Fidel Castro is near a neurovegetative state from a stroke. Good. [View all]

[DonRedwood]

In the 90s I was lucky enough to spend a month in a rental car, driving around the entire island of Cuba. The people were warm and wonderful, thrilled to meet an American. We were treated so well by the people but throughout our visit the police would stop us, would arrest people who were talking to us, they took my friend away leaving me stranded at 4 in the morning in a slum on the far reaches of Havana.

I was also able to spend almost the same amount of time in the former Soviet Union. I made it as far as Moscow before my VISA expired. There too the people were wonderful and the police followed me everywhere and hassled the people who spoke to me.

But Cuba was much worse than the Soviet Union. The people we met had very little. Their spirits were nearly broken. Fidel Castro and his cronies sucked the life out of those people and that country. I have never seen a country where the government has worked so hard to destroy the will and spirit of their people.

I cheer that Castro is on his death bed. May Cuba break free from the chains of communism.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/10/18/3056621/fidel-castro-suffered-a-stroke.html