. Sean

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:26:27 +0000

Randy,

You have to buy from La Casa del Habano stores otherwise you won’t get good cigars. I’d actually share some of my rum with you. It’s wonderful stuff with lots of vanilla, caramel, jasmine, coffee, tobacco flavors.

Sally,

Unlike you, I did not thank Jesus for calling him home. I said I was going to smoke a cigar and drink some rum in his memory. That’s entirely different.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:10:39 +0000

And what is it about Republicans sucking on big fat cylindrically shaped objects?