primitives admire new photograph of Fidel

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

Judi Lynn  (1000+ posts)      Tue Nov-11-08 06:54 PM
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EL NUEVO HERALD
New photo of Fidel Castro appears

The first public photo of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro since June has appeared on the internet page of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The photo shows Castro with Metropolitan Kiril Gundjaev during the Orthodox church leader's visit to Havana last month to inaugurate a new cathedral in Old Havana.

The 82-year-old Castro appears not much changed from his last publicly available image, taken during a Junre visit to Havana by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. After his meeting with Castro on Oct. 20, Gundjaev, head of the foreign church affairs for the Moscow patriarchate, told journalists that Castro had seemed "lucid but somewhat weak.''

At the time, Cuba's oficial media published photos of the visitor's meeting with Raul Castro, Fidel's brother and successor, and reports but no photos on his meeting with Fidel Castro.

The photo of Castro and Gundjaev began making the rounds of the Internet after exiled Cuban historian Emilio Ichikawa published it in his blog Monday. He said a reader had alerted him to the photo's existence on the Russian church's internet pages.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/766058.h...
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The Miami Herald ran the photo of Fidel Castro and Metropolitan Kiril Gundjaev in their Spanish version of the Herald, El Nuevo Herald but they saw fit NOT to run it in their English paper.

Here's the "Nuevo's" photo:

after which a photograph of the now-frail Genocidist, with some guy

Warpy  (1000+ posts)        Tue Nov-11-08 07:01 PM
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1. He looks terribly frail and underweight.

I doubt seriously if he'll live much longer.

I hope his government survives and progresses.

Yeah, the warped primitive would hope something like that.

kayakjohnny (500 posts)      Tue Nov-11-08 07:54 PM
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3. But still standing. Don't forget that part.

Even though it looks like his grip on the pontiff's arm is just a bit tight.

Damn, what the primitives don't know about religion would stretch to the ends of the universe.

That's not Benedict XVI, the only pontiff in existence; that's a bigwig with the Russian Orthodox Church, which is not the same thing as the Church headed by the pontiff.

Damn.

Anyway, the primitives then squibble-squabble about whether the photograph's faked or not, and exchange other misdisinformation about religion while sitting around the bonfire.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Warpy  (1000+ posts)        Tue Nov-11-08 07:01 PM
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1. He looks terribly frail and underweight.

I doubt seriously if he'll live much longer.

I hope his government survives and progresses.

Because it's really been progressing since Castro took power.

 

[JohnnyReb]

Because it's really been progressing since Castro took power.

 

You have to remember that to a DUmmie, progress can only be made if it's headed downhill. ....the path of least effort.

[franksolich]

You have to remember that to a DUmmie, progress can only be made if it's headed downhill. ....the path of least effort.

You know, in 1959, Cuba was the most properous Latin American country; they enjoyed a standard of living higher than even some states in the United States.

Now they're down at the bottom, below even Haiti.

[Ralph Wiggum]

You know, in 1959, Cuba was the most properous Latin American country; they enjoyed a standard of living higher than even some states in the United States.

Now they're down at the bottom, below even Haiti.

I happened to catch a special on one of the sports channels last week.  It was a profile of Bill "Spaceman" Lee, a pitcher of note in the 1970's.  He's an amusing character.  In the special, they showed a trip that Lee made to Cuba recently to play in some exhibition games.  Yes, he still is playing in senior professional leagues.  The pictures of Cuba are just awful.  Even worse than I expected.

[Wineslob]

I happened to catch a special on one of the sports channels last week.  It was a profile of Bill "Spaceman" Lee, a pitcher of note in the 1970's.  He's an amusing character.  In the special, they showed a trip that Lee made to Cuba recently to play in some exhibition games.  Yes, he still is playing in senior professional leagues.  The pictures of Cuba are just awful.  Even worse than I expected.

That reminds me of a special (TV) called "Hemingway's Cuba" The decay of the country is "awful". Castro has completely trashed it.

[Vagabond]

You know, in 1959, Cuba was the most properous Latin American country; they enjoyed a standard of living higher than even some states in the United States.

Now they're down at the bottom, below even Haiti.

In 1959, the cuban peso traded on par with the American dollar.  If a worker in Cuba earned 100 pesos, he recieved 100 pesos.  Government taxation occured after that.

Now, after five decades of communism, the cuban peso is near worthless against the American dollar, but the wage scales have not been allowed to change.  Further any work contract and pay for work must go through the Cuban government or approval and taxation.  The worker will only see maybe ten of his now worthless pesos.  That's progress.

Havana was once the jewel of the Western Hemisphere.  It had a healthy tourist industry and benefited from shipping thanks to it's strategic position.  Now, pictures of Havana resemble every other third world dictatorship.  That's progress, if your a DUmmie.