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Judi Lynn

(160,588 posts) Fri Aug 18, 2017, 12:27 AM Aug 2017

Tribute to Fidel in New York

Created on Tuesday, 15 August 2017 12:19

HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 14 (acn) Diplomats from all over the world and solidarity activists paid tribute on Monday in New York to the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro on the 91st anniversary of his birth, reported Prensa Latina News Agency.

During a vigil in Manhattan, ambassadors and the diplomatic corps accredited to the United Nations from Latin America, Caribbean, Asia and Africa in addition to representatives of solidarity with Cuban movements in New York remembered Fidel who was born on August 13th, 1926 and passed away on November 25th, 2016.

The activity included the presentation of a video on the Comandante en Jefe, a photograph exhibition organized by friends of Cuba and speakers, among them Cuba's permanent representative before the United Nations, Anayansi Rodriguez.

The Cuban Mission to the UN celebrated on Friday the anniversary of Fidel's birth in a similar event carried out during this past weekend all over the world.

More:
http://www.cubanews.acn.cu/world/7233-tribute-to-fidel-in-new-york

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Tribute to Fidel in New York (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2017 OP

Didn't die soon enough. Hope he rots in Hell. n/t Marksman_91 Aug 2017 #1

Why? n/t OBenario4 Aug 2017 #2

Maybe because he decided to become an authoritarian dictador? Marksman_91 Aug 2017 #3

Marksman_91

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1. Didn't die soon enough. Hope he rots in Hell. n/t

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Fri Aug 18, 2017, 04:43 PM

Aug 2017

OBenario4

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2. Why? n/t

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Fri Aug 18, 2017, 07:59 PM

Aug 2017

Marksman_91

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3. Maybe because he decided to become an authoritarian dictador?

Reply to OBenario4 (Reply #2)

Sat Aug 19, 2017, 05:44 AM

Aug 2017

And did things like punish political dissidence and effectively eliminated democracy in Cuba, creating a one-party rule? And that to this day has restricted Cubans' freedoms and under his regime there have been hundreds, if not thousands, of political prisoners? And if which several were executed?

Just wondering, do you and Judi and all other Castro and Chávez apologists forgive these kinds of things so long as the government doing them calls itself left-leaning? Or are you going to pretend that all left-leaning leaders are saints no matter what?

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