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When Castro Dies the Next Administration..

rhinefire

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So what will happen when Fidel goes the that great Communist Hall of Atheists? His brother says he is willing to talk to another administration but not George Bush Jr. Can it be he believes dems are less money and land grubbers than reps? Wasn't it a dem that nearly lit up the world over Cuba? Wasn't it a dem that sent F Troop in to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs and get massacred in the process? Is he pro America or just a realist thinking when Fidel goes Cuba could look like Iraq? What, if any input will other communist leader have?
 
It will be like Chavez he or she (yea right) will rabbel on about the US but wont do a thing. If Cuba wants to talk to us then I think we should at least heard what they have to say.
 

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Well ya can't blame anyone for not wanting to talk to a LIAR like Bush. And who else in the world would want to talk to Bush without having fear that he might invade their country if they have OIL or even maybe SUGAR!!!
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Moral of my post? NO ONE in the WORLD trusts :liar2 Bush :liar2 and whos to blame them.
 

Raul Castro is more like Deng Xiaoping than his brother is. When Fidel dies, I expect to see a loosening up of Cuba's trade policy and a warming of Cuban-American relations. Cuba will most likely follow the Chinese model.
 
I'm curious also what our Cuban Americans will do. I think Chavez will pour every tenth of a penny he can raise to maintain the communist status quo, but how informed are the Cuban people and I ask because I don't know. Are they just sitting around waiting for Fidel to die then hit the streets and demand change or are they scared to try such a move?
 
chevydriver1123 said:
It will be like Chavez he or she (yea right) will rabbel on about the US but wont do a thing. If Cuba wants to talk to us then I think we should at least heard what they have to say.
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I disagree, because they are trying to start the process on their own terms. I say, when they get host free and fair elections, that's a start. No other concessions will be granted until the people are given a real choice of governance.
 
Notice Castro didn't say the next Democratic Administration, just the next administration.
 
America couldn't take over Cuba. However, they will most definitively try. They have already appointed a Governor of Cuba, to lead the "democratic process". (Because appointing a leader for a forging country in incredibly democratic). I know because i went to protest against his visit in Denmark.

Fidel's Brother, Raul Castro, Vice president of Cuba, will without question take Fidel's seat after his death. His chance of still being President after the next election, is rather large, seeing how little Cubans are told about politics. Voting systems without free speech, isn't democracy.

However, Raul seems a bit more liberal (politically and not "Capitalist", Liberal, civil rights) than his older Brother. So we can only hope for a more free system on Cuba, where the Communist Party Hopefully will be able to sit trough a fair election.
 
Kandahar said:
Raul Castro is more like Deng Xiaoping than his brother is. When Fidel dies, I expect to see a loosening up of Cuba's trade policy and a warming of Cuban-American relations. Cuba will most likely follow the Chinese model.
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You got that wrong. Raul is more radical than Castro.
 

You've taken leave of your senses :lol: - Raul is a MORE dedicated communist than Fidel. Short of an unlikely popular uprising, this sad country will continue in its socialist misery into the indefinite future.
 
Rick said:
You got that wrong. Raul is more radical than Castro.
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Virtually every sober assessment I've ever read says that Raul is a big fan of Chinese-style capitalism as opposed to hardcore Marxism.
 
Rick said:
OK, here's an assessment by a former Romanian government official who knew him personally:

Ion Mihai Pacepa on Raúl Castro on National Review Online
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Oh I agree that Raul is violent and has no intention of moving toward democracy. But if we're talking about economic policy, there's really nothing in this article that disputes the commonly-held notion that Raul is more liberal than Fidel, favoring a Chinese model instead of a Marxist model. In fact, it looks like most of this person's experience with Raul was before 1979, when Deng Xiaoping started reforming the Chinese economy. Most testimonies suggest that Raul has changed his mind since then, regarding the best way to drive Cuba's economy.
 

Citation about this?
 
Kandahar said:
Raul Castro is more like Deng Xiaoping than his brother is. When Fidel dies, I expect to see a loosening up of Cuba's trade policy and a warming of Cuban-American relations. Cuba will most likely follow the Chinese model.
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True, Cuban-American relations will warm, but only to the extent seen in today's Chinese-American relation. I hope to see Cuba maintain a strong sense of independence because being a puppet to the United States is usually only good for the United States, especially when dealing with Latin American (Gunboat Diplomacy, Teddy R, and onward...). I don't think Chavez and the other Latin American countries would be happy if any kind of overthrow occurred under US backing.
 
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